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First Aspect
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It has been replaced by Instagram, where everything is great.
Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind
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OP
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First Aspect
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Half of the people I work with on a daily basis have resigned or are about to resign.
They are all making the right decisions for themselves, so I'm simultaneously happy and sad.
They are all making the right decisions for themselves, so I'm simultaneously happy and sad.
Pross
Active Member
Exit interview: "I can't keep working with this guy who never accepts his opinion is wrong"
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First Aspect
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Nice. But not me. I reserve my inner Hitler for the forum, as Grok would say.
It is more they we have new owners who are on a mission to make T&C's much less favourable as a matter of urgency, and people are voting with their feet.
Pross
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Yeah, new ownership never seems great for existing employees. You don’t hear of companies buying up smaller companies and making them more employee friendly.
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First Aspect
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Usually stops short of active self harm though. Most of the decisions they are making are being justified by comparison to competitor firms, but no one seems to do all of them. If you add lagging behind on salaries and benefits you lose people to competitors, to industry and to related professional role with less stress.
You may not be able to tell, but I'll be one of the exodus as well.
You may not be able to tell, but I'll be one of the exodus as well.
OP
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First Aspect
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz09p8kplxko
I mean, I admire the adventurousness, but I have to wonder about the bagpipes.
My emotional response depends veryuch on whether or not I'm in earshot.
I mean, I admire the adventurousness, but I have to wonder about the bagpipes.
My emotional response depends veryuch on whether or not I'm in earshot.
Electric_Andy
Regular
FB is a complete joke - I only use it now to look for free stuff on Marketplace or to get updates about the school because it is a fairly useful resource.
I have clicked on countless ads or pages that annoy me and I say "don't show these again", only for them to be shown again a few hours after.
And don't get me started on the marketplace App. You try and look for the most recent ads in your area and they are hidden about 438 scrolls down. Then you try to select the "Free" category and some dyats it's not there, other days it is. Then you try to search for a bed, you filter for "used" and you get 114 scam adverts where the person is advertising a pristine new bed for £40, but the person has only just joined and has no friends. You then try to report the ads and FB tells you "we found nothing wrong with this ad". I hate them
Mr Celine
Senior Member
I read an autobiography by one of the soldiers of the Ox and Bucks light infantry who landed by glider an hour before D Day. They were to capture the bridges over the River Orne and Caen canal and hold them until relieved by forces advancing from the beaches, which was supposed to be at 09:00.
All morning they repelled the increasingly organised German counter attacks with no sign of relief. By afternoon they'd concluded that the landings had been a failure. Sheltering behind a wall with a handful of comrades they shared out their remaining bullets ready for one last volley before surrendering.
At that moment he described hearing a distant sound that sent a shiver down his spine, made his blood run cold and every hair on his body stand on end.
He wondered if that was the effect hearing bagpipes had on the British troops what was it doing to the Germans?
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First Aspect
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Bagpipes have their place. That place is in private.
briantrumpet
Veteran
I'm happy with them being in Scotland or Northumbria. That's a safe distance from Devon.
C R
Guru
Bagpipes are quite unfairly maligned by many, possibly because their main exposure to bagpipes is through marching/military type usage.
View: https://youtu.be/1LA383iKSrg?si=o1t6YWsTJLgzK_sA
Ardora is the Galician word for the bioluminescence seen on breaking sea waves.
Ian H
Squire
A few years ago I was riding along East Hill Strips (a rural spot over-looking two valleys), when I became aware of a weird noise ahead. It grew louder as I approached, and there was a solitary man (in trousers) playing his bagpipes to anyone within earshot below.
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First Aspect
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There's a theme emerging of unsolicited piping. You don't get this with other instruments, except maybe someone with a guitar busking.
Is it part of a piper's training that they have to agree to foist it on unsuspected members of the public?
Is it part of a piper's training that they have to agree to foist it on unsuspected members of the public?
briantrumpet
Veteran
Might have been the one Mum & I heard (and saw) on Woodbury Common more than a few years ago.
