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nopantsjack posted:http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/28/eu-referendum-stop-personal-attacks-on-anti-eu-tories-duncan-smith-tells-cameron IDS bitching about Cam being mean to him or some poo poo. Honestly, I hope he keeps hitting them on their current policies around education, health, housing, and inequality. Keep the pressure on them about the things that matter whilst they keep the pressure on themselves about Europe. It seems like any discussion of Europe is going to piss off about half the population at the moment, so it seems wise to keep schtum. Which is why of course every single journalist will ask him about it and nice guy that he is, he'll provide a thoughtful and reasoned answer that can easily be soundbited out to make him sound loving bonkers.  E: second snype of the day, still going to point out that 83 years ago today Hindenburg passed the Reichstag Fire Decree on Hitler's advice and laid a major building block for Nazi Germany.
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shrike82 posted:Find it odd that Amazon Prime Now defaults to a 2-pound tip for deliveries. That's a bit loving cheeky if you ask me.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:24
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shrike82 posted:Find it odd that Amazon Prime Now defaults to a 2-pound tip for deliveries. What the gently caress? I've not seen that.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:28
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Amazon Prime Now is the one-hour courier delivery service, not the next day shipping.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:29
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no... not tip chat... why would you do this?
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Feb 28, 2016 20:30
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LemonDrizzle posted:I don't, and have never heard of it being something that anyone would be expected to do. I think the general rule is if you pay cash, you tip. So if you're getting pizza delivered you tip, if you're getting furniture delivered which you previously paid for, you don't. Stuff like Just Eat gets kind of muddy, though.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:31
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CoolCab posted:I think the general rule is if you pay cash, you tip. So if you're getting pizza delivered you tip, if you're getting furniture delivered which you previously paid for, you don't. Stuff like Just Eat gets kind of muddy, though. somebody has not read his Orwell
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Feb 28, 2016 20:37
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Hoops posted:Amazon Prime Now is the one-hour courier delivery service, not the next day shipping. It'd still be better if they didn't sneak this additional charge in like that though. If the new service is untenable without the extra charge, just be up front about it.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:42
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big scary monsters posted:no... not tip chat... why would you do this? I put down zero as the tip in restaurants and then slip some cash to the waiter, because of places pulling poo poo like this. Although it doesn't do much to stop other poo poo like this.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:56
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Guavanaut posted:I don't tip. Well poo poo, I might have to start taking up the 0p tip to at least prevent the first situation.
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Feb 28, 2016 21:04
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big scary monsters posted:no... not tip chat... why would you do this?
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Feb 28, 2016 21:07
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Zephro posted:Would you tip a Trident captain after he fired his nukes?
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Zephro posted:Would you tip a Trident captain after he fired his nukes?
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I'd happily tip his submarine.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:They absolutely covered it up And it now seems to appear that in a desperate drive to try and convince people that the senior management didn't cover it up, they are throwing anyone they can under the bus. Except for, you know, the dead guys that covered it up.
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Feb 28, 2016 21:38
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 This isn't about the power of positivity at all! 
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Feb 28, 2016 21:44
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How to live for FREE: quit your job and claim benefits. It's 100% viable and not at all stressful, we promise. (it's either that or an article about kyuponning) e/f;b vv while I was adding that proviso
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Feb 28, 2016 22:08
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Renaissance Robot posted:How to live for FREE: quit your job and claim benefits. It's 100% viable and not at all stressful, we promise. I bet you it's coupons you have no loving idea how much people want to spread the American coupon shopping thing here
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Feb 28, 2016 22:09
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 It sounds like the most pointless loving thing ever. Gloss news.
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Spangly A posted:I bet you it's coupons I think I do  Isn't half the reason it works in America to do with their supermarkets generally not including "limit one per customer" clauses and also being forced to acknowledge couponners' freeman-esque rules lawyering by some piece of legislation or other?
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Feb 28, 2016 22:13
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Ignorant people telling you stores about positive things in as few words as possible without trying to suggest one side might be right? Well that's the news for me!
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e: nvm
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Renaissance Robot posted:I think I do I hate daytime tv and I pray others dont also watch coupon shows it's always funny when they get one of the limit one per customer ones, they always fail to grasp it and end up hundreds of dollars out. Also it's always hoarders.
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Feb 28, 2016 22:16
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Spangly A posted:I bet you it's coupons
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TT we're going to need closure hereGuavanaut posted:I thought the coupon thing was dying out in the UK compared to the past due to loyalty cards and other systems. aren't loyalty cards also dead due to supermarkets using them to entrap customers before all slashing their value, accidentally dooming themselves to a slow death and replacement by Aldi?
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Feb 28, 2016 22:20
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How come Aldi and Lidl do so well here anyway? They pay better than other places as well. Is all their stuff made out of dead african orphans or something? I mean from shopping in them they don't seem to waste as much time window dressing the shop, just shove pallets and bins of stuff out and let you buy it. Don't imagine that would account for the difference though.
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Feb 28, 2016 22:22
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OwlFancier posted:How come Aldi and Lidl do so well here anyway? They pay better than other places as well. Is all their stuff made out of dead african orphans or something? How do the upper end of their payscale and profits allocated to shareholders compare with Tesco etc?
