Would a £5k payrise be enough to tempt you to lose 7 days holiday?

[PSRB]

6 weeks down to 23 days :yikes: Not sure I could do it

[Classic Jorge]

That said, if it's teaching you're on about then they work a lot of their holidays anyway so that might be essentially nothing.

[The Tony]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

1 week of holiday is worth a lot less than £5k so the logical answer is to take the pay rise. But I understand your hesitation.

[PSRB]

I'm not sure I can face losing 7 days holiday for a £5k payrise

[PSRB]

[Snin]

lazy feckin jokers..and my sister was one, after leaving E&Y..was even head of an academy in south london..and she hates teachers..lazy scumbags :-) if you cant do teach

[Classic Jorge]

especially if, like me, you get f**k all near that.

[Snin]

or revenue share..or negotiate a rev / comm deal at current place..then think of some amazing new money making scheme for them, watch the money roll in..I get 25 days and even buy more sometimes!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's inhumane not to allow people proper holidays.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Snin]

in xmas holidays, family meetings , having a new kid esp..keep the 30 son

[PSRB]

You on 250 these days?

[Snin]

its good half full way..well done LA..but I also bought about 3 more last year

[Ashberto]

I've known teachers who worked incredibly hard. Just because your sister was **** you don't have to insult others.

[Snin]

25+ days and 9 miles down road

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Probably a bit embarrassing as well.

Nothing long-haul booked until March :-(

[PSRB]

[Snin]

and chosen for difficult schools etc..trouble shooter so to speak..she just found that comming from management consultancy she found MANY teachers to be lazy cnuts..thats all

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

while he's lounging on some beach somewhere. Lazy *******.

[Classic Jorge]

[Free SL]

is the £5k a per one off payment, or payrise?

[Peter]

Someone is going to refer to a 'sense of entitlement' in a moment :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's called 'internetting'. You can send and receive messages in minutes! Also you can use an electronic far-speaking apparatus.

My staff love it when I call them from south-east Asia at 1 a.m. because I've had a great idea. Love it.

[Peter]

[Lar d'Arse]

you struggle to take your holidays?



Wrong


Un

[Peter]

I do get 30 days. It is f**king loads. Plus six extra at christmas and all bank holidays.

[Snin]

mates unimaginative social odd ball with no leisure activities or proper interests as well ..i could easily use 25 days just on half days..long weekends and day trips let alone actual holidays

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Now what of proper holidays?

[Peter]

I dont get time to organise my own.

Off to berlin next week :-)

[Lar d'Arse]

and who said anything about decorating?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

'Holidays' is one thing and 'work' quite another.

[Peter]

If i take time off i am going to end up decorating. It is inevitable. New house, skint etc.....

I would rather be at work.

[Snin]

[Peter]

Any holiday i arrange is not going to be as good as that.

Reykjavik was good fun but the hotel wasnt hugely impressive. Breakfast was a little ordinary.

[Peter]

:-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

If it's not Raffles it's some dreadful wannabe nouveau riche squalor.

[Snin]

oh..too late

[Snin]

[Frimmers]

Couldn't manage a 'cut' to 23 days? Try getting by with 20.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Peter]

The intercontinental.

We do use the E&O, sister hotel of raffles, in penang though. Very nice indeed :-)

[Snin]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/expat-banker-who-mocked-st ench-of-poor-on-public-transport-faces-fury-of-singapore-907 7127.html (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/expat-banker-who-mocked-stench-of-poor-on-public-transport-faces-fury-of-singapore-9077127.html)

[Peter]

Sad f**k indeed. How rude :-)

[Frimmers]

I tend to point out that it isn't my fault that he's a stupid c**t.

[Snin]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

July/August.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

but they served me a presentable som tam, correctly pet maak maak as requested.

I like the E&O. The only hotel I know which approaches the standards of La Grande Dame.

[Peter]

It is just that holidays are not going to improve things. I would be taking all my problems with me- it would be rude to leave her at home :-)

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Most of the expats there are Australian these days. Loud, rude f**kers.

[pjlincs]

[Peter]

Eating downstairs with the plebs. One could easily encounter an australian.

The E&O is nice, although a little corny. And assuming you stay in the heritage wing (how vulgar to choose the new and characterless victory annexe) there is no executive lounge.

Though one can of course relax in farquhar's bar of an evening :-)

I do like penang.

[Peter]

Awful it is. A Backpackers hovel

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm there for the wildlife, really.

I'm ticking off the Great Hotels of the East.

We stay regularly at the Oriental BKK and Raffles SIN, occasionally at the E&O and Raffles Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. I've never done the Mandarin HK, and look forward to it very much.

What about KL? I've never stayed in an old colonial hotel in KL.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Frimmers]

Xmas cancelled :-|

I'll believe it when I see it...

[Frimmers]

:-|

[Peter]

I have also stayed at the ghastly Hilton, the poxy sheraton and the incredibly irritating grand hyatt. Never again.

If i want colonial charm in KL i go for an evening at the selangor club.

I do enjoy the singapore cricket club as well. Fun for an evening.

Raffles seems a bit....errr, fake. A fascinating place but it is all a bit las vegas.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

£425k - £430k, No!
£145k - £150k, unlikely
£75k - £80k, perhaps
£30k - £35k, yes

[Ashberto]

Or have they got you by the nadgers? :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Lucky fellow.

[Frimmers]

I'm spending quite enough time in the midlands / Norfolk as it is.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Of ocurse it's fake. They're giving you 1932. I'm generally a rubber planter, in from my estates for the weekend to buy up some supplies and enjoy a few stengahs in the Long Bar.

[Lar d'Arse]

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