Boss: “We’ll also give you a 95% raise—just don’t leave!”
Employee: “Sorry, it’s too late now.”
Lesson for Leaders:
Employees don’t leave only because of money—they leave when they feel undervalued or unappreciated.
Retaining good employees isn’t just about increasing their pay; it requires recognition, growth opportunities, and proactive leadership.
Take care of your best employees— before they decide to leave you.
Rottweiler has gone missing from near J16 M4 Swindon this afternoon
She has no collar on after bath
Please call (07909) 917793 if you see her Council dog warden & vets are shut
Owner is desperate!! Please RT
@elonmusk why does @ClareCraigPath not appear in my feed but I have to click on notifications to read her posts. This is not what I want. Can you review your algorithm please!!!!
For two years, very recently, no visitors were allowed in hospitals...
oh, and signatures were forged on do not attempt resuscitation forms.
There are good reasons why killing is an ethical red line that must not be crossed.
@CartlandDavid@CartlandDavid I have seen ‘obese’ kids given free swimming lessons by GP’s get out of the pool and eat a snickers bar but the GP gets to tick his box …
@chatswithem Two years ago we had 20 bee hives, gradually they have all died and now we have 1.
A friend who is a professional bee keeper has lost 100 hives this winter.
Our skies are being sprayed daily and it's killing the pollinators.
We used to have lots of places in the UK where you could get most of what you needed within 15 minutes walk: school, GP, grocer, butcher, church, pub, children's playground, sports club.
We called them "towns" and "villages".
Then along came central and local government.
They encouraged large chains to build out of town supermarkets, forcing town centre butchers and grocers and fishmongers out of business.
They planted acres of new housing around towns and villages, with no facilities, and too far away from town centres for people to walk there. And they sold off sports grounds and playgrounds for more housing.
They built centralised "superhospitals", moving patient care away from their local neighbourhood, while running down the GP service and replacing it with call centres and "apps".
They raised business rates and car park prices in town centres, and installed lots of bike lanes and "traffic calming", thereby narrowing roads and causing more traffic congestion, reducing footfall, and sending town centre shops out of business.
They closed pubs, playgrounds, sports clubs, churches to save us all from a *checks notes* deadly respiratory virus.
And now what do they want to do?
They want to recreate those 15 minute communities that we used to have in small towns and villages, but in bigger towns and cities instead. Only they're not doing it by encouraging small businesses to open neighbourhood stores, or reducing local business rates, or decentralising the NHS, ensuring we can all live in that same 15 minute paradise.
No, they're doing it by installing traffic filters and CCTV and enforcement infrastructure and fines. All stick and no carrot. Creating new inner city ghettos.
There is seemingly no situation which central and local government cannot make worse.
When I was on the ground in Ottawa in February 2022, one of the most chilling moments wasn’t the police lines — it was watching the federal government freeze bank accounts without court orders, conscript banks into enforcement, and turn ordinary bank tellers into agents of the state.
Today, the Federal Court of Appeal confirmed that this crossed the line.
Freezing citizens out of the financial system without reasonable grounds or due process is not democracy — it’s authoritarianism.
@JacquiDeevoy1 So awful! My dad was left in a&e for hours. I went to find him, found him asleep. He’d not eaten, drunk water, not had meds and there was no way he could have heard them call him. How hard is it to have someone walk around and check on everyone in that waiting room?
My earlier teen years were marked by one food panic after another, always targeting the real thing (eggs, beef, cream) and favoring the manufactured thing ("eggbeaters," "soyburgers," "cool whip") as somehow better for you.
It all seems preposterous in retrospect. One suspects there was implicit ideology behind it: progress always consists in leaving behind what nature has given us in favor of what industry has manipulated and sold through trusted stores with the blessing of regulators.
Hence, just as florescent bulbs are better than incandescent (or whale-oil lamps) and polyester is better than cottons and wools, so too industrially processed food-like substances are surely better too. An entire generation was swept up into this frenzy, all backed by expert science, all of it fake.
The results became apparent over the subsequent decades. It was a disaster for health. It's taken far too long (50 years) to mark a decisive repudiation of this insane era. What a remarkable illustration of the pretense of knowledge, the industrial capture of science, and the gullibility of a public swept up in blind celebration of a false idea of progress.
It's all deeply embarrassing and should present some lessons to us. And yet, I'm not so sure. We have lived through five years of the absolute triumph of fake science to the point that it nearly deleted the freedom to celebrate holidays and visit sick family members and hold house parties.
The Covid years were the apotheosis of fake science backed by industrial and government power. Everything you are seeing now with the childhood vaccine schedule and the new food pyramid represents a cultural and political reaction to this. It's not nearly enough but it is a good start.