You can always get your tax back , well in time you can,Originally Posted by Slip
Lots of major companies will get there staff from agencies that way they can have a small contract and after so long get rid of that person and get another one.
Some say this is wrong but lets face it what would you do if you could get away with it.
I am so glad i am not in that situation any more, and think on not much longer to be in work either
Well I start another job tomorrow. Four days training at £7.50p/h. Then start shifts after.
Apparently it's £9.53 p/h if I do nights 11pm-7am.
It's only temporary up to Christmas, but it could become permanent.
Better working than at home and going out spending money I'm not earning!
Where is that, if you dont mind me asking
M&S distribution centre @ Castle Donnington.
Around 9 miles drive for me.
Thats a very large building, and lots of agency workers that are working there too.
Have you tried UPS or DHL at the airport,
We live only a few miles from there also, once you have settled in your house, give us a shout and maybe do a meet i bet the wives will enjoy a good old chat
Best of luck with it mate... foot in the door.
I had a call this afternoon about an interview in Aylesbury next wednesday. Sod's law right... I took a short notice booking in hospital for an operation next wednesday too. Luckily the agency guy has rearranged for Tuesday. Fingers crossed.
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
good luck with the Op and the interview..
Good luck to you also Steve !
good luck with the Op and the interview..Thank you bothGood luck to you also Steve !
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
BEST of luck ... hopefully, this job will lead to a more permanent arrangement.
Likewise to you, Steve ... on BOTH counts.
Good luck Steve on both of them
Keep looking, and maybe temporary work will lead to something better once you get more local contacts.
I have been made redundant 3 times over the years, and not always at good economic times. You have to keep plugging and things will come good in the end. It is often being in the right place/talking to the right network contact etc. That gets you that role you want.
Good luck next Tuesday Steve.
Did your parents ever manage to grow those trees BTW?
Thanks guys
Fred,
I just posted a couple of photos in the Plants from the Philippine thread, yes, they are still growing strong.
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....he-Philippines
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Well that was boring.
Started at 6.30am quick induction done by 7.45 than sat around until 10am until the trainer's were ready. Taught us how to lift boxes and move stuff with a pump truck. Also how to tape boxes up.
Then we finished at 12.30.
I start proper training tomorrow for 4 days.... Apparently 6.30-2.30.
Took me 30 minutes to drive this morning, those roads are dark around here. Was better coming home, just over 20.
Thats a good start Slip
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Indeed it is ...!
It was, but I was learning stuff I've been doing, and also teaching agency workers myself for the past so many years.
I didn't say anything though, didn't want to seem like billy big boll**ks from London who knows it all.
Very wise mate.
I took and passed my HGV back in the 1970s, but never used it in the UK.
Too much hard work for the money here.
Even those dump truck plant operators (which I also have a 'ticket'/licence for) are on about £11 an hour. Well they were.... of course the immigrants have probably knocked that down to about 4 quid now.
Well I quit M&S. Just wasn't right for me.
I lasted a week and decided I just couldn't put myself through another minute of it.
The job was mind numbingly boring..... I honestly was bored stiff for the whole time I was there each day. So although I've effectively shot myself in the foot by leaving before I got another job. I feel for the sake of sanity I've done the right thing.
Plus Harlene starts work Mondayonly in a nursing home, as and when they need her, but it's something. Plus she had an interview in Macdonald's yesterday. Told her she probably won't like it, but she wanted to go for it. As it's a guaranteed 20 hours a week as opposed to the nursing home.
If it wasn't for her visa FLR in August I'd go for any old job.... But must meet those bloody requirements!
Its just getting the right one that suit you.
We have a few drivers who have been with us for years the now there runs and job inside out, but if you have to change them they scream and shout " i am leaving ", and to tell th truth many have had jobs offered them at other driving companies.
But here is the "but", they are use to where they are , 10 even 20 years i the same job you are secure , leaving here well who knows what it will be like where you are going into .
Well I have a job interview Friday. Not through an agency either which is a good thing. Downside is the job advert didn't mention the rate of pay.
But the job sounds more like what I'm after, so hopefully the pay will be OK. Plus it's 30 seconds from where I was working at M&S the other week. So I know exactly how to get there and how long it will take.
Good luck, lots of places on the industrial estate to find work
Good luck slip
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
How are you getting on Steve with the searching
I had an interview last week, but haven't heard anything yet Steve. Still looking
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Well the interview went well. The warehouse manager had only been there since April and is trying to turn things around. He's looking for 2 teamleaders and 4 warehouseman. He said I was by far the best suited he had seen, but still had more to see that day and Monday, so it's possible he may see better.
He couldn't tell me the pay, but said if they offer me the job I will hear by middle next week and they will tell me the pay then. But he did say he believes it's either £7.71 or £8.81 p/h. Obviously if it was the lesser that isn't good enough. But I could possibly take it for £8.81. although it's 14p under what I worked out I need to meet Harlene's FLR requirements. I do have some savings in the bank. That may meet the shortfall.
Could there be any overtime to increase the total amount
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