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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
New phone day.
Used to be a joy, something I was looking forward to but now just a PIA. Nothing wrong with my old phone (galaxy S7) still works as good as when I got it, including battery life but it's 3 years old (gee already) and have to take the upgrade deal or pay much more later when it dies. :rolleyes: So....I'll be resetting passwords and such for days... |
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But what then came as a shock, was a requirement to attend the local job centre (6 miles away) for a fortnightly back to work interview, told a failure to attend will result in not receiving her sick pay. I went with her. The lady she met with could not have been nicer, she suffered from MS and was wheelchair bound. She had been a high flying HR exec somewhere and had to give up the stress once she had become ill. She understood, my wife had a job, but was too ill to work and that we were caught up in the system that was trying to get people off sick and into work. she explained that for years to get jobless figures down the system had been encouraging the long term unemployed to get greater benefits by claiming sickness instead. Twice though we got phone calls don't bother coming for your interview as she is herself taking sick leave. As I said, nice lady. when my wife felt ready to go back, she was told. But you cannot go yet. You need a new coat and shoes and issued shop vouchers and you get a transition allowance of £100/month for 6 months to help you back into work. I think the job centre used her to pass on the message that even with MS, she wanted to work and reasonable employers should make allowances for staff with health problems. Unlike the NHS who put them through the disciplinary procedure for being ill. My overriding memory of those days, one interview was midway though a cycle of chemo and my wife had to run from the interview to the stinking toilets to vomit, worse on the way home she fouled herself. Too ill to work is not ill enough to miss a job centre interview! |
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Not finding anywhere that even comes close to matching up with this forum for the equivalent Tracer related info and community. I've already attracted one person on the FB pages who (it took me a while to realise) was trolling me trying to wind me up. Why do people bother doing that? I can only assume they have no life at all.
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^Thats very much true... Most groups have 10 posts about the same thing everyday. Usually screen, luggage, dont see the point of a quickshifter, remaps, aux power sockets, phone app better than a tomtom/garmin.
I was saying this to John at BPW, the forum is no longer relevant to me as Ive no SV, but the general chat and sense of community keeps me coming back. Been on a forum for every bike Ive owned and so far, the .org is the only one I still visit. |
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and I thought this forum was slowly dying which I put down to the lack of popularity of the newer SV and people having moved on to bigger bikes. I'd be curious as to what percentage of members still have an SV as their principle bike. |
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Well, me for one. I occasionally test ride other bikes but have never been tempted to change.
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Still got my Sv1000 ain't letting it go till suzuki do a new one.
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I nearly picked up another one as a fixer upper for £450 the other day... unfortunately I don't have the £450 or the space to store and work on it.
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