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Iceland is a very sane country. We in the Republic can learn from them.


Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.
The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
Where Iceland went wrong was never feeding people with monarchical pretensions to their native seabirds
 
Found out today that John Bunyan spent 12 years in prison due to Charles II who we should never have let back in the country. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was my school hymn and it was rousing.



 
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or the auld-ish man who had been there since 1976 and didn't give a shit, so if he signed you on it was done and dusted in 30 seconds and no questions asked

however, i haven't signed on since november 2005 so i'm well aware that much has changed since then and little of it for the better.

people like that will almost certainly have been 'performance managed' out for not hitting their target of sanctions

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people like that will almost certainly have been 'performance managed' out for not hitting their target of sanctions

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Some of them are clinging on. There was a guy in Woking who used to hail me as some kind of rockstar when he saw me sloping in for the 800th week running. And one time a woman was about to sanction me for being late to a sign in and told me Alex Ferguson was never late once in his life and I told her in the south east we do things differently and I was busy reading Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and she relented and didn't sanction. Another one I told I wanted to be paid in gold which melted his mind.
 
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My last visit to the Labour Exchange was in 1983; the bloke at Catford told me that there were so many claiming that I wouldn't be expected to sign-on again for 6 weeks! That took me nicely through to the start of next term.

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first signed on there in 1986 and occasionally until about 1990. then used to go round to catford mews for tea and toast - think it was every 2 weeks by then.

Some of them are clinging on. There was a guy in Woking who used to hail me as some kind of rockstar when he saw me sloping in for the 800th week running. And one time a woman was about to sanction me for being late to a sign in and told me Alex Ferguson was never late once in his life and I told her in the south east we do things differently and I was busy reading Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and she relented and didn't sanction. Another one I told I wanted to be paid in gold which melted his mind.

I don't remember much in the way of conversations with the counter staff when i was on the dole - tended to be show your UB40, sign your name, bugger off (the job centres were a separate entity then)
 
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first signed on there in 1986 and occasionally until about 1990. then used to go round to catford mews for tea and toast - think it was every 2 weeks by then.



I don't remember much in the way of conversations with the counter staff when i was on the dole - tended to be show your UB40, sign your name, bugger off (the job centres were a separate entity then)
Ah, UB40. Get it shown and then drink some red red wine
 
Many apologies about the Daily Fail link but the Fail are quite useful in documenting the collapse of the Windsors.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's plans for world domination have hit a stumbling block.

I can disclose that their plans to trademark their entertainment and charity empire have fallen foul of U.S. lawyers.

Prince Harry and Meghan applied to have their fundraising outfit, Archewell Foundation, and podcast firm, Archewell Audio, protected by company law in America. They sent documents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office asking for the sole use of the terms.

 
The Windsors endgame. The poor Windsors don't realise checkmate has already been declared. They got wiped out by a fiancetto and a bishop attack.

 
The first 12 billboards will go up in a couple of weeks. They'll be in Aberdeen, Paisley and Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, the Potteries, Birmingham and Portsmouth. We haven't forgotten Wales, which will be the priority for the next lot we order.

@RepublicStaff
 
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