Still Smarter

So the man thinks we are going to get back to work does he?

I and almost everyone one I know changed there view about work, after lockdown.

Some changed jobs or did lees. But most gave up.

Did you? Are you going back? I sure am not.

I am working my fingers to the bone ..........'Kin not.

I bet that Bentley is properly hard work

Put the machine gun nests back on the coast and up,the Severn. Man them and provide live ammunition.

I wanna 50% pay rise or I'm not going.
Wifey says "50% of nothing is not a lot !!"

I retired just before Covid started. I am 60 now and am back at work at the moment.
I will only work as long as I have to, I would rather be doing something else!!!

Mash wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:42 am Did you? Are you going back? I sure am not.

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I wish I weren't...but I am indeed returning to the big wheels, the cost of living and a number of other items make it so and I'm 75.

Ice.

That is sad news. I think everyone deserves their retirement.

Often an issue with those on fixed income. For ice to have kept up a commercial license medically isn't cheap.

I'm still on 5 yearly medicals, but once over 65, it's annual medicals. So keeping "the ticket up" over 65 is an expensive luxury if it's not being used (we have 2 at our place ATM and I know an owner driver who's 78).

But good luck and all power etc

phantom wrote: Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:25 am Often an issue with those on fixed income. For ice to have kept up a commercial license medically isn't cheap.
But good luck and all power etc

Cheers drive....not what I wanted to be honest....but when the devil knocks, & all that....


Ice.

The budget did something else. Your annual tax free allowance was frozen, so that makes current wages worth less and less in real terms. Plus it makes any decent wage increase worth less as well.

Equally (less on point but still relevant to how these twisting scum operate), apparently if you buy retail booze, cat or dog food etc, it attracts 20% VAT.

Oh sod it. I'm off to have a caviar sandwich (caviar is 0% VAT, because apparently it's "NOT" a luxury food)

Raw Cashew nuts zero rated roasted Cashews 20%.
Cheese Snips or Cheddars zero rated add cheese filling so cheese sandwich 20%
Digestive biscuits Zero Rated but cover in Chocolate 20%.
Its just a rip off as usual.

This is the old sausage roll gag. Cold it's good so zero rated. Served hot it is a meal so attracts VAT

Bonkers.