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    SPAM orders (from Russia ? )

    Thanks for that, but don't viewers have to click "I am a human" (or whatever) ? Just to clarify the system does not stop the Google search crawler ?
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    SPAM orders (from Russia ? )

    Does that put off customers though ? And would it affect Google ranking / crawling ?
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    SPAM orders (from Russia ? )

    Customer IP: 91.246.51.45 Customer IP: 31.134.11.29 They don't mean anything to me however ! Apparently these orders may be (it's an AI generated answer) : This situation strongly indicates fraudulent activity, likely a card-testing scam or a triangulation fraud attempt. Why This Is Happening...
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    SPAM orders (from Russia ? )

    I have just had two SPAM orders in the last 5 hours from - I think - Russia (one had a .ru Email address). Both payments failed (via STRIPE my website's online payments portal) but it is worrying if these orders are an advance guard of many more (possibly because I have a Ukraine flag on my site...
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    Luxembourg and Iceland are hardly typical countries are they ? But even 4th is very high.
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    So the Bank of England's inflation calculator is "rubbish" is it ?
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    The facts : The UK minimum wage is the 2nd highest in the world (excl Iceland and Luxembourg). My first job in 1985 was as an assistant manager in a Hire Shop on £5,500 p.a. = £2.64 per hr. As at Apr 25, inflation adjusted, that equals £8.02 per hour. The minimum wage for 2025 was £12.21 an...
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    My views on Covid were never "crackpot", and are now mainstream
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    Not sure what point you are making here. When I say employers pay their good employees as much as they can that obviously means consistent with making a profit or the business would go bust. Unless, of course, you are implying the business should pay everone (incl the owner) the same rate. I...
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    Beware the union rep

    Employers do not "rip off employees", certainly decent employees (and why should they have to employ bad employees ? ). That's 6th form common room stuff. Employees choose to work in a particular job, it's their own choice.
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    Beware the union rep

    Don't work for them then.
  12. Justin Smith

    Beware the union rep

    Employees have the ultimate right, the right to say "sod off I'm not working for you any more". Every job I ever had if I thought I wasn't paid enough or I wasn't being treated well enough I didn't moan* and complain to a union, I just left and got another job. And that's how the free market...
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    Exactly ! That fall off in employment is to a large extent caused by the Labour Government interfering in the market and taxing employment..... These days employers are forced to pay people more than they think they're worth (particularly young people) and, even worse, thanks to the - not needed...
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    We live in a hugely over regulated society and it is getting worse every year, as they are adding to it every year but when did they ever get rid of a regulation ?!? Almost never. There are any number of ludicrous regulations but the prize for the most ludicrous goes to : Martin's law* : which...
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    Companies will have to pay UK supplier invoices within 60 days or face fines

    I don't agree with you. It is the free market and the fact employees can move jobs which is the driver of pay and conditions. It works both ways. I can remember after the Covid madness when there was a mssive shortage of HGV drivers and companies were trying to poach them off each other by...
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