Change of life circumstances a few years back and I chucked my job and went on agency, landed what I consider a good number, mostly day to day bookings, but very occasionally booked for a week or more at a time. Sometimes I get cancelled at short notice (but not short, short), sometimes I get a call in the morning asking me to go to one of the firm’s sites ASAP, swings and roundabouts. I could earn more doing other stuff, but quite like the job and a few years in there’s not much I don’t know about.
My ‘forte’ is that I’m more than happy to work out of the firm’s most distant site (roughly an hour’s drive from their main base), it would be a good screw for any of their employed drivers as they’d get both a fuel allowance along with paid travelling time when needed to cover sickness/ holidays, but for whatever reason around 80% of the time it’s agency used to cover, more often than not me and/or one other.
I’ve been sounded out as to whether I’d be interested in going over as full time out of that site, rough calculations say that I’d be doing 20k a year mileage in my car, fine if I still get the fuel allowance (as I do now) and even better if I’d also get the travelling pay (which I don’t), together they’ll add up to a decent sum. It could potentially make me the highest paid driver on the firm and that’s without the plentiful overtime available at various times of the year.
If it is offered with their current terms and conditions then financially I’d be stupid not to take it, but how does that stand with the rest of the workforce? Is there going to be a jealousy/ tension build up? No idea if this is being/ has been offered internally, but going on the refusal from so many to travel as holiday/sick cover over recent years it’s probably irrelevant, but obviously won’t stop moaning that I’m getting what they’re not regardless of the fact that they won’t do it in the first place.
they can only judge a man, once they’ve walked a mile in his shoes. 
chin up, chest out and pull your buttocks in! 
