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1. • WickedWesticle
   • I've been pulled up twice this year on my bad timekeeping at work (insert drummer joke here) and they've just anounced a 10% employee cull.
   • [09:58 on 24/11/09]
2. • Rob Himself
   • In the immortal words of Barry Chuckle: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
   • [18:14 on 24/11/09]
3. • Tino Insana
   • Barry Chuckle rules, but he isn't going to save you now!
   • [18:15 on 24/11/09]
4. • mike
   • Someone's sellotaped the faces of each of the Chuckles on the inside of our 2 toilet cubicle doors at work, very offputting when you need a poop.
   • [18:16 on 24/11/09]
5. • Rob Himself
   • The second least funny man in Rotherham. His real brother lives in Preston though. He was on Come Dine With Me. Gay as a window.
   • [18:16 on 24/11/09]
6. • mike
   • They are a regular fixture at the Embassy Centre, Skegness.
     
     Only Lincolnshire still has a theatre named after cigs.
     [Edited by mike at 18:19 on 24/11/09]
   • [18:19 on 24/11/09]
7. • noone
   • A friend of mine, a few years ago, spotted the pair of them having a pre-show cigarette outside Sheffield's Lyceum.
     He cheerfully called over to them '' To me..'' expecting them to complete their well known catchphrase.
     '' Fuck off! '' cried back the tall one.
     Charming.
   • [20:13 on 24/11/09]
8. • Big Si
   • My whole school year went on an outing to Flamingo Land, where the Chuckle Brothers happened to be filming. We noisily berated them for having a crafty fag behind a shed where they thought no-one could see. They told us all to fuck off.
     I think there's a pattern emerging.
   • [22:37 on 24/11/09]
9. • noone
   • I think there's a new Flatlands song emerging here.
   • [00:36 on 25/11/09]
10. • pull-my-plonker
    • Well it's good to know that as the threat of redundancy hangs over a fellow forum-poster, we can always brush this to one side courtesy of the Chuckle Brothers!
      Stellar work guys!!
      
      
    • [00:47 on 25/11/09]
11. • Laddeth
    • We are all truly the masters of thread de-railment
    • [23:55 on 25/11/09]
12. • noone
    • I got made redundant this month if that helps.
      I always knew I was redundant to be honest.
      Dole is a breathe away , housing benefit is as difficult as finding the holy grail.
      good luck.
      Golden Brown - texture like sun....
    • [02:17 on 26/11/09]
13. • WickedWesticle
    • Damn, well I hope you get something sorted soon.
      
      The mood here is weird as hell. Some people in other departments have already gone but everybody in IT is still here. We're just waiting to be told who lives and who dies.
    • [09:19 on 26/11/09]
14. • mamba
    • My company went through all that a few months back. I was officially in the firing line, but was given a heads up that I was safe.
      
      My girlfriend has just taken voluntary redundancy. She's been there forever so got a decent payout which will cover her for about 6 months. Hopefully she'll find something quickly and then she'll be laughing. If not, I might have to evict her when she can't pay the rent any more!
      
      Tough times.
      [Edited by mamba at 09:30 on 26/11/09]
    • [09:30 on 26/11/09]
15. • Rob Himself
    • One of our senior management staff had to re-apply for his job and nobody got it, he came in the other day to say goodbye, he looked like he was going to crack.
    • [12:11 on 26/11/09]
16. • Podge
    • I got made redundant, it sucked a bit but generally it was cool
    • [20:04 on 26/11/09]
17. • noone
    • I'm on about the same income on the dole and housing benefits as I was in a normal week at work.
      What upset me was the awful way I was treated , I got 5 days notice and nothing in writing and no apologies.
      I was told over the phone too which is very cowardly and they also cut off any contact between us and other branches as soon as they'd told us.
      It took 2 weeks for anybody to put it into writing and sort me a P45 which made starting the benefits process very difficult.
      I also got no redundancy pay.
      I do like not working but I don't like being treated like a piece of shit.
    • [21:02 on 26/11/09]
18. • pull-my-plonker
    • Rob Himself says:

      One of our senior management staff had to re-apply for his job and nobody got it, he came in the other day to say goodbye, he looked like he was going to crack.
      
      
      That's pretty retarded. And shit.
    • [01:05 on 27/11/09]
19. • Tim Holehouse
    • My Mrs has been umemployed for a year now... she's finding it tough to find work in the graphics world. That and the job center keep dicking her about.
      "And oh the hard times of old england". To quote to copper family.
    • [08:37 on 27/11/09]
20. • Jack
    • Tim Holehouse says:

      My Mrs has been umemployed for a year now... she's finding it tough to find work in the graphics world. That and the job center keep dicking her about.
      "And oh the hard times of old england". To quote to copper family.
      
      
      It is hard to find graphics work, I'm lucky I have my job. Freelance is hard to as you need the contacts
    • [08:59 on 27/11/09]

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