list your job and wage

John_Pierpoint

You have had to learn a foreign language and be reasonably good at it for a start.

gb12345

The benefits of Google translate.

इस वेबसाइट पर जाएँ, यह इंटरनेट पर सबसे अच्छी बात है.

I seem to have struck a nerve with you as you are so detemined to defend the actions of a spammer. Have I identified your career by any chance?

tommytynan123

Well I have the best job in the world BUT I'm being made redundant on Xmas Day after work. The last shift will be mayhem.

I'm Santa at a grotto at £7 per hour and its great.:j

(I'm retired at 58 - 2 years now - with pension income of £22K)

John_Pierpoint

gb12345 wrote: »

The benefits of Google translate.

इस वेबसाइट पर जाएँ, यह इंटरनेट पर सबसे अच्छी बात है.

I seem to have struck a nerve with you as you are so detemined to defend the actions of a spammer. Have I identified your career by any chance?

Thank you for that.
I would never defend Spam, though it is usually pathetically obvious, mildly annoying and soon taken down; in my scale of values it is a whole lot less harmful than those who attempt to sway decisions by publishing false information or trying to perpetrate fraud via the telephone: Boiler rooms, "we have a tax refund for you", "If you have had a fender bender accidents we can use it to defraud the insurance companies of tens of thousands, just pay this up front fee" etc. etc.

Anyway I could not possibly comment on the original spam posting as you had got it taken down; as I do regularly with some wretched cheap kitchens postings that get splattered all over the forum in the early hours of the morning.

It is good to learn how much better Google's translation abilities are getting.
इस वेबसाइट पर जाएँ, यह इंटरनेट पर सबसे अच्छी बात है. -> Visit this website, it's the best thing on the Internet.

Some years ago, I was marooned in a restaurant in East Germany by the mother and father of thunderstorms , and earned a free bottle of wine by helping the waitress translate the menu into English. At that time Google had made a real mess of it.

My original criticism was that you had thrown out the baby with the bath water in that you had rejected the opportunity to discover the wage rates for similar jobs in other parts of the word.
Obviously the majority of postings on MSE are UK centred; however like it or not, we have to make our way in an increasingly globalised economy.
Don't forget that a chunk of the EU's car industry, steel industry and even electrical industry now reports to Asia; and that is excluding the Japanese who are largely "honourable".
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/

So I will leave it there, you know your lakhs from your crores and I know how much Google has improved its translation service.

gb12345

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Anyway I could not possibly comment on the original spam posting as you had got it taken down;

It was blatant spam for an Indian web design business - url in the signature and in the post below the bit I quoted, as well as the homepage and the member name matching the name of the "company" he was posting for.

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

My original criticism was that you had thrown out the baby with the bath water in that you had rejected the opportunity to discover the wage rates for similar jobs in other parts of the word.

I agree that it is interesting to see how UK salaries compare with those of Europe and the rest of the world, but I think in this case it was probably just a made up figure (but full marks to the spammer for at least trying to be 'on topic', rather than the usual "nice post" you get). But if it was for real, then the figure is in my quote for people to compare with what they get (although "working for an IT company" is a very broad job description).

guitarman001

PeteW wrote: »

Well… I'd be very surprised if any company, in any industry (especially retail!) would pay someone with one year's experience £55k!

And then saying you're in a final salary pension scheme when they are virtually all closed to new members (again, especially in retail!) and my 'something fishy' radar starts beeping!

I know what you're saying, but there are many times I've been really surprised to see what people are earning. My job is pretty damn difficult and I use almost everything I learned at uni (maths, engineering etc) but I know people who work less doing less for more money. Typical of the UK, though...

I know one social worker who was on a great salary and got a pay-off of ~£240k and is living off final salary pension now, sales-people earning £80k+ with company car, one friend who's only two years into oil & gas on £95k (and that's onshore), people who work in gyms getting 8% pension match, etc etc. If you did a worthwhile degree that wasn't (non-oil) engineering, you probably earn more than me. On the upside, at least I enjoy my job so far! Given that the age of retirement is going up and housing costs so much, I have to make some sort of radical move to secure my future - maybe a move to the States to work for the likes of Google (sell my soul but I've not got big pay-offs from parents to hep me out like most of my friends).

LouiseDorman

ED Nurse.
Point 2, Band 5 scale.
£11.55p/hr. (Due an increment 19/12/2013... although it will probably be like 20pence)
37.5hrs a week, over 4/5 days because of the way they have started to split our shifts
27 days annual leave + 8 public holidays
Saturday 1+1/3
Sunday 1+2/3
Night duty - not exactly sure, but it is damn hard to fill in for timesheets.
O/T no extra

I have no say whether I work night or day, we rotate into a month of nights every 2 months, sometimes less, sometimes for longer.
I could start at 0730, 0900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1930 - depending on the whim of my ward manager.
2 half hour unpaid breaks throughout the day, but if the department is busy, they are not guarenteed.

Pension scheme... don't know if it is worth it.

I work an extra 60hrs a month overtime, in other EDs, or wards. It is for the same trust, paid out of the same office and account, signed by the same man, paid at the same time... but considered a second job, and thus I get like 40% tax!! It is ridiculous.

I make being a nurse so appealing don't I??

System

LouiseDorman wrote: »

ED Nurse.
Point 2, Band 5 scale.
£11.55p/hr. (Due an increment 19/12/2013... although it will probably be like 20pence)
37.5hrs a week, over 4/5 days because of the way they have started to split our shifts
27 days annual leave + 8 public holidays
Saturday 1+1/3
Sunday 1+2/3
Night duty - not exactly sure, but it is damn hard to fill in for timesheets.
O/T no extra

I have no say whether I work night or day, we rotate into a month of nights every 2 months, sometimes less, sometimes for longer.
I could start at 0730, 0900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1930 - depending on the whim of my ward manager.
2 half hour unpaid breaks throughout the day, but if the department is busy, they are not guarenteed.

Pension scheme... don't know if it is worth it.

I work an extra 60hrs a month overtime, in other EDs, or wards. It is for the same trust, paid out of the same office and account, signed by the same man, paid at the same time... but considered a second job, and thus I get like 40% tax!! It is ridiculous.

I make being a nurse so appealing don't I??

The extra tax that you are paid on bank work (or whatever it is called where you work) is balanced out at the end of each year by the taxman, based on your tax codes and amounts paid, so any extra money paid, between the BR tax and the 40% will come back to you in the form of a tax return. I've had tax returns in the past about 6 months past the end of the tax year, be sure to check your P60 at the end of each year and use the listentotaxman website to help you establish if you're owed tax, I would imagine you are though if you're being charged 40% on your second earnings for the same trust, as you don't seem to be earning more than about £30,000 at most.

nomi01

Louise- i get paid +40% for night shifts. i assume its the same for all trusts and depts as our weekend enhancements are the same.HTH

Miz_Gayle

Holistic therapist
Self employed
Earn average £300/£400 per week
Best job in the world
:j