Today's thought.

[B B]

Birds can be a right pain, they got nice breasts granted, they even let you take pictures of them and then they just stomp all over your tackle …my tip was bouncing all over the place, can’t lie it can be frustrating  

 

[Carpbell3]

The ying and yang of carp angling.

 

[salokcinnodrog]

Today's thought:

Well first word is repeated and begins with 's'.

I was going fishing today, but after the news last night and constant messages coming in until very late that's not happening.

 

On a positive note tomorrow's PAC meeting for Cambridge region:

 

[salokcinnodrog]

Always nice to get positive feedback

[jh92]

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 🤣

[framey]

1 hour ago, jh92 said:

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 🤣

Bit extreme could have just booked a weeks holiday lol 

good luck 

[jh92]

39 minutes ago, framey said:

Bit extreme could have just booked a weeks holiday lol 

good luck 

Had to get out there mate as it started running me into the ground, money was good but it was basically go to work, come home, eat and go to bed, I struggled to find time to do anything and when I did, I couldn't be bothered as I was too tired lol.

[salokcinnodrog]

18 hours ago, jh92 said:

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 🤣

 

16 hours ago, framey said:

Bit extreme could have just booked a weeks holiday lol 

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. 

[jules007]

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

[jh92]

19 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:

 

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. 

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 👍

[Golden Paws]

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.

[salokcinnodrog]

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.