Topic: The small things in life that really hannoy

[Statto Red]

Wirral Globe claiming the Council could be bankrupt by the end of the year. They need to find 31 million to balance the books and the current situation is unsustainable. That will put the cat among the pigeons. 

One of the issues is paying £3.9 million in rents over the next year for its new offices

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/council-faces-39m-bill-next-30322275

[A scaleXtric DraeX Xmas]

One of the issues is paying £3.9 million in rents over the next year for its new offices

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/council-faces-39m-bill-next-30322275

Probably paying the king.

[bradders1011]

Thanks, John. The look for budget cuts is unending we are going to have spend another 7 million on placements this year.    The cost of social care is horrific at the moment.

This is the reality. The single best thing central government could do relatively quickly (i.e. in the life of this parliament) would be to shift social care responsibility and budgets off councils onto either a regional or local organisation specifically set up for it. We probably need some kind of central body to unravel the gigantic mess that is public sector pensions as well, especially at the council/local level.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Why are food bank managers being offered a £35k salary? 

I thought they were charities, run by volunteers 🤷

[Santas robbed me shorts]

Why are food bank managers being offered a £35k salary? 

I thought they were charities, run by volunteers 🤷

I'd guess they are so big and busy its a full time job and they need to make the salary attractive otherwise they'd just get muppets?

[Elf MoFo]

Why are food bank managers being offered a £35k salary? 

I thought they were charities, run by volunteers 🤷

Charities are not entirely run by volunteers. Some jobs you really need to get done full time by people with the right experience, and you just need to pay people to do that.

[SamLad]

Charities are not entirely run by volunteers. Some jobs you really need to get done full time by people with the right experience, and you just need to pay people to do that.

yep. every big-name vol organization is run by "professionals" in that "industry".  been that way for years.  local charity ops don't need to be paying ppl mind you.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

^^^

Crazy taking money away from impoverished people!!

[Elf MoFo]

^^^

Crazy taking money away from impoverished people!!

The argument being that having paid professionals running parts of the charity allows the to do a better job. A bit like how you usd to see (it just occurred to me I haven't seen them in ages) paid people on high streets accosting you trying to sign you up to donate. By paying people you end up raising more - they would argue anyway.

[Santa couldn't find his reindeer]

the recruitment company I worked for did a lot of business in the charity sector

I struggled to get my head around charities paying recruitment fees.

[SamLad]

dunno about the UK but over here you can look online at the finances of any charity that is approved by the gov't as eligible for tax-deductible donations.

an easy way to see what % of their revenue goes into overhead/admin eg paying the top people.

[A scaleXtric DraeX Xmas]

Why are food bank managers being offered a £35k salary? 

I thought they were charities, run by volunteers 🤷

The logistics and admin must be incredible for them, surely you want an experienced full time person doing it rather than a volunteer?

[red-nosed reign-debs]

I'd rather all the money raised went on the food that people need rather than staff but maybe I'm just too naive.

[PaulF]

I'd rather all the money raised went on the food that people need rather than staff but maybe I'm just too naive.

It's probably the same scenario that begs the question is it worth paying £Xm for the CEO. Especially as so few can see what they actually do.
Sort of (and it's not a great analogy) , surely it's not worth paying Salah xxx.

[Santas robbed me shorts]

I'd rather all the money raised went on the food that people need rather than staff but maybe I'm just too naive.

You'd probably find that, over the course of 12 months, the cost of wasted food, downtime to vehicles etc woud be more than £35k if not properly organised.

I'll just use a small one as an example -  the Stretford Foodbank is near to me (affiliated to Trussel) - they have collection points in the Asda, Sainsburys, so they need to organise collecting from there, then they need to get the stuff sorted, allocated and delivered (in unmarked vans). Someone has to manage all that, make sure the vans are road legal, volunteers are in and doing the jobs, recruiting volunteers and most importantly that the food is collected and distributed as soon as possible. No one person will volunteer for a role like that, so it needs a F/T staff member and its needs someone professional to do the job. If there were stories that the foodbank wasn't collecting, or worse, not delivering parcels, then the public could lose faith and stop donating to that particular bank.

[Statto Red]

I'm trapped at home right now as the front door won't open, seems the mechanism from the handle to the lock that opens the door has jammed, been on to the housing firm that maintains the flats, they're sending someone round asap.

[Claire's Christmas Ornament Large Bauble Necklace - 50% off]

Samsung TV by any chance?

I've bought them for years thinking they'd eventually sort it out, but they obviously don't give a fuck so my next TV will be something else.

Software on LG is really good.

