Questions Thread

[Wymsey]

Would anyone consider going abroad to get 'better value' dental work done?..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv24y98vnn2o

[Paninistickers]

How comes Elon Musk is richer than Jeff Bezos? 

 

Nobody has a Tesla. Everybody uses Amazon. 

[Izzy]

12 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

How comes Elon Musk is richer than Jeff Bezos? 

 

Nobody has a Tesla. Everybody uses Amazon. 

Maybe to do with the respective share prices?

 

For whatever reasons, the Tesla share price is more than double that of Amazon.

 

[Paninistickers]

2 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Maybe to do with the respective share prices?

 

For whatever reasons, the Tesla share price is more than double that of Amazon.

 

Well, yes, of course. But how comes? I can't work out why Tesla has such high value. It's one of, what, 50 odd car manufacturers? And a product that's slowing down

 

Amazon has more or less dominated every single facet of our life, yet is rated lower? 

 

Just seems a bit upside down

[Izzy]

28 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Well, yes, of course. But how comes? I can't work out why Tesla has such high value. It's one of, what, 50 odd car manufacturers? And a product that's slowing down

 

Amazon has more or less dominated every single facet of our life, yet is rated lower? 

 

Just seems a bit upside down

I always thought that people invested in Tesla based on their future possibilities rather than their current performance. 

 

Wasn't the idea that Tesla would develop the best batteries so that other car manufacturers would buy off them? And didn't Tesla have grand plans to own the vast majority of the worldwide charging network and make money that way?

 

I think a lot of investors bought into the Tesla dream, but maybe the reality is different. The share price is actually 50% down on this time last year so maybe people are getting wise that all isn't what it seems. 

 

As for Amazon, I don't know what their growth plans are and I'm not sure what else they can do to diversify really.

 

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

Well, yes, of course. But how comes? I can't work out why Tesla has such high value. It's one of, what, 50 odd car manufacturers? And a product that's slowing down

 

Amazon has more or less dominated every single facet of our life, yet is rated lower? 

 

Just seems a bit upside down

Share price varies on number of issued shares too. Aldo’s hooks have baked in future performance baked into the price. 
 

you mentioned a product that’s slowing down? EV cars are on a massive growth curve - I genuinely don’t understand what you mean?

[Paninistickers]

8 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Share price varies on number of issued shares too. Aldo’s hooks have baked in future performance baked into the price. 
 

you mentioned a product that’s slowing down? EV cars are on a massive growth curve - I genuinely don’t understand what you mean?

EV car market growing, but the battery technology is fierce. Everyone is in on it. Tesla may have led the way, but Hitachi, Mitsubishi and many more are onto it

[blabyboy]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Share price varies on number of issued shares too. Aldo’s hooks have baked in future performance baked into the price. 
 

you mentioned a product that’s slowing down? EV cars are on a massive growth curve - I genuinely don’t understand what you mean?

In addition to what PaniniStickers has said...

Every car maker is coming into EV production so as supply increases the price of manufacturing will come down as the makers compete. Tesla have also had several setbacks with their "self driving" technology and have outstanding lawsuits. Their battery factories are behind in production and the anticipated cybertruck and large scale semi-tractors have all suffered from further production delays.

[Tommy G]

anyone had any relative success buying a business out of administration? 

[Alf Bentley]

31 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

anyone had any relative success buying a business out of administration? 

 

Is it you bought the Silicon Valley Bank (UK) for a quid today? 

[Tommy G]

12 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Is it you bought the Silicon Valley Bank (UK) for a quid today? 

Thankfully no, a few sweaty palms in the HSBC boardroom I suspect!

[Wymsey]

How long do qualifications last for on a CV?

[Guest Manini]

30 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

How long do qualifications last for on a CV?

Depends what the qualification is? 
 

WRT experience, my advice would be (if you have experience longer than) last 10 years max in detail and then condense other roles in to bullet points with dates of when you held those roles. 

[Fightforever]

Is it normal to not remember events for years and suddenly remember them and see them as very traumatic? I don't want someone psychoanalysing me I just wanted to know if this is something thats possible.

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Fightforever said:

Is it normal to not remember events for years and suddenly remember them and see them as very traumatic? I don't want someone psychoanalysing me I just wanted to know if this is something thats possible.

It's possible, but I guess it depends on the event.

