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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've done plenty of interviews hungover, not sure ever drunk. I did an interview after downing half a bottle of gin that someone offered me because I was feeling nervous, and I'll never really know if it improved my performance or not (I was nervous because it was a job I was completely unqualified for and I'm still not sure why they gave me an interview), but I'm also certain if I were on the other side of the desk I'd never employ the 16-year-old boy who smelled like your aunt at Christmas.
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Bobstar posted:Ugh, fine. Everyone's Euler system has had 18 months off.  In the last six weeks or so I've had of relatively normal, public human interaction I've had one flu-like thing that completely wrecked me for a week, and now a nasty cold. I'm starting to wonder whether maybe I was a bit hard on Zoom meetings before.
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peanut- posted:I've had somewhat more sympathy for hirers recently after I put a job ad out two weeks ago and got 112 applicants. Where the gently caress do you begin with 112 CVs? It ends up just being a massive exercise of "no, no, no" without any realistic possibility of offering any feedback as to why. So this reminds me of a story. Years ago, I worked for a certain tabloid newspaper that wishes to remain nameless*. I was put on a story about a Circus that was in town and asked to report it, write the story and then run the competition for giving away tickets to the circus.** I was put in charge of distributing the tickets. Since all you had to do to enter was send in a post card or letter with your name and address we got hundreds to applicants. I adopted a very simple qualifying practice. If I could read your hand writing easily, you won the tickets. If I couldn't, you lost. Basically anyone with fancy cursive hand writing or doctors style signatures = loser. Anyone who wrote in block capital or in a childlike scrawl that was legible = Winner. * = Feel free to speculate. ** = This was my favourite part of the story. Editor: Hey The Question. Go call up this Circus and do a story about them. And ask them for some free tickets so we can run a competition for it on the front page. Me: (at the end of the interview.) Thank you for answering my questions. My boss wanted me to ask could we get a couple of free tickets to give away to our readers. Ringmaster: (who inexplicably sounds like a cartoon clown in this telling of the story) Sure! How about 100 pairs of tickets? Me: Hey boss, that Circus gave us 100 free tickets? Editor: That can't be right, no one is that generous. Call them back to confirm. Now if you excuse me, It's the early 2000's, I have to go back to hacking mobile phones.*** Me: Sorry my boss wants me to confirm the number of free Circus tickets. It was 100, right? Ringmaster: That's right. 100 pairs of tickets. So 200 tickets. *** = They didn't say this.
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For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. Will they eventually be rolling them out to local surgeries like they did with the previous ones? Is the best thing to do just book one via the app then cancel it if the local surgery starts offering them?
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Jippa posted:For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. If it is the same thing they used last time, try entering your postcode with and without spaces, it gave me radically different results if I did that, including lots of results actually in the town rather than in loving harrogate.
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Jippa posted:For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. I got one as a carer. Our local pharmacy did it.
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Jippa posted:For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. They haven't updated it to the 3 month gap from your last jab yet, so it might be that it is still making you wait 6 months and thats when you hit that point. 
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I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now.
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Jippa posted:For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. There was a popup outside our local Tescos where it seemed to be literally just queue and get jabbed if you were eligible.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They haven't updated it to the 3 month gap from your last jab yet, so it might be that it is still making you wait 6 months and thats when you hit that point. Ah that makes a lot of sense, cheers.
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Crankit posted:I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now. You can login to your online personal tax account and get a printout of your national insurance number which I would think should satisfy them? https://www.gov.uk/lost-national-insurance-number
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Jippa posted:Ah that makes a lot of sense, cheers. Yeah boris announced this without telling the people that actually need to make it happen lol. And I think at the weekend.
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Crankit posted:I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now. HMRC will do you a replacement NI card but it will take a week or two so request it now imo p45 you would need to go to previous employer I think, HMRC don't reissue them, or your new employer can ask various questions about your pay instead
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Jippa posted:For people that are booking their covid booster jabs. The earliest I can get one through the NHS app is the beginning of january miles away from where I live. Just booked mine at my GP surgery for 9th December.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They haven't updated it to the 3 month gap from your last jab yet, so it might be that it is still making you wait 6 months and thats when you hit that point. They'll have to reopen at least some of the big centres again - capacity is only about 200k/week doing them through pharmacists and surgeries, and there's over 30 million to do. Guess I'll get to dust off the hi-viz and practice my Sandhurst Point.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:FWIW the symptoms are exactly the same as the cold everyone had in winter 19/20 that they all swear blind makes them the first person in the country to have had covid Yeah my sister-in-law had that when she came to visit us in Canada over Christmas 2019. Wasn't covid because no cough and also she spent an entire week inside with her fella and me and my wife, and none of us caught it.
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ThomasPaine posted:I got my booster the other week and unlike the first two times when it was kindly middle-aged nurses who were very patient, this one was delivered by a very gruff forces lad in camo who had no time for my civvy bullshit, quite an experience Should have worn your poppy
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Crankit posted:I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now. I recall that if you don’t have a p45 they’ll put you on an Emergency Code (ending in M1 W1 or X) until they sort out what your code should be.
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Crankit posted:I've got a job offer and they want me to bring in my P45 and documentation of my national insurance number (the card or a payslip), I've lost both of these but I'm on universal credit as a jobseeker, will the job centre be giving me those details, how do I solve this I'm feeling a lot of dread and panic right now. I think if you've got an actual job offer then you don't need to worry too much man, so try to keep that dread and anxiety under control. As other goons have posted, there are a few ways to get what you need, and it might not even be the end of the world if you can't get them. Also, loving congratulations dude, you got a job!
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The Perfect Element posted:I think if you've got an actual job offer then you don't need to worry too much man, so try to keep that dread and anxiety under control. seconding this... about the only thing that your employer will actually need is your proof of 'right to work', a full birth cert/passport/driving licence/etc.. will sort that out. also congratz on the new job.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvJC4zUJ8UE THE ALGORITHM chucked this at me and I'm genuinely intrigued by the concept of the channel - it's just a bloke filming walking around or from the top deck of a bus - and also astonished at how pretty this, one of the more depressing bus rides in the world, looks in this video. The weather helps, as does it very obviously being a Sunday so there's not much traffic, but even loving Asda looks like the City Of The Future. Anyway this is as good a demonstration of any of the stupendous contrasts on the Isle of Dogs and the wider East End - the transition from the old council estates and the docklands gives you whiplash, then the same again as it heads into and out of Canary Wharf, and then once it hits Aldgate the same again. This is not a healthy situation (and the "solution", of demolishing the council estates and replacing them with luxury housing, is even loving worse)
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Crankit posted:Thanks guys, do the job centre send me a P45 when I end the benefits? Because Universal Credit is an in-work benefit (see the stuff about taper rate in the last budget) your claim doesn't end until 6 months of receiving no payment. Assuming your new job takes care of tax through PAYE and you're earning enough to taper UC down to zero then your payments will be stopped automatically and your claim will be closed in 6 months, by which time you'll have no need for a p45. Long winded way of saying "no"
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvJC4zUJ8UE I watched a lot of those in lockdown, and I still do sometimes when I'm high and listening to music. I find it really really soothing. It's fun to look at different places in the world - there's pretty much one for almost anywhere you can think of
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvJC4zUJ8UE There's a ton of these type of channels that started popping up last year, just folk walking around their city or getting buses and trains with ambient sound, royalty free music or noise generator fx. I guess if public transport was really quiet at some points, a lot of transport enthusiasts were out filming journeys where it'd normally be too busy. They're great for just chilling
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