Downton, poor poor pay

Reef:

the nodding donkey:
Most driving jobs in South Wales are around £8ph.

Exactly, I wouldn’t expect London wages here in Swansea, but then I wouldn’t expect the house prices, rents, C Tax, petrol or food costs of London either!

That was exactly my point.

What’s one man’s poor pay, is another man’s healthy wedge.

When I briefly went on agency around 8 yrs ago I was on 9 quid an hour days, Mon to Fri.
Afaik the going agency rate is still only about 10 quid Mon to Fri in my area.

My mate who does Sundays on agency is on 12 an hour.
He was just saying the other day, he goes up to Glasgow with a twin deck, with all the reponsibility of a large vehicle, valuable load, and potential carnage if things went ■■■■ up, and the guy who tips him on a pallet barrow is on 14 pound an hour. :smiley:
Just sums this industry up eh? :unamused:

robroy:
When I briefly went on agency around 8 yrs ago I was on 9 quid an hour days, Mon to Fri.
Afaik the going agency rate is still only about 10 quid Mon to Fri in my area.

My mate who does Sundays on agency is on 12 an hour.
He was just saying the other day, he goes up to Glasgow with a twin deck, with all the reponsibility of a large vehicle, valuable load, and potential carnage if things went ■■■■ up, and the guy who tips him on a pallet barrow is on 14 pound an hour. :smiley:
Just sums this industry up eh? :unamused:

To be fair your mate most probably does more hours than the warehouse bods they probably average 8/9 hours? your mate may do 10 hours plus per day so would be on better pay hours allowing? i stand to be corrected mind :wink:
I must admit the “extras” on this advert don’t look great as already said £5 won’t get you much nowadays but as already said depends what the actual job involves graft wise!

I guess we all would like a better wage but not always easy or realistic unfortunately

RB84:

robroy:
When I briefly went on agency around 8 yrs ago I was on 9 quid an hour days, Mon to Fri.
Afaik the going agency rate is still only about 10 quid Mon to Fri in my area.

My mate who does Sundays on agency is on 12 an hour.
He was just saying the other day, he goes up to Glasgow with a twin deck, with all the reponsibility of a large vehicle, valuable load, and potential carnage if things went ■■■■ up, and the guy who tips him on a pallet barrow is on 14 pound an hour. :smiley:
Just sums this industry up eh? :unamused:

To be fair your mate most probably does more hours than the warehouse bods they probably average 8/9 hours? your mate may do 10 hours plus per day so would be on better pay hours allowing? i stand to be corrected mind :wink:
I must admit the “extras” on this advert don’t look great as already said £5 won’t get you much nowadays but as already said depends what the actual job involves graft wise!

I guess we all would like a better wage but not always easy or realistic unfortunately

Yeh but that is where this job turned to crap mate when thick drivers rolled over and bent over at the same time (admittedlly clever :smiley: ) and handed back on a plate the 40 hours plus time and a half that we were on, for time right through at a extra rate, or time and a ■■■■ pound after 50 hours and such crap. :bulb:

Yeh maybe he does work more hours but how is that a good thing when it is the same rate right through, and in comparison when barrow boy is on 21 quid for every hour after 8.■■

That is why i laugh at some drivers who say they are on ‘‘good money’’ yeh the end figure is good but you have worked a week and a half to earn it in comparison to other industries.
Don’t get me ■■■■ started. :laughing:

Our warehouse ops are on £7 an hour.

robroy:

RB84:

robroy:
When I briefly went on agency around 8 yrs ago I was on 9 quid an hour days, Mon to Fri.
Afaik the going agency rate is still only about 10 quid Mon to Fri in my area.

My mate who does Sundays on agency is on 12 an hour.
He was just saying the other day, he goes up to Glasgow with a twin deck, with all the reponsibility of a large vehicle, valuable load, and potential carnage if things went ■■■■ up, and the guy who tips him on a pallet barrow is on 14 pound an hour. :smiley:
Just sums this industry up eh? :unamused:

To be fair your mate most probably does more hours than the warehouse bods they probably average 8/9 hours? your mate may do 10 hours plus per day so would be on better pay hours allowing? i stand to be corrected mind :wink:
I must admit the “extras” on this advert don’t look great as already said £5 won’t get you much nowadays but as already said depends what the actual job involves graft wise!

I guess we all would like a better wage but not always easy or realistic unfortunately

Yeh but that is where this job turned to crap mate when thick drivers rolled over and bent over at the same time (admittedlly clever :smiley: ) and handed back on a plate the 40 hours plus time and a half that we were on, for time right through at a extra rate, or time and a [zb] pound after 50 hours and such crap. :bulb:

Yeh maybe he does work more hours but how is that a good thing when it is the same rate right through, and in comparison when barrow boy is on 21 quid for every hour after 8.■■

That is why i laugh at some drivers who say they are on ‘‘good money’’ yeh the end figure is good but you have worked a week and a half to earn it in comparison to other industries.
Don’t get me [zb] started. :laughing:

That’s what I can’t get through to my mate,he says he is on great money buddies 70 odd hours and out all week.he blows his night out money down the road anyway then brags when he is taking £100 a week home more than me…Iv done 10 less hours and no nights out or just the odd one :confused:

commonrail2:
Our warehouse ops are on £7 an hour.

Not if they are 25 or over they’re not.

Not legally anyway! acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1902

Is’nt it the living wage that is £7.20?

Minimum wage is now £7.20 unless you’re the Romanians at where I have just tipped at.
A whopping £18 a day!!

