What on earth does this mean? I have heard it a few times (in real life) now and have no idea why people say it? Am I meant to be impressed? Being high up in an organisation is no guarantee of good pay.
Moriath
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I got a card from a dude whosgonna do kay bathroom claimed he was director of his company. Director in itself means nothing.
Hawkwind
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It's just the first rung of senior management these days. In our Dubai facility we have ~320 employees, 4 of which are directors and one VP. All our most senior people are state side at the HQ. Our company pays based on region package and market. So I guess that would be true of most established multinational organisations.
No, not trying to impress anyone. Just indicating that I worked bloody hard to get up the corporate ladder.
TdC
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needing to order a 90deg molex adapter because fucking Asrock didn't put their PCI power plug at 90 deg to the mobo but in-line with it. what kind of an idiot would ever think that was a good idea? and it's saturday evening so it's gonna be TUESDAY before I get it *boggle*
TdC
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you...don't live in the NL do you? computer stores don't exist any more, and where some poor twitching remnant remains it's likely to be either some suave, smiling, smooth man trying to sell me a 128GB USB2 HDD for 400 euros or a tiny all-in-one for 5 times that, or an apple store. either way, cables they will not have, and I prefer to spare myself the indignity.
mining? at home? 2010 called; you still have their power drill, please to return. nah, I need the extra juice because I have a RAID card, an 8pt HBA and a 10GB fiber card in my server, and the bloody AsRock BIOS won't let me boot because it thinks I have three gfx cards on the bus.
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The fact that Nottingham is the force mentioned in that piece.
They're fundamentally dishonest about it not being a revenue earner - a few years back a councillor said they're stopping putting more average speed cameras up around Nottingham because "they're not the money-spinner we thought they'd be" - although Nottinghamshire still has by far the most average speed camera coverage in the UK.
They're fundamentally dishonest about it not being a revenue earner - a few years back a councillor said they're stopping putting more average speed cameras up around Nottingham because "they're not the money-spinner we thought they'd be" - although Nottinghamshire still has by far the most average speed camera coverage in the UK.
Bodhi
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Staffordshire take the piss even more imo. Since January I've hardly seen a Camera Van anywhere round Stafford and Stone - then October hit, and it was the point where the operators could get their Xmas bonuses, and surprisingly enough they are everywhere!
Never had an issue with Smart Motorways though, I use one of those stretches on the M6 in the article multiple times per week, normally sit at the limit +10, not had a ticket in 5 years of them being there.
Bodhi
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The M42 is loads better now it's been converted to Smart Motorway, rest of them in the West Midlands...not so much. They're ok until people start crashing or breaking down, then the lack of hard shoulder means carnage shortly ensues.
They are fucking woeful for lane discipline as well.
They are fucking woeful for lane discipline as well.
Toblerone triangle change upsets fans
Kraft wankers.
It looks ridiculous as well. If you're going to sell less of it then make it a block or 2 shorter and save yourself the cost of transporting all that air.
Also, it "wasn't because of Brexit" but the spokeswoman couldn't say whether the changes were just for the UK or all of Europe... You'd think she would know something like that.
Kraft wankers.
...while reducing the weight by 10%. How is selling less of the product for the same price keeping it affordable? I mean, they supposedly did it for ingredient cost reasons but surely they could've thought of a better way of phrasing it.
It looks ridiculous as well. If you're going to sell less of it then make it a block or 2 shorter and save yourself the cost of transporting all that air.
Also, it "wasn't because of Brexit" but the spokeswoman couldn't say whether the changes were just for the UK or all of Europe... You'd think she would know something like that.
There's reducing the size of the product and packaging for the same price (which is what I explicitly said they should've done when I suggested they knock a triangle or two off of the end rather than this weird redesign) and then there's redesigning the product so the packaging is (deceptively and pointlessly) the same size but you get less product, which is what they've done with Toblerone.
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They do it with crisps as well. the bag stays pretty much the same size but the weight has been reduced .
Same price. fewer crisps .
Same price. fewer crisps .