[SamLad]

Software on LG is really good.

I've always thought Sony is one of best choices but haven't bought a tv in a while.  Are they still rated?

[Paul JH]

Any streaming service where you 'buy' a movie to own it. You don't own it. You've paid £15 for them to store it on their servers and if you quit them, you've lost it. Biggest scam of all time. Keeps people from leaving them, you're paying them a monthly fee too, and if anything ever happened to their servers, it's gone.

Like buying a Bluray and asking the bloke down the road to keep hold of it for you until you want to watch it, and him moving house and taking it with him.

Physical media rules.

[PaulF]

You'd probably find that, over the course of 12 months, the cost of wasted food, downtime to vehicles etc woud be more than £35k if not properly organised.

I'll just use a small one as an example -  the Stretford Foodbank is near to me (affiliated to Trussel) - they have collection points in the Asda, Sainsburys, so they need to organise collecting from there, then they need to get the stuff sorted, allocated and delivered (in unmarked vans). Someone has to manage all that, make sure the vans are road legal, volunteers are in and doing the jobs, recruiting volunteers and most importantly that the food is collected and distributed as soon as possible. No one person will volunteer for a role like that, so it needs a F/T staff member and its needs someone professional to do the job. If there were stories that the foodbank wasn't collecting, or worse, not delivering parcels, then the public could lose faith and stop donating to that particular bank.

And someone that know the H&S minefield around the food 'waste' operation.
I'm sure there are volunteers that could fill all those roles. But not enough for all the charities, so they have to pay people to work for them instead of elsewhere.
It'd be interesting to see turnover vs salaries, or # volunteers vs salaries for different charities.

Just remembered, chuggers. That's the name for the charity muggers that seemed to always get you. I think they bought in legislation to make them less agressive.  Also, there's probably sod all footfall in the high st so not worth deploying people there.

[PaulF]

Any streaming service where you 'buy' a movie to own it. You don't own it. You've paid £15 for them to store it on their servers and if you quit them, you've lost it. Biggest scam of all time. Keeps people from leaving them, you're paying them a monthly fee too, and if anything ever happened to their servers, it's gone.

Like buying a Bluray and asking the bloke down the road to keep hold of it for you until you want to watch it, and him moving house and taking it with him.

Physical media rules.

If they went under, you'd lose their stuff. But I'm sure they could get the movies back if they had a temporary server failure.  Bittorrent would help them out.

[Statto Red]

And someone that know the H&S minefield around the food 'waste' operation.
I'm sure there are volunteers that could fill all those roles. But not enough for all the charities, so they have to pay people to work for them instead of elsewhere.
It'd be interesting to see turnover vs salaries, or # volunteers vs salaries for different charities.

Just remembered, chuggers. That's the name for the charity muggers that seemed to always get you. I think they bought in legislation to make them less agressive.  Also, there's probably sod all footfall in the high st so not worth deploying people there.

Speaking of chuggers, at one time you couldn't walk through Liverpool City Centre without encountering them at some point in Town, no doubt after complaints the council put in restrictions that you don't see them now. 

[red-nosed reign-debs]

You'd probably find that, over the course of 12 months, the cost of wasted food, downtime to vehicles etc woud be more than £35k if not properly organised.

I'll just use a small one as an example -  the Stretford Foodbank is near to me (affiliated to Trussel) - they have collection points in the Asda, Sainsburys, so they need to organise collecting from there, then they need to get the stuff sorted, allocated and delivered (in unmarked vans). Someone has to manage all that, make sure the vans are road legal, volunteers are in and doing the jobs, recruiting volunteers and most importantly that the food is collected and distributed as soon as possible. No one person will volunteer for a role like that, so it needs a F/T staff member and its needs someone professional to do the job. If there were stories that the foodbank wasn't collecting, or worse, not delivering parcels, then the public could lose faith and stop donating to that particular bank.

I guess the really big ones like that would do and I was comparing it to our village one where the volunteers collect, sort and deliver.

The Spar also drops off their collection as our sorting place is next to one of their stores so they can deliver to both in one drop.

[A scaleXtric DraeX Xmas]

I guess the really big ones like that would do and I was comparing it to our village one where the volunteers collect, sort and deliver.

The Spar also drops off their collection as our sorting place is next to one of their stores so they can deliver to both in one drop.

I'd agree with that Rob posted, you can always look at it as great news it's providing employment which goes back into the community via taxes.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

I'd agree with that Rob posted, you can always look at it as great news it's providing employment which goes back into the community via taxes.

True.

[Ah Fruck Christmas]

I guess the really big ones like that would do and I was comparing it to our village one where the volunteers collect, sort and deliver.