Oh right.

ROBROY and anyone else who cares to listen haa ha!
I get what your saying about the 40hr week plus overtime thing but I think its unfortunately just the times we live in maybe workers not just drivers ,don’t drive myself, do collectively bend over and take what we’re given there probably is much more of an i’m alright Jack attitude lately.
But one point I made was that the work involved should be taken into account to as if the jobs a steady easy day some would say its easy money even with the long hours that go with driving as not much physical graft will be seen as a bonus to some.

albion:
£9.00 an hour is pretty poor for driving an artic when I pay not far off that for van drivers and actually pay more on the weekends.

There’s also the possibilty that being a tramping job they deliberately haven’t calculated a wage relevant to the local area.IE they might be offering a wage which isn’t intended to apply to those living locally but someone living in a cheaper area commuting on an obviously not often basis. :bulb:

Surely any driver getting paid for 70+ hours a week every week is not actually “working” for every one of those hours? More than a few of them will be spent either tossing it off on the bunk (oo-er) or watching the paint dry in a “drivers’ waiting room”.

Carryfast:

albion:
£9.00 an hour is pretty poor for driving an artic when I pay not far off that for van drivers and actually pay more on the weekends.

There’s also the possibilty that being a tramping job they deliberately haven’t calculated a wage relevant to the local area.IE they might be offering a wage which isn’t intended to apply to those living locally but someone living in a cheaper area commuting on an obviously not often basis. :bulb:

Possibly, unlike a brickie for example, accommodation is taken care of if you are guaranteed being out. Two of mine live around 200 miles away from base and commute once a week.

yorkshire terrier:
That’s what I can’t get through to my mate,he says he is on great money buddies 70 odd hours and out all week.he blows his night out money down the road anyway then brags when he is taking £100 a week home more than me…Iv done 10 less hours and no nights out or just the odd one :confused:

It’s all still apples and oranges though isn’t it? Yorkshire Terrier thinks he’s better off. But so does his mate. They can’t both be right, right?! Or can they?

If you’re happy and so is your mate then everything is good in the world. Who cares what the others T&Cs are really?

My sister earns 10k-15k a year less than me, gets paid £0 overtime, works 10 hours a week less than me. But she can find time to hit the gym twice a day, but not cook her own dinner. I can afford a house, but she can only rent. I have a nice second hand car that’s 6 years old, she has a brand new car. Whose happier? I don’t know really, I don’t know who is “winning” either.

All I know is that I’m happy and I’ve never met anyone who I could directly compare my circumstances to.

F-reds:

yorkshire terrier:
That’s what I can’t get through to my mate,he says he is on great money buddies 70 odd hours and out all week.he blows his night out money down the road anyway then brags when he is taking £100 a week home more than me…Iv done 10 less hours and no nights out or just the odd one :confused:

It’s all still apples and oranges though isn’t it? Yorkshire Terrier thinks he’s better off. But so does his mate. They can’t both be right, right?! Or can they?

If you’re happy and so is your mate then everything is good in the world. Who cares what the others T&Cs are really?

My sister earns 10k-15k a year less than me, gets paid £0 overtime, works 10 hours a week less than me. But she can find time to hit the gym twice a day, but not cook her own dinner. I can afford a house, but she can only rent. I have a nice second hand car that’s 6 years old, she has a brand new car. Whose happier? I don’t know really, I don’t know who is “winning” either.

All I know is that I’m happy and I’ve never met anyone who I could directly compare my circumstances to.

Well if you want to ensure she’s losing, give her my number! :grimacing:

Evil8Beezle:

F-reds:

yorkshire terrier:
That’s what I can’t get through to my mate,he says he is on great money buddies 70 odd hours and out all week.he blows his night out money down the road anyway then brags when he is taking £100 a week home more than me…Iv done 10 less hours and no nights out or just the odd one :confused:

It’s all still apples and oranges though isn’t it? Yorkshire Terrier thinks he’s better off. But so does his mate. They can’t both be right, right?! Or can they?

If you’re happy and so is your mate then everything is good in the world. Who cares what the others T&Cs are really?

My sister earns 10k-15k a year less than me, gets paid £0 overtime, works 10 hours a week less than me. But she can find time to hit the gym twice a day, but not cook her own dinner. I can afford a house, but she can only rent. I have a nice second hand car that’s 6 years old, she has a brand new car. Whose happier? I don’t know really, I don’t know who is “winning” either.

All I know is that I’m happy and I’ve never met anyone who I could directly compare my circumstances to.

Well if you want to ensure she’s losing, give her my number! :grimacing:

I heard you lot from Southampton have 3 feet and somewhere between 17-26 toes…

I don’t need that in my familial future, she’ll have to pass :laughing:

I’m not quite 3’, but not far off! :wink:

Carryfast:

albion:
£9.00 an hour is pretty poor for driving an artic when I pay not far off that for van drivers and actually pay more on the weekends.

There’s also the possibilty that being a tramping job they deliberately haven’t calculated a wage relevant to the local area.IE they might be offering a wage which isn’t intended to apply to those living locally but someone living in a cheaper area commuting on an obviously not often basis. :bulb:

Looking on their website another advert for tramping in Leeds was exactly the same so possibly what they pay nationwide?
as others have said though will suit some people!

really bugs me when companies expect or would like you to work Saturdays,i have been asked to work Saturdays and allways refuse,[unless its in the contract]as I have said before you need Saturday to do the things you need to do,sundays to relax,so when Monday comes along again you are refreshed ready for another week.