truckyboy:
And to think an agency in my local rag, is advertising for class 1 @ £16 an hour, just doing trailer swaps, start time at midday onwards, and i`m still thinking about it, well i dont wanna rush going back to work, and the ol woman says, i shouldnt even bother, but i might just ignore her this once.
Which rag would that be?
I live in Chatham. 
stevieboy308:
Winseer:
…and yet those who reject such pay & conditions, accepting benefits instead - get slagged off.
To stand temporarily unemployed rather than accept duff T&Cs is a bit like being on strike, standing at the picket line. You get zero pay, you’re still out in the cold and wet, and you might even get some kind of respect (at least from rank and file fellow workers!) for not taking whatever forced you out on strike lying down. How much longer then I wonder will it be until standing down becomes the new “on strike”?Never pay to go to work - ever.
and they deserve the slagging off and more. i’ve turned down enough work when i was on agency due to low rate, rate v distance to get there, rate v daft o’clock starts, but i then didn’t tootle off cap in hand getting everyone else to top my money up.
when it was quiet after christmas and i’d be sat at home for a few weeks with little or no work, i didn’t claim anything, i liked working on agency with the better hourly rate and i knew that was part of the gig, if i’d wanted work i would be very confident at the time i could’ve got a employed job on a lower rate, but i didn’t want that, so it was my choice so claiming was the last thing on my mind. however, if i was on agency and it went quiet and i was trying to find work anywhere and everywhere but nothing was happening then i wouldn’t like it in the slightest, but i would be claiming.
Have you had a skinfull?
Either that, or my own drink must have been spiked, because I just don’t get what you are saying there… You make it sound like it’s hip to waste all your money on futile job hunts, but unhip to sit on your arse in January, and save some overhead costs whilst you know there’s nowt to be had out there.
I intend to spend next January either drawing down my holiday pot, and/or doing my 35 hours DCPC in one hit whilst it’s quiet…
If I can get a single day’s work in a week, I won’t be signing on - period. I didn’t last year at all, but I did January 2011 because I’d only just started with my current agency at the time, and had no holiday pot built up to get me by. During this period, I turned my nose up at two jobs, one a 4 night out tramper for £480 a week, the other £500 a week for 75 hours doing pallet runs. Too many hours - both of them, and for what? A very basic level of pay to boot. 
“Man doth not live by bread alone.”
It takes a lot more than six pound something per hour darn sarth that’s for sure.
global:
A job is a job, any job is better than no job… right!?Imagine this scenario as an example, hand-balling/grafting 8 hrs a day and going home shattered after every shift with £40.
Would you do this?
Whether you would or not, why/why not?
global.
£40 takehome for an 8 hour shift after tax/ins is about right for minimum wage for anyone under 25.
its ■■■■ I know but thats what employers want…cheap labour
truckyboy:
And to think an agency in my local rag, is advertising for class 1 @ £16 an hour, just doing trailer swaps, start time at midday onwards, and i`m still thinking about it, well i dont wanna rush going back to work, and the ol woman says, i shouldnt even bother, but i might just ignore her this once.
Oh Bob, you really should know better at your age! Or have you gone senile now? 