 

I know from professional experience that events I'd "forgotten" suddenly return unexpectedly and I find them as traumatic as at the time of the event.

 

A traumatic memory is almost always a result of a traumatic incident. I have 2 adopted daughters who suffered trauma as babies and they both have flashbacks, which is what I think you are having.

 

It's a form of PTSD. There may be triggers that bring these memories back. Were the events traumatic in the first place? If not, why do they feel traumatic now. (Not psychoanalysing, just a question you might need to ask yourself).

 

Do you suffer with anxiety as this can cause seemingly innocuous events at the time they happened, become traumatic in the way that you remember them now?

 

I hope you find answers.

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

18 hours ago, Fightforever said:

Is it normal to not remember events for years and suddenly remember them and see them as very traumatic? I don't want someone psychoanalysing me I just wanted to know if this is something thats possible.

To add to what Parafox has already said, I thought it was worth putting the question to my wife, who is a Clinical Psychologist and one of her specialties is trauma. I'm putting her answer up in full as I know this affects A LOT of people as when folk find out what she does they often end up opening up about all sorts, and this happens quite often.

 

Her answer in full: "This is normal. It often happens when something in our day to day life triggers something e.g. your child reaching a certain age, a smell, a TV programme, anything really. Look up PTSD or complex trauma. On a positive note, often past trauma appears when our bodies/minds recognise we're in a good enough position to cope with it"

 

So there you go

[Jimothy]

@Trav Le Bleu as you work for the Royal Mail I'm hoping you know this. When posting something with a tracking/signed for number, can you get the tracking number before you drop it off at the post office, or is that something you only get once processed at the post office? Ordered something last week, had an email Thursday from the company saying it had been dispatched and gave me the Royal mail tracking number, but the tracking says it was accepted at the post office on Saturday morning. So either the company are lying or the post office have sat on it for 2 days.

[Trav Le Bleu]

 

2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

@Trav Le Bleu as you work for the Royal Mail I'm hoping you know this. When posting something with a tracking/signed for number, can you get the tracking number before you drop it off at the post office, or is that something you only get once processed at the post office? Ordered something last week, had an email Thursday from the company saying it had been dispatched and gave me the Royal mail tracking number, but the tracking says it was accepted at the post office on Saturday morning. So either the company are lying or the post office have sat on it for 2 days.

It probably took 2 days to get to the post office.

 

Yes, we are useless.

[FoyleFox]

14 hours ago, Facecloth said:

@Trav Le Bleu as you work for the Royal Mail I'm hoping you know this. When posting something with a tracking/signed for number, can you get the tracking number before you drop it off at the post office, or is that something you only get once processed at the post office? Ordered something last week, had an email Thursday from the company saying it had been dispatched and gave me the Royal mail tracking number, but the tracking says it was accepted at the post office on Saturday morning. So either the company are lying or the post office have sat on it for 2 days.

If you buy the signed for service online would you get the tracking number then? Until Royal mail scan it presumably, at the PO or depot, it doesn't register on their records. I've had a few parcels with this sort of history recently. 

Edited 19 March 2023 by FoyleFox

[SemperEadem]

Does anyone on here work in fundraising? Ideally in the Leicestershire area too.

[Parafox]

7 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Does anyone on here work in fundraising? Ideally in the Leicestershire area too.

 

Not quite sure what you mean by "work in fundraising", 

 

 

[SemperEadem]

3 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Not quite sure what you mean by "work in fundraising", 

 

 

A fundraiser for a charity for example.

[Parafox]

2 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

A fundraiser for a charity for example.

Yes but in what capacity?

 

I raise funds for charity by volunteering in an Air Ambulance charity shop...

 

I don't think @semper eadammeans that low level of fundraising but his post is unclear.

Edited 21 March 2023 by Parafox

[FoyleFox]

If you received a message saying "I've put a paper copy in the post for you". How would you expect that to arrive? Wouldn't you just assume coming via royal mail? 

 

I sent the above to someone today due to them having printer issues and they queried how they'd be receiving it. Which seemed odd. 

Edited 23 March 2023 by FoyleFox

[Voll Blau]

Tradespeople of FT - what's the average number of teas/coffees you expect to be offered per day if you're doing a job at someone's house? Made four brews for the builders round ours yesterday and wonder if I need to build on that today as they've not said no to any yet.