Tesco Lorry Drivers earn £47600 pa

lana22

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Lana, IMHO junior Drs dont get anything like what they are worth. You are the first once we call on and you often turn up to the ward to be met by frantic situations and bossy nurses!
Loads of F1s that I come across are surprised when I make them a cup of tea and give them biscuits or chocolate. I always say "who am I going to call when you collapse ?" I always try to do the venflons and bloods and we will all try to do it before we call the Drs because we know how busy you are.
I saw the argument if it was the one about cremation certificates. Don't see the issue really, plumbers and other trades are allowed to charge a call out fee.
I'd be gutted if my kids wanted to become Doctors because its such a hard job.

My parents were also gutted that I wanted to be a doctor! Apart from anything they had to put up with me being an absolute misery every time I had an exam. I'm lucky I work with amazing nurses who are really kind to me and help me (how you sound). But some of my friends work with mean nurses who think it's fun to bully junior doctors. I suppose there is good and bad in every job, and I bet some F1s are rubbish too!
I always try to answer my bleep in a happy, cheery voice and I'm polite even if it's an innapropriate bleep; hospitals are so much nicer places when doctors and nurses get on well - we need each other!

olbas_oil

>>I am a junior Dr and don't think £21k is a lot of money for all the rubbish >>we have to put up with

... but the difference is that junior doctors have financially rewarding careers ahead of them, particularly if they become GP's and hit all those ridiculously easy targets. You could easily attain a six figure salary within eight years, and have a pretty pleasant lifestyle to boot. Our equally suffering nurse has only more of the same to look forward to.

stevetodd

The_White_Horse wrote: »

I would cut football wages down to 10k a month. If any footballer don't like that, they can always leave and find another job paying a similar salary.

But the better players would simply go and play for a top European team

SammyD_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

I loved the underlying racism and the challenge for people to pull him up on it. I like a good challenge and I'll pull you up on this Conrad. Basically you're indulging in a bit of racist trolling. There, hope you're happy.

Note for next troll session. If you could use a Turkish Lesbian Muslim Asylum Seeking Benefit Scrounger next time, you would cover so many more hate bases and get a much stronger reception to your OP.

Good luck with that.

Can't believe it took a page and a half of posts before someone said something.

tomstickland

Snooze wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :T part 1.



:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :T part 2.

The posts just get better and better on here . MMTM is really taking off well.

Rob

Actually, I made a mistake with my post. It's the park and riders who get the danger money because the go through some sheltered housing on the route and are at serious risk from walking stick abuse. They also get a premium because their depot is next to a sewage treatment plant.

Dithering_Dad

SammyD wrote: »

Can't believe it took a page and a half of posts before someone said something.

I can't believe that Conrad took leave of his senses and added the Turkish bit to this thread. I normally find him to be a decent enough bloke on here. Perhaps he had been at the whiskey when he posted?

pararct

Snooze wrote: »

Easy-peasy (and true) :

1. stop in the middle of a busy roundabout ensuring you block all traffic
2. then jump out of the cab with delivery notes in hand
3. go up to people in turn waving the delivery notes at them, pointing at delivery address
4. repeat until someone gesticulates "you follow me, I take you"
5. follow kind helper
6. job done

Rob

I used to drive for Safeway (Morrisons) was made redundant 2 years ago. The top rate on offer at that time was around £32k. That involved perm nights any 5 from 7 over 48 hours a week. We had a workplace agreement regarding working hours so 48 was the max hours permitted for anyone to work.

Hourly rates across the supermarket operators were more or less aligned. The Tesco lads are able to work more hours so can earn extra pay. Although rates (and T&C) are determined by local agreements.
I did hear Tesco were looking to re-site their Weybridge (Brooklands) distribution operation into Hampshire somewhere partly to cut their wage bill.

The best paying jobs were with the major fuel carriers Esso, Shell ect. At one time they employed their own drivers but now contract the work out to Hoyers, Wincantons to name just two of the firms. Their own drivers would have transferred under TUPE arrangments to the new employers (which in most cases did not involve a move of workplace). TUPE provides that existing terms and conditions are honoured. In that sense it is true some drivers in this field may earn £50k+ but they will have some 15+ years under thier belt and would originally been employed by the major carriers themselves. As they retire or otherwise leave the industry replacement drivers are employed on more basic t&c akin to the model used by the supermarket distributors.



There were a fair number of Turkish and Polish drivers entering the industry around the time I left. Their english was in a lot of cases non existant but at that time drivers were in short supply (don't know if this is still the case) so they were employed anyway.
They got around a lot of the problems by using Sat Nav kit. There is a Tescos near me in the middle of a modern housing estate. Tom Tom was slightly out on its postcode routing so would direct delivery drivers for this store into a winding residential cul-de sac. It would be a weekly occurrence where drivers had to be reversed out and where residents car were damaged, gardens driven across. Understandably the residents got quite annoyed about this and regulary used to go into the store and lambast the store manager.

mumps

lana22 wrote: »

It's a shame that you had problems with junior doctors. I personally don't work with any rude doctors but I know that they exist.
I have actually only experienced rudeness towards patients from old school consultants. The younger ones seem to be kinder and more understanding.

Unfortunately we do get a lot of abuse from patients but it's no excuse for rudeness. It's sad that a minority have given the rest of us a bad name.

There are lots of problems with nutrition in hospital, I agree, and it's actually a bugbear of mine (I did an intercalated degree in gastrointestinal physiology with a major nutrition component). Did you know that a hospital menu for a day only supplies 1500 calories? That isn't enough for a healthy person, let alone one who is unwell and using calories to recover. It is something that really needs to change in hospitals.
Anyway I digress, sorry.

I think we were lucky with Consultants as I've never seen one for myself or children who were unsympathetic, all really kind. Anyway it wasn't really relevant to topic, just still pretty raw with me as she had a rough time. Obviously difficult as she had two serious problems, not related, but in such a short space of time. I know about the menus but problem with her was she was offered food agreed to try it, she found eating difficult after op, and then they never brought it. For first two days post op she only had food I brought her other than a liquidised banana - how appetizing.

I've deleted my post as I don't want to blacken the name of all doctors and nurses as I have also had great treatment.

Conrad

Snooze wrote: »

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!! :T :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks for the biggest laugh I've had in ages. Presumably these are the wages they've put down on their mortgage apps with you, which would explain why they are doubled. :rolleyes:

Tesco artic drivers are on £29k per annum but this is a rolling 4 day week so when you factor in working 4 weekend days in a row it's not great money.

As for the non-speaking Turkish driver being on £45k well that is just beyond laughable. Even if he was working in the highest paying area of the country (Northamptonshire) and working max legal hours he'd only be seeing about £35k tops, and as he doesn't speak English then that is highly remote. I'd be surprised if he's earning £15k a year if he can't speak the lingo.

And yes, as a C+E licence holder myself and having working both as a driver and a transport manager I know what I'm talking about.

Rob

Rob

What possible motive would I have to put this thread up??

I have both clients pay slips and P60s.

Actualy, thinking about it, your response is exactly the reason I put this thread up. Time and again over the years I notice people seem hell bent on filtering facts that lead them to conclude other peoples incomes are lower.

I assure you these figures are real.

Catblue

Conrad, do you really think that it is entirely responsible to post details of your clients' salaries on the internet? Along with details of their ages, ethnic background and their employers?

Seems very unprofessional to me, I'm afraid.