convenience stores no pay increase trained Post Office clerk

ohreally

Would qualifications open up opportunities to better your prospects? Life's too short to waste away in a miserable job, be proactive in bring change to your life.

Takmon

elliemay099 wrote: »

i am not that young. no jobs available unless you take on another part time job that does not fit round my hours where i am , we have to work certain shifts which do not enable me to find another nearby job that i can get to and fro from in time,only cleaning or care jobs that would possibly fit due to the hours, but i cannot do manual work that entails heavy repetitive manual work due to my physical conditions, most full time jobs are rare and if they are on the jobsites they are for jobs which have to have experience in that role or some professional background that i have no experience or qualifications for.

So what qualifications are you currently looking at getting to allow you to get a better job?. You seem to be posting all the reasons why you can't get a better job but haven't said what your doing to change that?

elliemay099 wrote: »

i dont expect a massive pay rise, just another couple of pounds per hour, if we just put up with how we are expected to fall in line on our low wages by having no choice in having to do the post office clerk position as well as our roles we do then times are not changing by improving the quality of the workers, just loading us up to multitask with no pay increase.
yes i am lucky to have a job, but in this day and age you would think that things should be improving not going backwards. the national minimal wage is too low anyway, everything goes up constantly, one example is an item in our shop the price rose by 21p out of the blue, so of the vast amount of produce we sell, think on how much those are jumping up in such price hikes, shopping bills are getting costly thats without everything else. each shop charges different amounts for the same item, its about time there was a change thereby every retail store , supermarket are made to sell at the actual value of that item, not hiking up in the way they are done indiscriminately and frequently. what is a loaf of bread really worth? if we are to just get pennies by way of a rise of the national national minimal wage a year, how can it be justified to raise prices of food throughout the year in such hikes. if we all had the minimum living wage it would surely be fair, why live below it, if companies are abe to raise prices at such a jump, they must be profiting well.the point is, i dont want to train as a post office clerk, and try doing my own job too, and get paid nothing extra when its also not our faults the government have not helped to keep our post offices open, and are shutting them down, its not our fault that banks are disappearing off the high street and if you want to talk to someone in the bank you now have to travel miles to another town to get to your bank at a different branch, so what happens when theyve all gone? they say you have to go to another branch elsewhere to talk face to face , if yours is closed down, they wont discuss it over the phone because of possible fraud, they have to have you in the bank to deal with certain things, so how are they going to resolve that.

my whole point is, its not the peoples fault everything is being made harder, more expensive, low wages,its all bad management and lack of care for the workers and those who cannot find work that pays enough to lead quality of life and mostly afford to pay high rents on the basic national minimal wage. i may work part time but my hours are the most i can work, we are not allowed full time hours in shop assistant jobs of the kind. i pay all of my rent and council tax etc. if i claimed help people would soon say on here that i am wrong to do so.
why should we bow to what is being done to us? we should have a say ,so people saying to me, get another job then,.. where ? how? you do not have a clue, and the comment saying it will mean i will have more experience after learning this post office clerk job , ...which by the way i wont be taking with me in any other similar position other than another convenience store working the same role i have on the same wage, and post offices are closing ,

post office clerks get 8.50ph, i get less by the way, but if you had to work in an office for a firm, and asked to be a post office clerk too, how are you going to do both jobs at the same time? yes,. sign of the times,

If you actually look at the figures minimum wage has been increasing above inflation for a good few years now.

I don't see the problem in being trained up to do multiple jobs as it gives you some variety during the day switching between roles. At least you won't get bored doing the same thing all day.

There are plenty of full time jobs out there if you put the effort in to look for them and do what you need to do to get them. Writing out all the reasons why you can't get a good job won't help you at all.

pmduk

OP, don't forget that your employer taking on the Post Office franchise might just be what's keeping you all in a job. Times do change. Your job is no longer what it was, you either need to embrace what it has become or let yourself become (more) bitter, perhaps to the point where you no longer have the job.

hyubh

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie with your hostile bullying, entirely free of technical detail. Really is pathetic.

suki1964

hyubh wrote: »

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie with your hostile bullying, entirely free of technical detail. Really is pathetic.

Please don't tar everyone with the same brush, I gave good advice

ohreally

hyubh wrote: »

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie.

"Join Date: Dec 2009"

JCS1

hyubh wrote: »

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie with your hostile bullying, entirely free of technical detail. Really is pathetic.

Or someone who doesn't like what they are told?

jobbingmusician

Anyone who selfishly deletes the OP, thus potentially denying anyone else the benefit of the advice given, loses all sympathy from me. What makes them such a special snowflake that they can take advice generously offered, but not share it?

eschaton

hyubh wrote: »

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie with your hostile bullying, entirely free of technical detail. Really is pathetic.

I’ve only seen replies saying what reality now is in convenience retailing.

Luckily OP doesn’t work in a convenience store with a big FTG offering as well.

pmduk

hyubh wrote: »

Well done everyone, you've chased away yet another newbie with your hostile bullying, entirely free of technical detail. Really is pathetic.

What would you have us say? there, there it'll all go away? The rest of us live in the real world.