Well, it was actually Tom getting paranoid about the site; there were no new messages yesterday morning when he logged in and he thought we had been 'got at'.
The site had actually been down the night before for maintenance on the servers but it was back up and running by the morning, allegedly. I don't 'do' mornings.
Back to the hi-jacked topic, which now seems to be pensions. When I left school my dad only gave me one piece of advice which was to make sure I got a job with a 'contributory' pension scheme where the employer pays in too. They weren't all like that back then.
So, I joined the RAF. Copper-bottomed one would think! Somehow having to serve for 22 years (from the age of 18, I was 16 at the time) before you 'got' your pension didn't seem too bad.
I had been in about 2 years and comitted to another 9 when it was explained to me that you didn't 'get' your pension after 22 years, but that was when you 'qualified' for any pension at all.
So, for those of us who served for 12 years (which was an awful lot of us) we get absolutely no pension whatsoever for those years apart from the government old age pension and while I realise millions around the globe don't even get that, it rather knocked my Caribbean island retirement dreams into a cocked hat.
Give up lots of freedoms, get some great training, travel the world (I went as far as Norfolk), meet lots of interesting 'foreign' people and plan to kill them all!
Bitter? Me?
