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Recent content by Babbage
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I just need to get two references ...
I got so much rubbish from them I got myself delisted from their database.- Babbage
- Post #345
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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ADMIN - Flash adverts -
Trouble is the advertising companies get too greedy and let anyone in with obnoxious animated, screen covering rubbish, then on top ofthat you have the adverts slipped in by the "Russian Business Network". No sane person should be browsing WITHOUT an ad blocking setup. -
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Wasp Killer
Good luck with that, there might be a thousand or more, and you have to kill the queen and grubs too. Dont forget about the bit where they get very very angry, you need to flood the opening with so much foam that they cant get out before the rest of the foam hasd made its way to the middle... -
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Wasp Killer
Yes, you need to do it late when the sun has gone down anf they have all returned to the nest. They do get very very very angry if they make it out of the nest, so use that foam stuff with an extension tube so you dont get too close when you spray. The Organophosphates that are in those sprays... -
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War chest
How can they argue that you are inside IR35 if you are drawing profit that accrued from contract N-1 instead of contract N.- Babbage
- Post #20
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Tories won't Scrap IR35
As he says, but also this gives some history about why we have to have a ltd co: THE WORKING-CLASS OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSE OF THE 1930s I would personally be quite happy to be a sole trader with insurance, just like Lloyds names are allowed to be, mind you they didnt have the insurance bit... -
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War chest
If you spread the dividends out over several contracts it is much harder for HMRC to argue that any given payout is from *THIS* contract. Saying that 7 months on the bench is starting to put a few dings and dents in the warchest. Enjoying the time at home though. Funy thing happened just before...- Babbage
- Post #17
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Fake Adverts on Jobserve
i had one just like that on Friday, sent in CV, spoke to him, he said I was a good match and he is putting me forward. Then I got an e-mail with 4, yes 4 word docs as attachments, One of those was the usual we need references to proceed.- Babbage
- Post #6
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Telephone causing broadband to drop.
Do you have a faceplate splitter in the master socket with your own wiring beyond that? The faceplate splitter is so much better than having the splitter on every socket in the house, much more stable snr that way. -
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cant remember password to an Excel spreadsheet
I thought there are some known flaws in the excel password format that make it quite easy to crack? I have forgotten what they were, perhaps look up that in google -
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Is there any reason to ever declare being inside IR35?
Then that contract is one to be avoided, or the rate needs to be much higher to give the same NET pay. I wouldn't take on a contract that knowingly dragged me inside the IR35 scam.- Babbage
- Post #21
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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I shot myself in the foot...
After 2 years you get an HMRC imposed rate cut when you can no longer claim travel expenses, that makes it time to move on anyway. -
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I shot myself in the foot...
Ding, Ding, a winner, well that and getting the CV out asap. If you get to leave before the month, even better for you. PS look for the absolutely dodgiest massage parlours, stranger the better, his other half will just love him for that, -
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Motorway Horror Stories
A few years ago I was travelling on the M27 and in front of me a Range Rover was towing an improbably large boat on a trailer, anyway on the downhill bit his brakes on the trailer weren't up to the job and i saw the boat slowly overtake the car, they both ended up in the ditch/hard shoulder, but... -
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How insulting
The Pound shops are some of Crawleys finer establishments, thay actually have 50 p shops there. I used to pop in once a year to hand in the accounts until they demolished the infernal revenue office...
