Christmas alone

[Bitter Ashes]

Anyone else alone this Christmas? Any suggestions or advice from anyone on how to not let it get you down again?

[Pogue]

Come down to London, I'll put you up.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Get drunk and go to a club. In that order.

[Bitter Ashes]

Come down to London, I'll put you up.
lol. Thanks very much for the offer and as tempting as it is, I'm working until 5pm tommorow and I have a whole £6.44 in my bag to last me until the 1st of January and a bare fridge.

Thanks for hte offer though Pogue. Very kind of you. :)

[IrishWorker]

lol. Thanks very much for the offer and as tempting as it is, I'm working until 5pm tommorow and I have a whole £6.44 in my bag to last me until the 1st of January and a bare fridge.

Thanks for hte offer though Pogue. Very kind of you. :)
£6.44, Thats 20 Lambert and a tin of Carling Merry Christmas:)

[Pogue]

lol. Thanks very much for the offer and as tempting as it is, I'm working until 5pm tommorow and I have a whole £6.44 in my bag to last me until the 1st of January and a bare fridge.

Thanks for hte offer though Pogue. Very kind of you. :)

:(

I'm assuming thats £6.44 taking everything into consideration?

[Bitter Ashes]

:(

I'm assuming thats £6.44 taking everything into consideration?
'fraid so, but I've got my ways to get by these days, so I won't go hungry again :)
I would have had another £15 but I accidently bought a top-up for the wrong network and the shop refuses to do a refund. Somebody in work is offering to buy it from me though, but it wont be until next week.

p.s. Hanging around the back door of your local supermarket on Christmas Eve pays off if you're short of cash. There's not a shop assistant in the land who's cold hearted enough to throw out those turkeys on Christmas Eve when there's people outside in the cold who'd go without.

[Pogue]

'fraid so, but I've got my ways to get by these days, so I won't go hungry again :)
I would have had another £15 but I accidently bought a top-up for the wrong network and the shop refuses to do a refund. Somebody in work is offering to buy it from me though, but it wont be until next week.

Thats naff mate. You still doing cleaning?

[Bitter Ashes]

Yeah. The area manager came to inspect the site again yesterday. I handed him my grievance letter regarding not having a pay raise in two years, despite bieng hauled in to a disciplinary hearing on false charges (which I think they hope I've forgotton about) and bieng told to do a supervisor's job without supervisors pay which I'm putting down as an illegal deduction from wages, unauthorised change of contract and if nessicary, I'll play the discrimination card if I have to. Most other cleaners in the UK have had 22p added to thier wages in the last 2 years, but mine hasnt budged an inch. It's still a few pennies above minimum wage, but I've got experiance now and I've never had any (proved) complaint about my standard of work.

Intrestingly, the company is currently bieng pursued by GMB over in Sheffield for sex discrimination. They're a load of scum. I should add them to the name and shame tbh.

[Pogue]

Yeah. The area manager came to inspect the site again yesterday. I handed him my grievance letter regarding not having a pay raise in two years, despite bieng hauled in to a disciplinary hearing on false charges (which I think they hope I've forgotton about) and bieng told to do a supervisor's job without supervisors pay which I'm putting down as an illegal deduction from wages, unauthorised change of contract and if nessicary, I'll play the discrimination card if I have to. Most other cleaners in the UK have had 22p added to thier wages in the last 2 years, but mine hasnt budged an inch. It's still a few pennies above minimum wage, but I've got experiance now and I've never had any (proved) complaint about my standard of work.

Intrestingly, the company is currently bieng pursued by GMB over in Sheffield for sex discrimination. They're a load of scum. I should add them to the name and shame tbh.

Ah sounds like the usual shite from management. Good luck with that.

[Holden Caulfield]

Go to Pogues, see how the upper classes live.
Do you like lobster?

[Pogue]

Go to Pogues, see how the upper classes live.
Do you like lobster?

Everyone likes lobster.

[NecroCommie]

This is propably my first christmas not alone, and It's actually quite easy to survive it alone. Don't think about being alone. Think about some book you are reading, some movie you are going to see, or some video game you are playing. Anything really that suits you.

Personally, I might find it easy because I don't get the whole christmas thing anyway. The only reason I do anything christmas-like is simply to go with the flow.

[NecroCommie]

Everyone likes lobster.
What are you?!

[Il Medico]

Sorry to here that Ramana.

Also, kudos on changing back to your old avatar.


What are you?!
This is Pogue:
http://aadezyn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lobster-man1.jpg

[Robocommie]

Before or after he puts on his work clothes?

[Killfacer]

Before or after he puts on his work clothes?

I've met pogue in real life and he looks more like a crayfish than a lobster.

[Искра]

If it's expensive to come to London you can come to my place... It not so expensive...

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

Steal something from a rich person. ;) As much as that's a joke, I can't help feeling as though it'd be justified.

Sorry you're in such a crap situation, though. I'm not alone, but I know what it's like to have absolutely no money. What do you normally do? It could be easier if you don't think about it being Christmas, instead think of it as any other day and try to look forward to seeing friends in the New Year or whatever else you're looking forward to.

[Pogue]

I've met pogue in real life and he looks more like a crayfish than a lobster.

Awww, your so sweet :blushing:

[Robocommie]

I hear eating crayfish raw can give you lung fluke.

[The Essence Of Flame Is The Essence Of Change]

I hear eating crayfish raw can give you lung fluke.
Well you got to ask Pogue's girlfriend about that then :D.

EDIT: Oh god that's a disease and not a fin isn't it?Damn, I'm an awful smartass some times, soz