Currently working class 1 nights for a supermarket, but having kids has made me re-think my working hours etc. I feel like I’m missing out on them growing up so thought I’d look for some class 2 day work.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing advertised to be honest, class 2 jobs working any 5 over 7 (so basically working every weekend) paying £22k a year. The wages on offer seem to be getting increasingly lower. I see one advert for pallet work paying £100 a day and stating 12 hour days - that’s £8.33p per hour!! Might as well sit on a forklift without a care in the world for the same money.
The industry has gone bonkers
Not really.
There will always people that pay low it’s not just this industry.
One trolley pusher could be on minimum wage another could be on £11ph.
You can’t blame the employers for trying their luck by offering a low wage.
Anyway where are you based and what are you currently on or what do you need?
I’ve seen class 2 work that is 28k+ but dunno what’s considered a good wage by you.
Nichols:
Currently working class 1 nights for a supermarket, but having kids has made me re-think my working hours etc. I feel like I’m missing out on them growing up so thought I’d look for some class 2 day work.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing advertised to be honest, class 2 jobs working any 5 over 7 (so basically working every weekend) paying £22k a year. The wages on offer seem to be getting increasingly lower. I see one advert for pallet work paying £100 a day and stating 12 hour days - that’s £8.33p per hour!! Might as well sit on a forklift without a care in the world for the same money.
The industry has gone bonkers
Why don’t you stick to your supermarket work but ask for a different shift ? I work for a supermarket and you’re not pushed or forced to work long hours plus there’s always the option have changing shifts and the money is decent.
Not willy waving at all here, but there are good jobs with decent employers out there, they are just not advertised. I’m earning almost as much as I did tramping doing 12 hour days mostly on a rigid. Plus I have full sick pay, pension, private health care etc.
I had to be persistent to get the job and the recruitment process was difficult, which would put a lot of knuckle draggers off. Which is, I suspect, how they want it.
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but surely you’d get benefits , family allowance , family credits etc , I know we did even though we both worked full time ( paid for our hol as we didn’t need it , just saved it ) , know others who wouldn’t work over 30 hrs , others who stopped working o/t when benifits review was due .
maybe it’s changed from when we got them, as I say I know plenty who didn’t want to earn above a certain level as they were no better off than 30 hrs + benifits
Pay is on the floor at the moment because of the driver shortage. 
I earn more driving a class 2 48hr week in Basildon, than I did driving a class 1 52.5hr a week in London. I don’t do any nights out, no London work, and as long as I’ve made an effort, if the work ain’t done, I’m not pushed. And this job was advertised on Indeed.
The work is out there, as others have said, some not advertised, but it is out there.
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DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT LEAVE THE SUPERMARKET, speak to your manager and see if you can change your shift pattern.
You are not legally required to do more than your contracted hours, do it properly through the union and play your cards right and you could get out of weekend working as well, the sick lame and very lazy manage it at my place and the majority of them don’t have young children.
The for profit circus was finished 20 years ago all your benefits will be lost sick pay gone bonus gone overtime rate gone average hours holiday pay gone staff discount gone, do you really want to lose everything to p*** about in a job for minimum wage I don’t think so.
Have you put a flexible working request in? They need to give a business reason to say no and that can be appealed as well
You feel like your missing out on the kids growing up? sure if your working weekends, but doing nights? NAH
start at 0500 finish 1800, travel home in rush hour to what spend an hour or 2 with them?
start 1900, finish 0500, travel home, sleep wake up before then finish school all afternoon with them, before you go of to work! or if your the type that can live on 6 hours sleep, take them to school, then sleep and wake up before they get home.
my northen 2pence opinion!!!
Advertised pay you say, well the reason the jobs are advertised is because the pay is crap so no bugger wants to work there.
If you do want to leave then go find jobs which arn’t advertised, but the chances of you landing a prime job, and the shift pattern you want before you’ve been there a good while, are slim.
As Mike68, above, i’d be very reluctant to leave a decent paying supermarket job unless you find something either own account or very very special to replace it, almost certainly you will be worse off in all ways if you go work for a hire and reward operation.
04:00 C2 starts going begging at Aylesford - £29k.
Later starts, - £33k Jobs involving “bonded” and “cash collection” - £36k.
All C2 work, mostly 17t and 26t vehicles.