Job 1: yard 10 mins from your Front door, big on Rules , - but leave you be on the whole. Lucky dip when comes to units, usually a different one every day.
Mon-Fri AVG 12 hour shifts, multi drop between 3-6 a day, all local within 30 mile radius, then 2-4 collections. Easy but boring work.
Job 2: 4 on 4 off with option to work 2 of your “days off” , usually 1 hit run and reload for the yard, promised same unit every day. Office seem a good bunch, left alone to get on with it. Occasionally pushed tight on hours though to avoid
the night out so you’d probably be advised to take a sleeping bag. 20 mins from home on an early start, but 45 plus if bad timing.
job 1 pays quite a bit more, job 2 gives more flex with planning holidays.
Job 1. 10 minutes from home reliably, no dramas with traffic hold ups which counteracts the fact that it is 12 hr shifts. Home every night so a reassonable family life even if the children may have gone to bed. Work in a 30 mile radius so you will know just about everywhere. Left alone to get on with the job. Easy work
Against: hot on rules. All you have to do is follow the rules, they will work against the company on occasions so make them live by their own rules. Different unit every day. So what? it belongs to the company not you, all you are really concerned about is its interior cleanliness and that it is legal - follow the rules, clean it out or book it off in favour of another one. How much of a hardship is it to refuel it top up the screenwash if it has been left empty or to wash the windows. Boring work. There are millions of people in boring jobs- particularly office, shop and factory workers at least you get out and about.
An old adage re complaints about being asked to do something you are not very keen on: " Are you being paid to do it? if not then you have something to complain about; if you are then what are you worrying about."
no2 is not 4/4 off , it’s 6/5 as you’ve already said there’s the option to work extra shifts , so it’s fairly obvious what your going to do
I’d do no1 as I’ve no interest in w/end work whatsoever
cav551:
Job 1. 10 minutes from home reliably, no dramas with traffic hold ups which counteracts the fact that it is 12 hr shifts. Home every night so a reassonable family life even if the children may have gone to bed. Work in a 30 mile radius so you will know just about everywhere. Left alone to get on with the job. Easy work
Against: hot on rules. All you have to do is follow the rules, they will work against the company on occasions so make them live by their own rules. Different unit every day. So what? it belongs to the company not you, all you are really concerned about is its interior cleanliness and that it is legal - follow the rules, clean it out or book it off in favour of another one. How much of a hardship is it to refuel it top up the screenwash if it has been left empty or to wash the windows. Boring work. There are millions of people in boring jobs- particularly office, shop and factory workers at least you get out and about.
An old adage re complaints about being asked to do something you are not very keen on: " Are you being paid to do it? if not then you have something to complain about; if you are then what are you worrying about."
Same here. Re: the last paragraph. There’s too many berks that get pee’d off about doing something that they’re getting paid for. As long as it’s not a ■■■■ take, where’s the problem?
The ‘different unit every shift’ thing is something much more to do with my OCD on cleanliness and my forgetfulness. Almost always lose an item a week from my day bag when cab hopping. Only ever done this job as a Tramper and so still adjusting to days life.
Option A seems like a no-brainer- now let’s consider that it’s a temp-perm agency role with a certain Yank company that took over a certain french company where I know their full timers are on pretty poor wages for the area.
It sounds like you’ve already made up your mind to chose 2) but fwiw I’d take 1) for reasons stated above. Still though - different people, different priorities/circumstances etc.