Author Archives: Jase Hargreaves

About Jase Hargreaves

A lover of peace and peas

David Gauke speaks at Payroll World

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Jase Hargreaves

I usually attend the Payroll World Spring update conference every year but after a sales call from PW a few weeks earlier and being informed that MP and Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke would be in attendance I … Continue reading →

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Dealing with a threat of legal action

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

To my surprise and displeasure, I discovered 2 of my staff had responded to a letter of complaint threatening legal action this week.  I won’t knock them for showing initiative, but the response was aggressive, verbose and quoted endless contractual … Continue reading →

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Advice for Job Seekers – #1 and a bit – Get on Linkedin

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

Employment opportunity for Accounts Assistant or Reconciliation Clerk, Watford, Herts, UK. Folks, I am looking for an accounts assistant but more specifically, a reconciler.  I work for an SME that has been affected, although not catastrophically, by the recession.  We … Continue reading →

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Syncing your iPhone to Outlook

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

I decided that it would be a good idea to sync my iPhone with my work email contacts, we use outlook and I expected to simply upload my contacts directory in outlook with my contacts directory in my phone.  Not … Continue reading →

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Pet hates about personal statements No.2

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

Not putting a personal statement, I mean not even a covering letter saying: “I would like to apply for the position of….”  What do you think my reaction will be? It’s the metaphorical equivalent of walking into a grocery store … Continue reading →

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Idiots guide to Pensions Auto Enrolment

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

A new employment tax came into force on Monday, but only if you are unfortunate enough to work for a very large employer, by very large employer I mean a company with over 120,000 employees, that’s large.  Employees will be … Continue reading →

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Pleb calls Pleb a Pleb

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

As we all know, Andrew Mitchell lost his rag at a policeman Pleb the other day when the officer wouldn’t allow him to cycle through a gate that was designated for cars, insisting that he use the proper gate that … Continue reading →

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Pet Hates about Personal Statements No.1

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

I rarely like to give advice but whenever we have a job opportunity at work I feel the need.  As I am a fond advocate for the Plain English Campaign;  I find there are certain concepts you can convey to … Continue reading →

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Writing to your MP, total waste of time…

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

I wrote to David Gauke MP, he’s my local politico and is supposed to represent his constituents.  I wanted to know if he shared my fears about HMRC’s Real Time Information (RTI) initiative.  I won’t go into details in this … Continue reading →

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Saturday Morning Damson Hunt

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Jase Hargreaves

So, Saturday morning is Caiden and Dad’s walk time.  We sometimes just walk round the local area and sometimes go out of town and find a patch of woodland or a lake.  Last weekend I noticed Damsons growing over the … Continue reading →

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