Posts Tagged ‘money’

The IWDTFM team during office hours

It will come as a shock to absolutely no one to find out that, every once in a while, when the moon is full and the leylines are aligned, I complain about my job.

This is not an uncommon occurrence. We spend a third of every day at work. Eight hours out of twenty-four. Apparently, the UK workforce is one of the hardest working populations in the world, putting in an average of £5,129-worth of overtime every year. I don’t really put in much extra time, although to my credit I’ve been known to stay late if something needs finishing. Most days, however, I’m out the office sometime between five-thirty and six o’clock with a spring in my step and my evening ahead of me.

So what do I complain about? The usual, really. Being tired, being busy, being bored, being hungry, wanting to go and play outside, wanting to stay and play inside. Wanting to be anywhere but cooped up in an office working for a living.

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Industrial action, also known as avoiding work

Significant delays in sending letters and parcels to the UK through the Royal Mail are happening again. While only London staff are involved in industrial action this week, there is rising fear over a looming national strike, causing mild to negligible panic among aunties and luddites.

Members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) will ballot tomorrow in between mid-day bowls of Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut about whether to escalate their action to a national walkout.

While the details of why they are striking or if they even understand the implications of their facetious and consistent industrial actions remain unclear, one thing is certain: no-one cares.

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Art by Suuqin

“If I had a million coins” was the theme of a competition from a Playfish game “Pet Society“. Unfortunately I didn’t participate and the results were out today. So I didn’t win.

Nelly: revered even though he deserves nothing but contempt

Don’t you just love the system? It has taken Rupert Murdoch and his equally odious contemporaries just a hundred years to mould the economy so that everyone’s money goes to him.

Gone is the traditional type of capitalism where everyone worked hard for a salary they genuinely deserved. Spend what you need and accrue some savings along the way? Out the window with it. Instead, we have a system where saving is pointless unless you earn megabucks, and wanton spending is encouraged, if not passively enforced.

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Art by Suuqin

A Taiwanese program that I watched last week were talking about kids (or people) these days like to download songs/music rather than buying the CDs (include pirated cds =P).

Ignore the facts, the police chief knows all.

People in Essex have more chance of winning the Lotto than being mugged, police authority chief Robert Chambers claims. However, the data available from Camelot and Essex Police websites tell a different story.

Mr Chambers insisted that his statement was ‘fact’. “You are more likely to win the lottery than you are to get mugged in Essex,” he said, “That’s a fact.”

Figures on the force website record 276 robberies in Essex between the start of April this year and the end of June; the monthly average is shown to be 92 muggings throughout the county.

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So they're not magic money cards after all...

It’s the last week of the month. You go to the cash machine to get out a tenner for the evening, maybe to buy some cigarettes or a couple of beers. The machine laughs heartily and spits your card back out at you. Transaction denied. You are officially skint.

It’s very easy to get snarky about people who have found themselves in this situation, but to be honest, we’ve all been there. It’s a horrible feeling, especially at ten o’clock at night when you can’t do anything about it. Worst of all, you’ve got another week to go before you get paid and your food cupboards are empty. What can you do?

I’ve been here a number of times, for various reasons. At university, I didn’t have a steady income, and I spent my loans on CDs and beer. After university, my first job was so low paid that I could just about afford my flat and food. Now, I just spend too much on shiny, shiny objects. I frequently provoke tuts of dismay from my poor, set-upon mother, who still opens my bank statements. But, even so, she understands, because we’ve all been there.

So, without further fanfare, here is the official NotWelshMan’s Guide On What To Do When You Keep Hitting The Wrong End Of Your Overdraft. If you have any other good advice, then don’t forget to leave us a comment and we’ll update the article.

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Not a good look, but it suits him.

Western capitalism is a well-maintained perpetual motion machine. Its various cogs and gears are oiled regularly with the blood and tears of the workforce. However, the machine requires maintenance, and parts must be replaced or cleaned.

And then there are parts that don’t do anything at all: the gall bladders of machinery. They might not be moving parts or they might perform an auxiliary role in the whole system, but their mere presence at a reduced or non-existent level of functionality means other parts must work harder and faster to compensate.

Freegans are the ultimate example of this. They smugly condemn us rat-racers as crazy. These people freely admit to finding nourishment in the discarded produce of society.

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We at I will do that for money don’t care about money that much nor would we advise you to hide cash from the tax man. Of course NOT! We are a very, very reliable bunch of people and extremely responsible citizens.

So without further due we present to you the six ways (why six no idea?!) to pay less tax from Yahoo Finance section.

Hope this helps you save some dosh for the pub!

Your money burning

A great article about some of the most unworthy services for which we consumers pay, ‘just in case’ we need them.

This is a list of top examples of how crazy spending can get – from ID theft and payment protection insurance to wedding insurance (as if it will matter…).

Read more at Yahoo’s Money section…