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  • I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,767

    I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.

    Boing!!!
  • I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.

    Did you hear that from the same bloke (in the pub...) who told you Solly wasn't playing yesterday because he's off ?

    ;-)

  • I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.

    Did you hear that from the same bloke (in the pub...) who told you Solly wasn't playing yesterday because he's off ?

    ;-)

    Nope. : - )
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573
    Maybe the trade unions could put an offer in for the club!

    Season tickets to match the minimum wage?
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,867
    Off_it said:

    LoOkOuT said:

    I'd be all for that, but the Mysterons have road roughshod all over "for the people by the people" in a Charlton context. They make their bed, they can lie in it.

    You really think that TJ to MS have anything, anything whatsoever, to do with this?
    Yes, in the sense that they've added to the pressure under which Mick Everitt and others have to work under by undermining and disposing of key staff.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,767
    Do we know what the volunteers had to do?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,907
    LoOkOuT said:

    Off_it said:

    LoOkOuT said:

    I'd be all for that, but the Mysterons have road roughshod all over "for the people by the people" in a Charlton context. They make their bed, they can lie in it.

    You really think that TJ to MS have anything, anything whatsoever, to do with this?
    Yes, in the sense that they've added to the pressure under which Mick Everitt and others have to work under by undermining and disposing of key staff.
    You mean Rick Everitt used to roll out the adverts, on top of everything else?

    Well I never.
  • I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.

    Source, please, you c**t.

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456

    Do we know what the volunteers had to do?

    Make a large batch of Bread and Butter Pudding.


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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,767
    Addickted said:

    Do we know what the volunteers had to do?

    Make a large batch of Bread and Butter Pudding.

    They need a few lessons then!
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573

    I heard the job was getting the lobsters out of Jayne Mansfield arse.

    Source, please, you c**t.

    I quite like sweet chilli.

  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    edited September 2013

    Do we know what the volunteers had to do?

    I guess it was putting out and taking away the practice goals and safety netting.

    It took 3 per end and you had to lift them off of and onto the wheel things.

    However, Hamer was warming up in the goal (and it already is sparce of grass)

    On that note - the bit of pitch in NW corner where they do their running bits is already knackered too - might be an idea to do that in an area that gets more sun.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Off_it said:

    Fuck me.

    Rise up brothers. Rise up against your oppressors. Band together, fight the good fight. Lets raise our banner high and proud, as we march along behind our brass band into oblivion.

    If HMRC haven't got better things to do than chase cafc over six people choosing to give two hours of their time for free once a fortnight then we may as well give up now.

    Love this post spot on Off-it
  • Off_it said:

    Fuck me.

    Rise up brothers. Rise up against your oppressors. Band together, fight the good fight. Lets raise our banner high and proud, as we march along behind our brass band into oblivion.

    If HMRC haven't got better things to do than chase cafc over six people choosing to give two hours of their time for free once a fortnight then we may as well give up now.

    Love this post spot on Off-it
    You may jest Offy however we had a little scheme going at my company whereby if we received a letter/email from a client praising a staff member for good work, being helpful etc we would reward that staff member with a little gift.

    As most of my staff are young engineers or admin workers they all said a voucher from somewhere like HMV would be good so they could purchase DVD's, music, head phones etc.

    We had an Inland Revenue inspection last year and the only thing they could find to nab us on was 7 x £25.00 vouchers that we had purchased from HMV.

    They questioned me for 30 minutes asking for the names of the staff so they could go after them for unpaid tax on a gift. I refused to give up the names and told them to tax the company instead.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    There are hundreds of comp tickets givent to schools each week - do you think the HMRC goes round there to tax the teachers who escort them. Giving freebies away is not the same as giving cash incentives to staff.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,907

    Off_it said:

    Fuck me.

    Rise up brothers. Rise up against your oppressors. Band together, fight the good fight. Lets raise our banner high and proud, as we march along behind our brass band into oblivion.

    If HMRC haven't got better things to do than chase cafc over six people choosing to give two hours of their time for free once a fortnight then we may as well give up now.

