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  1. Report to management company ? How is the car park owned ?
  2. I'm sure any noxious fumes could be safely extracted and turned into baby follow On milk. The chemical industry is very clever of they try hard
  3. Are you any good at pointing? I have a wall in L23, that's going to need some work ? Cash job ?
  4. I toyed with the idea of a 6 series as a replacement for my MV6. Spent too much time on research and decided that a 1.4 Astra for more money was more sensible. I'm.not sure I recognise myself.
  5. No you are deliverably being a tosser. Only to me though it seems.
  6. Are you demanding a licencing system like working on 230V electrics or gas or light aircraft ?
  7. Are you deliberately being a tosser, or have your tablets been swapped by your GP and the new ones aren't as effective.
  8. £500 better off. If you don't know the value of your asset, and don't have the ready cash, to preserve the asset's value, it all comes down to cash flow. Pay £400, or get £100 back and still have legal transport. Or pay £400, sell it for £2.5k (that's about the private value ?) thus having realised £2100, then spend £200 On replacement, and now having £1900 in the bank. If only they had £400 and a basic common sense.
  9. Weird statement at the end. Hope you guys enjoyed reading that. ER.NO. saddens me til I'm sad.
  10. Yes. We have quite a bit of automation. Probably £6 million in the last 5 years, and we are currently in the middle of 3 projects totalling £3 million. Depreciation tends to be over 10 years where I am now. Which seems a little long to me. There's also lots of manual assembly, with 100s of operators, but when you allocate the costs to product on the basis of direct operator hours, this ends up being £85 an hour. I can hold my own when it comes to costing. Spent the first 5 years after graduating, running a Design for Whole Life Cost research project with universities and industry. Had my name as joint author on papers published by Professors for what it's worth (not a lot) And have been heavily involved in activity based costing, and something Lucas Industrial called "Product Group profitability analysis". What I'm struggling to do is work out a cost of a key machine being down, which disrupts production. How do you work out the cost of lost production?
  11. I'm trying to do a payback justification for a new machine at work. I've got the. Maintenance records for the last 2 years for the old one, and and it's had 1000 hours of maintenance time. I asked finance for an hourly rate. Free. Apparently, maintenance and part of the general overhead and costed into the job based of a direct labour hour rate. So if you had a fully automated machine, with no operators, and loads of manitenance and manufacturing engineers visiting in an hourly basis, and £200k a year depreciation, and a single assembly bench with one operator, anything made on the fully automated machine would cost £zero. And anything made by the one operator would cost £500 an hour. I told finance is use £70 per hour as that's the minimum they'd be charged out to an external company. Finance manager seems confused why an engineer is telling him what he probably knows but can't be arsed to worry about.
  12. I think it was that last message. He probably showed it to his wife, who said "Stop being a dick"
  13. I don't think I ever got a tanks worth that low. Mind you I never used it around town.
  14. 33 mpg according to Trip 2 meter, which is the average over 15k miles. 40 mpg according to Trip 1 meter, up and down the M6, from Staffordshire to Miseryside Or 32 mpg commuting from Staffordshire to Birmingham.
  15. I give out first half of the postcode, and say "Text me, as you are about to leave, and I'll text you back the full address" and if they text me, I text back with the full postcode but not the house number with "phone me when you arrive, and I'll come out and wave you to the right house"
  16. The whole post or any particular part of it. Son got married last June. Stag weekend was delayed from May 2020. Twice. 2 nights in Bakewell, parked overnight the first night outside a tart shop Saturday morning involved shooting shot guns. Rifles, cross bows, long bows. And axe throwing. Saturday night involved a number of pubs, but it turns out his friends are really geeky. So we ended up playing a weird card game. Which was really funny. Then we went back and played beer pong. I being fucking old went to bed at a respectable time, but they stayed up til 4 am. I starting cooking breakfast at 8:30. These "young" people looked decidedly fresh. When I got home, I had to go to sleep for a couple of hours.
  17. I think. More of a guess. That you can retrofit vectra seats and central seat belt. I obviously could be wrong.
  18. Currently in a stag weekend. Playing exploding cats. Earlier I came last in the shooting. But first in axe throwing.. Have been driving wife's car all week. (She's in Lanzarote, until Sunday afternoon)
  19. £300? It's basically a vectra at the front.
  20. EVIL BASTARDS. How fucking hard is it?
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