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Specmaster:
Vacuum is right, I was sort of forced to retire partly due to I believe a family member who attended a 7 week intensive course to become a fully qualified electrical engineer so not needing my skills which took 8 years of college to gain and spending all my working life practising and gaining even more knowledge all the time. The qualification that person gained was for for pat testing. I approached the training centre to get clarification and was told that they could not provide training to my standard and that I infact do the the training that they provide.

That family member is now doing the support / quotes / and schemes that I used to do, god help the company in the long term and the poor customers is all I can say.

mnementh:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 12:00:23 pm ---I hope not, but this is where local parts shops should be able to score but I expect what does it in for them are the local business rates and the corporation taxes. If we aren't careful government greed will kill everything off.

https://youtu.be/ixlzlna_BUs


Explains loads.


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Oh, FFS... this a-hole makes his money "selling" perpetual motion "technology" that doesn't work.  :-BROKE  In short, a snake-oil salesman. Shocking to me that his actual net worth isn't enough to convince even a girl on the dole (Really? 20-30k a year? She sure as hell isn't living like a queen on that with 2 kids to raise) that he's worth more to her than THAT little bit of breadcrumbs.

Even MORE shocking to me that his "accounting" (that is, the income he can show that won't put him in jail) isn't good enough to convince the government that he can support his new Russian Mail-Order Bride wife from India in any way that doesn't directly lead to HER being pregnant in 10 months, with a kid or two already by his worthless loins and winding up on the dole herself.  *Cue toilet flushing sounds*

I'm sorry dude... This guy's a waste of skin, and that whole video is just another fucking scam.  :bullshit:


mnem
*Allergic to the BS*

mnementh:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 04, 2018, 01:06:43 pm ---Saw that last night. That's public sector and civil servant culture in action for you. We have a no hire rule if someone has been infected by the public sector. Literally don't even get invited to an interview.

Also if there's anything I have learned, the right approach to life is: rules are only applicable if you get caught.

If you haven't watched it, one of the best films ever: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

Trailer:



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I've loved Brazil since my mother and I watched it together when I was a kid. An "imperfect masterpiece" as she and many others have called it. I love Gilliam's vision of "bureaucracy run rampant" and especially the random nature in which everybody, the winners and the losers, seem to wind up in their place whether they deserve it or not. An amazing movie which, despite poor profitability, influenced movies that followed in nearly every genre.

*Makes mental note to find widescreen version and watch it again*


mnem
Geurilla HVAC Repairman... I laughed until my sides hurt...

bd139:

--- Quote from: mnementh on May 04, 2018, 05:22:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 04, 2018, 12:00:23 pm ---I hope not, but this is where local parts shops should be able to score but I expect what does it in for them are the local business rates and the corporation taxes. If we aren't careful government greed will kill everything off.

<iframe width="240" height="180" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixlzlna_BUs" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Explains loads.

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Oh, FFS... this a-hole makes his money "selling" perpetual motion "technology" that doesn't work.  :-BROKE  In short, a snake-oil salesman. Shocking to me that his actual net worth isn't enough to convince even a girl on the dole (Really? 20-30k a year? She sure as hell isn't living like a queen on that with 2 kids to raise) that he's worth more to her than THAT little bit of breadcrumbs.

Even MORE shocking to me that his "accounting" (that is, the income he can show that won't put him in jail) isn't good enough to convince the government that he can support his new Russian Mail-Order Bride wife from India in any way that doesn't directly lead to HER being pregnant in 10 months, with a kid or two already by his worthless loins and winding up on the dole herself.  *Cue toilet flushing sounds*

I'm sorry dude... This guy's a waste of skin, and that whole video is just another fucking scam.  :bullshit:


mnem
*Allergic to the BS*

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The perpetual motion thing is bollocks. If you could harness it, it would slow the planet’s rotation down. Similar to a giant flywheel. I think he’s just going bonkers to be honest.

However the immigration and HMRC shit is about right. It’s a fucked up tangled mess. I’ve been in both sides of it before.

Firstly I’m am a company director and don’t get paid salary (I do now as I’m a permanent staff member as well as a director) and on numerous occasions I’ve been asked for pay slips and all sorts to prove income. The only reason I am actually permanent is because I can’t get a mortgage without a permanent job at the moment even if I earn over £100K in a year and have £150k in the bank. £50k salary? No problems. This is all due to how the referencing agencies work. If you don’t have a salary or a passport here you are a fart in the wind. Even if the organisation has access to the tax system don’t assume some incompetent or just psychotic bastard isn’t going to just decide to make your day a bad one.

As for immigration, he’s also on the mark. Indian women are totally different. I can see the attraction. They are more like British men which is why we get on with them. Living in West London for many years I dated the odd Indian girl. We didn’t hit it off because of disapproving Indian mothers not wanting them to date rag tag crazy metal heads driving land rovers  :-DD

On the immigration front my neighbour was actually refused reentry into the U.K. a few years ago when she went on holiday. She has a British passport, is a British National and has been in the U.K. for 28 years has two children here and they wouldn’t let her back in. She was  from Mumbai and is a software engineer at a large logistics company here. Went to university here. Her parents started a restaurant here that they still run.

What happened? No answers. But she was sent “home” to India. Cue £15k of legal battles for 7 years. Incompetence after incompetence. About two years they moved their entire family out of the U.K. I don’t blame them. She hadn’t seen her kids for 5 years.

This country is a fucked up unfair mess run by some sick fucks.

bd139:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 04, 2018, 03:56:08 pm ---This is completely off topic, and of no relevance to this thread



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I’m sure my mother showed that to my father once  :-DD

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