Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Cynic glad to see you pay your workers a year end bonus.

Personaly though I favour the end of the month bonus which I used to pay.

No coincidence that retailers like Waitrose and Sportsdirect do very well as their staff are incentivised and feel part of the company. I also heard on sunday Ocardo issues its staff shares in the company annualy. Even the grocery drivers get them.

Should be a lot more of this type of practise.

Better employers = better employees and Business Growth.

People like Haystack who live in the past and reckon the mass should be put in their place, are holding this country back........ Big Len will sort his kind out with
higher taxes on the posh boys in every form so they cant escape.

Haystack - 03 Jul 2013 21:36 - 26715 of 26716

Coulson and others will have little effect on Leveson. The press don't want regulation and neither do most MPs. They all want to rely on existing legislation..........ends

its what the people of this country make of it that counts nothing else.

People just don't care about Leveson. The hacking didn't do any harm. It upset Hugh Grant, but so what?

It is infinitely more serious that the government are looking at all our emails and can hear all our phone calls.

EGYPT is much more interesting and serious.
The more cynical of you may suggest that "the West" engineered the the removal of Mursi and the supporting MB as they feared the fundamentalist direction in which Egypt was being manoeuvred.

That there are lots of noises off deploring the coup, could well be no more than standard lip service.

Of course, what I'ld really like to know or understand, is the political and religious stance of the Egyptian army

told you on here MORSI would not last the man is a nutter

Friend of yours.

Im not a man of knowledge on foreign affairs but why is as it appears to me that everytime we have trouble in the world Muslims are involved in one way or another.

Do they have a chip on their shoulder or do they have a legitimate cause to complain/spark trouble?.

Legitimate grievances, but "goals" of manipulators of the "aggrieved" is too often suspect.

Also, the history of the countries where violent "revolutions" is in response to connived governments left by previous "administrators" of those countries, who failed to raise the education and social standards prior to their "abandonment" of the previous "responsibilities".

But, removal of what is considered "oppression" often seems to be replaced by another form of the same, but the latter is eventually more "moderate".

Go back through centuries of Britain to see how our claimed state of "democracy" evolved and the abuse of that "state" still exists.

Due to changes in "media and distribution of information", the "changes" may be more rapid and possibly less "violent".

sticky - it may just be the coincidence that much of the oil wealth lies in muslim countries - not that one has anything to do with other of course

btw, monthly bonuses do not really work for all sorts of good reasons ..... also, annual bonuses reward longer serving staff for their loyalty, though in fact we almost never lose any

Thanks Fred, cyners.

Wheres Hays today.......out on the sherberts?.

Just reading the usual drivel.

What's that the Sun or Times?

It's grim oop north


http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2010/06/bradford-where-do-i-start/

Been there!

I had to visit a company that was going into receivership to buy some assets. I took one of my directors with me.

We went to a country pub just outside Bradford for lunch with two staff members of the company. They were doing steak sandwiches. As two of us were southerners, we decided to go for the steak sandwich, which is always a good bet in the south.

I had a distant memory of something odd about northern steak sandwiches. Then it came to me. I said in a fairly loud voice to my fellow southerner, "I think they pour gravy over the sandwiches up here". She said, "my god, that's disgusting". While this was going on, one of the other two guys ordered 4 steak sandwiches. The girl behind the counter heard our discussion about the gravy.

On being asked for 4 steak sandwiches, she replied, "so it's 2 with gravy and 2 without then".

I have never had a steak sandwich with gravy on!!! I used to cater and steak sandwiches were on my menu, I would no more dream of putting gravy on than fly in the sky - onions yes, mustard yes, gravy no. Soggy bread, disgusting. Maybe that is a Yorkshire thing - no idea. Each and everyone to their own taste, mmmm!!!

So you do not have Branston pickle with your Sunday roast. :-))

Not nice to take a stroll along the beach and feel as though your in a foreign country!!

I personally do not like Branston pickle dc., I love roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with gravy obviously over the potatoes and veg., etc., accompanied with horseradish and English mustard but that is my taste. I suppose now that the Yorkshires will have to go out the window and the beautiful beef fat gravy. How life changed over night!!!