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Post by WDB on Jan 20, 2022 12:04:45 GMT
Yes, similar here, although I’ve been ‘remote’ for five years. The trouble with desk sharing is that you can’t actually use hot desk areas to do anything serious, as they’re invariably colonised by visiting sales people in need of a chat. And, in our building, too close to the kitchen/coffee area, so the noise is impossible.
But I’m hoping there may be meetings to go to. Weird thing to hope, I know, but that’s what I’ve come to.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 12:55:01 GMT
Back in the office from next week anyway eh? COVID is over apparently. 🤔 Not for me, I can choose to WFH now. Which I will. |
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Post by Rob on Jan 20, 2022 13:25:54 GMT
I don't have data on my work SIM either and although not unlimited my personal phone has a 100GB allowance which I won't use. Use a lot more abroad but that is going to change soon with roaming coming back for me unless I switch mobile phone network.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 14:03:09 GMT
Blimey. I've got 2GB data. I think. Might go and check now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 14:34:41 GMT
My daughter gets unlimited calls, SMS and data for £20 per month from SMARTY. I get unlimited calls and SMS and 150GB of data from O2 also for £20. Not that I use it much.
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Post by Rob on Jan 20, 2022 15:45:00 GMT
My bill has just done up with the annual inflation thin gummy to £18.25.
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Post by bpg on Jan 20, 2022 16:15:10 GMT
Mobile connections are pretty cheap in the UK.
I've just looked at o2 here, 29,99€/month for unlimited data capped at 2MBit/s speed on 4 or 5G, 39,99€ to speed that up to 10MBit/s both with a 39,99€ connection fee. Vodafone charge 59,99€/month for 40GB from month 7 with no connection fee so 30€/month in the first year and 59,99€/month for the second year. The o2 price is the same whether you go for a 2 year or unlimited contract.
I had internet in the car with Vodafone last year. 99€ for 50GB, as a family we used 12GB in 12 months, most of that on our road trip to southern Germany in July, pretty poor value overall.
Data does not rollover here on monthly contracts, you either use it or lose it. Less of an issue now I work from home. 3GB data and unlimited calls to any network, SMS and EU roaming costs 7,99€ a month with Aldi.
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Post by WDB on May 5, 2022 9:18:46 GMT
Not that it matters because you don’t want one, but just one final time, I still think you’d be better with a C1/107/Aygo. Insurance, VED and fuel consumption alone pretty compelling. Speaking of insurance, the Aygo’s renewal note came this week. £540 for one provisional, one new full and two parental named drivers. Not quite the £400 I was hoping for but also not the £1,200 I once budgeted. The policyholder is actually Boy2, as he was the learner living here when I bought the car. He’s unlikely to use it much, so I think I will let this policy lapse and set up a similar one with his brother as holder. That gives Boy1 the option of taking it to Cambridge in September, and at least gaining some policy time in his own name. |
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Post by bpg on May 5, 2022 9:35:14 GMT
Might be worth getting a quote. I was under the impression insurance was cheaper for a supervised, unqualified driver than a recently qualified, unsupervised driver.
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Post by WDB on May 5, 2022 10:10:18 GMT
It is. The year just ending was £186.
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Post by bpg on May 5, 2022 11:01:37 GMT
Jolly good. I read the £540 above as being for the unqualified driver.
£186 is very cheap.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2022 14:16:47 GMT
Legal minimum cover here applies to the car. About £8 per month, any driver including young ones.
Course, it's pretty bloody useless but it's all you need to be legal and have your arse covered.
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Post by WDB on May 5, 2022 15:05:01 GMT
…so £10 a week, for what people on car sites redundantly call ‘fully comprehensive’, in a higher-cost economy, doesn’t seem too bad — even if it’s twice what the rather more rapid (and expensive to fix) CLS costs me without the young drivers.
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Post by bpg on May 5, 2022 18:06:49 GMT
Legal minimum cover here applies to the car. About £8 per month, any driver including young ones. Course, it's pretty bloody useless but it's all you need to be legal and have your arse covered. Bargain compared with here in Germany. I exported my motorbike from the UK, had my full bike licence 20 years now, no claims. I was paying about £190 a year for comprehensive insurance. I now pay 350€ Teilkasko, Vollkasko is over 3,000€. |
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Post by WDB on May 5, 2022 19:22:20 GMT
What does Voll give you that Teil omits?
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