The totally off-topic thread

[Buzzard]

Last week I purchased fuel for $0.849. It was $0.989 less 4c voucher then spend $10 for another 10c per litre off. Having purchased something I need, not want, made this a real bargain!

 

[Julesmac]

7 years tomorrow with my current employer. Everyone uses my desk, I just hide the things I don't want to go walk-about, or liquid paper my initials on it, so they know it has to come back to my desk.

I know the office "stuff" is technically the boss's. Worked with a fellow who'd pinch absolutely anything he wanted from any desk he pleased...except the MD's of course. Famous for using any mug he liked cos he was too lazy to wash one. He took a particular shine to mine - and it had my blooming name plastered on the side. Drove me crazy. Every now and again we'd have a rummage through his office reclaiming anything not his. He never realised.

 

[rainbowgirl]

So are KIPPERS the answer or the problem?
Kids In Parents Pockets Exhausting Retirement Savings.

Are you saying that KIPPERS is the solution to SKIING (not sure how this one is supposed to be written but I've heard it expressed as Spending KIds INheritance)?

 

[ketsuzei]

Terrible memories today, even after 28 years.

Yeah, I miss Liberace too.

 

[drron]

Are you saying that KIPPERS is the solution to SKIING (not sure how this one is supposed to be written but I've heard it expressed as Spending KIds INheritance)?

For the kids it certainly is.For those my age it would be disaster.
Basically the trend for kids to move back home so as to save money.Usually the parents costs go up and workload increases.

 

[JohnK]

7 years tomorrow with my current employer. Everyone uses my desk, I just hide the things I don't want to go walk-about, or liquid paper my initials on it, so they know it has to come back to my desk.

The 7 years is a significant sort of milestone in QLD. If you leave your employer due to health reasons then you are entitled to request pro rata long service leave.

Is that correct?

 

[straitman]

Last week I purchased fuel for $0.849. It was $0.989 less 4c voucher then spend $10 for another 10c per litre off. Having purchased something I need, not want, made this a real bargain!

Still expensive compared to the US where fuel was equivalent to $A0.67/L a few weeks ago.

 

[cove]

Yes but each subsequent year you get a bigger piece of that LSL entitlement plus you will have 70 days sick leave (less what has been used). Long term employees get growing benefits.

 

[JohnM]

Are you saying that KIPPERS is the solution to SKIING (not sure how this one is supposed to be written but I've heard it expressed as Spending KIds INheritance)?

It's either SKI - spending the kids' inheritance

or - and my vastly preferred version - SKIN - spending the kids' inheritance NOW. (In truth over the last 4 years or so while the AUD has been at a point that it will never reach again...)

 

[cove]

I have already started SKIing.

 

[JohnM]

I have already started SKIing.

Mate, I've been SKINing it for years . You need to speed up .

 

[cove]

I tried investing in the stock market until it was all gone but then the stock market went up so plan A was dashed.
We are going to Los Angeles at the end of the month so there is some SKI hope there.

 

[JohnM]

I tried investing in the stock market until it was all gone but then the stock market went up so plan A was dashed.
We are going to Los Angeles at the end of the month so there is some SKI hope there.

Oh well, have fun trying to move from SKI to SKIN .

 

[anat0l]

Personally I care very little about inheritance or what my parents are doing with it. I have prepared myself to go through life on the assumption I will receive no inheritance or otherwise any kind of "hand me downs" - tangible, financial or otherwise - from my parents... except possibly the costs of the funeral, the burial / cremation (whatever the folks prefer as left in their instructions) and other incidentals.

It might be nice of them to pass on without leaving any significant mountains of debt, or any hit contracts out for them which then defer to next of kin, but apart from that I don't expect anything and I don't see why people should get so hatched up about their inheritances and/or be looking at them as a crutch / free pass.

 

[Julesmac]

As a friend of mine says -" if there's any money left when I die it will only be through the greatest miscalculation on my part"

 

[Flashback]

Yes but each subsequent year you get a bigger piece of that LSL entitlement plus you will have 70 days sick leave (less what has been used). Long term employees get growing benefits.

Not in the UK... sick leave doesn't accrue. Some employers don't allow you to carry over unused leave either and those that do limit the amount e.g. 5 days that must be used by March 31. Then there's LSL ........ ha, what's that! There's a sabbatical type arrangement that is offered but it must be a) of benefit to the company b) applied for ...... so it's not really a holiday.

 

[TomVexille]

Inheritance? What's that? I certainly don't plan on getting anything since my parents don't have much.

 

[anat0l]

I don't believe, in most corporations in CH, sick leave carries over. It's a fixed amount per year, and almost all of it must be verified with a doctor's note (not only do doctors not just hand them out like candy, but you will pay for it or at least you better have a really good insurance policy). Simply, it's not worth chucking a sickie here for the sake of it: either you really are sick or you work...and voluntary inebriation is not usually tolerated as an excuse to be sick. You can be dismissed for almost any reason at all in CH: not exactly a job seeker's market here, so not worth skirting on the edges of your job. Does keep everyone honest, though!

Where I work we get 25 days a year paid holidays, with any public holidays which fall on a weekend given as extra TOIL. Apparently that's above the mean entitlement here.

Not sure about LSL. Would be surprised if there is any; certainly my HR sources don't show any such entitlements.

 

[Bindibuys]

Personally I care very little about inheritance or what my parents are doing with it. I have prepared myself to go through life on the assumption I will receive no inheritance or otherwise any kind of "hand me downs" - tangible, financial or otherwise - from my parents... except possibly the costs of the funeral, the burial / cremation (whatever the folks prefer as left in their instructions) and other incidentals.

It might be nice of them to pass on without leaving any significant mountains of debt, or any hit contracts out for them which then defer to next of kin, but apart from that I don't expect anything and I don't see why people should get so hatched up about their inheritances and/or be looking at them as a crutch / free pass.

Going thru that now, what with my fathers passing last September. OK, so the farm is now totally in my name, but I have been living here for 22 years. (2 houses on property half a KM apart)
Playing it forward - now my son is living in Gramp's house, which when I am gone, he (and his sister) will inherit the property.
As a pensioner, he left enough money to cover most of the costs, but now with Probate fees coming in, I am the one paying.
Story of our lives - Asset rich, cash poor.

 

[cove]

In France I believe 40% of a property value is the tax before real estate can transfer to a beneficiary.
Australia seems to have the most generous long service leave in the world but not one of our politicians would have the guts to put an end to it. Commercially we have set aside funds to cover our long service leave liability.