dozy:
Noremac:
Jobseeker’s Allowance is taxable, so it was your second job (probably). Or was this more about boasting about your weekly gross?
Boasting , tesco drivers doing 8 hrs a day earn more than me , moaster does , I know loads who do , I think it says more about your wages if you believe £1,000 pw is anything to write home about , it’s just a average weeks wage these days
Though this weeks gross at £2,500 ( including tax rebate ) is very welcome , my tax code is 1257 l if I remember right so you and your mates getting all bitter & twisted about my wage being higher tax brckt seem unfounded
Bitter & twisted is not a good look !!! , and begrudging a old man who’s worked for 50 yrs a decent wage is a even worse look , glad I’m not that sad !!
If I said that, I’d be accused of Bragging.
If I opposed that, I’d be accused of being “Bitter and Twisted” no doubt.
My suggestion is that everyone earning higher amounts that threaten to approach or exceed the next tax bracket - to lighten up a bit on the duties they do, I.e. do a bit less overtime.
…But maybe you can’t because that repayment mortgage you have - isn’t letting up anytime soon.
There’s supposed to be a recession coming - but looking at the amount of “Casual” traffic on the roads, - it looks, if anything - like the economy is overheating.
That’s bad news leading to FURTHER interest rate hikes to come…
How much longer will it be until a grand a week - simply doesn’t pay the bills anymore?
“Relative Poverty” we could call it.
Three years back, my mortgage payment was £108 a month. It’s now £736 a month, and there’s still the latest .25% rate hike to be factored into that. (Base rate tracker)
I don’t moan about that, as I knew what I was getting into when I signed up. BUT I DO worry that the economy isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, which it surely needs to by next year if we are to get a power shift as so many of us clearly want…
So far, the businesses going ■■■■-up have been the ones with too-high overheads (such as “Business Rates”) and too low “customer footfall” as the yanks call it.
Ultimately, there will be a big knock-on effect in the transport sector.
Went into Morrison’s RDC the other day… I’ve not been there since 2015.
The place looks like a post-apocalypse scene now! How delapidated it has become…
Gates not working, hanging off, falling down. Half the bays have pallets parked in front of them “out of order”.
Staff seem to be a load of foreigners jostling around in an office too small for the 20+ people in there.
No one manning the gatehouse, nor answering the com system.
No security in sight.
Is Morrisons on the verge of doing a Wilkos next I wonder?
“Not being able to pay their suppliers” was cited as the main reason Wilkos collapsed.
I don’t imagine that Morrisons even on Agency are the ones paying £1000 a week right now, even for the hated “any five from seven” shift patterns…
Not much good having “Job security” as a full-timer meanwhile, if your job you’ve taken a differential pay cut to keep - isn’t any safer than working on agency - is it?
I don’t begrudge those people coining it in right now - but beware the economic downturn when it comes.
You’ll need to manage your money better - in case you don’t get work for weeks at a time.
Full timers? - Might be shifted to some other yard, if work goes TOO quiet at the local depot you normally work out of.
John Lewis did this with Waitrose during the lockdown, meaning that their drivers didn’t get furloughed, just transfered to dogsbody fetch-and-carry jobs at other depots…
I’ve yet to see any full timer’s contracts that didn’t have some major restrictive downside built into them…
You all know about my aversion to “Any five from seven”, but others out there might not be happy to (for example) be forced to work across weeknds, never allowed to have “holidays” during “Holiday season”, and of course being constantly shifted from lates-nights-earlies - a real health-killer if ever there was one… 
