dozy:
It’s irrelevant what he was asked , he gets £800 pw in his wage packet , it’s his money to spend on what he wants , it doesn’t state on any pay slip I’ve ever seen what you can spend night out money / meal allowance / fuel bonus on / it just says net £800 , so never mind what this lot say , he’s got paid £800 & he can do what he likes with it , it’s his wage
It’s a [zb] joke , he’s got £800 in his pay packet , and there saying no he’s only got £700 , mind boggling ,
doze mate, it’s you who doesn’t get it.
Nobody is disputing it’s YOUR money to do wtf you want with it, housekeeping, years supply of smarties, or whiskey and whores.
Thing is whether you like it or not it’s expenses, it’s subsidence.
The point I was making (as an idiot, cheers for that btw 
) is that firms deliberately add POTENTIAL (and maximum 
) expenses trying to pass them off as wages to make a job more attractive,.and even as a ‘selling point’…don’t fall into their trap.
So then you get the teararse, maxing out , 5 nights out a week crew boasting about their ‘good money’ ( although 9 times out of 10 these clowns only turn their crap hourly rate into what they see as ‘good money’ because they work every ■■■■ hour they possibly can,.) they include their expenses forgetting they have been away from home 5 days out of their 7 to get them, and a good proportion, ie exs, depends on that ‘good money’.
Anyway…But back to the point…
So you start your new job first week collect your 800 notes, everybody.s happy.
Then next week, or a week or two after,.when you are just used to that 800 as your ‘wage’, lo and behold…no nights out, things are deathly quiet, you are home every night…
So do you get your 5 nights out in your attractive WAGE?..
Do you ■■■■, because the 800 you were ‘promised’ in the advert includes POTENTIAL exs.
Subsistence originates from the days of getting subsidised, (or even fully reimbursed) for getting digs, you either got your digs, or cabbed it over the engine cover,or in summer under the sheet and kept your expenses, then sleeper cabs came over here and the job changed.
You like me are old enough to remember when we got paid cash, in those days my night out money cash was my pocket money,.the rest was for housekeeping etc, but with the advent of direct payment through BACS and where we now use debit cards, it all goes in the same pot,.and I draw pocket money as and when, like everyone else.
But 80 ish quid of that is STILL my 3 nights out EXS…but to do what I want with it.
So as I said,.all gets paid to you, you can call it or consider it what you like… but technically, even literally it AINT your wage.
Hope that explains the view of ‘‘an idiot’’
