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[dysfunction]

So, I'm being interviewed for the job I've been doing for four years tomorrow. It'll be a formality, but they're trying to convert me to perm.

I'm very tempted to take it as I get to WFH 100% of the time and I'm pretty much left to my own devices, can manage myself, I know what's important and I'm low maintenance.

Going from contract > perm is going to come at a hewuge cost though. I put in an ask and the boss has told me it's "off their scale". Until I told him what sort of a cut I would be taking.

Anyone got any advice on how to negotiate on salary with a big corp. I don't want to be de-motivated by taking such a huge cut that it's just not worth it.

Do you know what the "going" rate is for your job as a perm staff?
I would just go in with a high salary and then they can negotiate down from there.

I did that in my current job and got a more than what I was expecting.

I'm sure what they have said to you is all part of their negotiating tactics so you start with a lower number than you are on now.

 

[Wij]

Um - never mind the wage. Have you considered having to do PDPs to justify a pay-rise every year?

Fuck that imo.

 

[Scouse]

I can bullshit a PDP @Wij. It's the WFH thing - 100% sat in my pad in North Wales is the biggie for me. I cover EMEA so most of the people I talk to are miles away. Only time I go into an office is to get pissed (which I'm doing on Wednesday actually - the first time since last August!).

I've put in a big six-figure salary ask @dysfunction but it'd still come as a whacking great loss.

Contracting's a young man's game IMO. I don't ever want to have to go into an office again, unless I want to.

 

[Embattle]

The use of the phrase "World Leading" by Conservative MPs.

 

[Scouse]

Got attacked by one of my geese this morning.

That's not unusual. I've 4 boys, and three of them regularly take very noisy exception to me coming into my own fucking field to feed them. However, this is the first time that this one has attacked and I'm annoyed as we always get along.

We call this one "friend zone" - because there's one female goose, sat on a bunch of eggs, and they are inseparable. But she's shagging one of the rowdy wankers, so he's firmly in the friend zone.

Well, he's now in the "cuckold zone". She's hatched at least one, but none of them will let me get near to check. This has resulted in friendzone becoming a rowdy arse and taking on the role of "dad" to someone else's kids.

I've got 4 other goslings on the boil that I hatched myself. They're currently in a pen so the buzzard won't snatch 'em (I've no idea how to deal with the new hatchees logistically, it might just be "wing it and see what happens/hope they don't get eaten"). This is providing "goose TV" to the boys, so they spend most of their day sat in front of them, watching them be chirpy little twats, and not walking around the field eating the grass I want them to eat.

The downside of all this new life, is that there needs to be some death. Two of the three bolshy boys are for the chop this weekend to make space. Killing geese is a bit traumatic as they're so full of personality, but needs must.

Problem is, whilst I've ringed them, one of them has managed to slip his (and probably ate it). And it's him or "shagger" that I can't identify between. And I really don't want to kill shagger.

Unfortunately for one of 'em, he's wearing a yellow leg ring of death. But as the farmers say, where there's life, there's death.

In other news, a fucking mole has decided to take up residence in my vegetable patch and he's uprooted a load of my swiss chard and wiped out half my french beans.

The cunt

 

[Lamp]

Tesco have increased the price of Haribo Starmix to £1.25. Used to be £1

If they decided in a moment of madness to roll back all their prices to pre-Ukraine levels, they'd be undercutting Sainsburys etc by 30%. Would the resulting increased customer base make cover the price drop ?

 

[Wij]

Tesco have increased the price of Haribo Starmix to £1.25. Used to be £1

If they decided in a moment of madness to roll back all their prices to pre-Ukraine levels, they'd be undercutting Sainsburys etc by 30%. Would the resulting increased customer base make cover the price drop ?

Unlikely. Grocery margins are usually fairly thin. It doesn’t matter how many you sell if it’s at a loss. I don’t look at sweets retail much but I’d guess that Haribo have put up their prices to the retailers.