weerab84:
Thanks guys. Realised I’m not just giving up a job, I’m giving up garentees holidays paid for cpc class, 2 weeks full paternity leave(which I will need soon) job security and 6 months sick pay at full rate. I ride a motorbike so that last ones important! I’m going to register and try and get some shifts with the agency during my holidays
For the reasons you have stated above, stay where you are…the grass ain’t always greener.
By all means keep a look out for permanent class 1 jobs, or maybe even class 2 with the prospect of moving up.
The last thing you want to be doing with a lil’un on the way is giving up a guaranteed income, in favour of…well…“not” a guaranteed income.
weerab84:
Thanks guys. Realised I’m not just giving up a job, I’m giving up garentees holidays paid for cpc class, 2 weeks full paternity leave(which I will need soon) job security and 6 months sick pay at full rate. I ride a motorbike so that last ones important! I’m going to register and try and get some shifts with the agency during my holidays
Sounds like a plan,take what the agency say with a huge sack of salt.
I was on a very good, but very boring tramping job in 03/04. Taking well over 600 a week, and a mate of mine convinced me that agencies were the way forward. I had 8 months of between £800 and £1k in the bank, paye, every week. It was the best year ever for agency work. They had a pay structure that meant you were on the rates set by the first hour of your shift. Needless to say, I used to start at 0000 Sunday morning, do a 14 3/4 hour shift so I could start again at 2345, earning £25 an hour, over £700 for the first 2 days!! After that the eu widened and the poles came and did the same for less than half
£36,000 WOW! You have picked a winner there, please come back and tell us how it goes I am on agency and was told to do this nice short shift for the week on nights. Did the first one last night and already tonights has been cancelled “but we are trying to find you something else” BTW this is common across agencies! So she has just called back and could not get me anything for tonight to replace the shift I lost BUT by some miracle has managed to get me back on days tomorrow! It is over 1 hour commute, for £9 ph, class 2 multi drop for poundworld. How fantastic is that? Anyway I felt so guilty taking such a dream job from a younger driver who may only have a class two licence so I refused and said I would let someone trying to support a family do it and I will take the rest of the week off
I am in exactly the same position as you bud. Stick to what you know best a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.take the class one experience every other weekend… you have it on your license no rush…
Olog- I was also surprised at the duration of limp response. Maybe they were all busy doing the crap shifts that are available to ‘suit’ their lifestyle.
Looks like some have taken my advice though. A handful of gravel has been stolen from my garden path.
eagerbeaver:
Olog- I was also surprised at the duration of limp response. Maybe they were all busy doing the crap shifts that are available to ‘suit’ their lifestyle.
Looks like some have taken my advice though. A handful of gravel has been stolen from my garden path.
I reckon remon has either fallen out with tingtong the tiebride[[all agency men have got one]]or lost his flashing blue earpiece while rooting through the lockers of a fulltimers unit
seth 70:
I reckon remon has either fallen out with tingtong the tiebride[[all agency men have got one]]or lost his flashing blue earpiece while rooting through the lockers of a fulltimers unit
Tiebride from tieland as opposed to Thailand spelt like a true professional.
seth 70:
I reckon remon has either fallen out with tingtong the tiebride[[all agency men have got one]]or lost his flashing blue earpiece while rooting through the lockers of a fulltimers unit
Tiebride from tieland as opposed to Thailand spelt like a true professional.
Life’s a gamble! If you don’t try to better yourself, you’ll never know if it was the right move or not. Give it a go, after all it sounds like your current company value you and so will definitely take you back, should it not work out.
