Re: [lace-chat] 10 Public Servants
The interesting thing about all of that is that it actually makes financial sense for the companies. There are a number of advantages... 1. The consultants usually don't get benefits, which add up to an enormous part of most regular compensation budgets. 2. The consultants don't have any recourse in case of layoff... no severance, to "golden parachutes", also an expensive part of the compensation budget in a company. If the company suddenly hits a rough patch, the consultants can be let go quickly and with no fanfare - and then hired back just as fast. 3. In some companies, consultants are paid through a totally different budget, which makes it possible for the companies to be more creative in terms of writing off the expenses/billing the client/hiding the expenses... IOW, doing what they want with the expense item. The same thing goes on here in the US - My BIL was an Nuclear Engineer who worked as a consultant (with numerous clients) after he was let go. Clay - Original Message - From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 2:12 PM Subject: [lace-chat] 10 Public Servants > The last verse of David's rhyme: > > The last Public Servant agreed to relocate, > Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate. > > is similar, yet quite different, to what happened to my younger brother. > > He worked for BP oil as an executive engineer, on a very nice salary, thank > you very much, along with a whole bunch of others. Then there were > redundancies over several years, and then my brother's turn came. He got his > lump sum and pension at the age of 48, set himself up as a consultant and > registered with an agency. He was immediately employed by BP at three times > what they were paying him while he was one of their employees. That was 10 > years ago and he's still being employed by BP as a consultant. > > He's one of those people for whom everything turns out more than better than > it was before. > > Jean in Poole > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] 10 Public Servants
The last verse of David's rhyme: The last Public Servant agreed to relocate, Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate. is similar, yet quite different, to what happened to my younger brother. He worked for BP oil as an executive engineer, on a very nice salary, thank you very much, along with a whole bunch of others. Then there were redundancies over several years, and then my brother's turn came. He got his lump sum and pension at the age of 48, set himself up as a consultant and registered with an agency. He was immediately employed by BP at three times what they were paying him while he was one of their employees. That was 10 years ago and he's still being employed by BP as a consultant. He's one of those people for whom everything turns out more than better than it was before. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] lace funny...
Hi Liz ! Thank you SO much for straightening me out before I made a complete idiot of myself in public (like Arachne isn't "public"...) But I only heard a tiny bit of what he was saying, and that's what I got out of it... Goes to show! I'm awfully glad I haven't used that expression out loud anywhere (raging blush!) Clay - Original Message - From: "Liz Beecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Clay Blackwell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arachne chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [lace-chat] lace funny... > Clay, > > sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top. > If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling > bling. > > Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you > are bling bling. > > Of course - this would require you to have more than one deigner label or > piece of jewllery to wear. > > It started off as meaning expensive and good taste now it is tacky in such > as Oh, you've got a diamond the size of a small african state which would > feed a major 3rd world country - that's so bling bling. > > Jennifer Lopez is often refered to as bling bling and here in the UK Posh > and Becks are bling bling - I've just had a word with Joe, who I work with > and who knows (he's a DJ and very hip) and he said it's just simply that > bling bling proves that money can't buy taste. > > However, there is always an exception to the rule in that in some people > they are post ironic bling bling - in that they dress bling bling but that > they are actually taking the mickey out of it. > > Ok, so you are all now confused. > > Regards > > Liz Beecher > > -Original Message- > From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 August 2003 15:27 > To: Arachne chat > Subject: [lace-chat] lace funny... > > > The other evening as I passed through the family room, I > caught a tidbit from the late-night show my DH was watching. > A very successful entertainer was explaining the expression, > "Bling Bling", which is apparently something he say a lot or > which appears in his music. I've heard young people say > "bling bling", and think it's a catchy phrase! According to > the entertainer, it means expensive, beautiful, highly > desirable... > > I just read something on the lace list from Sulochona about > what she is BLing now... and thought of the slang > expression!! How absolutely appropriate!! Yes, our lace is > bling bling! > > Clay > > Clay Blackwell > Lynchburg, VA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] lace funny...
