thenotsomightyom

Places and names have been changed to protect the Cornish Parking Pixie. In need of retail sustenance and a visit to a real bank in order  to exchange £5notes for £2 coins for the washing machine.

We ended up in a multi-storey car park, looking for an option to pay the parking charge While driving around we saw two ordinary men in high-viz and stopped to ask how to pay?

In strange voices,they said “Don’t” and then they both laughed!.

“But, how do we pay? We don’t want a fine!” we smiled and joined in their hilarity.

“You won’t get one!”They both started rolling on the floor laughing louder and louder.

My husband was getting upset,and just like he won’t ask for directions so I have to,I said

“Why is that?”

They both shouted “The cameras aren’t working!”

“Forget all that nonsense about apps,park anywhere you like! It’s free!” They picked themselves up off the floor and headed on their way.As I looked at their bright yellow jackets,on the back it read “Cornish Pixie”.

Now sitting in the comfort of my arm chair,I hope they were honest pixies.

Thanks to Megan Howe and the London Standard for the Headline.

Ian Redpath and his other half of On the Board have made a difference and raised a smile in what might be a soulless journey on a stark Underground train in London.On the Board worked because it was and is needed.

Long may you run and well done for your first twenty five years.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.

Thanks to Jamie Singleton and the Gazette and Herald for the Headline

For those of you not in the know HMRC stands for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs,they are responsible for Revenue Collection for the Public Coffers in the UK

Recently HMRC took it upon themselves to publish a list of Companies,mainly small businesses across the UK who appeared to have not paid minimum wage to one or more of their employees.

I’m unclear why they are doing this,they might like to claim it is for the benefit of the employee,they are neither an Employee Union or a Social Services Organisation

What they give with one hand they take with the other.Once the employee is above a certain threshold then whatever money HMRC say the employee wasn’t paid will end up being paid in tax anyway.

Various Politicians from  Government Departments have praised HMRC for naming and shaming these “shameful companies”abusing workers.Some have fought back as in the case of this Campsite in Wiltshire explained the circumstances were that the employee needed accomodation for personal reasons and deductions were made.

Whatever the numbers,this was not an abuse of an employee who still works at the campsite

The truth is HMRC owe me money and don’t seem to be doing much to refund me.The last was a note to say ‘not to contact them ,that they were making calculations and the earliest  I would hear would be October.Guys we’re talking last year’s tax!

So get off your high horses,the minimum wage is rubbish and cannot cope with the increased costs of living.Who exactly are you wanting to shame.Perhaps HMRC would do better to do their job and stop running Publicity Claims making themselves look like Robin Hood.He was a fake too!