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[yorkshirechris]

Im glad today was my last day for a week, although the promise of compulsory redundancies hasn't exactly given me a good thought to go away with! lol

[Shifty]

Sorry to here that Chris

Quick get some redundancy insurance!!!

Look at Ant insurance, £40 a month

90 day qualifying period for redundancy.

I got some the other month, better safe than sorry.

Still got probs then Mart?

Not sure about camping, will let you know laters.

Edited by shiftyseamus, 30 September 2008 - 08:37 PM.

[yorkshirechris]

Ooo I might look into that. I'm pretty sure I'm safe anyway. I'm close to the top fo the team on all counts, and am quadruple skilled whereas most people are double skilled. Who knows though

[Racer_Pete]

Seans theres another V8 coming in tghe garage in a couple of days!
2/2000!

[Shifty]

Another V8!!!

mmm rusty money eating goodness!!

Hows college Petey?

Chris, we went through a bit of ruff patch a few months ago, MD sacked etc so I took it out just to be safe, £40 gets you £1200 a month for 12 months. Thought it would save having to panic finding a job. The Ant insurance was recommended by "money saving expert guy Martin Lewis".

[Shifty]

Seans theres another V8 coming in tghe garage in a couple of days!
2/2000!

Don't forget the "Costello V8's"

[yorkshirechris]

I was going to say I can't afford £40 a month.. then again I can't afford to lose all my wage but I really cannot afford £40 a month!

[Shifty]

I was going to say I can't afford £40 a month.. then again I can't afford to lose all my wage but I really cannot afford £40 a month!

There are different levels of cover, I just went for the highest!!!

Look here

http://www.antinsura...o.uk/index1.htm

[yorkshirechris]

I don't like this bit:

"Receive up to 50% of your gross monthly income to a maximum of £1,000 "

50% isn't any good! At the moment, 70-80% of my income goes on food and bills soon to be much more...

[Shifty]

Plus dole money and then you get reduced council tax also any loans that have protection!!!

I worked out that I would could take 12 months off work and still earn pretty much what I get now!!

Might actually get a car finished!!

[yorkshirechris]

Plus dole money and then you get reduced council tax also any loans that have protection!!!

I worked out that I would could take 12 months off work and still earn pretty much what I get now!!

Might actually get a car finished!!

Dole money? You'll be lucky. People like us never get a sniff of that.

As it goes my dad found himself out of work a few months back. It was the first period he'd had off work since 1976. He went 6 weeks without getting a penny from the state... they wanted to know everything, even about the savings of an elderly relative who lives in the same house, thats none of his business let alone theirs! After a strongly worded letter (some would say politically incorrect, I just say correct) he got something from them eventually. You should see the letters they were sending. "We want to know" this and that. The fact is he'd paid into the system for over 30 years and found himself out of work by no fault of his own. Any savings he collected in that time, shouldn't they stay as savings?!

I can't put any faith in relying on benefits to subsidise me if I did ever find myself out of work, nor when I retire, the way the country is going now I hate to think what it will be like in 40 years when the retirement day does come (or it might be 60 years )

Edited by yorkshirechris, 30 September 2008 - 09:09 PM.

[jplonie]

Whats all this about Chris? didn't realise you worked for HBOS these days?
J

[Shifty]

Amen to that!!

You could always smuggle yourself out of the country, hide inside a lorry into Blighty and then claim asylum!!

Free house/car/dole etc, job done!!!

[yorkshirechris]

Whats all this about Chris? didn't realise you worked for HBOS these days?
J

I've never seen you on this topic before, you must be bored! lol.

I don't, they're not the only company to be affected by the so-called "credit crunch" (hate using buzz words) and the epically failing housing market!

Hows things anyway?

[yorkshirechris]

You could always smuggle yourself out of the country, hide inside a lorry into Blighty and then claim asylum!!

Free house/car/dole etc, job done!!!

Or change my name to something ending in "ski" and pretend to speak barely any English...

It's absolutely scandalous that Polish people working in this country can claim child benefits for children that live back in Poland. I actually couldn't believe this when I first heard it.