15 min early + late/ Holding 1 Week wages.

Fawkes_November

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A few years ago I also used to work for Maplins and they also did not pay me for counting up and doing things before 9:00 when we opened.

I used to come in 40-30 mins early each day as I got changed at work and liked made tea, read magazines, etc before starting my shift.
However the boss was under the impression if you are in the building then you have to start working and used to ask me to stack this shelf clean that cabinet and so forth.

The result was I started coming in at 8:59. I would actually hang about round the corner if I was early. As it was summer I had no coat so walked in at 8:59 and was ready to start. The boss couldn't say anything as I was not officially late.

The other thing to watch out for is when they refuse to give you breaks, sometimes even lunch as "We don't have enough staff" and don't pay you for them.
This went on for a few weeks until I had enough and threatened to walk off the tills unless they gave me my legal entitled break.
They then suddenly found a member of staff to cover me. :mad:

After 3 months I left for a better job in an office.
Several years later I saw some of the staff I worked for in a West End branch, surprising thing is even though they were hard working they all were in the same positions they were when I had left. So much for company promotion through hard work :think:

I just had the most terrible day, my Manager has been on holiday for 10 days and the Area Manager was not available, apparently my Manager failed to tell me that part-time staff are suppose to work 2 weeks in advance, so when I was ranting about them holding a week of my wages (which is what the AM told me) after speaking with payroll I found out that they are actually holding 2 weeks! Awesome, he also never asked me to fill in a P46 and told me that he was sorting it out which he never did so I got stuck on basic rate while inland sorts me out a tax code! So after working 5 weeks I get paid for 3 and slapped with 20% tax with no personal allowance because my Manager was too much of a clown to take 2 minutes to explain to me how the company pay system (which is a joke) works and to e-mail them a p46.

I'm seeing him on Monday, probably with a resignation letter and am just going to stick to working on my dissertation as I found this whole "experience" a complete joke.

To whoever mentioned the student visa, my dad is welsh so I have dual citizenship, no wonder my grandparents left to Canada about 40 years ago, I'm honestly not surprised now.


Oh and on top of that I found a huge rat bleeding to death by the components counter in the warehouse about 5 feet away from the staff room where people eat, any one would like to see a picture? Apparently these kind of standards in working places are okay in the UK too? Someone should nudge this country that the Victorian days are over.

wrightk

Fawkes_November wrote: »

I just had the most terrible day, my Manager has been on holiday for 10 days and the Area Manager was not available, apparently my Manager failed to tell me that part-time staff are suppose to work 2 weeks in advance, so when I was ranting about them holding a week of my wages (which is what the AM told me) after speaking with payroll I found out that they are actually holding 2 weeks! Awesome, he also never asked me to fill in a P46 and told me that he was sorting it out which he never did so I got stuck on basic rate while inland sorts me out a tax code! So after working 5 weeks I get paid for 3 and slapped with 20% tax with no personal allowance because my Manager was too much of a clown to take 2 minutes to explain to me how the company pay system (which is a joke) works and to e-mail them a p46.

I'm seeing him on Monday, probably with a resignation letter and am just going to stick to working on my dissertation as I found this whole "experience" a complete joke.

To whoever mentioned the student visa, my dad is welsh so I have dual citizenship, no wonder my grandparents left to Canada about 40 years ago, I'm honestly not surprised now.


Oh and on top of that I found a huge rat bleeding to death by the components counter in the warehouse about 5 feet away from the staff room where people eat, any one would like to see a picture? Apparently these kind of standards in working places are okay in the UK too? Someone should nudge this country that the Victorian days are over.

i wish you every luck with taking your employer to justice if they are found to be doing something wrong (I do mean that). but to say this doesnt happen at all in other countries like the US and Canada is just pure rubbish. If you dont like the job and the country concentrate on your studies and going back home because there is a queue of people waiting for your job here.

loulou123

I work in a different industry to you (care) and our wages work from the 27th of one month to the 26th of the following - so when we get paid on the 31st/1st off the month we only get paid till the 26th (the following 5 days are then paid the following month, so for example this month if I work 27th to 31st of Oct I don't get this pay until the 1st December. Although this seems a weird way of doing things you get used to it.

I think people quite often end up paying emergency tax in beginning of a new job, as even if the p46 is sent off immediately it still takes the tax office time to sort it out - I've known friends to be emergency taxed for 3 plus months but you get the extra tax paid back eventually.

As for the rat, whilst its not acceptable many places have problems with them as they are everywhere and as long as the company can be seen to be trying to combat them (ie visits from pest control, poison etc) I think they've properly covered themselves (presumably different rules for food premises etc) as I know we've had rats at my work.

Hope you manage to work it out.

FBaby

However frustrating your experience is, I think you are taking quite an arrogant attitude to it. Have you actually work back home? Because I have worked 6 years in the States and I had my fair share of problems with incompetence, issues with pay and being dismissed in dreadful circumstances and I certainly had none of the rights that you so highly claim.

In the end, I think you need to tackle each issue separately and stop generalising that it is British problem. What you are experiencing is nothing to what you will in your working life. Ask questions, inform yourself, insure problems are sorted and move on.