RonnieTodger

Good point, really. The same can't be said for my soon to be ex-nextdoor neighbours! There's 9 (to my knowledge), in a standard 3-bedroom house and they've fallen out with their landlord. **** knows how they get away with in the first place. 7 kids between 2 bedrooms! (Obviously the mum and step-dad have a room). They've got a dog that spends most of the day locked outside and barking. They are the noisiest, ugliest and most ignorant family I've ever known and can not wait until they fúck off, for good.

The animals at post-Xmas sales. Worked today and yesterday for Next and couldn't believe how desperate some people were. We opened at 6am (I started at 7:30) and people had been queuing since 1am! The queue at open time, went all the way to round to Debenhams. In store, they were just ridiculous in the way they treated it. Clothes being flung around everywhere and when they knock stuff off they just leave it on the floor unless a member of staff watches them do it. If bargain-goers act like this all the time, it's no wonder that Primark is such a shithole.

Only working 3 hours today, then it's off to the pub :xmassmile:

Go for it mate. Disgusting. Similar thing happened to my younger sister's year when she was at Winstanley. Same guys tried it with about 10 different students, none older than 14. They eventually got caught, the bastards. Never heard the punishment though.

Working 7:30 - 1:30 on Boxing Day! Christmas Night will be a bit shit now. That said, 3 months ago I'd have taken working on Christmas Day

Long day at work. Only worked standard 8 hours but it dragged like ****. Off out with the lads to celebrate turning 19 tomorrow!

Yeah I get you. I think they should make sure the place you work at is related to your 3 career-path choices and to be fair, my 3rd was retail, which is what the Leicester Riders store did. I just found the whole experience of being on JSA allowance awful and hope I don't have to do it again but I probably will. The thing that most angered me was being financially punished for making an attempt to get a job of my own volition and knocking back their (what would have been) useless idea. P.S. I just read back my other post and some of the punctuation is terrible.

I can sympathise with people being put in this 4-week programme. I was meant to. I met some people from a company called InTraining who organise the process and ask/help you with with the available places to do it with. I told them, I was expecting a work-trial with a sports-coaching company and probably won't be able to do this 4-week placement. The fella interviewing me said "that's fine, if you've got a chance of work, you should take it." The sports-coaching company did offer me a trial, and I worked there for about a week and a half but didn't get it. Not long after, I got offered an apprenticeship with Impact Creative (a POS company) but with no start date. This still wasn't enough for them and they put me on the list to do this programme again. Because Impact have laid some people off, they can't take me on until next year due to redundancy rules. About 2/3 months after I originally turned down the 4-week placement, the job-centre suspended 13 weeks worth of JSA as I had an insufficient reason for not doing the placement, even though I actually had a chance of being offered a job as opposed to working without pay, for the Leicester Riders store who rely on "volunteers". So even though I actually was in with a chance of work, they suspended my JSA and I washed my hands with them not long after that. Wankers. Luckily, I got offered a Christmas Temp job working at Next in the Highcross and I'm doing it until mid-January. Hopefully long enough to keep things ticking over, financially until I get taken on by Impact, or even offered a permanent position. It's easy for the employed and happy to look down on people who don't want to do these programmes because they look good on paper. In most cases, they're not good at all. They're a way to gain staff without paying them for a lot of companies and a way for advisers to tick boxes and make it look the people they "help" are actively seeking work, when it could have led to doing the opposite. I hated being on JSA with a passion and hope things pick up for people who make a good effort.

Bit late but - Watching Norwich on telly. Every game, about 5 times I see ****ing Delia Smith and that old bloke next to her like she's some sort of Hollywood A-Lister.

AFC Wimbledon's just now. Quality!

Quite like it there. I've gotta start at 7:30am on Tuesday & Thursday! Only started at that time in a warehouse. Just nice to be out of the house again. Thanks for the kind words 25%

Will be starting at Next tomorrow. Relieved to be handing in the old signing book and not have to put up with that useless twat of an advisor. About time and all.

That's Rangers' anthem. It'd be like singing our own version of Blue Is The Colour.

Jobseekers allowance suspended for 13 weeks for not doing a 4-week unpaid work-experience programme. I turned it down to pursue a work trial with a sports coaching company. Though I didn't get it, it certainly gave me more of a chance of work than doing a 4-week placement with Leicester Riders who rely on volunteers for their shop to operate successfully. Luckily, I'm starting at Next soon so the JSA isn't much of a problem. I was punished for trying to get a job, to sum it up simply. Some of their rules are ridiculous and I'm so glad to be on the other side of it now. Work at Next until new year and start my apprenticeship after, hopefully.

Rufus Hound... Shouting doesn't make you funny.

Apprenticeship has been delayed but I've got a Xmas temp job at Next to keep things ticking over . Still short on funds to pay things at the end of the month, but I'll find a way.

For what it's worth I like Stringer. He's going to have to be opinionated in order to do his job, and to do so, he has to get his point across. He might be wrong sometimes but I'd much rather have him commentating than some bland, politically correct robot. That's not without saying he doesn't make mistakes or some silly comments, however. Let's not forget in comparison to a lot of broadcasters in this field, he's relatively young and should become more professional and well informed of what-to-do and what-not-to as his career progresses.

"Nottingham Leicester vs Forest"

Great escape just finishing with "Leicester!" like the old days. Some chants need to be resurrected.

Not a new chant but we should get the Steve Walsh chant going today, as it's his birthday.

My local bus! Good job they're every 10 minutes. Shite. 3 in a row didn't turn up once and I was late for work and lost my morning's pay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5bFxjMhTc&feature=related Sounds even better on the telly. We shouldn't even try with this to be honest. Wouldn't do it any justice.

They sing Mull of Kintyre before the game or "City Ground". But they play it so loud on the PA system, you can barely hear their fans.

I've seen that but never stepped in. Does look pretty good. I got mine done the other day at Homme&Co. I know the owner so I got a discount . Nice place though. Would recommend it for anybody 30 or under. £15 for gents but £10 for students.