Re: It's just a coincidence of course...
Retaliation from the next non-Trump government (assuming we ever have one)
It might take a while, but even after Nehemiah Scudder and his successors that was finally managed, see Revolt in 2100.
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Retaliation from the next non-Trump government (assuming we ever have one)
It might take a while, but even after Nehemiah Scudder and his successors that was finally managed, see Revolt in 2100.
Are you by any chance referring to Amsterdamned?
After office hours and good at HR? I'd call that a "No harm no foul".
Slightly off-topic: I've known enough guys who were "happily" married with children and closet gay. They had enough problems already. The lucky ones (in the end at least) were those, that bit the bullet and came out.
The one HUGE improvement is getting rid of HMRC. Depending on where exactly you relocate, you can expect different problems, but none as bad. And the Dutch tax office (Belastingdienst) is scarily reasonable as long as you abide by the rules. And while not relevant for individual tax payers or small companies, large companies can make long term agreements with them about how the rules and laws are to be interpreted (just to avoid misunderstandings) and things like that.
"Much will depend on whether HMRC takes tough enforcement action and publicly hauls an organisation over the coals. If that happens, it likely will have a chilling effect on the use of contractors. If enforcement action is not forthcoming, the impact of the reforms could be more limited." ®
Of course HMRC will publicly try to haul an organisation over the coals (and hot ones at that). However, going by past performance and results, this will backfire spectacularly, making HMRC even more ridiculous in regard of IR35 than it already is.
The last time I sent someone non-white, I got a call from the EU Technical Officer to say “I don’t want you to send the lazy guy again. Do you understand. Not the lazy guy or any of your other monkeys”.
The correct solution to this is to sent somebody with the following qualifications:
White
Male
Lazy
Incompetent
Obnoxious
Rude
Only speaking some really unintelligible dialect
Bonus points if he is also gay.
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Besides that, make sure you know the name of that lout in Brussels and those of his two immediate superiors. Send a complaint to his immediate superior, next time go one level higher. With enough complaints, that lout will get promoted sideways to a location where he is harmless to normal people.
We're getting passports from the French Navy?
Nope, those new passports will be Navy Blue and will be produced by a French-Dutch company, which won the bid, and will do so in France, thus "French Navy Blue", should really be "French, Navy Blue" for grammatical correctness but that is not quite as nice a trigger. Just today I heard a rumour production might be shifted to Poland, but I don't know whether that is true or not.
Here in the Netherlands as well, but you can protest that fine and usually the protest is upheld (there will be a photo of the ambulance as well).
The last time I had an ambulance appear behind me (still some distance away) while waiting in line for a red light, I just shifted gear to backward and moved to the side.
And yes fire evacuations are a joke. Except when it's a genuine false alarm - because then you learn an awful lot.
Experienced that once and it went flawless (surprising just about everybody). Based on the results of the false alarm, the fire evacuation drill scheduled for a week later was cancelled ... by the head of security.
There were a couple of Normans that went west, but they landed at Hastings (in 1066) and didn't sail westward again for a couple of centuries. And the protestant Huguenots didn't go to Catholic Ireland. Lots of the ended up in the Netherlands and South Africa. And yes, O' usually means "son of", just like "Mac" and "Mc" (but not in the case of Machiavelli ;) ), while "Fitz" means "bastard son of". For that matter, I don't understand those Yanks giving their sons (mostly middle) names starting with "Fitz", one of the more well known ones being John FitzPatrick Kennedy.
I get heavily downvoted every time I post song lyrics here.
But you don't post song lyrics, you post an url to a youtube video without the lyrics and without even having the decency to make it a clickable link. And as a silver badge, you are granted that ability (comes much sooner already).