What are you thinking right now?

[Caspin]

Aw, poor unemployed Kenny and his mere £9m compo ..... excuse me while I go and do my nut, as recommended by Minty.



The sums of money that are paid in football are just ludicrous.

It seems to me that I'm going about life all wrong. If you are a little incompetent, you are likely to be promoted out of the way and thus you will earn more money and probably do less work. If you are highly incompetent, they'll chuck you out and give you a bunch of money to compensate you. If you just plod along, not too ambitious, just wanting to do a good day's work and then go home for some soup and sausage rolls, what you are likely to get is increasing work load as other people lose their jobs, or fear of losing your job or, at best, an ever-moving pension goalpost, putting that dream of foreign travel and time to construct raised flowerbeds in the garden using reclaimed railway sleepers ever further away.

Still, mustn't grumble.

Sorry about your application, Minty. As far as I can tell, from the assortment of unemployed friends I have here, jobs of any sort and at any level are in such short supply that even the most basic job will receive a crazy number of applications. Like 6000 people applying for two jobs in a coffee shop. And lots of posts are filled internally, with the application process being a formality that they have to go through and the folk who make the effort to put together a good application actually having zero chance of success. It's tough out there. But something will come up eventually.

I can always send a care package of polenta!