Abuse of rights?

People in U.K. are - once again - experiencing severe postal workers strikes.
They've been striking 2 to 3 days a week for more than a month and it means at one point there were 30 million item not delivered to their destinations.
Reasons for the strike are reasonable, but the way they've been negotiating and striking is not.
As a result of the strike, the Royal Mail (still not a private company) has lost huge contracts with Amazon and other business.

Even I tried to find an alternative to deliver some very important documents I needed to send, but because it was for a PO Box, I had to pay the £4.95 charged to special delivery, which is the only type of mail they have to deliver on time - otherwise they'd have to pay a fine for failing it.

Other strikes in U.K. also includes rubbish bin collection and the threat of Fire workers slowing down services. And this year we had Tube strikes as well.

What the Worker Unions are failing to see is that money talks to people and business as much as it talks to them.
And not only that. You are usually paying for a service and not getting it.

Majority of people does not have a luxury to strike when things get tough.
And if the job is so hard to bear, the law in U.K. protects you, you can leave and sue your employer because it was hard to work on the conditions they made you work. If they fire you unfairly, you can sue them too. So I really don't sympathize when they argue they are protecting job cuts and pay decrease.

On the postal strike case things get even worse, because with business finding alternatives to the strike (like CityLink, DHL and the like) Royal Mail is making even less money and will face have to cut even more jobs! Now is that something so hard to understand?

Because is no rock science to me!

Update: They have decided to suspend the strike at least until after Xmas. :)

R$ vs £ - Greed or need?

Well, those who know me reasonable well knows I have quite the utopic view about capitalism. I truly believe capitalism the worse necessary evil we have to live with, for several reasons.
One of the things I don't really understand is how countries who are supposed to be poor (or "developing" - to use the politically correct term) can afford to sustain high enormous prices on products which can be found so much cheaper in other countries.
I do know about taxes, and everyone has to make a profit to survive (bing! There you go capitalism being evil!) but I do wonder if the HUGE difference in prices are mostly greed and the certainty people will pay whatever is asked for it, to either:
1. sustain a status of "look, I worked hard, I can spend sh1tloads of money buying this, you can't"
2. simply out of necessity
3. just liking the item and have no option but to buy it even at higher exorbitant value.

Now nothing wrong with the second reason, if you need something, and there is no way out of it than what can you do really? What annoys me with capitalism is the 1. and 2. points, where you could easily live with another cheaper option, simply not to buy whatever is being exploited from you, and force the prices down.
In my view, it is as easy as that. But maybe I am wrong?In here we have the example of Jaguar, which went bankrupt because people would not buy their cars anymore on the prices they were charging. It is sad to see a national industry go away, but have them lowered their prices I am sure they would have survived. See prices for houses, cars, mobile phones, anything here don't survive too long a surge on prices because people stop buying.Of course I am using Brazil as my criticism view, unfortunately a bad one this time.But coming from there and having this outlook on people

I was raised seeing people getting suffocated by debits. On credit card, on financing in 817373 instalments payments to have things they don't really need, they just want. To keep up with their friends, put up a front and try to live a life beyond their means, and it is a circle vice, and when you least expect everyone is caught on it. Sad affair.Thanks to mum and dad, I got the right hang of it. Bought my cars always with prompt payment. Never spend more than I make. First thing I do when I get my salary is to put a big chunk of it aside on my savings. Never buy more than I need. Maybe that's why I can't understand how this industry is still fed by people buying these things and throwing money at something so replaceable.


Fiat 500
Price in Brazil - from £21834.00 (R$ 61.900.00)
Price in U.K. from £9100.00 (R$ 25782.00)


Ac Dc gig
Price in Brazil - from £53.00-£106.00 (R$150.00-R$300.00)
Price in UK - from £45.00 (R$ 127.00)


IPhone
Price in Brazil - from £670.00 (R$1899.00)
Price in UK - from £342.00 (R$ 968.00)

**Currency converter

Now, I can't leave this post without saying how bad the Fruit/Veg prices are here compared to Brazil where they are sold at ridiculous low prices. I was going to include how cheaper the Avocato, Apple, Lettuce were in Brazil, but boy how wrong was I? They are cheaper here now! Ok, they don't taste the same (they are frozen to survive the trip and then thawed again for sale) but I was soo surprised to see the prices we are paying for food in Brazil now! Maybe it is a great sign people are earning more and affording to have more... Mmm, food for thought... - no punt intended ;)

Cold fashion

Ok, I am usually not into fashion. At all. But the autumn collection always bring a smile to my face.
And I am so glad the color tights are back again!
I already have my bright red, emerald and orange ones from last season...


And can't wait to put them on again!
I think everyone here wears too much black and grey during these months which have grey skies already... So any bit of colour is welcome!

Now for my wish list this Autumn :)
Tights are size M/L (10) if anyone is thinking about giving me one, lol.


Dark red and mustard tights which you can buy in any shop...


Cute fuschia tights from uktights


Blue tights Next

Hats hats hats because I am mad about hats after all and they are the custest ever this season, how can I resist?


Fuschia - Debenhams
Black - Debenhams


Black - Debenhams
Grey & Black - Tie Rack

I don't usually like pink but aren't these just delicious?
Left - Monsoon
Right - Monsoon

Black - Monsoon
Natural - John lewis

Favorite ads on TV now showing - I

1) Gets me giggling everytime! So clever! Everyone will know Arthur invented Guiness... or... was it Martha? Or tomato? Or Llamas? LMSO!



2) The kit kat "Working like a machine?" campaign. So clever :) There are more like this but this is my favorite and everytime we hear Don't cha we start showing our shirts! (opens a new windows)

No More Karaoke, Hav..
Watch the ad...

3) I like this one because is filmed in Sao Paulo <3



4) Hmmm! Is not only Marina who is on fire :) (the song is Brazilian funk by the way) I like this because is a bloody good kiss, but without being dirty or gross! And it is the name of the radio station ;) There are two versions for this but could only find one...



5) Rock & Roll! (Not anymore? lol)

Don’t Throw Your TV
Watch the ad...

5) Cute!


Will post some more as I remember/see them. May post some bad ones which annoy us too! :)