Clay, Ah, but I have the advantage of having a hip and trendy DJ only feet from me whilst on night shift who is up on all these words. I only recognised it as there has been an awful lot on tv over here in the UK about bling bling and how there are two main types who do it. Those who have more money than breeding and those who have breeding but no money. The former are, as our Joe put it, those who go to show money can't buy taste - they become famous and have lots of money and spend it on rolls royces and big houses with too many greek statues in them. The later are those who live off their family name schmoozing freebies out of major designers and will wear everything that they have been offered rather than what looks good. I'm not sure if you get AbFab where you are but in an episode of the lastest series Eddie wears every designer name outfit at once and all her designer name jewllery. She very proudly says that she is 'bling bling' and her daughter just snorts. Eddie thinks that bling bling is something to be aimed for, Saffie thinks its something that should be locked away for safety. Joe, our DJ also said that there are post ironic bling bling people like Justin Timberlake who has got both ears pierced and wears small $70,000 diamon earrings in each ear. He is saying that he is emulating bling bling but doing it with taste. OK - so doing it with taste is sort of about face on it as the whole thing about bling bling is that it is without taste - but that is why it is post ironic. So, you can use the phrase bling bling about lace but you would use it about a lace piece of gawdy lace that someone had bought and used wrong - for example, if a wedding vale looked like a piece of net curtain then you could say, when asked if you liked it 'that's very bling bling' and be both ironic and hip. Personally, I'd just for normal lace use words like 'wow', 'corr' and 'what an unusually choice of colours and motif - I never would have thought of that (whilst thinking 'I never would have done that')'. So, any more hip phrases you want translated then get them in this week as I'm changing jobs and will not have daily access to our Joe. Regards Liz Beecher -Original Message- From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 August 2003 00:22 To: Liz Beecher; Arachne chat Subject: Re: [lace-chat] lace funny... Hi Liz ! Thank you SO much for straightening me out before I made a complete idiot of myself in public (like Arachne isn't "public"...) But I only heard a tiny bit of what he was saying, and that's what I got out of it... Goes to show! I'm awfully glad I haven't used that expression out loud anywhere (raging blush!) Clay - Original Message - From: "Liz Beecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Clay Blackwell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arachne chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [lace-chat] lace funny... > Clay, > > sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top. > If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling > bling. > > Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you > are bling bling. > > Of course - this would require you to have more than one deigner label or > piece of jewllery to wear. > > It started off as meaning expensive and good taste now it is tacky in such > as Oh, you've got a diamond the size of a small african state which would > feed a major 3rd world country - that's so bling bling. > > Jennifer Lopez is often refered to as bling bling and here in the UK Posh > and Becks are bling bling - I've just had a word with Joe, who I work with > and who knows (he's a DJ and very hip) and he said it's just simply that > bling bling proves that money can't buy taste. > > However, there is always an exception to the rule in that in some people > they are post ironic bling bling - in that they dress bling bling but that > they are actually taking the mickey out of it. > > Ok, so you are all now confused. > > Regards > > Liz Beecher > > -Original Message- > From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 August 2003 15:27 > To: Arachne chat > Subject: [lace-chat] lace funny... > > > The other evening as I passed through the family room, I > caught a tidbit from the late-night show my DH was watching. > A very successful entertainer was explaining the expression, > "Bling Bling", which is apparently something he say a lot or > which appears in his music. I've heard young people say > "bling bling", and think it's a catchy phrase! According to > the entertainer, it means expensive, beautiful, highly > desirable... > > I just read something on the lace list from Sulochona about > what she is BLing now... and thought of the slang > expression!! How absolutely appropriate!! Yes, our lace is > bling bling! > > Clay > > Clay Blackwell > Lynchburg, VA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscrib
RE: [lace-chat] lace funny...
