I would just like to say

Got another interview lined up for next week
This one is for a non-IT related job and is about 3 miles from me house.

Wimblowdriver said:

pease pudding butties

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lovely
Hope it was homemade

J

Afternoon folks

Well after the Stork's brought us such a promising start it has all turned to poo We had a flurry of that white stuff from the sky, but luckily it hasn't been allowed to stay. but still cold so fire was poked early and not much work done today, but then hey it is the weekend isn't it

J

Shimsteriom said:

It's gone away again.

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Ours keeps doing that, too.

Shimsteriom said:

It's gone away again.

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We never even saw it today, we know its there somewhere cos its light but not much chance of seeing it.
J

Just managed to turn on the keyboard backlight for me laptop i am up for an IT job next

J

Shimsteriom said:

Got another interview lined up for next week
This one is for a non-IT related job and is about 3 miles from me house.

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Thort you already had another job to go to, or are you still "looking around you"? I know you don't really want to work in IT.

My Old Landy said:

The Astra passed. I didn't think otherwise as it has done so few miles since the last one!!

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Great!

My Disco passed too, after only about 1700 miles and that includes driving it all the way to our place in Frogland and back, which on its own is 1100 miles!

Interesting story of happenings at the MOT testers, which I'll relate later as I has to go off and cook me dinna!
Have a nice early evening.
See ya!

Stanleysteamer said:

Thort you already had another job to go to, or are you still "looking around you"? I know you don't really want to work in IT.

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The interview next week pays less but is effectively on my doorstep so I'll save a large chunk in fuel costs.
Also, there is the slim opportunity to drive trucks which is what I've been trying to find for the past 4 months so I'm not going to turn down the chance.
I may well not get offered the job and in that case I don't need to worry as I'll already have another job to go to even if I don't really want to do it.
Never say Never

Shimsteriom said:

The interview next week pays less but is effectively on my doorstep so I'll save a large chunk in fuel costs.
Also, there is the slim opportunity to drive trucks which is what I've been trying to find for the past 4 months so I'm not going to turn down the chance.
I may well not get offered the job and in that case I don't need to worry as I'll already have another job to go to even if I don't really want to do it.
Never say Never

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Good luck whatever happens!

How's our @Turktowner doing?

kermit_rr said:

you mean the self-contained ball of nuclear fusion?

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Yer mean there int a light bulb int side the cheese?

They seek im ere, they seek im there
Those fekers seek im everywhere
Is e int heaven or is e int hell?
That demned elusive...













walrus.

Shimsteriom said:

How's our @Turktowner doing?

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I int dead
But tyid still.
Fanks J

Turktowner said:

I int dead

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Good to hear

Shimsteriom said:

The interview next week pays less but is effectively on my doorstep so I'll save a large chunk in fuel costs.
Also, there is the slim opportunity to drive trucks which is what I've been trying to find for the past 4 months so I'm not going to turn down the chance.
I may well not get offered the job and in that case I don't need to worry as I'll already have another job to go to even if I don't really want to do it.
Never say Never

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Best of luck, both ways!

Turktowner said:

I int dead
But tyid still.
Fanks J

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Good to here your a bit betterer, I was fooked for 2 1/2 days an slept for most of that.

I had a great Saturday.. Messed about in my workshop at the house then got a call for us to look
at a roofing job at 12. went to the boat yard had a cuppa with the lads an a bit of banter

Misses wanted to go to town for a few bits done that, went over to the Loch for a walk an feed the
ducks.
Then got a call from another boat builder asking me to finish putting new deck in a speedboat
after he's spent a week cutting it all out. My old landlord being a nob to him aswell
So he's cutting his losses an moving out of the yard, easy 1800 quid for 2 days work for me.

I'll give him some dosh for his materials & a bit extra just to be nice.

Anyway!
Learned a lot about how MOTs are policed today!
You may remember I said the guy who answered the phone at the MOT testers wasn't one of the usual blokes?
Well I got there and chatted to the owner who i have known for at least 30 years.
Turns out that during lockdown, when the station was closed and the staff furloughed, the tester who normally did mine, was doing tests on the quiet, he had keys to the place (as MOT manager) and under normal circs this would have gone unnoticed, but VOSA picked it up as an anomaly, due to lockdown. So he was guilty of fraud, both of furlough and of defrauding the garage as he wasn't passing on any of the fees. Normally, when he did them evenings or weekends, he'd put the money under the cash box for the owner to find on a Monday morning.
THEN it turned out he was doing them "away" from the MOT testing place. and one car in particular had been tested and passed even though it hadn't moved from Harwich which obvs is nowhere near Poole! Number plate recognition tech hadn't picked it up in either direction.
So now they knew he was doing bent MOTs.
I thought that the tech was connected direct from the garage but no, apparently not any more. Now, with just their card, an MOT tester can log on anywhere and give a pass to anyone! Mad!
We discussed his motivation for doing this as he had no mortgage, no wife, no kids, no need that we knew of.
But he did give about 3 different reasons for doing it, one of which was that he had done an MOT for one or more "travelling people" and it looked as if subsequently they had him by the nuts.
They looked into his log and it went back so far he is into it all for tens of thousands.
So he'll probably end up inside.
So strange, as I have known this bloke for well over 20 years. and in fact my last MOT last year, for Wifey's car, may have been one of the last he did.
And the garage owner treated him so well, he was even going to leave the garage to him in his will, as he has no kids either. £300 to add a codicil to his will to remove this!
Made for an interesting MOT!
Rest of the day was also fun.......

kevstar said:

I had a great Saturday.. Messed about in my workshop at the house then got a call for us to look
at a roofing job at 12. went to the boat yard had a cuppa with the lads an a bit of banter

Misses wanted to go to town for a few bits done that, went over to the Loch for a walk an feed the
ducks.
Then got a call from another boat builder asking me to finish putting new deck in a speedboat
after he's spent a week cutting it all out. My old landlord being a nob to him aswell
So he's cutting his losses an moving out of the yard, easy 1800 quid for 2 days work for me.

I'll give him some dosh for his materials & a bit extra just to be nice.

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kevstar said:

I had a great Saturday.. Messed about in my workshop at the house then got a call for us to look
at a roofing job at 12. went to the boat yard had a cuppa with the lads an a bit of banter

Misses wanted to go to town for a few bits done that, went over to the Loch for a walk an feed the
ducks.
Then got a call from another boat builder asking me to finish putting new deck in a speedboat
after he's spent a week cutting it all out. My old landlord being a nob to him aswell
So he's cutting his losses an moving out of the yard, easy 1800 quid for 2 days work for me.

I'll give him some dosh for his materials & a bit extra just to be nice.

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£1800 for two days! What's it like paying supertax? Used to take me a month to earn that!, well, after tax!