What an idiot

[Paddy]

'My firm may fold because I can't get a bounce back loan' - BBC News

Quitting his IT job two years ago to start a beer tour business was a dream for Mike Hampshire.
But his hopes of breaking even in his second year of operation were crushed when the coronavirus crisis hit in spring.
Now the future of his Leeds-based business is in serious doubt as he's been unable to get a bounce back loan.
"Without a loan to tide me over I'm going to have to look for other work," he said

[ladymuck]

So he's tried two banks out of the many that are offering them.

[TheGreenBastard]

The BBC is riddled with these types of stories, as if it's happening in a vacuum and nobody else is suffering.

[NotAllThere]

The BBC is riddled with these types of stories, as if it's happening in a vacuum and nobody else is suffering.

So unless you care about all people who are suffering, you shouldn't care about any?


Your point that the world contains multiple problems is a real slam-dunk argument against fixing any of them.

[GJABS]

So unless you care about all people who are suffering, you shouldn't care about any?

Correct as a general principle, because the fix for the problem one person has might make the problems worse for everyone else.

[TheGreenBastard]

So unless you care about all people who are suffering, you shouldn't care about any?

Your point that the world contains multiple problems is a real slam-dunk argument against fixing any of them.

No, I should have qualified my opinion more, I find the BBC is becoming riddled with bottom of the barrel style sympathy porn. This particular article is tiresome due in part because of the quote the OP provided.

[minestrone]

No, I should have qualified my opinion more, I find the BBC is becoming riddled with bottom of the barrel style sympathy porn. This particular article is tiresome due in part because of the quote the OP provided.

It's brutal for this stuff. They search social media for pissed off emotional types and build uninteresting articles on them.

[Paddy]

He chucks in contracting to do a hairbrained scheme rather than keeping his job and doing his plan B at the same time.

[courtg9000]

He chucks in contracting to do a hairbrained scheme rather than keeping his job and doing his plan B at the same time.

The fatal flaw in the plan.
I am in touch with a number of IT contractors (about 3 dozen now and rising) who want out and asked me for some help. The majority of whom I know from my hardcore contracting time, the rest have been referred by these.

My advice is always the same "don't leave via the fire exit and don't slam the door on the way out!"

He seems to have slammed the door on the way out and this article probably won't help his chances of a re-entry to the trade especially if a twitchy airhead HR type is involved in the process.

[NotAllThere]

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