Anger as BMW sacks 850 'agency' workers

aeuerby

Obukit wrote: »

To be fair, these workers are the same ones that were boasting last year about how they were being paid double what everyone else in the area was on.

Not all agency staff get paid double staff wages. Plus they don't get all the other perks either!

Obukit

aeuerby wrote: »

Not all agency staff get paid double staff wages. Plus they don't get all the other perks either!

One of our employee's husbands was telling me how he was on £13.94p/h, with extra for nights and weekends. That's far above median semi-skilled wage, even for Oxford.

He's now redundant, unfortunately with no savings and a £2k monthly payment to make to a 125% mortgage to pay I highly doubt he'll have his house in a few months. No sour grapes, but it's certainly startling how quickly security has become as, if not more, important than pay over the past six months.

wymondham

Who on earth want's to buy a BMW Mini anyway (Bini) - get the REAL Mini - they are 50 this year and very cheap to run and repair yourself - very suited to recessions - perfect moneysaving!!

(As you see from my avatar I'm biased!! )

vivatifosi

Asheron wrote: »

lol, Me buying a house? Never.

Sorry Ash but I have to ask... Is that because you live in a nuclear bunker?

chucky

Asheron wrote: »

lol, Me buying a house? Never.

living with your parents is ok while you're at school - it's what most people do

bo_drinker

Obukit wrote: »

One of our employee's husbands was telling me how he was on £13.94p/h, with extra for nights and weekends. That's far above median semi-skilled wage, even for Oxford.

He's now redundant, unfortunately with no savings and a £2k monthly payment to make to a 125% mortgage to pay I highly doubt he'll have his house in a few months. No sour grapes, but it's certainly startling how quickly security has become as, if not more, important than pay over the past six months.

Sorry it shows how dull these people were 125%... Why?? Good hourly rate etc and still no savings. They don't deserve to have anything decent if they can't grasp the simplest things like saving for a rainy day because by fk it's about to p1ss down for a lot of people. Dare say they have the essentials on the drip plasma tv, posh motor ipods wiis etc etc. Brain dead society....

Cleaver

Obukit wrote: »

One of our employee's husbands was telling me how he was on £13.94p/h, with extra for nights and weekends. That's far above median semi-skilled wage, even for Oxford.

He's now redundant, unfortunately with no savings and a £2k monthly payment to make to a 125% mortgage to pay I highly doubt he'll have his house in a few months. No sour grapes, but it's certainly startling how quickly security has become as, if not more, important than pay over the past six months.

I'm not normally one of these "I'd told you so" people, and it is awful when people lose their jobs, but if you're an agency worker, who takes on a 2k per month, 125% mortgage and hasn't saved any money at all then you shouldn't really be that surprised when things go all pear shaped.

If this person exsists of course. He sounds like the poster boy of that housecrash website.

mewbie_2

Cleaver wrote: »

He sounds like the poster boy of that housecrash website.

It's housepricecrash.co.uk and we have girls on our posters not boys. Whoops - bear credentials showing.

deafpaul

i work for jauar land rover i feel sad for these workers but we all know that they are agency staff and they can get rid of them at any time they know that when they r taken on we have had them at jaguar land rover and some were great workers

mvengemvenge

It said on the news that the union had actually known about this for 3 months, but kept it quiet.