Isabel Oakeshott https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577
...I don't think you understand how averages work, Isabel.
This is specifically payment in lieu of notice, not severance pay, according to the article, so I'm surprised it wasn't taxed already. If you work your notice instead of taking gardening leave, you'd expect to pay tax as it's just normal salary.
Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: andrewc on 20 February, 2018, 08:31:21 pmIsabel Oakeshott https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577Anyone who uses the phrase 'political correctness' non-ironically belongs here.
Used to be a £30,000 allowance thinks. Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.
My understanding from our union bods in the wake of our pensions shafting is that the tax only affects pay in lieu of notice. The actual redundancy (or voluntary severance pay) is still tax free up to £30k.
A fool and their brane should be forever parted.
Quote from: Polar Bear on 22 February, 2018, 06:52:49 amA fool and their brane should be forever parted.I think that we should make sure that they are kept together, but maybe have a word with the nice Elon chap to find a role for the fool AND his brane as a component of the ballast of his next heavy lifter rocket.
I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a suspiciously convenient sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.
I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.
I feel rather sorry for the officer involved. The gunman in the school had a semi-automatic assault rifle and heaven only knows how many rounds of ammunition in an undetermined number of magazines. The police officer had a hand-gun with, I assume, somewhere in the region of half a dozen to a dozen rounds and very likely a much shorter killing range than the gunman's rifle. Just how much difference do idiots like the orange buffoon expect anyone to be able to make in that sort of a situation? It isn't Die Hard or Rambo or any other Hollywood "Lone Hero" fantasy story. "Pluck" and "grit" do not make up for that kind of difference in fire-power. As far as I can see there's being brave and there's being a suicidal idiot. Trying to take on someone with that sort of disparity in weaponry is simply stupid and suicidal.
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.