United Kingdom chat thread V4: lamb rogan josh, £3 meal deals, and brexit - General

I just buy the supermarket discount brand. It's all just milk.

22 and still in uni and I didn't understand those grades so... Idk

I'm 25 and feel ready to retire. Do you think my £2000 pension will be enough???

I'm 22, and I groan loudly when I get out of my chair.

Yeah the issue is that I'm British.

For fucks sake, I've had several missed calls from somewhere in Angola today. What if I end up blocking all numbers from Angola and then someone I know gets into a situation there. I can't deal with this, I'm going off the grid and living in a farm hedge.

So I've worked out through hungry observation that my local Boots reduce their meal deal sandwiches every day at 2.30pm. Part of me wants to space out my visits so that they don't get mad at me, but at the same time 50p cheese ploughmans lads

Keep going to Waitrose for sandwiches on my work break despite the complete lack of a meal deal, 5.75 for a sandwich, mango portions and a San Pellegrino Absolute injustice to the working man

Such a middle class meal deal For me I went into a cornershop yesterday, picked myself up a bag of £1 transform a snacks, bar of dairy milk and a 2ltr coke for £5, bastards also I swear to god this thread always ends up with meal deal conversations, its amazing

The only thing in Britain that does not bring misery

I'm by no means a scrooge but I just couldn't justify spending money on meal deals every day when you can buy a multipack of crisps and some bread and have a few weeks worth of sandwiches for near the cost of one days lunch, with 5 mins prep every evening or morning. Quite a few people in my work buy coffee in the morning and lunch every day and it freaks me out thinking about how much they spend across a year on lunches, but then again I budget every penny so to me that money is potentially a holiday or something.

I have that thought every day, but I'm a moron when it comes to prepping before work so I just buy food at work I get a 50% discount in the Spoons I work in so I do usually just make something there but a lot of it is not good to eat daily At some point I am going to have to control myself and bring my own food

I managed to get a job on a business park located in a town that has a One Stop as its only shop and those motherfuckers never restock their shelves.

I used to get meal deals because I like variety and I'd get something different as often as I could. I don't understand people who just buy the same thing every day.

what do you guys think of Aldi in general

Its alright actually, new one recently opened up back in my hometown and apparently everyone shops there now and barely touch Tesco/asda

I just passed the first two rounds of assessments to become a store manager for them. Did some research into them and they've absolutely rocketed up in market share over the past few years. Overtaken the co-op and poised to overtake Morrisons in a few years time at current rate

Went there for the first time in ages on Tuesday, they had some decent stuff, their cheapo carrot and parsnip soup and malted bread was the tits. My only complaint with Aldi is they don't stock Pepsi Max which is my poison of choice, other than that a fine shop. Oh, they also stock BIG GUN which was absolutely some of the best red wine I've tasted for for under 6 quid, bought it to cook with but ended up downing the entire bottle last night.

I remember when I was young thinking Aldi/Lidl were the bottom of the barrel cheapo places and if your family shopped there you should be shamed publicly. I believed a lot of dumb stuff as a child like that class equality and hope were real.

All that and I've only ever seen 2 in my life. In other news, that rain though.

I used to think that, maybe not the shaming bit, but the bottom of the barrel thing. But then it transpired my gf's mum shopped at aldi and her family is much more middle class than mine. I like aldi and should shop there more, but it's always heaving and I need to go in the car while I can nearly see my local asda from my house

Aldi recently overtook Co-Op to become 5th biggest supermarket by market share. If they keep that up for the next few years they'll overtake Morrisons and become one of the "Big Four".

I find it's better than my local Tescos if I'm honest. The food quality is top notch and I'm not breaking the bank. It's still annoying some people believe anyone who shops there should be flogged to death, but at least their image is improving since more and more people are going there to shop. Same with Lidl. Also bought most of my tools and other electronic stuff from there and never had any problems (bought an Air Compressor for £55 from Lidl for example).

Pound bakery sausage rolls are the shit

Boys I've got a graduate assessment centre on Tuesday (my first one), how do these things go down? Theres teambuilding, presentation and interviews, are they normally quite relaxed?

It's been eight weeks since I ordered my new mattress and it still hasn't arrived. After ringing them up several times throughout the week, one kind soul at the shop found out why it wasn't shipped to store. The issue? Apparently hypnos have held the entire order as one customer wanted to change their fabric on the mattress which means twenty other customers have been waiting because of one person, or rather because of Hypnos. Fuck sake, just ship the other mattresses and ship the ammended one later. Here's to another week of restless sleep.

Depends on the company. People (applicants) can be super serious and competitive about that shit though. Don't be one of them. Be chill and normal, interact with people like a normal sensible human being and if you know your stuff you will be good. Top tips: You're being assessed between exercises too. I've seen someone instantly fail at my company when they were given 30 mins to tour our heritage center while the other half of the group were interviewed. They said out loud "Man this is boring". Way to go genius. You are very unlikely to succeed at the team building exercise - this is part of the test. If you are allowed to take a handout for the presentation, do so. Fill if full of photos of interesting things related to you (and preferably the job) so they can ask questions about it.

I have to give a 2 minute presentation without powerpoint and it they said its encouraged to bring a visual aid. I hope the presentation is not to everyone thats there and its just to the staff.

I worked for a global company a few years back and helped design and test run a few of these for grads/apprentices. Depends on the company but ours were always really chilled out, the tasks were designed to have a bunch of criteria they rated/made notes about people on - For example the 'team building' exercise was initially two teams who had a budget and a time limit to build a contraption to get an egg from one part of the room to another without it touching the floor - It was very difficult and great if people passed but the purpose was to assess things like how people coped under time pressure, whether or not people were conscious of time, let other people in the group speak, showed any 'leadership' skills, so things like suggesting a team captain to make the final decisions, reminding people of the time left regularly and making sure everyone gets a chance to have their say were big points. A different task we devised was splitting people into pairs and getting them to work on a pretty complicated problem (Eg someone only has so many hours in the day and all this stuff to do but travelling by each method takes XYZ time, whats the best order to do everything kinda thing) but again getting it right was only part of it and it was more to see the interesting ways people break down, split and tackle issues as the question was fairly open ended so people could come up with some interesting twists on it. Do you know what the presentation component is about? Our was basically to talk about something you are passionate about for a few minutes, it sounds really lame when saying it like this but my sample for the higher ups as a demo (Which I actually gave a few times) was basically talking about video games, played them for a long time, and how most people think it's a really antisocial activity but actually it has taken me all over the UK and overseas meeting new people and the various events I have been to, prizes won and all that stuff and they absolutely loved it despite always being 30-50 year old people who have never played a game. Similarly interviews nowadays tend to be a casual chat so they can get to know you a bit better with some competency based questions (Tell me about a time you did XYZ, like overcame a serious problem related to work/school, worked well as a team kinda thing) so it's always good to have a few general situations you can pull out of a hat and make them fit the question. The minimum wage they pay store staff is well above national minimum wage which I like (I think £8.85/hr this year) but not heard much about what they are actually like to work for especially in a manager position cause that's probably a completely different perspective

The presentation topic is on your biggest achievement (not academic, outside university). I also had to do an online personality test thing the other day which was weird. The first topic of the day by the looks of things is a competancy based interview. The only real 'contact' they've had with me is my video recorded interview which I thought went terribly. The job (hopefully lol) is as a mining geologist in a large UK company, scared I'll be maths tested because I suckkkkkkkkk