What is hacking you off today?

[MK Shrimper]

Unfortunately those type of company’s are few and far between.

And of course, a good company might well value you, but might not be able to accommodate all of your (reasonable) wants/demands/expectations. Or, for lack of a better term, they rely on your good nature to simply accept the status quo, and not rock the boat.

Sometimes a bit of gentle encouragement can get the ball rolling in the manner you want it to. If it can’t, well like I said to MK, you have to do what’s right for you, as an individual.

NR has strict pay bands and you can't exceed them and it is very, very rare for a role to change upwards. It has a repututation of letting skilled people leave rather than accomodate them. I can't walk up to my boss and demand a 10% rise as pay bargaining is strictly unionised a I get what everyone else gets - there is the chance to get .5% more if I overachieve but for such a tiny amount, what's the point of breaking my back?

 

[Mad Cyril]

NR has strict pay bands and you can't exceed them and it is very, very rare for a role to change upwards. It has a repututation of letting skilled people leave rather than accomodate them. I can't walk up to my boss and demand a 10% rise as pay bargaining is strictly unionised a I get what everyone else gets - there is the chance to get .5% more if I overachieve but for such a tiny amount, what's the point of breaking my back?

I wouldn't leave a job for a 10% pay rise unless I was very unhappy.

 

[GBJ]

NR has strict pay bands and you can't exceed them and it is very, very rare for a role to change upwards. It has a repututation of letting skilled people leave rather than accomodate them. I can't walk up to my boss and demand a 10% rise as pay bargaining is strictly unionised a I get what everyone else gets - there is the chance to get .5% more if I overachieve but for such a tiny amount, what's the point of breaking my back?

Which is what I was alluding to. Even though they may value you, there’s nothing they can do, to accommodate your wishes.

Unfortunately, it sounds as though you’ve only got two real options; stick it out & hope something changes one day, or look for a new venture.

Personally, I’d see what was about, and how realistic it would be to get the change you want, and then go from there.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I wouldn't leave a job for a 10% pay rise unless I was very unhappy.

Just pulling a figure out of the air.

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

Pub toilets that take the lock off the mens cubicle. Not everyone is going in there to do a bit of chang. Some people genuinely need a dump!

 

[GBJ]

Pub toilets that take the lock off the mens cubicle. Not everyone is going in there to do a bit of chang. Some people genuinely need a dump!

Yeah but in fairness, there’s nothing worse than trying to rack up a cheeky line, when you’ve got the afterbirth of someone’s little brown fish, assaulting your nostrils.

Sounds like Scruttons has gone downhill.

 

[MisterStubbs]

Coming home from holiday to this typical English weather...

 

[RHB]

Saturday. On top of the Lincoln defeat I was told by Mrs RHB that we haven't been down to the Carnival Procession for ages and she really wants to go this evening. So we trot off to Southend and decide to risk eating at East. First mistake, the food was terrible and cost me £29 for the privilege. Next up we stand next to the top level of the lifts and the wind is blowing a gale, second mistake, nuts truly frozen off by the end. Then the procession turns up, sort of. I have to say it wasn't very good and all I got out of the evening was the hump. One good thing though, we stood opposite Adventure Island and the Axis ride. I realised then that my evening could have been worse.

 

[The Big Dady]

Hope this does not catch on at our local pubs, bars, and restaurants, and especially our football club.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Car has gone in to repair minor collision damage and the courtesy car is a 2.0l Jaguar XE.

I should be happy but it is too small for a man of my build.

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

Yeah but in fairness, there’s nothing worse than trying to rack up a cheeky line, when you’ve got the afterbirth of someone’s little brown fish, assaulting your nostrils.

Sounds like Scruttons has gone downhill.

wouldn't drink in Scruttons if you paid me!

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Being stuck in a 70's time warp, & still refer to local pubs as they were called back then. I.E The Aristocrat, The Bacchanalia, Liberty Belle, Criterion & The Ivy House, where the hell is Scruttons?.

 

[Firestorm]

Being stuck in a 70's time warp, & still refer to local pubs as they were called back then. I.E The Aristocrat, The Bacchanalia, Liberty Belle, Criterion & The Ivy House, where the hell is Scruttons?.

Guessing , as its GBJ and ThurrockShrimper mentioning the place , its in Grays

 

[GBJ]

Guessing , as its GBJ and ThurrockShrimper mentioning the place , its in Grays

Close, it’s in Tilbury.

 

[Firestorm]

Close, it’s in Tilbury.

That says it all.....

 

[GBJ]

That says it all.....

Absolutely.

Incidentally, it’s one of the few remaining drinking establishments left in Tilbury.

Which I assume, is because the locals can’t be trusted to have pubs, for some reason.

Anyway, by the power of Google street view, here’s Scruttons. Inviting eh?

 

[Benfleet A1]

Absolutely.

Incidentally, it’s one of the few remaining drinking establishments left in Tilbury.

Which I assume, is because the locals can’t be trusted to have pubs, for some reason.

Anyway, by the power of Google street view, here’s Scruttons. Inviting eh?

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That's a pub?!!

Jesus, I'll never slag off The Foresters again.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Absolutely.

Incidentally, it’s one of the few remaining drinking establishments left in Tilbury.

Which I assume, is because the locals can’t be trusted to have pubs, for some reason.

Anyway, by the power of Google street view, here’s Scruttons. Inviting eh?

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Even the arms on the chairs have tattoos.

Looks nicer than the Benfleet Tavern.

 

[Firestorm]

That's a pub?!!

Jesus, I'll never slag off The Foresters again.

Scrutton Maltby Sports & Social Club is the full name ,

 

[GBJ]

That's a pub?!!

Social Club/Hovel to give it its true definition.

The type of place where people would get offended if you had the audacity to get glassed and bleed on the sawdust.

That being said, I don’t know what the place is like these days.

Edit: Sacha Baron Cohen filmed some scenes in there for that Grimsby movie he did.