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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Plaz on October 10, 2007, 02:29:25 AM

Title: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: Plaz on October 10, 2007, 02:29:25 AM
48 Hour Postal Strike in the UK (http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/article3043719.ece)

Understandably minimig's were delayed for a while when Xenepp fell ill for many days. Could this latest developement delay things even more? Grrr.

Plaz
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: whiteb on October 10, 2007, 03:23:03 AM
Ohyou are fragging joking me, and I am waiting for Minimig PCB's from nusim (That dude on Ebay).

Don't Royal Mail get enough for First class as it is ?
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: weirdami on October 10, 2007, 03:32:07 AM
why don't the queen just send out her secret strike-breaker ninja-karate force?
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: Plaz on October 10, 2007, 03:35:42 AM
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her secret strike-breaker ninja-karate force?


Now you've done it. It used to be a secret. :-P

Plaz
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: freqmax on October 10, 2007, 02:46:04 PM
Use UPS or DHL ..?
Or even divide it between carriers so no one can screw it up :crazy:
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: tonyyeb on October 10, 2007, 02:58:51 PM
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whiteb wrote:

Don't Royal Mail get enough for First class as it is ?


Yes thats right, the workers are striking because the company doesn't make enough money  :crazy:

Maybe more like they don't get paid enough???!  :-o  Original reason for a strike i know
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: Akiko on October 10, 2007, 03:53:47 PM

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.. Some of the highest taxes and extortionate pricing in europe and the crappiest services imaginable!!  :-(
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: spirantho on October 10, 2007, 04:11:15 PM
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Maybe more like they don't get paid enough???!  :-o  Original reason for a strike i know


When I were a lad if a job didn't pay enough to your satisfaction you got a different job...

You certainly didn't hold most of the small businesses in the country to ransom like is happening at the moment. It's not the Royal Mail who are suffering, it's the people who rely on them.

In this case though it's not actually pay that's the main problem, it's that the Royal Mail workers think they're working on a pay-per-task basis, whereas the directors think they're working on a pay-per-hour basis like everybody else in the country.
Title: Re: Arrg! Minimig delayed due to labor disputes?
Post by: CD32Freak on October 10, 2007, 04:54:35 PM
It's the curse of Commodore I tell ya! :lol: :-D