Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see.
Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on
Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again.
Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough
Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.
From the Guardian.
In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors. (Insisted rather than agreed)
From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.
At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.
I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.
“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”
The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right?
They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses.
Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see.
Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on
Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again.
Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough
Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.
From the Guardian.
In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors. (Insisted rather than agreed)
From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.
At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.
I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.
“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”
The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right?
They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses.
You are right, not unlike members of our political "class" they do not exist in the same world as the rest of us. And those same wankers on the board at Thames water, severn trent, all of the former national utility assets in fact. They will pop up at another one when enough shareholders get sick of them. Which takes some doing as the big ones have been getting fat on the dividends us mugs are giving them.
Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see.
Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on
Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again.
Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough
Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.
From the Guardian.
In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors. (Insisted rather than agreed)
From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.
At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.
I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.
“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”
The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right?
They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses.
You are right, not unlike members of our political "class" they do not exist in the same world as the rest of us. And those same wankers on the board at Thames water, severn trent, all of the former national utility assets in fact. They will pop up at another one when enough shareholders get sick of them. Which takes some doing as the big ones have been getting fat on the dividends us mugs are giving them.
Always makes me laugh when quotes like" we must pay to retain the right talent for the job"I wonder how many alternative offers these people have had that would tempt them away.Answers on a postage stamp.
The national lottery app, got a new bank card, can’t update the details on the app because I’ve £1.70 in my account and need to withdraw that so I can update. The only thing my bank won’t accept it as it’s on my old card. Was going to win the euro worth £185 million and then buy the Valley.
You have to phone the national lottery and change your card details. WTF.
A byproduct of having a hen sanctuary is eggs. We get a reasonable amount from the chooks that are young/well enough.
We have an ‘egg honesty box’ outside the house where we ask for donations for the eggs rather than selling them at a certain price. Bearing in mind that these are usually a max of 1-2 days old and from free range happy girls some people think that 50p - £1 is ok to leave. FFS you can’t buy them in the shops for that unless they’re about to pass their sell by date of 3-4 weeks.
Oh and I’ve sussed the bloke who empties the whole lot and leaves a fiver. No doubt sells them on at a profit.
And another thing. People seem to think the hens lay on demand.
Them - ‘there’s no eggs in the box’ Me - no, they’ve all gone Them - oh I was hoping for a dozen Me - maybe try another time Them - I was hoping for a dozen Me - no reply. Them - I was hoping for a dozen.
Or Them - no eggs?
Me - not if the box is empty Them - there’s a box of small eggs but I want large eggs Me - the small eggs are the same just have 2 instead of one big egg Them - no I want large egg’s etc etc FFS
In the local watching Real Betis v Chelsea with himself. Fella from the village walks in. Can I join you says he. You can but we're watching the football says himself. Oh feck that says he & he goes over to the bar and orders himself a very large pernod.
A few minutes later he comes straight over to me. What's the score, he asks. One nil says I. Who's playing, he asks. Real Betis and Chelsea. It's Betis who lead and its being played in Poland. Anything else? Says I. I went to Chelsea back in the 70's to watch United. George Best was playing and The Cat says he. Oh Peter Bonnetti, says I. Humph says he as he walked back over to the bar.
Yes, Ireland always reminds me of the UK back in the mid 80's whenever I mentioned I liked football the men always felt the need to make sure I really did.
At least I didn't have to explain the off side rule.......again 🙄
I thought of him as I carried out a simple repair to my glasses frame with superglue. Within a nanosecond it was obvious they were destined for the bin. I also spent ages removing glue from the worktop, before finally separating my index finger from its neighbour.
This bloke can strip stuff down to component parts, rub down, repair, rebuild, repaint, sign write ... in short, there is nothing he can't do.
The Nathan Jones Speculation thread. 21 pages of utter junk to trawl through. It's like wading through a stream of shit where the only good thing would be if you didn't drop your keys in it.
100% this. I'm far from perfect and am sure can be a pain at times but a lot of people seem to go out of their way to be as big an arsehole as they possibly can.
I think it’s time we took a leaf from Japan and banned talking on mobiles, especially when on speaker, from all public transport, cafes and restaurants and in fact all public places, while we’re at it!
I don't begrudge it that much. I'd pay a subscription just for the David Attenborough stuff and the really good drama they are capable of finding. Also, in countries where they have purely commercial TV it is an advert every 5 minutes, the news programming is either rage bait or echo-chambering and both are full of shit. The BBC might be run by left wing pygmies but they are preferable to the purely commercial model
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I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.
“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”
The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right?
They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses.
You have to phone the national lottery and change your card details. WTF.
Me - no, they’ve all gone
Them - oh I was hoping for a dozen
Me - maybe try another time
Them - I was hoping for a dozen
Me - no reply.
Them - I was hoping for a dozen.
Them - no eggs?
Them - there’s a box of small eggs but I want large eggs
Me - the small eggs are the same just have 2 instead of one big egg
Them - no I want large egg’s etc etc
FFS
A few minutes later he comes straight over to me. What's the score, he asks. One nil says I. Who's playing, he asks. Real Betis and Chelsea. It's Betis who lead and its being played in Poland. Anything else? Says I. I went to Chelsea back in the 70's to watch United. George Best was playing and The Cat says he. Oh Peter Bonnetti, says I.
Humph says he as he walked back over to the bar.
Yes, Ireland always reminds me of the UK back in the mid 80's whenever I mentioned I liked football the men always felt the need to make sure I really did.
At least I didn't have to explain the off side rule.......again 🙄
That's if they've remembered to put them in
Rip off
The state roads round my are in, on the Kent / Surrey border are so unbelievably bad. Genuinely can't believe this isn't a bigger issue.