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Just heard my neighbour looks like she may be being made redundant - she wfh, even before Covid for a freight company, organising/selling cargo space on commercial freight planes.

It’s both saddening and terrifying to see what’s going on with people and their livelihoods right now.
 
ska invita said:
Places like the Tate sit on endless art that doesnt even get displayed - permanently in storage. They could sell a couple of paintings and that would pay for everyones wages. Thats aside from what other imperial sugar trade money they maybe can still access

300 workers on 30k a year is 9million - peanuts in the art world at that level
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British Airways have been flogging off their art collection, the money is peanuts to the cost of their operation, but they feel that having £30m of art hanging around in the Concorde Room and at Waterside is in poor taste as they prepare to sack anyone who earns a living wage.
 
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I don't think I've ever been into a Pret...

I'm told that the jobs/recruitment scene has changed - it's apparently no longer about the competitiveness of the salary and benefits, it's about the degree of flexibility and WFH and the support available to do so.
 
skyscraper101 said:
I never got peoples obsession with Pret. The sandwiches are boring nowhere near worth the cost. If I wanted a bread based lunch I'd sooner go to Subway,
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It bills itself as healthy and good for you. All about the branding and image.

It’s still shit and expensive, as dull as it is I just take sandwiches when I’m in the office 80% of the time.

It’s the people who get daily takeout coffee that get to me. It’s at least once a day and you know most get it twice a day but you can just boil a kettle for a fraction of the price.
 
Artaxerxes said:
It bills itself as healthy and good for you. All about the branding and image.

It’s still shit and expensive, as dull as it is I just take sandwiches when I’m in the office 80% of the time.

It’s the people who get daily takeout coffee that get to me. It’s at least once a day and you know most get it twice a day but you can just boil a kettle for a fraction of the price.
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Some people don't have the time/energy to make their own sandwiches or coffee. Which is absurd but there you have it. Helps create more shit jobs at least.
 
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One thing about Save Pret- around my work place there's loads of independent caffs and other lunch spots - so far its a few of them who have shut down, not Pret, of which there are two practically within half a mile.

I blame greedy landlords refusing rent holidays who now have empty shopfronts and the government for cutting off furlough and not legislating on rent. Eat out to help out isnt really designed to help daytime caffs make it - such an arbitrary way to give out money
 
brogdale said:
I'm getting even more paranoid that, in public, my foil-wrapped, home-made sarnies are marking me out as a Marxist that hates his own country.
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It’s mostly just annoying there’s so few places you can enjoy a home made sarnie on a wet winters day, I don’t want to eat in the office (and there’s usually no room in the ‘breakout area’ anyway) so you have to find a coffee shop that’s inattentive to park yourself in.
 
Artaxerxes said:
It’s mostly just annoying there’s so few places you can enjoy a home made sarnie on a wet winters day, I don’t want to eat in the office (and there’s usually no room in the ‘breakout area’ anyway) so you have to find a coffee shop that’s inattentive to park yourself in.
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Often used to be the South Bank venues for me; warm, dry, water on hand, toilets and sometimes some free stuff; I miss all that :(
 
Artaxerxes said:
It bills itself as healthy and good for you. All about the branding and image.

It’s still shit and expensive, as dull as it is I just take sandwiches when I’m in the office 80% of the time.

It’s the people who get daily takeout coffee that get to me. It’s at least once a day and you know most get it twice a day but you can just boil a kettle for a fraction of the price.
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My central London office has a nice kitchen, with boiling water tap, kettle & Nespresso machine, they supply all the coffee types you can think of, 10 different types of tea and about 5 different types of milk, yet still people slope off down to Starbucks at least once, more often twice a day to spend bare cash on a bucket of coffee to bring back to their desks. Madness.
 
MickiQ said:
At the risk of outing myself as a willing stooge of the bosses, I actually quite like Subways, I can't remember the last time (if ever) I went to a Pret, I think the nearest one to me is probably Nottingham
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I like Subway too, although there's only one order I ever bother getting from there. A footlong Italian BMT in herb and cheese bread with double meat, extra (spicy) cheese and extra bacon and all the salad. Chosen more for its extra calorific content than anything else, since Subway sandwiches tend to taste pretty similar.
 
How crazy do you have to be to queue for a cold sandwich, and pay as much for it as you would for the ingredients to make a load of them.
 
I'd never eaten Pret until Olio...the food sharing App.

My mates neighbour often hangs a bagful of stuff on his front door that needs eating by next day. Tastes great for free :D
 
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