Does anyone here actually really like their work? PS please could you give a clue as to what you do if so

[artfoley]

@glenshane

I do have a few vendettas though

with @iron_mike “carpentry”

[glenshane]

@artfoley

carpentry

Is that what we’re calling it now?

[backinatracksuit]

Well if could do my shopping in Pakistan or South Sudan my 800 would go a lot further.

[flattythehurdler]

Not as much further as you may think. Petrol, which is in many ways the best indicator (albeit this has significant problems as well) is a euro a litre.
Coffee in Tim Hortons was 2 quid.
Eating out was about a third cheaper I think (that was my impression but I can’t be certain).

[backinatracksuit]

Your girls earlier earned less than 25e a week, it’s hard to believe that eating out is only one third less than in Ireland

[Biff_Egan]

The Big Mac is the traditional metric to measure purchasing power.

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices are changing

[habanerocat]

@flattythehurdler

Was that a ‘clean room’ Flatty?

There’s still plenty of high end medical consumables still being packaged by hand in Ireland, although the cheaper the unit, the more likelihood of it being machine packed alright.

[glasagusban]

@flattythehurdler

4 kids and two dogs is just a luxury spend choice of yours though.
You may as well say you can’t afford to shop at Harrods.

Have I missed something here, what prompted such a curmudgeonly post?

[backinatracksuit]

The Euro area looks to be treated as one in that
I’m guessing the price of a Big Mac would fluctuate wildly within the euro regions?

[Biff_Egan]

Yeh so they have a GDP weighted version that adjusts for the difference in wealth between Germany and Croatia

[Kyle]

The euro is a failure.

[backinatracksuit]

You can still use it to buy a Big Mac in fairness, or a double sausage and egg McMuffin

[Kyle]

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

A royale with cheese…

[backinatracksuit]

Avec fromage?

[flattythehurdler]

We had to put on white coats and hats and masks and overshoes to go in, so I’d say it was.

[flattythehurdler]

In restaurants it was. Street food I’d imagine is a lot cheaper, and I doubt very much those girls eat in restaurants in any case. That was in Rawalpindi, which is probably a fairer reflection of Pakistan than Islamabad.
As a wag said about Islamabad, it’s a perfect seat of government, it’s new,well laid out, and only 5 miles from Pakistan
Id edit, those were the restaurants we were taken to, so probably were the higher end ones.

https://www.foodpanda.pk/restaurant/r0i0/tim-hortons-mall-1

350 rupees to £1.

[iron_mike]

@flattythehurdler

@Julio_Geordio

I’m concerned if you go to bed on a Sunday and you don’t dread it, it’s a good job

This exactly

Have to agree. Coming up on 7 years now with this crew and I can’t remember a Monday morning where I dreading getting out of the bed

[KKUltra]

Whats this wan’s prob? Its like shes deciding to either let off a ripper or blow herself up

[jellyfish]

Fair play to you for going to HR, that sounds like an odd demand from your manager telling you not to come back for two weeks.

[artfoley]

@mikehunt

My eldest was in hospital a good bit for a few months, nothing too major but he had a few multiple night stays in there, a few hurried ambulances etc but he’s fine now. I used my annual leave while he was sick. Think it was the 3rd or 4th time and i rang work and said he’s in hospital again and they asked can I come in anyway. I rang them when hecwas getting put and said I’d be back the following day. They told me not to and to take my two weeks continuous leave there and then. Didn’t have the holidays and wanted what ones I had left in case he was in again. They wouldn’t budge. I went in anyway and sent a mail to HR. HR said there was no requirement for me to take 2 weeks leave. Sent that email on to my managers. They were fuming.

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