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Lol, 56,000 will find alternative work in no time eh? ... say you were the agent... how quickly could you find 56,000 jobs? Maybe in areas where jobs were scarce... well, you'd tell them to move wouldn't you... families? move the lot of them. Crappier living conditions where they have to move to?.... progress. Lose your job Laurejon. Compromise and take the equivalent to a minimum wage post just to survive. Then come back here & be all high & mighty.

I get a good salary (I think) & I'm happy to do my job & be 'managed' by an idiot who earns less than me & does all the paperwork & orders stationery etc. I am also proud to say that my manager is the most highly qualified moron I have ever met

Yes & no... people who can get a job done by getting other people to do it are very valuable, but the public sector has no idea of value as it gets paid anyway. small companies benefit greatly from such people

well done, you get to do the things that Charlie can no longer do, but he gets a commission

I thought we'd exhausted the food jokes.... that one was a right turkey

Gordon will, & it seems that the whole point of the law is that money will be released to raise taxes... if more money goes to the spouse, then more will be spent, hence more VAT etc. Gordon wants the money to be moving, so his tax speed cameras can cream it off to pay for his whacky & wonderful schemes Yay to your anti marriage sentiments If only our laws weren't so steeped in religion.

well that's progression for you... threat of punishment for not acheiving menial tasks has fallen by the wayside (my boss hates not getting his coffee on time) There's a lesson here somewhere.... along the lines of getting others to do stuff for you has more value than doing it yourself... or some such blurb

Hmm, spending money on your car is OK if if makes it run better... & ponds are great things for enhancing quality of life... I could spend days watching frogs copulating (maybe that's just me). But what is so great in your life that you feel the need to ruin another's?

ok I'll do it tomorrow... it's simple step logic, nothing clever... once you know the steps you can go through them to get the answer

Sold!

Well then you're too senile to make a relevant comment & shouldn't assume that you are cleverer than people who can't work out such an answer nowadays. Anyway, this person is receiving religious answers to his predicament, which means logic is forsaken... personal financial stability generally relies on logic rather than faith... faith is very bad where finance is concerned (how much have you spent on you lottery tickets), so he's buggered .

I'm fed up with hating Muslims... did it for a while, now bored with it & quite happy to get back to hating our wonderful government for all the lovely things they are doing for us.

probably, but a couple of links wouldn't hurt http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/498/1/104/

There could be a sudden flood of UK citizens moving to E.EU countries to take advantage of lower living costs. My company is setting up an office in Estonia because the wages are less for skilled and intelligent people, yet the standard of living is so much better, hence happier & more productive employees. GB & PC NL are destroying the UK for a few extra quid in their pockets. Make like a rat , Eastern Europe needs you.

I never said it was cowboy It's the concept of giving regular payments for a product before receiving it that galls me... if it was a savings plan it would be fully regulated & your money would be protected (up to a limit), but according to the BBC link (which I can't find right now) the customers are left to fight to reclaim a fraction of what they have already paid from the administrators... who I bet will be a savvy bunch of greedy buggers Good point... thank somebody for SIPPS

Death for unacceptable behaviour leads to people accusing rivals of such behaviour. Such extreme regimes always become the puppets of psychotics, no mere mortal could ever control such harsh discipline.

Well that's fantastic, there are plenty of saving plans that can do that for you as well as earning interest. Paying a small company in advance for a product isn't one of them. I realise the people who have suffered most from the collapse of this company are the ones who can least afford it, but they really need to wake up & not trust this kind of enterprise.

The moral of the story is to never make regular payments for a product before you have it in your hands... why the hell pay in advance for a load of food when you can stick the money in the bank & visit Tescos in December for half the price?

RB, I read an article today that American ex-pats had to pay US taxes on earnings as well as the taxes on earnings in their resident country.... does this apply to you?

Sorry if this article has already been discussed Survey

Yes & no, in a nutshell... I like that fact that they are separated & can be read separately, thus avoiding the usual guff about interest rates and moans about media spin. (& that damn evangelist Mr Pebble)

Ahh, very office worker mindset My boss would probably prefer me to be genning up on economic opinion than viewing a meaningless pie chart though

I read sucked too. My experience so far has been saving a project for a company from an Indian development team who really screwed it up through total lack of communication... they may be amazing developers, but that doesn't mean they understand what you want My 5 eggs are that some Indian companies are good, some are not... just like anywhere else. Overseas development is very cheap for the donkey work, but donkey work is what gives people experience, so if we don't get it, our professionals will dry up!

OK, I'm sure this has already been raised so call me stupid or inattentive if you can be bothered... BUT: what does the pie chart mean when one clicks the boss button at the root of the breadcrumb link?

I'm running a twin 3 gig & the site loads fine... hmm people are playing with chocolates to my right as I type, but soooo many ads! I see seven links to ads during this reply... if I dared to scroll there would be more. It's my understanding that a person has to click on an ad for the website to make any money, so maybe quality rather than quantity may be an answer to this sites funding woes? Personally I'm thankfull that those grotty flickering casino ads are not on here (yet!!!)