Cars the movie, 10k hands in a day, strike action.

 

 "Cars" is a frequent request in our house these days. Now to those without a car mad male toddler in the house you may not know exactly what i am talking about.  Well "Cars" is an animated film about a racing car (pictured above) called Lightening McQueen and The Boy R has watched it more times than i have watched  Rounders or The Italian Job!!!, he literally watches it about 3 times per day each with as much anticipation and excitement as the previous showing.

To be honest my viewing count of the film is quickly adding up and I actually am now quite a fan!!  Much to our delight the sequel is now been advertised as coming out in mid July at the flicks and we have decided this is going to be Boy R's first outing to the cinema. The sad thing is i am actually looking forward to watching it and have downloaded the trailer from youtube as the Boy R makes me put it on about 10 times per day.  Here it is below and i think you will agree it looks pretty cool for a kids film  (maybe i have been brainwashed!!)

Cars2 Trailer.

Yesterday i put in a record amount of hands in one day, 10171 hands to exact and it took me about six hours. This is the amount of volume the online pros put in every day so i just wanted to see what it would be like to do it myself. I played from about 14.30hrs-19.00hrs and then the rest after 22.00hrs, it wasnt to bad to be honest and if nothing else i racked up loads of VPPs.

June the 30th seems to be gearing up to be a mass co-oridinated walkout/strike of loads of various public sector unions, my own included. Over the last few days unions returned their ballot results and  they have voted massively in favour of strike action on June 30th.  It affects loads of differant jobs/sectors but the proposed pension reforms have united everyone to take action. 
I know the (right wing) argument is that there is not enough money in the pot and private sector pensions are not as good but regardless of that, as an individual (which is my argument) are you really gonna just sit there and accept getting F*cked up the Arse regardless of your political views. 

There was a calculating spreadsheet going round work the other day and if you typed in your salary/years left etc it showed what you would be losing. 
The figures for me are  i would  have to work 7 years longer, pay £75 more per month and would lose £65000 from my overall pension when i did retire at the now new age of 67 (which is again ridiculous for some jobs, i.e imagine a 67 year old prison officer/police officer/fireman...haha).

Like i say regardless of whether you work in the public sector or the private sector or whatever your political views you are not just gonna say  "yeah thats ok because the country is in debt" or  "yeah thats ok i am not bothered".  I think its is fair to say anybody in the right mind would be bothered if those kind of changes were going to be imposed on them. And i think thats why the strength of feeling is so strong amongst people in various jobs that otherwise would have no links with each other.

And just to be clear i am not too interested in politics so am neither a lefty or a right winger just an average working person with a family to support, but one that is not going to just roll over and have my pants pulled down with out doing something, even if in the long-run nothing gets changed anyway. In my job its actually been made illegal to strike which puts an interesting slant on proceedings. However i have just noticed our union have said we are going to hold "protest meetings" on that day so maybe that is their way round it.  No one wants to go on strike, certainly everyone i talk to and myself included but what is the answer??!!  

EDIT:  It was actually pointed out to me that last month our union (POA) balloted its union members and they voted in favour of NOT GOING on strike, so there you have it, i wont be going on strike after all.  (i was on leave at the time of the ballot!!).  However like i have said before it is not just the pensions in our job that are getting hit but staffing levels/safety levels/pay etc etc but hey ho..........