How could you fairly give everyone a payrise, but make it so the lowest paid person got the highest rise. And the highest paid person got the lowest raise.

heh, I think about all sorts of things, what I did notice yesterday was that I tend to think about the future when walking through countryside stuff, and the past when I am in a more urban (can you really call a small town like Ivybridge urban?). Not sure what that says about me.

What do you think about when you walk backwards in a central business district?

It's a finite list.

I was wondering about salaries at a company. If you had double the budget for salaries, but couldn't hire anyone new. How could you fairly give everyone a payrise, but make it so the lowest paid person got the highest rise. And the highest paid person got the lowest raise.

Everyone gets a raise, and no one overtakes anyone so they suddenly earn more than someone who used to earn more than them.

Also if there were 3 people on different salaries, say on £24,000, £26,000 and £28,000, their new salaries would be similarly arranged (just not a 2k gap between them).

If your current budget is £100k and you're doubling it, why can you not divide the new 100k evenly between everyone?
The top paid person's new salary would increase by the same monetary amount, but be worth less of a percentage to them.

So where S is existing salary, B is new budget, and n is number of employees you'd have:

new salary for each person = ((B/n)/S) * 100)

Does that work? is it fair?

This better not be a question for next week's quiz.

The irony of having my house keys posted to me is not lost.

https://seoi.net/penint/?s=08
Takes whatever you are drawing (like a cat or whatever) , and turns it into a better drawing for you

Fingers crossed the parcel isn't, either.

Say what? For Yale keys? Are they made out of titanium or something?

We have to pay a stupid amount of money for spare keys for our front door lock because they're "Ultion" keys but I wouldn't expect that for Yale.

That is good to know. The door came with 3 keys.

It's not that bit I'm concerned about, it's the idea that someone can snap a quick photo of my keys lying on the table in a coffee shop and can then just order themselves a copy of my door key

Although the new door doesn't latch unless you manually lock it with the key so basically my front door is just always unlocked now.

My new front door has Ultion keys. I ordered some extras earlier today - all I gave them was the number on the key and an address to send them to, which feels shockingly non-secure.

My new front door has Ultion keys. I ordered some extras earlier today - all I gave them was the number on the key and an address to send them to, which feels shockingly non-secure

By vocally establishing dominance over the drone in this moment, your fear should subside, allowing you to remember that you are the human, and that is merely a robot.

I got my spares cut at Timpson, and had to leave my original key with them.

Nevertheless, I would assume that Ultion have a database of key numbers and addresses and will only send the spare keys for your "keycode" out to the address that is registered?

I don't believe that's the case, from the conversation I had with them

If you're doubling the budget, and you want to bring people closer together, just increase the lowest paid persons salary by the highest paid persons salary, and so on, but then everyone will end up being paid exactly the same.

You could probably fiddle it so the lowest paid person gets increased by the highest amount minus the number of employees /2, then you'd just end up with everyone having increasing salaries by £1.

Bit more fiddling required for odd number of employees, but you get the drift.

You could increase the lowest paid person’s salary by (for example) 30% of the highest paid person’s, and increase the highest paid person’s wage by 30% of the lowest, etc, all the way through the organisation. It’d give everyone a raise and bring the wages closer together. Whatever is left you could just split between everyone equally. You could try other percentages, of course, depending on the scale of the disparity.

Bloody hell, Kov! That’ll keep you going for some time!

Yes. I will have to look at what order to read them.

So you've not got what you ordered and to correct that will cost them money

For their side :

You keep the door as is - costs them nothing
You keep the door and they swap out the handles - costs them a small amount
They swap the door for the right one - costs them the most

If you really want the door you ordered get them to change it for the one they were supposed to put in
If your okay with the one you have then ask them for a partial refund (regardless of the handles or not) ?

Hey, "The World". Shut the fuck about the Royal Family. No one cares as much as you seem to think we do. So shush. It's boring.

Oh I agree. I did not watch it.

Although Morgans strop on TV has made me chuckle.