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Feb 28, 2016 22:29
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Spangly A posted:I hate daytime tv and I pray others dont also watch coupon shows I like when the people spend most of their free time coupon collecting. They always seem to think they're somehow gaming the system, when they're actually working a second job that pays solely in Walmart scrip.
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Feb 28, 2016 22:37
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OwlFancier posted:How come Aldi and Lidl do so well here anyway? They pay better than other places as well. Is all their stuff made out of dead african orphans or something? It's very fast-paced work from what I heard when I applied to work there, they're constantly on the move. It's not that they're paying more for the same work, it's like they're condensing the work and the pay with it, which I imagine would get a lot more done in a day.
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OwlFancier posted:How come Aldi and Lidl do so well here anyway? They pay better than other places as well. Is all their stuff made out of dead african orphans or something? Aldi and Lidl (German discounters in general) are the kings of process optimization. One often cited example is that Aldi only switched to barcode scanners after they forced their suppliers to print the barcode in such a way on the products that it will be scanned regardless of how it's dragged across the scanner, because only then it was faster than the cashiers doing it by tipping in the code by hand. Another important factor is that they have very condensed range of products and squeeze their suppliers very hard and don't spend a lot of money on advertisement. Renaissance Robot posted:How do the upper end of their payscale and profits allocated to shareholders compare with Tesco etc? Both Aldi and Lidl are not publicly traded but held by family trusts and especially Aldi is ridiculously secretive, so this kind of information is not publicly available, but they are paying their upper staff very competitive wages.
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Dabir posted:It's very fast-paced work from what I heard when I applied to work there, they're constantly on the move. It's not that they're paying more for the same work, it's like they're condensing the work and the pay with it, which I imagine would get a lot more done in a day. friends that walked the aisles locally said it was about as many people running the whole show as Sainsburys had as "shelf restock technicians" at any one time, but also that not being called a loving shelf restock technician + higher pay made it a better job for them. The common word is that a lot of their profitability comes from reducing waste through stock selection (the dumping of damaged/unsightly goods) and something about the way they import things, I'm guessing a tax examination would likely find them UnCorrect.
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I always laugh at Co-op coupons - here's £2 off your next £20 shop - only valid for a week - after I've just spent £40 on a grocery run. Even Tesco coupons replaced a mini-booklet of random coupons for stuff they feel you buy frequently with a smaller, more confined version where each set of coupons had like a ton of conditions attached (You can only use THIS coupon during this week!) and now they don't even bother anymore, they just give you a single coupon for some derisory sum like £3 each month. I don't even know why I bother gathering Tesco points anymore.
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Little late to the party but it just happened across my timeline https://twitter.com/Stoviesplz/status/704059242513362944
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PiCroft posted:I don't even know why I bother gathering Tesco points anymore. Same reason anybody ever played cookie clicker.
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OwlFancier posted:How come Aldi and Lidl do so well here anyway? They pay better than other places as well. Is all their stuff made out of dead african orphans or something? I looked into a job at an Aldi graduate scheme at some point in the past. They do pay a lot of money, or so it seems. But the work conditions are ridiculous. They're very coy when asked about work hours, they just tell you that you will have to work until you've done everything you're supposed to. From talking to people who've done it, 60-70 hour weeks are the norm. On the graduate program they also expect you to travel between stores constantly - you're given a list of things you have to do at stores hours away, and if you drive at the speed limit you're too slow. They burn through people really quickly, have massive turnover. That's how their business model works. They pay you the salary of 1.5 people to do the job of 2.5 people, spend minimal amounts on training so they don't really care about high turnover. Not sure how it is on the lower rungs of the ladder than graduate scheme but I don't imagine it's much more relaxed. They staff the stores with very few people. It's why they can afford to pay those people more, and sell things cheaply. Next time you're in one, compare the number of employees you can see to the number at any other similarly sized store. I suppose it does work out for some people, if someone is cut out for that kind of work. Many fewer people think they are than actually are. That's one of the major things. The other things are they are extremely aggressive negotiators. They are very happy to dump suppliers at a moment's notice. They also don't care about the prestige or reputation of the suppliers - they do care about the products not being utter poo poo, but they only sell own-branded things, so they don't pay a markup to store a known brand. They don't have many choices of things in their stores. As in, you want product A, you have one or two options, rather than five or six like most bigger stores. Those savings really add up. They are excellent at logistics. The Aldi owners are known for being ridiculously stingy. To the point where senior management sometimes pretend to use pencils when they visit because the old farts consider pens to be a frivolous expense. If you want an example of a store that is doing well and treats its workers well, then John Lewis/Waitrose are good examples.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:If you want an example of a store that is doing well and treats its workers well, then John Lewis/Waitrose are good examples. Except the ones that management has redefined as not actually working for them 
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Feb 28, 2016 23:21
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When you make posts like this you're a pretty decent poster. Please stick to posts like this.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:
I work really near an aldi and i'm in it nearly every day and i'm not sure this is true. lots of the staff have been there for a long time. this could just be true for the aldi i work near
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Jose posted:I work really near an aldi and i'm in it nearly every day and i'm not sure this is true. lots of the staff have been there for a long time. this could just be true for the aldi i work near Sounds like the Aldi I know - staff have been there for many years, quite often, and for all I know will be there for years and years to come.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:If you want an example of a store that is doing well and treats its workers well, then John Lewis/Waitrose are good examples. .
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