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Now for something a bit more gentle in the afternoon






Andy

How did you get the Youtube box to come up, did you just copy and paste the link in the body of the reply or did you use some tags of some sort ??


Andy

Her whole story sounded like it was worse than an "Eastenders" and "Coronation Street" script combined.

As I've said in other posts , I can only be encouraged by the panicking of government , Pharma and Tobacco industries resorting to the kind of s**t flinging only normally seen in the run up to a major election.
Perhaps the government need to collect the lost revenue from smokers and let's be honest , the amount of smokers are only going to get smaller from now on , from the like of Amazon , Starbucks and all those others given little to no tax to pay.As a person that is self employed and HAS to rely on agency work most of the time , do I get the choice to not pay tax and then pay it at the end of the year , NO , I have to pay a FULL 20% and that's ALL year round , then I have to claim it back from THEM , rather convenient.

I think the comments have been ( on the most part ) just and what you would think they would be , BUT unfortunately most readers of the piece would only read just the article and not the comments below , which is a shame as their some good links to people and research.


Last , but not least , she looks as though she has posed for those shots, and it doesn't look as though it's the first time for her , anyone else smell the " paid actress" ???


Andy

Having the same delivery driver is key.

I've worked for most of the delivery companies over the years in different positions in the company , to say the drivers get of rotten end of the deal is an understatement , especially if it's an agency driver.
When I was working for one of these delivery companies as an agency drivers ( and I've seen it happen on most of the other companies too ) , there were 4 of us agency drivers and they asked us out of the areas that they had rounds for which ones we knew , so what did they do , they put us on the areas we DIDN'T know , even when we said , theother guy knows that area and I know his area, shouldn't we swap , they told us NO , and we didn't get any help loading or routing the round.
That's probably why you see vans going one way then another all day , because they're being s**t on.
One reason behind this and I know this to be a fact , is because a lot of the drivers are franchised to a route , so if they have a day off holiday or sick they put the worst driver they could on the route , so they can fine the regular driver for non deliveries.Then the poor regular driver has to play catch up all week.Added to which these delivery companies always give you collections that are miles away from the area you're delivering in and they also spread the collection times out through the day, so you have to keep leaving you're  delivery area too.

I would love to see a proper "Undercover Boss "  SERIES be done on the parcel industry and have someone like Sir Gerry Robinson looking on and giving advice at the end.It would be a serious eye opener for most people.


Andy

One other thing I've noticed  is after a few hours of on and off vaping during the day , is gunk under the drip tip.
I take the drip tip off , blow out the drip dip and cleaning it with a cloth and also clean the top of the protanks ( atty of choice for me , either Protank 2 or Mini Protank 2 ) . I also use heavy VG juices that are also sweet , a double hit for coils , so for my all day vapes I change the wicks and coils twice a week.Where as my pipe tobacco flavours get changed maybe once every 10-14 days even with heavy VG.


Andy