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19 February 2015, 11:29 PM
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I've got 2 houses to pay for and an ex wife...doing 0 hours per week at the moment and going crackers :-(
19 February 2015, 11:34 PM
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Otherwise normally 24 hours a day as a lawyer! Bloody clients :-)
20 February 2015, 10:21 AM
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20 February 2015, 11:51 AM
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42.5 hours a week, and get insulted 24th of every month. wages are so ****e i actually get more ctc than wages, and last time i worked it out only £73.00 a month better off working. good effort mr cammoron the uk taxpayer is sponsering the company i work for . deluded asshat wonders why people can't be bothered to work. mine you commercialization and greed are the reason there are so many unemployed or employed on ****e wages, company buy's a machine to do the job of 6 men only needs 1 to work it, 5 on the dole then the company takes the cost of said machine off it's tax bill because it's classed as capital investment, makes you wonder who run's HMRC the goverment or industry
20 February 2015, 12:05 PM
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Sorry to confuse...
That figure did NOT INCLUDE the actual public holidays (only ones from my personal allowance which, for 2015/6, includes 5 which we MUST take at Christmas i.e. between Boxing Day and New Years).
If you add the actual public holidays (for 2015) to that 27, then it comes to 34.
So to be clear:
For 2015...
Personal allowance: 22 - can take any days off
Again, Personal allowance: 5 - mandatory days set aside for the days sandwiched in between the Christmas break:
24 Dec, Christmas Eve (Thu)
29 Dec (Tue)
30 Dec (Wed)
31 Dec, New Year's Eve (Thu)
1 Jan, New Year's Day (Fri)
Public holidays: 7
3 April, Good Friday
6 April, Easter Monday
4 May, Early May bank holiday
25 May, Spring bank holiday (Mon)
31 August, Summer bank holiday (Mon)
25 December, Christmas Day (Fri)
28 December, Boxing Day (Mon - substitute day, because Boxing Day falls on a Sat)
27 (22+5) personal + 7 public = 34 total
Hope that makes it clearer now?
That figure did NOT INCLUDE the actual public holidays (only ones from my personal allowance which, for 2015/6, includes 5 which we MUST take at Christmas i.e. between Boxing Day and New Years).
If you add the actual public holidays (for 2015) to that 27, then it comes to 34.
So to be clear:
For 2015...
Personal allowance: 22 - can take any days off
Again, Personal allowance: 5 - mandatory days set aside for the days sandwiched in between the Christmas break:
24 Dec, Christmas Eve (Thu)
29 Dec (Tue)
30 Dec (Wed)
31 Dec, New Year's Eve (Thu)
1 Jan, New Year's Day (Fri)
Public holidays: 7
3 April, Good Friday
6 April, Easter Monday
4 May, Early May bank holiday
25 May, Spring bank holiday (Mon)
31 August, Summer bank holiday (Mon)
25 December, Christmas Day (Fri)
28 December, Boxing Day (Mon - substitute day, because Boxing Day falls on a Sat)
27 (22+5) personal + 7 public = 34 total
Hope that makes it clearer now?
Last edited by joz8968; 20 February 2015 at 05:41 PM.
20 February 2015, 04:29 PM
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I have to work 22 hours a week and some on call work every two weeks. Anything beyond this is up to me and whether I want/need more money. So I can't complain as I'm alright Jack
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
20 February 2015, 04:58 PM
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I have to work 22 hours a week and some on call work every two weeks. Anything beyond this is up to me and whether I want/need more money. So I can't complain as I'm alright Jack
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
20 February 2015, 09:06 PM
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We get paid by the hour + bonus for the day + bonus for cleaning our own lorries(once a week) + time and half for weekends,
Some of our drivers do a few nights out in the week and do some distance and they pull in some serious money, but they work hard for it.
The gaffers leave you alone as long as your works done, and Ive been there 8 years and most of the drivers are the same ones from when I started, so it shows that they get looked after(even if there are some that still moan).
Some of our drivers do a few nights out in the week and do some distance and they pull in some serious money, but they work hard for it.
The gaffers leave you alone as long as your works done, and Ive been there 8 years and most of the drivers are the same ones from when I started, so it shows that they get looked after(even if there are some that still moan).
(y)I think I've seen my gaffer 6 times this year, I think I saw him 6 times last year.
20 February 2015, 09:12 PM
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I have to work 22 hours a week and some on call work every two weeks. Anything beyond this is up to me and whether I want/need more money. So I can't complain as I'm alright Jack
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
I did spend many years working up to 90 hours a week for a pittance, luckily those days are behind me.
21 February 2015, 07:34 AM
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Reading through this thread it would be interesting to know:
How the average working week for those who are self employed stacks up against the average working week of those on PAYE jobs in the private sector and again how they compare to the average working week of those in the public sector.
Somehow I think I probably already know the answer, but it would be nice to have my suspicions confirmed!
How the average working week for those who are self employed stacks up against the average working week of those on PAYE jobs in the private sector and again how they compare to the average working week of those in the public sector.
Somehow I think I probably already know the answer, but it would be nice to have my suspicions confirmed!
21 February 2015, 08:24 AM
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When I was a wage slave prior to going self employed it was good for a few years, then I became dis-illusioned because I was making sh1tloads of money for someone else and not receiving a fraction of what was being made off my back.
As was normal for me at most of the places I worked I was more productive, none of my jobs came back AND I always ended up being sent out to sort other peoples **** ups that were on the same pay as me.
