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Post by Guest on Jul 1, 2007 13:57:43 GMT
It's quite likely these receptionists are employed through an agency on a short term basis rather than being permanent staff. A company may want short term cover hence the high rates.
I've worked with plenty of people who do the same job as me but earn much more because they are agency. For example, the going rate for an experienced CAD technician (draughtsman as they used to be called) in the south east is about £35-40 per hour because there aren't enough people to do that job.
I agree everyone should have a go at doing something that deals with the public once in their working lives. I did 4 years in retail.
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Post by suncloud on Jul 1, 2007 14:09:33 GMT
ooh i should get into that... I did a little bit of CAD work at uni
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Post by Tomcakes on Jul 1, 2007 15:49:25 GMT
Indeed, agency/contract work may pay highly but it's often short-term and temporary - so higher earnings but less job security. It's a bit like why some teachers choose to work full time on supply, they can get £25 an hour with no commitments like marking work, but the work isn't on a guarunteed basis, it's just 'what comes'.
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Post by adspackman on Jul 2, 2007 16:30:20 GMT
im a sales assistant, also a junior supervisor, You are being paid the minimum wage possible. I would look elsewhere if I was you as your employer obviously doesn't value you, there must be better paid work in other shops. Absolutely. I do a slightly more than basic retail job and get £7.32 p/h. Even the most basic jobs at our place pay around the £6 p/h mark. |
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Post by The Major on Jul 2, 2007 17:13:17 GMT
Absolutely. I do a slightly more than basic retail job and get £7.32 p/h. Even the most basic jobs at our place pay around the £6 p/h mark. see that i understand, but why do receptionists, switchboard ops get paid like £9 an hour when all they do is sit on thier butts when the likes of me run round like a maniac and only earn £5.44!? One thing I'd advise (as my avatar shows) is get on a college course and get a fork lift licence - despite the fact I got mine at work (trained by Sainsburys) I know others that did theirs via the college and have done well. The advantage is that you can learn to drive both reach and counterbalance (I was only ever a reach driver) and it always gives something to fall back on. The money you can earn isn't bad....in my old job as a night shift worker I got £28,000 a year (quite a bit more than I'm on now), I joined LU as I'd wanted to be a train operator since I was young, and had to leave to have any chance of doing it!!!! |
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Post by James on Jul 2, 2007 17:29:27 GMT
I feel nurses deserve a decent pay rise. My mother a nurse gets crap money compared to alot of jobs, she cares for patients and saves lives. Now alot of people think that nurses hardly do anything, but thats far from the fact.
But hey, they can't strike... So theres nothing they can do...
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Post by Guest on Jul 2, 2007 18:39:02 GMT
People do tend to make hasty comments on jobs they know little or nothing about. Unless you have actually done the job in question, I feel those comments are based on ignorance and - dare I say it - jealousy. Train Operators are, I feel, paid well for doing a very responsible job which requires high levels of concentration for long periods of time. It is a demanding job, despite what some people would have you think. I think there can be no denying that nurses, for example, are paid a pittance. But that's not to say TO's are paid "too much", which is the kind of comment I have heard before. Sour grapes, me thinks. And for the record, I think Instructor Operators should be paid more for what they do. I was fortunate enough to have spent three weeks of my job training with a superb IO; I still practice some of the driving techniques she taught me.
I got my first job when I was seventeen-years-old and I was paid the grand sum of £2.88 an hour (working for Woolworths) so I'm quite proud of myself for being where I am now. Like others, I worked in retail for about eight years getting very little in return in terms of pay. That's just the way it is, unfortunately.
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Post by undergroundgal on Jul 2, 2007 19:03:55 GMT
Same here, I was on £2.44 an hour for by 12 weeks probation in a retail job, going up to £2.66 when I finished that. By the time I left that company - almost 7 years to the day, in fact, to take up this job - I was on just over £6 an hour. Not bad, but this works out better!
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Post by Guest on Jul 4, 2007 10:16:53 GMT
I feel nurses deserve a decent pay rise. My mother a nurse gets crap money compared to alot of jobs, she cares for patients and saves lives. Now alot of people think that nurses hardly do anything, but thats far from the fact. I don't think many people (except perhaps some of the more arrogant doctors...) think that nurses don't do anything. The point is more that they're choosing to do something they really really want to do, so it's fair enough that they get less financial reward for it than if they were putting their efforts into something less rewarding in other ways. (a more direct comparison, since it's the same people with the same qualification, is between city lawyers, who get paid an enormous amount because their job is entirely dull and pointless, and CPS/legal aid lawyers in criminal cases, who get paid next to nothing but do the job because it's interesting and personally/morally rewarding.) In general, once you're out of the ranks of unskilled work into professional-type work, any job that a kid might say "I want to be a X when I grow up" pays worse than any job that they wouldn't. Getting back on topic - the most obvious exception is for train drivers! John B |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jul 4, 2007 10:47:14 GMT
Nurses deserve a huge pay rise, however like John said, it is a vocation.
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Post by tubeoperator92 on Jul 4, 2007 20:38:04 GMT
Aye, was also in retail too... seems a lot of us come from that background...
Was on the grand sum of £5.26 an hour, doing a 44 hour week, and overtime, with an overly complicated way of paying us for that overtime...
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Post by davesgcr on Jul 4, 2007 21:42:37 GMT
My wife as a community midwife gets ten quid for on call overnight which means getting out of bed at any hour for a true life situation .....and about £13 quid an hour for the job when on duty. Value for money compared to market rates  ?? Teachers deserve more IMHO ...... |
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Post by 78revolutions on Jul 4, 2007 22:14:40 GMT
If t/ops could earn similar money elsewhere - with similar benefits , how many would leave tomorrow.
Messroom banter would suggest quite a few
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Post by Tomcakes on Jul 4, 2007 22:19:51 GMT
The thing is, if nurses took industrial action people would die, therefore they wouldn't ever do it and employers know that.
If the tube staff strike, people don't get to work on time, what difference does that have on their conscience?
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Post by 78revolutions on Jul 4, 2007 22:29:11 GMT
The thing is, if nurses took industrial action people would die, therefore they wouldn't ever do it and employers know that. If the tube staff strike, people don't get to work on time, what difference does that have on their conscience? Can't remember the last time tube staff actually went on strike regarding pay. The last all out strike i remember was the 35 hour week one in '96 and even then it was only train staff that walked out. |
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