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Were these workers the extra people that they took on, as they had more than one big promotion going. We understood the extra people to be temporary?

Dizzy
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they took extra staff on for the e & j gallo promo but none for the express. they went a while back but at the end of april, my mate said they let about 30 staff go.
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We are aware on this thread, that there could be problems ahead. We will keep ourselves upto date with developments. Your input is very important and we don't want anyone to panic.
Thanx Dizzy[/b]
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Hi Exrise,
Thank you for posting and giving us a bit of background. What a shame about the job losses. I hope everyone has found alternative employment by now.
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Yes, I second that too, Magsy.
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Perhaps it might be prudent not to continue this 'conversation' at the present time given the position so many of us are in. Afterall, it is in our interest to wish Rise a successful conclusion to the promotion and to continue doing the good and difficult job they have been doing for us for the forseeable future. The last thing they need right now is any excess input from concerned cruisers when they seem to be doing as much as they can to get those who are not yet booked onto cruises. We certainly don't want push to become 'shove' from us! Lets just keep our fingers crossed that the boat stays afloat and appreciate their current efforts! Lets also hope for improving conditions for them during this year, then we will all be satisfied. A big thank you to those at Rise who are working, or have worked, on our behalf.

Happy cruising to all you lucky folk off this weekend!!
Hilary
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Yes........we don't want to rock the boat, ship,plane or whatever :fly so I think we should :zip for the moment. PM's are probably the best way forward. :)

Good luck to everyone too......have a lovely cruise. :sun :sun :yipee :yipee
Now for the :offtop bit: if anyone wants a light tan to start off with, if you can manage to find some (it's in such demand, it's selling for twice its price on eBay), Johnson's Holiday Skin lotion is excellent value for £4.99 - and it works within 2 - 3 days! (sorry Lucy but just had to share this!)

Alli
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Hi Phil,
Exactly where did you post your photos????? :hmmm
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At last my tickets have arrived for med cruise leaving 21 May (Lirica) :D

Just trying to make my mind up what to pack and what not to, if I start now I've plenty of time to change my mind

:idea: being quite a new comer to internet chatting can anyone tell me if there is a list of "us" who are going on this cruise, it would be good if we all met up for a drink after our long struggle to get here.
This will be the first holiday I've taken on my own for many years I'll let you all know how I go on

Chief(Sue)

8) 8)
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Hi Chief,
You will find your Roll Call on this link:

http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=27769&start=20

Only two of you that we know about at present! There will probably be several more that we don't know about!
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Hi Chief

Welcome to HT!!!! If you check the main cruise forum and look for the topic ''who's going where and when'', you'll probably find your cruise listed there. If not, you can start your own roll call for your cruise.

Have a WONDERFUL cruise!

Fay
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Good Morning for the Balcony Cruise :D :D :D :D :D

What a buitiful morning it is as well, Ah ! why bother to go on holiday with weather like this :yipee :yipee :yipee :yipee :yipee :yipee

To all those going have a wondeful time and watch out for the line dancers

Maureen :bow I did post the photos honest I did, :bow I had great difficulty finding out to do it, :bhead
Luci gave me great instructions, in how to do it, :omg load the pictures (just in case anyone has other ideas) :whoops

I may have failed to put the location, but I could not figure out where to put it except within the caption,which I did.

I did not put the date either, as all the pictures were dated and timed (the time was GMT so you would have had to add 5 and half hours if you wanted to know the time the picture was taken, yhaun zzzzzzzzzzzz :bow ) sorry to go on so - but some folk are in to all the tec stuff like apeture settings, film speeds Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (sorry went off again). :ghug

I will attempt to go through the process again, when I have another 3 hours spare. :bhead
As I said before good luck to all on the cruise's this week and in the near future, :kiss :wink :glynis (have one for me)

I'm thinking of going to Kenya for a month, (I've got to spend my :yipee winnings (2,000) :yipee befor the coven get into it) as it is a long way till October, (although I've been asked to go back to Sri Lanka in Aug for 60 days) Don't know if I can put up with the like of them for that length of time. Full of p??? and wind but with good intentions, well for their bank balance that is. A bit like a certain company that we all know with no conection to Warburtons (I never did understand the joke, if there was one)

With utter confusion and a headache

Byeeee for now
Phil Morris
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Phil - I seem to remember that the connection with Warburtons was their tv ad which had something to do with their bread ''rising'' - if you get the drift......... I even think a slice of toast was involved, with RISE somehow emblazoned on it - but my memory serves me even less well than it used to, so if I'm wrong I hope someone will correct me.

