Bikemonkey:
you do get deducted 45 minutes each day which I found ridiculous as it was the first company I’d worked for that did this. :
I think this is a Norfolk thing, every company I’d worked for (where I was hourly paid) did this til I worked on staff at Frans Maas(great Yarmouth) in 2004. I then worked for 2 more Norfolk based companies, but neither on hourly pay.
Bikemonkey:
Jack Richards have just had a pay rise, :
Is this pay rise since Easter, that’s when I was told what the current rate of pay is. I doubt that the rise is any where in the region of 30 odd percent, which it would need to be, to make it worth My while not too drive past their door every Monday morning, for a week of tramping from Peterborough.
Bikemonkey:
Another thing that puts people off is working every other Saturday but they do have pretty much every combination of hour’s that you could possibly work like 4 on 4 off, nights, Tuesday-Saturday, Friday- Wednesday etc to suit how you want to work.
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I think an issue for many, is that they pay every 4 weeks. Why cant they either pay per calendar month or weekly. After all, most off your bills are either weekly or monthly.
I don’t think that Saturday work is an issue, I work nearly every other Saturday, though quite often its only a few hours running in.
Bikemonkey:
I now work for a farmer on walking floors, left alone, money is very good in my opinion. There are some pretty good jobs up here if you are prepared to look.
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I must admit, I have stopped looking locally. When I was looking to move away from last employer in Felixstowe, I didn’t look that hard locally, as I’d become so disillusioned with what I believed to be the local offering, gained through hear say from mates and former colleagues.
Bikemonkey:
The money maybe isn’t as high as in London but the cost of property up here is cheaper and so are rents. It costs me about £400-500 a month less in rent than it would of cost me if I’d stayed in West Sussex and I earn more now than I would be earning if id stayed at Maritime without the pressure and stress and the running in most weeks on a Saturday.
Yep that is probably true, someone I know, still rents in Norfolk, but works down Tonbridge way, rents a room in a pub for each week, still better off than rent down there.
But I don’t understand why someone would tramp for £150 or so a week less, when for the cost off £20-£30 in fuel, they could achieve that higher level off income, doing a similar job(tramping)