Job offer

[DebsyDoo]

Hello everybody !

Just had a job offer from an agency (I've worked for in the past)

Electronics inspection work @ �8.20 p/h !!!

Are we stuck in a time warp or something ?

I was on that rate in 1990 !!!

What's going on ?

[Red-Dwarf]

Look up the words RECESSION and CREDIT CRUNCH

[pastafreak]

Errrr..credit crunch maybe.....still more than a lot make-me included. So be happy with what you can get.

[B00]

8.20 an hour???

I'll swap you for my 5.67 an hour then.

[DebsyDoo]

Yes, RD - but everything else has GONE UP !!??

Hi Pasta ! Yeah, I know what you're sayin' but it's like going back in time !
To think you can earn almost that much in McDonalds (or one of them) - with no particular skills (or personality half the time) req'd !

[cazzz1975]

you are not worth as much given that there are plenty of you on the dole now, they can pick and choose so they can offer whatever they like

[terambulan]

plenty of others will do it for less!

[DebsyDoo]

Yes, Cazz - providing you have the qualifications for the job in question !

[Red-Dwarf]

Check your fact sDebsy. No one at McDonalds earns �8.20/hr, unless yuo are a manager

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Employer=M cDonald's_Corp/Hourly_Rate

[cazzz1975]

yes, well I know a lot of qualified people who are on the dole, I used to do inspection unofficially in car manufacturing years ago, they were desperate to train anyone at the time.

[lindylou16]

Funnily enough i have just come back from an interview for a job of �5.71p/h. I tried to fail the interview.
"In this job we need someone who is responsible," the employer said to me.
"I'm your man I replied "On my last job, every time things went wrong, they said I was responsible" He completely ignored that answer so i asked for my CV back and and pretended to write.
I then asked him if there was one or two L's in bo!!oxs. He smiled and that will be all.

[DebsyDoo]

Perhaps I should've said that it was as self-employed RD, which means that after Tax & NI are taken out, along with the fact you don't get holiday or sick pay - it probably equates to much the same sort of pay ! (?)

[Red-Dwarf]

�5.71....�8.20...damn I should consider myself lucky at �13/hr

[doomey!]

Do not except the position for anything less than 8.21 an hour!

I once accepted a position for free.

[Red-Dwarf]

Well....there are certain positions I would do for free

[pastafreak]

� 5.67 B00....isn't that under the minium wage???? How do they get away with that???

[lankeela]

Try working out on the market in the pouring rain, freezing your t*ts off from 6 am till 3 o'clock, for �30 cash in hand. Still better than being stuck in an office with a load of t*ssers. And you can be rude to the *rseholes who want something for nothing.

[craft1948]

I'm sorry but I must live in another world as I think these pay rates are dreadful.............I pay my cleaner �7.50 and hour and feel guilty at that....

[DebsyDoo]

Exactly my point Craft !!

[doomey!]

Well seeing you have too much money, how about sharing it with some of us poor people? *grin*

[BilluSugger]

A friend of mine was getting �10 an hour , dinner paid , travelling expenses & signing on as well