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[NickFitz]

I really don't know.

I thought that Standard Life were pretty mediocre, but they've only managed to lose about £20k... this Windsor Life bunch really take the biscuit... £48k...

Champion.

So that's my retirement fliped completely.

Ho hum.

I met an old acquaintance recently who I hadn't seen in a number of years. In the dim and distant past he'd been an electronics engineer, but his skills had become outdated with the march of progress and he'd ended up working in a number of unrelated fields, for not very much.

A couple of years ago he was tracked down and positively begged to come and work for Alstom maintaining electronic systems in, of all things, nuclear power stations.

It appears that all their control systems are so ancient that they can't find young people who know enough about the technologies used, so they have to scour the land looking for old-school electronics wizards

He's now doing very nicely

[RichardCranium]

I thought that Standard Life were pretty mediocre, but they've only managed to lose about £20k... this Windsor Life bunch really take the biscuit... £48k...

Wiped off your pension? Oh, tulip.

I'm still grumpy that my endowment with Eagle Star after 12 years was worth less than I had paid into it. But not that much less.

[NickFitz]

Evening denizens

[BrilloPad]

[RichardCranium]

Evening denizens

Hello small ape.

Wavey wave.

[RichardCranium]

Hello, washing up apparatus.

Wavey wave.

[BrilloPad]

I really don't know.

I thought that Standard Life were pretty mediocre, but they've only managed to lose about £20k... this Windsor Life bunch really take the biscuit... £48k...

Champion.

So that's my retirement fliped completely.

Ho hum.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ch/7353060.stm

Aren't the problems just temporary?

[RichardCranium]

We've just got back from the local Chinese buffet.

Perhaps not the usual wedding anniversary outing for a contractor but we're too tired to go somewhere posh.

[BrilloPad]

I suppose it means I'd better stop fannying about in this non job and find something that pays a reasonable rate again... assuming that there is such a thing for my dubious skills...

yes! and stop doing sooo many posts! let the rest of us catch up.

[BrilloPad]

I met an old acquaintance recently who I hadn't seen in a number of years. In the dim and distant past he'd been an electronics engineer, but his skills had become outdated with the march of progress and he'd ended up working in a number of unrelated fields, for not very much.

A couple of years ago he was tracked down and positively begged to come and work for Alstom maintaining electronic systems in, of all things, nuclear power stations.

It appears that all their control systems are so ancient that they can't find young people who know enough about the technologies used, so they have to scour the land looking for old-school electronics wizards

He's now doing very nicely