    Love this post spot on Off-it
    You may jest Offy however we had a little scheme going at my company whereby if we received a letter/email from a client praising a staff member for good work, being helpful etc we would reward that staff member with a little gift.

    As most of my staff are young engineers or admin workers they all said a voucher from somewhere like HMV would be good so they could purchase DVD's, music, head phones etc.

    We had an Inland Revenue inspection last year and the only thing they could find to nab us on was 7 x £25.00 vouchers that we had purchased from HMV.

    They questioned me for 30 minutes asking for the names of the staff so they could go after them for unpaid tax on a gift. I refused to give up the names and told them to tax the company instead.
    Ha ha , that doesn't surprise me.

    My favourite story was the one about the tax inspector who spent two days at a place and found absolutely nothing. Just as he was about to leave the fella was talking to him about his fantasy football team and how he was doing well in the firms competition, so the tax man did them for betting duty!
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,472
    While I'm not quite "Man the barricades, the club are exploiting the fans" on this, I am a bit wary of it, partly because it might cause people issues with HMRC or DWP later. If you're unemployed and the DWP decide that the match ticket is payment in kind rather than volunteering expenses, you may be at risk of them clawing back the money from your JSA, and if you forgot to declare it you could be in all sorts of bother.

    Asking fans to volunteer for a one-off event such as the seat cleaning and giving them a ticket as a thank you is one thing, but if it's a regular fixed task for a set number of people, then the club should be employing people on temp contracts to do the work. It's not just a question of paying minimum wage, what about employer's NI contributions and the protections that you get as an employee that you don't necessarily get as a volunteer?
  • DRF said:

    There are hundreds of comp tickets givent to schools each week - do you think the HMRC goes round there to tax the teachers who escort them. Giving freebies away is not the same as giving cash incentives to staff.

    Giving a bod a ticket in exchange for time spent and work done IS paid employment and subject to all the bs admin that goes with it. Giving away tickets to schools is just giving away stuff. HMRC interested in the former but not the latter
  • The amount of effort people have put into some of these posts, you could've cleaned The Valley seats twice over in the same time....

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  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    The club have been doing this for years for various matchday positions, I've never heard of anyone being strung up by the HMRC for it. It all feels a bit too much like people being against everything the new regime are doing. Some will be finding a reason to slag off the next football for a fiver game soon.
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    edited September 2013
    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,277
    edited September 2013
    MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Won't we? That accident was years ago and we've had numerous football for a five games since and have another coming up in a couple of months.


  • MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Won't we? That accident was years ago and we've had numerous football for a five games since and have another coming up in a couple of months.
    He went off to support Ipswich for a while after that. He is now an extractor fan.
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345


    MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Won't we? That accident was years ago and we've had numerous football for a five games since and have another coming up in a couple of months.

    Years ago? It happen last year. Everyone knows a claim will only effect your policy the following year on renewal.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,250
    29/10/2012
  • MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Sorry, got to ask, how the hell do you run yourself over driving a tractor ?

  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757

    MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Sorry, got to ask, how the hell do you run yourself over driving a tractor ?

    Fairly quickly I assume otherwise you'd move out of the way.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Wasn't that 'work experience' rather than volunteering?
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    PL54 said:

    MSE7 said:

    Thing is its the type of people the club are getting as volunteers. There was a volunteer at the training ground who managed to run himself over with a tractor. He ended up getting carted off in the air ambulance. He was back volunteering though, Warrior. I bet the health and safety executive got involved with that. Probably put the clubs insurance up hence we won't get football for a fiver now.

    Sorry, got to ask, how the hell do you run yourself over driving a tractor ?

    Fairly quickly I assume otherwise you'd move out of the way.
    I heard that its an old tractor that doesn't start, It was left in gear and he was laying underneath it trying to get it going (must have had to much badger juice). He then put two wires together and it started up and ran him over. Lucky it didn't have a rotavator on the rear he would of been mince meat otherwise. I heard the wurzels have got a brand new combine harvester. They might give him the key?

    Hot wiring tractors is normally a trait of Norwich fans. Not Charlton...lol