Fay
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People going on cruises...............and me still at home :evil:

This cannot be right! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Congratulations to all the successful and good luck to the hopefuls! :tup

"exrise"............good of you to let us know a little of the `behind the scenes` operation, but I don`t think you have let any cats out of the bag as we suspected as much by our individual and combined dealings with them.

The head honcho has shown his true colours on TV and other promotions, so we hope for the best bust half expect the worst!

As for `treading lightly` so as not to `upset` this fine company......ahermmm! .........I don`t think anyone would have a cruise allocation or confirmation without all the `shoving` which has been done since the first round of non-existent Libyan cruises were allegedly `allocated`.

Let us not forget that we are trying to get evryone their ENTITLEMENT to a cruise under the conditions of the offer. Nobody is doing us any favours and there is no altruistic fairy godfather handing out rewards to the nice people who do not make waves.

The best successes have been achieved by those willing to make a stand and be firm about not accepting the fluffy substitutes offered.

I say "Keep making waves".........politely, but firmly until they fulfil their obligations.

TonyW
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hi phil
have fun spending your winning's. its great to think you won enough to go on holiday with. next time it will be the big one, :D for you. if you go to sri lanka be sure and get back in time for your cruise. :wave vivien.
ps I couldnt find your photo's either, the only one I found that was remotely possible was one of a bottle of highland whisky :lol: :lol:
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Hi Tony,

When I said we don't want to rock the boat I was referring to HT and legal matters rather than trying not to upset a certain company. :!:

I just thought it may be better because of any legal action against HT to chat to exrise by pm (which I did - and interesting it was - my main gripe being not everyone has been treated equally) )

| definitely think each and everyone is entitled to a cruise and should be treated the same, i.e. a £10 cruise option for all. I didn't mean because I have a cruise I don't want to upset them! :roll: :roll:

Sorry for any misunderstanding - we all need to back everyone all the way. :ghug
Alli
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United we stand as we have done from the start. :ghug It is wonderful that things are coming together for some of us and those who have already been on their cruises seem to have had a marvellous time, but we won't be happy until everyone has got what they were 'guaranteed'. :x

Incidentally, I have to keep on checking this site because for the few days I simply haven't been getting the usual e-mail to notify me of new postings. The same has happened regarding some other sites to which I've contributed. Sometimes I get notification and sometimes I don't. :? Is it my computer or doesn't anybody love me any more?:(
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Hi All, have tried to put some photo,s of the Opera cruise in the photo gallery but cant seem to get them on has anyone any tips.
Tony R
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Hi

Lavenderlill has posted about her cruise today http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=286382#286382
Seems she has been pretty ill and only just made it.

Hope you fully recover soon, Jackie.

Same for David (Bishop).

Photos. (Apologies to those who dont need this detail).

to speed things up save your photos as jpegs (or video as avi) to your desktop. Be logged on to HT.
(check the upload window for all formats HT surport)

click ..........photo gallery..........upload album...............click drop down arrow (next to '<admin options>').......select add photos/photo..........

New window should have opened
select number of photos/files

Then add location, date taken, and title. (Important this is done as there is a warning admins will delete any that dont have this info!!)
click browse, new 'choose file' window will open.
next to 'look in ' should be 'desktop', if not click drop down arrow and select desktop, then double click on the photo file.
The location should appeared in the box, repeat for all photos then click 'Upload now'

any problems send me a pm

I expect to see lots of photos :lol:
no excuses now!

Peter
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