Clay, sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top. If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling bling. Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you are bling bling. Of course - this would require you to have more than one deigner label or piece of jewllery to wear. It started off as meaning expensive and good taste now it is tacky in such as Oh, you've got a diamond the size of a small african state which would feed a major 3rd world country - that's so bling bling. Jennifer Lopez is often refered to as bling bling and here in the UK Posh and Becks are bling bling - I've just had a word with Joe, who I work with and who knows (he's a DJ and very hip) and he said it's just simply that bling bling proves that money can't buy taste. However, there is always an exception to the rule in that in some people they are post ironic bling bling - in that they dress bling bling but that they are actually taking the mickey out of it. Ok, so you are all now confused. Regards Liz Beecher -Original Message- From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 August 2003 15:27 To: Arachne chat Subject: [lace-chat] lace funny... The other evening as I passed through the family room, I caught a tidbit from the late-night show my DH was watching. A very successful entertainer was explaining the expression, "Bling Bling", which is apparently something he say a lot or which appears in his music. I've heard young people say "bling bling", and think it's a catchy phrase! According to the entertainer, it means expensive, beautiful, highly desirable... I just read something on the lace list from Sulochona about what she is BLing now... and thought of the slang expression!! How absolutely appropriate!! Yes, our lace is bling bling! Clay Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Things We Keep
David In the days you are talking about it was not called recycling but "make do and ment". To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Grammar
Jean That is very similar to South Wales where they say "Where to are you going?". My favourite, said around '73, '74, '75 in response, I think, to my talking about some event I was about to attend: "Where to is it at then?" As you can see, I have never forgotten it. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Failed Audition Letter
Dear Friends, I have copied below the final draught of the letter which was sent to the woman who failed her audition for our Choir. It was a bit different from what some of you thought as she was only a "one off" rather than being in a group of auditionees. David in Ballarat Dear Joan, Thank you for taking part in our Brahms' Requiem rehearsal on Wednesday night last, and for auditioning at the conclusion of the rehearsal. After some consideration, there was general consensus that, given the degree of difficulty of the work, and the unpredictability of the harmonics and intervals, that your inclusion in our choir may not be appropriate at this time. We send our best wishes for your continuing involvement and enjoyment of the Ballarat U3A choir, which provides many performance opportunities for its members, and makes wonderful music for the Ballarat community and beyond. As Hugh (the conductor) pointed out on Wednesday night, choral singing, regardless of with which choir, is a most beneficial activity, and provides the singers and the audience with a lasting sense of being a part of "something very special." Thank you once again for your interest, and please do keep making music in the best choral tradition. Yours sincerely, To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] 10 Public Servants
TEN PUBLIC SERVANTS (A cautionary poem for our times) Ten Public Servants standing in a line One of them was downsized then there were nine. Nine Public Servants who must negotiate, One joined the union then there were eight. Eight Public Servants thought they were in heaven, 'til one of them was redeployed then there were seven. Seven Public Servants, their jobs as safe as bricks, But one was reclassified then there were six. Six Public Servants trying to survive, One of them was privatised, then there were five. Five Public Servants ready to give more, But one Golden Handshake reduced them to four. Four Public Servants full of loyalty, Their jobs were all advertised then there were three. Three Public Servants under review, One left on secondment then there were two. Two Public Servants coping on the run, One went on stress leave then there was one. The last Public Servant agreed to relocate, Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate. David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Things We Keep
I grew up in the fifties with practical parents -- a Mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it... A Father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, baby in one hand, dishtowel in the other. It was the time for fixing things -- a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep. It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, reheating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more. But then my Mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any 'more.' Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So...while we have it...it's best we love it.and care for it.and fix it when it's broken.and heal it when it's sick. This is true.for marriage.and old cars.and children with bad report cards .and dogs with bad hips.and aging parents.and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away -- or -- a classmate we grew up with. There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.and so, we keep them close! I received this from someone who thought I was a 'keeper'! Then I sent it to the people I think of in the same way. Love David To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Friar's Balsam
Dear Noelene, Re Friar's Balsam Highly recommended, but whatever you do, DON'T throw the stuff out down the kitchen/bathroom sink - when cold, it will block the drains! It is a healing compound, and was once also used for healing cuts and wounds. Quite true. It will heal any small crack or cut overnight - but you'll need something between your teeth when you put it on(worse than Metho). It is also THE best glue for forming a perfect seal for colostomy bags - but NEVER get it near the stoma. David To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Grammar
This is not so much grammar as a local expression. In Somerset, instead of saying "Where is it?" or "Where's mum gone?" they say "Where's it to?" and "Where's mum to?" When I first heard it I thought they were saying "Where is it going to?", but they weren't. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
