Advice on getting a payrise?

AP007

Dunroamin wrote: »

I'd think it odd either way.

Odd I know no one in the public sector. Oh dear.

Southend1

AP007 wrote: »

Odd I know no one in the public sector. Oh dear.

If you refuse to even write to someone who shares different political beliefs to you then I'm not surprised your circle of friends isn't very wide!

AP007

Southend1 wrote: »

If you refuse to even write to someone who shares different political beliefs to you then I'm not surprised your circle of friends isn't very wide!

It is wide - how would you know that? In what we do and were we come from its very wide indeed.

Southend1

AP007 wrote: »

It is wide - how would you know that? In what we do and were we come from its very wide indeed.

I don't know many places where there aren't any police officers, nurses, firefighters, doctors, council officers, teachers, school crossing patrols, etc etc.

I always thought the daily mail was a newspaper, not an actual place!

AP007

Southend1 wrote: »

I don't know many places where there aren't any police officers, nurses, firefighters, doctors, council officers, teachers, school crossing patrols, etc etc.

I always thought the daily mail was a newspaper, not an actual place!

I do not know any police officers, nurses, fire fighters, doctors, council officers, teachers, school crossing patrols nor do I read the newspapers.

Like I have said all my friends and family work in the private sector or are self employed.

davenport151

falko89 wrote: »

I am in my current job 18 months now earning the princely sum of £6.50 per hour. Its rubbish considering the amount of work I am expected to do, it wouldn't be so bad if my co workers were on similar but I know for a fact they are not. I mentioned before accidently finding a migrant workers wage slip and she was on £7 something per hour and she does a non essestial job, namely tidying up. My coworkers always comment about the boss exploiting the migrants, and that they are cheap labour, If they are cheap labour what exactly am I?

Since when is 'tidying up' non essential.

lincroft1710

falko89 wrote: »

I should add about 5 years back I went for an interview with the company I currently work for, I was working elsewhere at the time, but I did get offered the job at £8 per hour which I refused, it was a much less skilled job that what I currently have.

Now that you have mentioned this little gem, it's probably the reason why he treats you so badly. You spurned his offer of a job at £8 ph, but 3 years later come crawling back and are grateful for more demanding work at £6.50 ph.

He will never give you a pay rise other than NMW increase. Why should he? He's got you where he wants you. As you've said in previous threads there are no other jobs, so you either work there and are at his beck and call or you don't work.

falko89

davenport151 wrote: »

Since when is 'tidying up' non essential.

Yes we have a squad of about 4 eastern Europeans women who tidy up scraps as he will not throw anything out. Anywhere else does not keep these scraps, they bin them, as a result we have a shed full of hundreds of pallets of scrap, 15 years worth to be precise.

falko89

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Now that you have mentioned this little gem, it's probably the reason why he treats you so badly. You spurned his offer of a job at £8 ph, but 3 years later come crawling back and are grateful for more demanding work at £6.50 ph.

He will never give you a pay rise other than NMW increase. Why should he? He's got you where he wants you. As you've said in previous threads there are no other jobs, so you either work there and are at his beck and call or you don't work.

I handed in my notice at my previous job only to be given a payrise hence why I turned it down.

Sadly you are right, I have given up hope of finding other work, its just a matter of when I walk, or when I can grow the balls to.

AP007

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Now that you have mentioned this little gem, it's probably the reason why he treats you so badly. You spurned his offer of a job at £8 ph, but 3 years later come crawling back and are grateful for more demanding work at £6.50 ph.

He will never give you a pay rise other than NMW increase. Why should he? He's got you where he wants you. As you've said in previous threads there are no other jobs, so you either work there and are at his beck and call or you don't work.

The NMW is less than £6.50 is it not so until it goes above £6.50 the boss need not give a rise at all.