Credit crunch? What credit crunch?
03 October 2008, 12:14 PM
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Credit crunch? What credit crunch?
Well it doesn't seem to be affecting our company too much. Just had a healthy pay rise of around 5% and £700 bonus. Beer tonight me thinks! 
03 October 2008, 02:05 PM
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03 October 2008, 03:21 PM
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Nice one.
Bit of investment news for you
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95. With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50. £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5. But if you had bought £1000 worth of Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
Bit of investment news for you
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95. With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50. £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5. But if you had bought £1000 worth of Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
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Glad to hear about your bonus though...
03 October 2008, 03:28 PM
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I was offered a 20% pay rise in March of this year. I refused on the basis that other members of staff were to be offered 10% and I felt that they didn't deserve it.
I will also be refusing to accept any bonus this year for the same reason.
I will also be refusing to accept any bonus this year for the same reason.
03 October 2008, 03:33 PM
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Someone fetch the straight jacket
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Nice one.
Bit of investment news for you
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95. With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50. £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5. But if you had bought £1000 worth of Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
Bit of investment news for you
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95. With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50. £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5. But if you had bought £1000 worth of Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
Good effort though.
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Unfortunatly not the same for us.... just had to request my staff take reduced hours and pay... We've had a quiet 4 months now.... with all the other surveying company's I know of in a similar position... Non of the large builders are building, and now the smaller private jobs have dried up.... unless something major happens in the next 2 months to incourage investment..then I can see many building related companies going under.
Glad to hear about your bonus though...
Glad to hear about your bonus though...
We supply a lot of transmissions and surface drives for Sunseeker's which brings in a few quid.
03 October 2008, 07:12 PM
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Shoppers on Oxford street are still as mental as ever.. Had to walk down there yesterday and it was bonkers..
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I used to go there on my lunch hour when I was working in the egyptian embassy as there was more women around 
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