27th May 2012, 10:08 AM
That said. This seems to follow the Per deim argument in America. where a crap hourly rate is bolstered by a per deim. where you can juggle it to try and increase basic pay.
People are getting a bit prickly here. (so thank you for abiding by AUP) and perhaps this is a sign of how you have to try and find any way to increase a pay packet that makes a Window Cleaner laugh into their buckets of soapy Water. ( again, no offence against Window Cleaners, they perform a useful task in society) #1 A Starter salary is over 18,000 !
So why do we have to find ways to enhance wages? Why do we accept 37.5 hour weeks and then end up working 40 ( but paid for 37.5) Why should one person with a car be able to glean a few extra pounds while another working next to them not?
We put up with so much and seem to believe in the following : Get by, Keep your head down, don't rock the boat, and take what you can - as well as look out for yourself.
Why do we have to have these discussions, because we are the ones that create the environment to allow it. Imagine a company trying to tender for a job at minimum cost on staffing.... then finding that nobody will work for them, because another company has put staff welfare first. Ah... a pipe dream sadly, because what people do is mutter that the company that pays well and provides all the extras as well as ensuring site accommodation and storage is of the highest standard and has an archaeological field strategy that actually takes into account the archaeology will NOT get the job. Therefore... when the company that wins the job, looks for staff... who will be on minimum (or less) asked to work extra hours ( for the good of getting the job done - nothing to do with under budgeted project! ) Gives you a cake on Friday... which you eat in the toolshed while sitting on the generator. Well guess what the Great British digger often do.
Yup.... they will mutter... better any job than none. :face-approve: and if I can squeeze an extra 13.2 pence a mile ! Whoo-hooo luxury.
Travel should be for travel not to increase a weekly rate to a liveable level.
#1 With regard to age and impact on salary for a Window Cleaner, a statistical average weighting (that is based on how salary varies by age and not for a specific job which may vary considerably) suggests these figures: ?18,114 for a worker in their 20s, ?23,669 (30s), ?28,017 (40s)
http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Window_Cleaner_11991
People are getting a bit prickly here. (so thank you for abiding by AUP) and perhaps this is a sign of how you have to try and find any way to increase a pay packet that makes a Window Cleaner laugh into their buckets of soapy Water. ( again, no offence against Window Cleaners, they perform a useful task in society) #1 A Starter salary is over 18,000 !
So why do we have to find ways to enhance wages? Why do we accept 37.5 hour weeks and then end up working 40 ( but paid for 37.5) Why should one person with a car be able to glean a few extra pounds while another working next to them not?
We put up with so much and seem to believe in the following : Get by, Keep your head down, don't rock the boat, and take what you can - as well as look out for yourself.
Why do we have to have these discussions, because we are the ones that create the environment to allow it. Imagine a company trying to tender for a job at minimum cost on staffing.... then finding that nobody will work for them, because another company has put staff welfare first. Ah... a pipe dream sadly, because what people do is mutter that the company that pays well and provides all the extras as well as ensuring site accommodation and storage is of the highest standard and has an archaeological field strategy that actually takes into account the archaeology will NOT get the job. Therefore... when the company that wins the job, looks for staff... who will be on minimum (or less) asked to work extra hours ( for the good of getting the job done - nothing to do with under budgeted project! ) Gives you a cake on Friday... which you eat in the toolshed while sitting on the generator. Well guess what the Great British digger often do.
Yup.... they will mutter... better any job than none. :face-approve: and if I can squeeze an extra 13.2 pence a mile ! Whoo-hooo luxury.
Travel should be for travel not to increase a weekly rate to a liveable level.
#1 With regard to age and impact on salary for a Window Cleaner, a statistical average weighting (that is based on how salary varies by age and not for a specific job which may vary considerably) suggests these figures: ?18,114 for a worker in their 20s, ?23,669 (30s), ?28,017 (40s)
http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Window_Cleaner_11991