Wage increase. What are you going to do?

Snakeeyes21

As from thursday the 1st october those of you on the NMW will be getting a 7p pay rise. Yay.
for the average fulltime worker this is £3 a week.
so what are you going to do with your new found fortune? Buy a bentley? A house deposit? An extra pint on the weekend? 300 penny sweets? 30 packs of space raiders? 10 extra cancer sticks?
i just cant decide

tizhimi

Wow over 52 weeks thats £156 a year!!!

Or 52 pints with the cost of beer these days.

Mudd14

Better than a kick up the !!!!!

tizhimi

can we have a lump sum please?

Snakeeyes21

No!! You will bankrupt your employers, i read it in a newspaper, this 7p increase is going to lead to an extra 5 million unemployed, big businesses just cant cope with such a massive rise

Anihilator

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

No!! You will bankrupt your employers, i read it in a newspaper, this 7p increase is going to lead to an extra 5 million unemployed, big businesses just cant cope with such a massive rise

Correct.

Basically the dregs of society benefit from being in dead end jobs with a rise whilst the vast majority of us face pay cuts etc and increased bills to fund it.

Brillant.

I'd be quite happy for my local mcdonalds staff to be a sky package down and not see prices go up:rolleyes:

Tarry

Anihilator wrote: »

Correct.

Basically the dregs of society benefit from being in dead end jobs with a rise whilst the vast majority of us face pay cuts etc and increased bills to fund it.

Brillant.

I'd be quite happy for my local mcdonalds staff to be a sky package down and not see prices go up:rolleyes:

That sounds a bit harsh! Surely you'd prefer what you call "dregs" (how on earth can they be dregs, they are working for living, not living on benefits (and quick note, I don't mean those looking for work, I mean people who CHOOSE not to work!

Snakeeyes21

Anihilator wrote: »

Correct.

Basically the dregs of society benefit from being in dead end jobs with a rise whilst the vast majority of us face pay cuts etc and increased bills to fund it.

Brillant.

I'd be quite happy for my local mcdonalds staff to be a sky package down and not see prices go up:rolleyes:

Those dregs of society are some of the most important people out there.
they aqe the people who empty your bins, staff the shops, cook that romantic meal, clean your offices etc.
what a nice person you are, i hope your made redundant, you need to be taken down a peg or two.
mabe if your employer thought you were worthy of a rise they would give you one and let it eat into their profits.
:beer:

thor

Anihilator seems very pleased with him/herself and appears to have earned the right to look down on others. I wonder what non 'dead end job' he/she has?

JCS1

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

As from thursday the 1st october those of you on the NMW will be getting a 7p pay rise. Yay.
for the average fulltime worker this is £3 a week.
so what are you going to do with your new found fortune? Buy a bentley? A house deposit? An extra pint on the weekend? 300 penny sweets? 30 packs of space raiders? 10 extra cancer sticks?
i just cant decide

Take off tax and NI, and it's down to £1-93 based on 40 hour week.

twss

Isn't it all a bit pointless when low wages are subsidised by Housing Benefit anyway?