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I was running a village pub and restaurant, and another Marina restaurant near Ipswich, 5miles from home, so easy to get to.
I was supposed to have Mondays and Tuesdays off as when I was taken on at the marina, it was closed Monday and Tuesday, but the village pub was 'given' to me after the manager there left.
Even on Monday I often ended up going in to get change for the weekly float, but the owner refused to let me know the bank details so I would have to pay the post office to get change, and I would sort out my weekly bar stock orders.
I discovered the 'area manager' was using her credit card to swap payments from card to cash as I started doing an 'x' reading at the start of shift when cash and card did not add up.
I then had two of my waitresses in the pub had both been given holiday at the same time by the area manager and she had not arranged any replacement, so I ended up hiring someone out of my own pocket. The Marina restaurant I was lucky as I had an assistant manager who could run that while I was at the busy village pub.
I don't have a problem with hard work, but when you have proven the area manager is fiddling and stealing cash from the takings I was not going to take the blame with an owner who wasn't interested.
 
The second one was just after Covid. I was assistant manager at a 20 bedroom hotel. We'd had a Christmas party and had used plenty of stock, so Sunday morning I did a full stocktake before the Sunday Carvery and mid service the manager came in swearing "I can't order that, we don't sell that", complete with expletives.
Wednesday as I was due to be in, I got a phone call asking me to go to MY cash and carry and buy the stock we needed as she hadn't placed a spirits order. It took 3 weeks to get my money back from petty cash as there was a £100 weekly limit.
I was having to deal with things my overall manager had 'forgotten' or not done, customers not had a return call, bookings, and her spending more time off site.
Next few weeks over Christmas I was rostered lates on Friday and Saturday with an early Sunday 12 hour or longer shift. I can finish at 3am after a party, but can't start at 8am with a 45minute drive either side.
We still had covid restrictions in place, and I was losing staff to illness left right and centre, and despite having staff, the rotas were continually being cocked up.
I had enough just after New Year when every shift was a reverse, late early, late early rather than able to catch up.
 
 
 

Yeah exactly that mate, I was paired up with a mate and we would go out delivering white goods, beds, sofas etc and would have a right laugh on the road. But they just expected too much, unrealistic expectations. Routed so its only tumble weeds blowing down the road 🤣
It didn't really go the way I wanted and I'm now doing my final week as I was booked in for it. Suppose really it will work out better so I can get a order of base mix ingredients in and have them rolled up for next week 👍

I've been there! After working for the same Company for 30 years, my job went to India. In the next 15 years, I must have had 20 different jobs including 2 years running when I had 4 different employers. I've been at the same place for the last 2 years and haven't even looked for another job. Luckily I'd paid off the mortgage years ago and had a bit of a redundancy cushion to fall on but it is liberating to tell a manager to stick his job - I think I quit and left 3 jobs the same day.
There are good jobs out there, you've just got to kiss a few frogs before you find it! Good luck.

I've been in the same position myself, a couple of times.
An absolute pig of an owner /boss and long hours can really grind you down.
What is sad is that I loved the place I was working at, loved the people who came into the establishment, but the owner or overall manager really screwed it up. 

Hydrolyzed beef and liquid liver are both good additions.
Decide what liver you want as both liquid chicken liver and beef liver are available.
 
Something else that is useful in baits is garlic oil, very low level. 
 
The other thing is that a number of powders are hydrolyzed, beef, fish etc.
They may go under the name of bio-active.
 

I've been in the same position myself, a couple of times.
An absolute pig of an owner /boss and long hours can really grind you down.
What is sad is that I loved the place I was working at, loved the people who came into the establishment, but the owner or overall manager really screwed it up. 

For me that lovely feeling of getting the car back on the road after it was stuck on the snow and ice for a week, set of to work and got a front blow out on a tyre

I've been in the same position myself, a couple of times.
An absolute pig of an owner /boss and long hours can really grind you down.
What is sad is that I loved the place I was working at, loved the people who came into the establishment, but the owner or overall manager really screwed it up. 

I've been in the same position myself, a couple of times.
An absolute pig of an owner /boss and long hours can really grind you down.
What is sad is that I loved the place I was working at, loved the people who came into the establishment, but the owner or overall manager really screwed it up. 

Always nice to get positive feedback

Well I've just quit my job, got a meeting tomorrow morning then off fishing for a week. Don't have much bait, don't really care if I catch or not I just need to unwind 🤣

Bobbins are essentially an extra visual indicator to see if your line is moving. The main reason for them is to highlight drop backs (the line slackening) which could indicate a fish picking up your bait and moving towards you, that said if you fish them a little slack you can see subtle forward movement (the fish moving away) as it lifts up. They also highlight fishing moving through your swim as they pick up your line with their fins, this while frustrating can be a great tool for locating fish particularly in winter when they don't give you any other signs. 
They will certainly help you more than be a pain anyway, so just get some and have a go, Good luck. 

