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The meeting that's coming up for said friend colleague is billed as a "Wellness Meeting". I have no idea what format the meeting takes but my colleague has said that they (the Company) have asked for and received information on his condition, presumably from his GP. I believe the Company know about the muscular dystrophy, a condition that can take as long as 20 years to properly manifest itself, allegedly. I am not sure my colleague is up to have a meeting with anyone....if that makes any sense.

A colleague/friend has in the last two weeks or so tried to kill himself - he doesn't remember stabbing himself but that's evidently what he did. He narrowly missed piercing his heart but he tells me his left lung was affected because it filled with blood. He says he wasn't drunk or on drugs. 3 months ago this same friend/colleague was diagnosed as having muscular dystrophy and pretty much went into a depression and was signed off from work and I don't think he has ever recovered from being told about this. He reckons he has just been diagnosed as suffering from hypermania, whatever that is. He is due to meet HR this Wednesday and I would like be able to join him, I believe he is allowed to have some one come in with him. He said that he is likely to say something he will regret in the meeting which worries me a little. He would like to stop work as his job was fielding complaints all day, something I can tell you was a stressful occupation and all he is after is a pay off. I'd like to know something about his rights. He has worked at the company for 13 years in a variety of roles. I would have thought that he could ask to be retired on the grounds of ill health. I would welcome anyone's input into what his rights are. I feel very very sorry for this guy and I would like to help him.

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Some questions for you economists out there. In round figures 1 million jobs are going, 500,000 in private sector and the same in the public sector. Has anyone costed this in terms of in redundancy payments, reduced tax revenues, increased benefits paid out. What do we save by doing this? We allegedly pay £140 million a day in interest to service our debt. To whom are we repaying it. A serious question if I may. Why don't we refuse to pay back the interest on the loans. Be nice in your reply. I can't understand why if the Bank of England is our bank we have to pay any interest on monies the country has borrowed....we would certainly have to pay the money back. What is quantative easing if its not just printing money? Why do you have to pay interest on something created out of thin air as in money?

coaster

I assume it comes with all the flexible house wastepipes etc necessary to connect to fixed pipes? Do you have a photo of said kit?

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Unite demands answers as Lloyds cut 4,500 job cuts with work going abroad

You had to be there to see what Maggie Thatcher did to society to know who damaged us the most. Labour/Conservative....is there actually a difference? Never mind, we have the X factor

Good buddies....we have an Eton/Oxbridge dominated Parliamentary system. Lets change the education system so we keep the masses down. Lets frighten the masses by inventing enemies (China, Iran etc) to justify Trident. Who owns the Bank of England? Lets monetize the masses as much as we can, get them into debt so we can control them. We are/were the 4th richest country in the world. Is this the best we can do for our children? At the same time as doing this to our children, this week HP announce 1300 UK redundancies, Vodafone announce the closure of a call centre in Banbury 400 jobs lost. Work is going abroad. The country is going down the pan. I will tell my kids that if they have to pay for a Uni education they should have no qualms about leaving the country for one which will give them better prospects, Oz or Canada for example. Does Australia have much of a nuclear capability? Canada?

I used my Philosphy degree in the early years of my career. I ended up in IT. University changed me enormously, its not not necessarily the subject that is studied, but the whole experience. I could not in all conscience stop some one from attending.

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99.99% on here won't have a clue what you have said.....but I do. I think I got brainwashed in the 80's with the Linn when I suspect Thorens probably made better decks, I am sure there's a couple of legendary Thorens decks I should have listened to.

To balance things here, there are loads of anecdotes of the exact opposite behaviour by Norman.. I guess you do have to go with what you experience. I told my kids a few years ago that I thought his autobiography should be studied at school. Lessons in self relience, surviving in adversity etc. A fantastic bloke in my view, who faced life's battles head on and won most of them!!

For me its his hi fi, he is a Naim man....I am a quad man. We both have Linn record decks

Quality post......I concluded some time ago that a lot of people on this site are thick. Maybe they should get a job/education

Currently, I get £1000 a year not to drive to work I also have a buy one get one free share deal, worth around £2000 a year, I was in a final salary scheme....now closed and I am still working but also drawing a pension based on my 13 years contributions. I also get a bonus of around £4000 annually At Hewlett Packard I was in a non contributory final salary scheme which is projected pay me £6000 a year at the age of 60. All in all I have been pretty lucky

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Barnfield close Weston 1956 to 1971 Norton Close Woolston 1971to 1974 Monks Way Swaythling 1974 to 1976 Keele University 1976 to 1980 Madeley Nr Crewe 1980 to 1982 Whitchurch Hampshire 1982 to 1995 - nicest place I have lived in Bristol (Coalpit Heath) 1995 to 1997 Tadley 1997 to 2007 Newbury 2007 current

Have a look at this...Alan Hart is a respected journalist

Housework tomorrow, Airsoft with my son on Sunday all day.

flighty