To add insult to injury the last **** I worked for had a bonus system that favoured installation over service calls, on top of that 2nd service calls made zero bonus and yep you guessed it I'd always get sent out AFTER muppet that installed it had had a go at sorting it so no bonus for me, something that eventually led to me telling the boss and his gobshyte wife to go **** themselves.
When I went self employed it was hard for the first 12 months as I had to get a decent vehicle and a load of tools, but once the work started coming in the pressure eased off.
I was mostly making good money for 2yrs around a grand a week which was what it needed to be to pay myself a decent wage and run the car as well as pay for consumables etc.
My biggest problem with it was holidays and working hours, the prices started to fall as more guys jumped on the band wagon, add to that a couple of companies I was subbing to being late payers or trying to find any excuse not to pay and I soon decided that sometimes it's better not to even leave the house as I was better off not spending £50 on fuel working all day to be £50 up and wait 3/6months to get that £50.
I was doing a Tracker at Vodafones local office and the engineering manager came out had a chat looked at my work, knew my rep from one of his team leaders (who spotted me in the car park) and made me an offer I couldn't refuse, £30k, 6 weeks holiday, car of my choice, final salary pension and a promotion after 3 months, was a no brainer.
Still fcuked it off though after 600 free shares and pension qualification of course.
I'm basically un employable, I hate being told what to do by **** licking arseholes.
As was normal for me at most of the places I worked I was more productive, none of my jobs came back AND I always ended up being sent out to sort other peoples **** ups that were on the same pay as me.
To add insult to injury the last **** I worked for had a bonus system that favoured installation over service calls, on top of that 2nd service calls made zero bonus and yep you guessed it I'd always get sent out AFTER muppet that installed it had had a go at sorting it so no bonus for me, something that eventually led to me telling the boss and his gobshyte wife to go **** themselves.
When I went self employed it was hard for the first 12 months as I had to get a decent vehicle and a load of tools, but once the work started coming in the pressure eased off.
I was mostly making good money for 2yrs around a grand a week which was what it needed to be to pay myself a decent wage and run the car as well as pay for consumables etc.
My biggest problem with it was holidays and working hours, the prices started to fall as more guys jumped on the band wagon, add to that a couple of companies I was subbing to being late payers or trying to find any excuse not to pay and I soon decided that sometimes it's better not to even leave the house as I was better off not spending £50 on fuel working all day to be £50 up and wait 3/6months to get that £50.
I was doing a Tracker at Vodafones local office and the engineering manager came out had a chat looked at my work, knew my rep from one of his team leaders (who spotted me in the car park) and made me an offer I couldn't refuse, £30k, 6 weeks holiday, car of my choice, final salary pension and a promotion after 3 months, was a no brainer.
Still fcuked it off though after 600 free shares and pension qualification of course.
I'm basically un employable, I hate being told what to do by **** licking arseholes.
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21 February 2015, 11:29 AM
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Reading through this thread it would be interesting to know:
How the average working week for those who are self employed stacks up against the average working week of those on PAYE jobs in the private sector and again how they compare to the average working week of those in the public sector.
Somehow I think I probably already know the answer, but it would be nice to have my suspicions confirmed!
How the average working week for those who are self employed stacks up against the average working week of those on PAYE jobs in the private sector and again how they compare to the average working week of those in the public sector.
Somehow I think I probably already know the answer, but it would be nice to have my suspicions confirmed!
It doesn't matter what anybody says, you'll always find a way to self confirm your own suspicions anyway.
21 February 2015, 02:57 PM
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21 February 2015, 04:03 PM
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I can't believe some of these working weeks !
I have done a working week in a "day" offshore - Shifts are continuous for specific operations , so you are there until its complete .
No extra pay mind you.
I have done a working week in a "day" offshore - Shifts are continuous for specific operations , so you are there until its complete .
No extra pay mind you.
21 February 2015, 05:16 PM
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He'll now post some load of bluster about how that's not the case blah blah blah 
C'est la vie!
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21 February 2015, 09:23 PM
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Being brutally frank Ditch It's genuinely not a case of resisting it, it's a case of that is exactly how it is! Most of his posts are baiting and nothing more! It's trolling really, but who cares! Sometimes I rise to it, sometimes I don't. On this thread I just thought I'd give him a taste of his own medicine just with a bit more subtlety than he can manage... worked a treat He'll now post some load of bluster about how that's not the case blah blah blah C'est la vie!
He'll now post some load of bluster about how that's not the case blah blah blah C'est la vie!Time of the month is it Duchess?
22 February 2015, 07:08 PM
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Nightmare.
Why do employers think your life is work,yea have business to run,but we didn't sign up to work before the sun rises and leave late evening.
Stuck me two fingers up to the lot of it,I take time off when I basically want now,unpaid of course.
Weeks away from home working 12/15 hour days ask to leave early or day off,get looked at like I committed murder.
Nah thanks is not for me anymore.
Why do employers think your life is work,yea have business to run,but we didn't sign up to work before the sun rises and leave late evening.
Stuck me two fingers up to the lot of it,I take time off when I basically want now,unpaid of course.
Weeks away from home working 12/15 hour days ask to leave early or day off,get looked at like I committed murder.
Nah thanks is not for me anymore.
23 February 2015, 02:08 PM
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Exactly, I've done some menial jobs in my early years, worst being a pound an hour and 60 hours a week. I now do 40 hours a week for above the national average wage, but I guess it also depends on what industry you work in too.
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