The Spar also drops off their collection as our sorting place is next to one of their stores so they can deliver to both in one drop.

Believing in caution and awareness regarding salaries paid to executives at charities is no bad thing, Debs... It's an issue where it would be very easy to find examples of both good administrators who well earn their salaries and "CEOs" who don't do shit after being paid beaucoup...

Your observation of the size of the charity as a factor is good one...

[Riquende]

Physical media rules.

Having your own media server = best of both worlds. You're not reliant on companies keeping stuff available for you (or staying afloat themselves) and you don't need to find space for unsightly CD/DVD racks in the living room, or physically find the disc/tape and insert it into anything to start watching.

And if you use something like Plex as the interface then navigating your collection is similar to going on a proper streaming platform (although I'm personally happy enough just to open up an SMB share and browse Windows on the TV).

And yet for me, I wouldn't touch a Kindle and books have to be paper.

[Boston always unofficial]

People doing pub crawls or pub runs as it was yesterday,bunch of yahoo's.

[SamLad]

When a 30-minute DIY task turns into a 2 hour swearathon.

Today's was putting up an added wire shelf in a storage closet. 

All fine until I realized (a) there's no fucking room in there for me and the existing shelves and (b) the end brackets come with specialized fasteners that DON'T FUCKING FIT THE BRACKETS.

[RedSince86]

Droping a Tablet and cracking the screen, 2nd time i've done that this year.

[Preabee crarrotsbee spoutsbee trurkeybee]

I'd say that's right - we also go in B and I've only ever been patted down when I had a coat on, thin jacket the other night and didn't get patted, although my lad, who's 14 and 6ft 2 had a padded coat on and wasn't checked either

You always ask for a woman to pat you down though Rob. 

[Preabee crarrotsbee spoutsbee trurkeybee]

Droping a Tablet and cracking the screen, 2nd time i've done that this year.

Good Es?

[Santas robbed me shorts]

You always ask for a woman to pat you down though Rob. 

Too right I do

[Hark the Howard Angels Sing]

When a 30-minute DIY task turns into a 2 hour swearathon.

Today's was putting up an added wire shelf in a storage closet. 

All fine until I realized (a) there's no fucking room in there for me and the existing shelves and (b) the end brackets come with specialized fasteners that DON'T FUCKING FIT THE BRACKETS.

It’s always the jobs that you think have a short time span and, as you say, two hours later you’re swearing away as you’re reminded that you were due to pick up the mother in law to have her corns excised at the chiropodist.

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Footware that's advertised as being waterproof then turn out as leaky as a sieve!!

Fucking sick of having cold wet feet when I'm outdoors 😡

To add to this.

Websites that only give reviews about the company, not the product.

I don't give a shit if they were delivered quickly or the returns policy is easy, I want to know if they're sized properly, don't fall to pieces after wearing them half a dozen times and that they're actually waterproof!!!!

[bradders1011]

Websites that only give reviews about the company, not the product.

I don't give a shit if they were delivered quickly or the returns policy is easy, I want to know if they're sized properly, don't fall to pieces after wearing them half a dozen times and that they're actually waterproof!!!!

"Delivered on time 5 stars"

"Not used it yet but delivery was quick 5 stars"

"Not been able to contact customer services but product good 3 stars"

 

[StuffedAndTrussedByrdz]

Footware that's advertised as being waterproof then turn out as leaky as a sieve!!

Fucking sick of having cold wet feet when I'm outdoors 😡

To add to this.

Websites that only give reviews about the company, not the product.

I don't give a shit if they were delivered quickly or the returns policy is easy, I want to know if they're sized properly, don't fall to pieces after wearing them half a dozen times and that they're actually waterproof!!!!

Found nothing yet that beats plain old wellies. Preferably those with a fluffy inner for warmth.

[Lidls Christmas Reserve Port]

Footware that's advertised as being waterproof then turn out as leaky as a sieve!!

Fucking sick of having cold wet feet when I'm outdoors 😡

You can get waterproof socks these days (but they tend to be spenny)

[red-nosed reign-debs]

Found nothing yet that beats plain old wellies. Preferably those with a fluffy inner for warmth.

I can't even find wellies that are waterproof, every pair I've had have leaked but then I ain't paying stupid money for poncey Hunter type wellies!

Tally fucking hoe this girl is not 😂

[red-nosed reign-debs]

"Delivered on time 5 stars"

"Not used it yet but delivery was quick 5 stars"

"Not been able to contact customer services but product good 3 stars"

 

Them's the ones 👍