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[edison]

You paid more than £160 for a ticket to Abba Voyage? Are they that expensive now or did you get the Dance Booth ticket?

I went a few months after opening and got tickets in the dancefloor area less than £60 and you can still get similar tickets at that kind of price if you book a few...

[edison]

Exactly this.

Most IT departments will do a regular review of headcount and the balance of perm/contractors. I was on the leadership team at one organisation that reviewed the list of contractors every quarter and each contractor had to be justified by their respective team head otherwise...

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Read some of the OP's experience earlier in the thread - that's given me the kick I needed to actually use the bowel cancer screening kit I was sent about six weeks ago that has sat in a drawer.

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Had to visit Basel several times during my first ever contract in 2011. I remember how expensive everything was - the equivalent of a then £3 Tesco meal deal was about £14. How expensive was a theatre ticket?...

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I don't go to the theatre that often but saw The Mousetrap in August. Whilst the acting was a bit OTT/hammy, it was just one of those shows I've always wanted to see, even if it is probably more a London tourist thing.

Took my teenage son to see the Back to The Future musical. It's one...

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Japan was heavily geared towards manufacturing and particularly exporting in the 70s and 80s. It seems to have finally shifted more towards services as China started to dominate a lot of manufacturing. Will be interesting to see how Japan fares in the next 10-20 years as the proportion of elderly people...

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The mobile app is useful although I tend to use the desktop version more on a large screen.

I don't get any Monday emails - there must be a simple way of turning notification emails off, no?

I don't know what other alternatives there are but for my contractor needs it seems...

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This is one of the main reasons why salaries are often omitted from job ads along with the company doesn't want some of the team to realise they are being paid significantly less than the others....

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Suddenly got a few calls out of the blue from agents, two with specific opportunities, one contract, one fractional. Unfortunately timing was bad as I'm in a gig but will be looking again come the new year. But hopefully it shows the market not's completely dead.

Current client has been...

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I've had a dozen gigs over the years and chanced my arm once at renewal time and got a 5% rate rise.

It wasn't much but I had a feeling the agent was already taking a decent cut and neither they or the client batted an eyelid. Today's market is very different, you'd have to be brave/confident...

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Yes, I saw someone I'm connected to who had over 100,000 Linkedin followers say they had lost several thousand in one go.

I checked my own account today and I lost about 2% of my followers. Apparently it's not just dormant or suspected bot accounts, people have said connections they know...