Bait companies have to roll baits that are economically viable, so few can go to the 'edge' of preparing ingredients by fermentation, and often have to use ingredients that are off the shelf. Also bait rolling companies need to make baits that will go through the machine, whereas at home I may have to roll by hand.
 
Not many anglers are willing to pay for a bait that works out at £10 a kilo to produce.
An example of being different from others was when I was rolling my own Trigga. The standard Trigga worked and was quite simply Trigga base mix, Liquid Trigga and eggs, but by adding extra Betaine, Liver Elite and Sweet Cajouser it outfished the basic mix, either as a shop bought frozen or angler rolled Trigga.
I can roll a basic nut mix bait, tiger nut flour, peanut meal, semolina, (for example) and it will work, but by adding garlic oil and liver powder creating a meaty nut mix improve the base.
 

https://www.anglingtimes.co.uk/advice/tips/how-to-keep-warm-in-a-bivvy-safely/
This has not long gone up, possibly after the latest tragedy.
Lots of really good advice.

Bait companies have to roll baits that are economically viable, so few can go to the 'edge' of preparing ingredients by fermentation, and often have to use ingredients that are off the shelf. Also bait rolling companies need to make baits that will go through the machine, whereas at home I may have to roll by hand.
 
Not many anglers are willing to pay for a bait that works out at £10 a kilo to produce.
An example of being different from others was when I was rolling my own Trigga. The standard Trigga worked and was quite simply Trigga base mix, Liquid Trigga and eggs, but by adding extra Betaine, Liver Elite and Sweet Cajouser it outfished the basic mix, either as a shop bought frozen or angler rolled Trigga.
I can roll a basic nut mix bait, tiger nut flour, peanut meal, semolina, (for example) and it will work, but by adding garlic oil and liver powder creating a meaty nut mix improve the base.
 

Been refunded on the reels from Gerry`s

Always nice to get positive feedback

Always nice to get positive feedback

Terrible tragedy sorry for your loss, I remember asking about a bivvy heater once and you guys all told me not too. I never have, glad I listened tbh, sadly it happens too often. Hot water bottles, baselayers, a decent meal and some tea and decent sleeping bag. 
 

To be honest I'm more upset at the abuse and threats in public and via Messenger I received about my post on FB because I also know the second angler who died in the bivvy and his mates assumed I meant him.
Even Ann-Marie got upset about it as she felt the abuse was taking away from her point.
 
At the time of my FB post I didn't  know it had happened and found out later that day!
 

To be honest I'm more upset at the abuse and threats in public and via Messenger I received about my post on FB because I also know the second angler who died in the bivvy and his mates assumed I meant him.
Even Ann-Marie got upset about it as she felt the abuse was taking away from her point.
 
At the time of my FB post I didn't  know it had happened and found out later that day!
 

I don't know how many times I have been playing a fish trying to get my jacket and boots on at the same time after grabbing the rod. 
Putting left foot in right boot, and then struggling to get them off to put it right.
Humour aside, I have a trip to Essex as his partner is donating his tackle to charity although I know some is not saleable as its so old and well used, it's my second hand bits.
Ann-Marie is distraught and my teenage godaughter is wondering about her stepdad.
 
Even worse is I know of another this week in almost identical circumstances.

I have shared the post almost word for word on my Facebook timeline and messaged it to some high profile friends, CarpWorld and Carpology.
I purposely haven't named the angler as family need some time, respect and respite.
Just after getting that phone call I got another one, another friend died at the lake from a suspected heart attack. He'd started packing up, felt rough as he got back to the car, phoned a friend to get help, and the friend found him in the drivers seat.

I know what you mean but I made the mistake years ago or "overdressing" in the sleeping bag. If it was cold, I'd wear my base layer full arm length shirt and a jumper and sometimes a fleece and I'd be cold. By wearing the shirt only, the heat you generate is retained by a good 5 season sleeping bag and you are warmer. You have to ensure your coat is easily available to grab if you get a run in the night otherwise you could freeze outside.

I think it had reached a lot of people already mate, seen it on my feed by a few different groups and people are continuing to share it 👍👍
I've got 2 hot water bottles in my hold all just incase it gets a bit too cold 👍 seems to be a bit of thing now where people wanna be sat in a toasty bivvy only wearing shorts/t shirt while it's freezing outside 👎