Time to retire (I wish)

[merryone]

Yeah, understood.

What about doing the management's job for them: if you could find someone happy to do the late shifts and the shifts you don't want, perhaps students, and swap with the ones you want and present it to them as a done deal.

Thanks for the idea but I doubt whether they’d go for that as our students come and go too much, they’d need to give it to a full timer or a permanent part timer and change our contracts. Most of my colleagues prefer the earlies!

 

[merryone]

Problem is the boomers did well, bought houses when they were affordable, got solid gold-plated pensions, paid for with jobs for life, so have it on the whole better than the subsequent generations.

But like every generation, there are the ones who are less well off and haven't got comfortable property and retirement situations.

If you're not paying a mortgage or rent, then you are better off than later generations, lumbered with debt, renting, unable to work enough, or get a proper job and not a zero hours job or gig, nor able to get a deposit or mortgage.

Thank God for that - at least our mortgage is paid up so we're not beholden to having to work until we literally drop just to keep a roof over our heads and although I'm sick of working my job is steady. There's always gonna be someone worse off but you still have to struggle with your own situation. Thanks for listening folks as it sure helps to talk!

 

[PhædrusR]

Btw, please all come and contribute to my new Asda thread on here Their official Asda community/survey site changed research firms and is now awful with very little forum/social interaction, so am hoping this Asda thread can start a community of chatters interested in discussing all things Asda.

https://shoppingtelly.com/threads/lets-talk-asda.68785/

Thanks!

 

[merryone]

Btw, please all come and contribute to my new Asda thread on here Their official Asda community/survey site changed research firms and is now awful with very little forum/social interaction, so am hoping this Asda thread can start a community of chatters interested in discussing all things Asda.

https://shoppingtelly.com/threads/lets-talk-asda.68785/

Thanks!

Can I ask why this interests you? I know I work in a supermarket but I don't enjoy working in them or shopping in them if I'm honest. So I hope you don't mind but I don't really fancy joining in. Is Asda your "go to" supermarket? Don't think I've ever joined a community regarding a supermarket and I never take part in their surveys. I guess we're all on a community related to shopping telly but I think shopping telly is in a completely different dimension and is hilarious as it is useful

 

[PhædrusR]

Can I ask why this interests you? I know I work in a supermarket but I don't enjoy working in them or shopping in them if I'm honest. So I hope you don't mind but I don't really fancy joining in. Is Asda your "go to" supermarket? Don't think I've ever joined a community regarding a supermarket and I never take part in their surveys. I guess we're all on a community related to shopping telly but I think shopping telly is in a completely different dimension and is hilarious as it is useful

Sure. I started getting Asda deliveries before the pandemic. And tried Tesco/Sainsbury's delivery too. I have two Asda's near me, a smaller one and a larger hyper type one, where the deliveries now come from.

Before that they came from a dedicated 'dark' automated delivery centre, before the new owners, the Issa brothers TDR takeover shut and sold them.

That got me interested in the Asda business, their problems, lack of a CEO, Rose stepping down as Chairman, and they had a 5.4% downturn in sales over Xmas 24, which is bad. Plus the C5 What's gone wrong at Asda programmes, etc.

At some point, I was invited to join Asda's survey/chat site, run by a firm called ResearchBods for them, called Asda Pulse of the Nation (they run similar sites for Morrisons) where you could answer surveys, there was a monthly multiple prizes draw for those answering surveys or comments and polls, could comment on topics and it became a sociable forum to chat Asda, food, products, cooking, menus and general, similar to this friendly site/community and made a few friends/regular contacts.

Then recently they closed Pulse and changed research firms and moved to a new site called Chats More Like It, to coincide with their (awful) new slogan, That's More Like It.
The new forum and software is awful, poor interface and functionality and does not allow for easy social interaction between members.

So trying on here!

Also interested in Co-op, as I started using their quick top-up shop deliveries and was impressed with their integrated seamless use of Stuart delivery, Bringg (sic) online live delivery driver tracking and Uber/Deliveroo delivery service integration, without needing to go via the delivery firms. Plus they offer good discount codes and same day delivery at no extra cost, so useful if run out or need stuff more urgently. Impressed with the service I got. So may create a Co-op thread later, also.