To pay or not to pay

[matty brock]

Thanks for all your advice lads.

I had a talk with them today and we have sorted it, they are going to use part holidays and make up some time up by doing Saturdays when the weather improves, hopefully in the not to distant future.
Nice one lads, ta

[Bob_A]

Although I do a skilled job I don't get paid a fortune but I do get paid a regular wage week in week out throughout the year.
If I work out what I get a day and compare it to what a tradesmen gets then usually it will work out I get less.
I've never had a problem with that I was lead to believe that a tradesmen only gets paid for the days he works so at the end of the year it probably evens out.
So I would be suprised if a tradesmen would get paid if he doesn't work.
Sorry if that upsets people who are struggling at the moment but thought you might be interested in the sort of ideas the general public have.

[lutonlagerlout]

I have always chased money bob, if anyone asks me how much i want to earn, i say "as much as i can"
why settle for less?
it always faintly amuses me when firemen,teachers and nurses moan about pay etc
if I have been unhappy with a pay rate, i jacked and went down the road for a fiver a day more.
regards LLL

[Pablo]

it always faintly amuses me when firemen,teachers and nurses moan about pay etc

I would use harsher words like f#cking annoys me and the like.

[lutonlagerlout]

i respect all public employees and the great job they do,but everyone comes into the world nekkid,and you make your own choices
I know a fireman,and he says "best job in the world"
well it cant be. if you are always moaning about the money and working in a betting shop in the afternoons
believe me if the building game stopped paying me what it does now,i would be gone
I know that may sound arrogant but when i started work in electronics,i spoke to 30 yr old qualified electronic engineers who were on 200 quid a week
I thought "sod that,the old man is on 250 on the hod"
so i jacked and went on the hod
I think the main thing for public sector workers is the pension schemes, for small builders its not worth having one, the costs outway the benefits
the only pension worth having for us lot is a rental property,something you can do up in your spare time and (hopefully) will give you an income in your dottage
either that or the kids put you in a home, and drink the money :;):
LLL

[seanandruby]

After the last recession i (like many others) swore i'd never put myself in the position of not being able to pay debts etc. Guess what.......? If there are any young lads out there who are suffering. Just take a bit of good advice, when you are sat in the pub etc, think do i really need another pint. Plan for the future lads, even if you just put a few quid away each week for times like this.

[GB_Groundworks]

well said sean, i don't have credit or credit cards. if i can't afford it i don't have it. sat in the pub the other night lads were talking i have 16k credit limit, i have 26k in my wallet etc, i said i haven't got one.

i drink bitter at my local which has won real ale pub of the year a few times over, 4 of us in a round drinking a variety of local beers £8.60 a round for 4 . proper nice pub old boys playing dominos, real fire on, dogs wandering around between tables.

http://www.travbuddy.com/The-Sheaf-View-Heeley-v3380

[seanandruby]

Many moons ago i lived in shirebrook rd, then moved down town by the viaducts and after that attercliff.

[GB_Groundworks]

i have a mate on shirebrook rd, attercliff now is all industrial pretty much no houses or anything left gone are the days of a pub on every corner down there to look after the steel workers. its basically a big industrial estate.

there is a swingers club down there though! better explain how i know that haha our underground club is called club 60 the swingers club is called club 160 had a few occasions when people have gone wrong haha

[rab1]

bet you dont turn the swingers away Giles ??? .

on a serious note was pulling in 48k per year 2yrs ago, now 25k. seriously pissed off but whats out there? just glad to be in work.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

was the 48 k for laings

[GB_Groundworks]

i got offered to go back to munich on 65k euro a year plus company car audi A6 /bmw 5 series etc but at 48% tax and sat in an office 12 hours a day starring at 3 computer screens wasn't for me. my old mentors out there has just been made redundant got 1000 euros for every month he'd been at the company. he'd been there 10 years. plus full pay till march and doesn;t have to go in. not a bad good bye.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

what did you do in germany giles

[rab1]

cht, the heating and vent side. going to be bumped next coupe of weeks due to lack of work. got job lined up but their no money in it, but its work.

[GB_Groundworks]

what did you do in germany giles

enterprise unix server engineer for Sun mircosystems

basically huge servers that government, military, banks, oil companies and researchers use like 3 million quid each some as big as garden sheds with 120 cpu's in them.

was fun we could log on to servers in uzbeckistan and fully controll them for the oil companies out there.