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Previously on "Opting or Opting out"

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    Knowing my users, there's only one sign that would have covered the vast, vast majority of them.
    That's the challenge - to find the differentiator.

    Big dickhead
    Tiny dickhead

    Premmy
    Big
    Tiny

    Left handed versions of above.

    etc.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by k2p2 View Post
    I used to work with a guy who'd learned to sign. He explained that for a person, you'd pick on a characteristic and mime that (a bit like your German thing). We spent a happy afternoon coming up with signs for all our users .
    Knowing my users, there's only one sign that would have covered the vast, vast majority of them.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by Taita View Post
    Where specifically does it give guidance on opting in/out AWR? There is no such choice. I think you mean the Conduct of EA/EB Regulations and the EA/EB is not allowed to coerce the worker one way or the other.
    Yeah. WIS:

    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    Ummm - that's the guidance on AWR.

    Not on the agency regulations. One cannot opt in or out of AWR.

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    He sounds clever. I used to speak a tiny bit of sign language. I once had a deaf PM who taught me a few useful words.

    Well, not speak obviously, but I could make some shapes. 'German' was a finger sticking up over your head, like their WW1 helmets. I still remember the alphabet.

    Can this Belgian speak sign language as well?
    I used to work with a guy who'd learned to sign. He explained that for a person, you'd pick on a characteristic and mime that (a bit like your German thing). We spent a happy afternoon coming up with signs for all our users .

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    And he speaks Russian, some mandarin, some Thai and some Japanese. Churchy struggles with sign language.
    He also lies well enough to be an agent.

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  • Taita
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    Originally posted by Arturo Bassick View Post
    Over there in the CUK Navigation box under "Agency Workers Regulations" or click this Agency Workers Regulations AWR / Directive for IT Contractors AWD 2011
    Where specifically does it give guidance on opting in/out AWR? There is no such choice. I think you mean the Conduct of EA/EB Regulations and the EA/EB is not allowed to coerce the worker one way or the other.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Where do they speak Walloon? I thought that was another name for the Belgian language.

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  • psychocandy
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    And Flemish?

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    What, that can speak Belgian?

    I knew a bloke from up north once who could speak a bit of Esperanto. Self taught he was. Is that like Belgian?
    Well as there is no Belgian language (its French, German or Dutch) I would say probably as good as a native

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    He sounds clever. I used to speak a tiny bit of sign language. I once had a deaf PM who taught me a few useful words.

    Well, not speak obviously, but I could make some shapes. 'German' was a finger sticking up over your head, like their WW1 helmets. I still remember the alphabet.

    Can this Belgian speak sign language as well?
    Apparently he can but only when ones back is turned

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    And he speaks Russian, some mandarin, some Thai and some Japanese. Churchy struggles with sign language.
    He sounds clever. I used to speak a tiny bit of sign language. I once had a deaf PM who taught me a few useful words.

    Well, not speak obviously, but I could make some shapes. 'German' was a finger sticking up over your head, like their WW1 helmets. I still remember the alphabet.

    Can this Belgian speak sign language as well?

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  • DodgyAgent
    replied
    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    What, that can speak Belgian?

    I knew a bloke from up north once who could speak a bit of Esperanto. Self taught he was. Is that like Belgian?
    And he speaks Russian, some mandarin, some Thai and some Japanese. Churchy struggles with sign language.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    **** him off, there're plenty more contractors who can do that role in Warrington!
    What, that can speak Belgian?

    I knew a bloke from up north once who could speak a bit of Esperanto. Self taught he was. Is that like Belgian?

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  • rd409
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Notice I am ignoring the "cheap shots" about my stupidity and professionalism.
    however thanks to you all I have just sorted it out. He is going to opt in.
    You dear Sir are probably the only Agent, who is happy that the candidate is staying opt in. But then you are our own Dodgy

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    I dont care what he does as long as he does something.
    **** him off, there're plenty more contractors who can do that role in Warrington!

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