Rip off Plumbers

[advancemaintenance1]

horrendous why aint everyone being fair irrespective of the current state of affairs. a fair price is a fair price anyone who uses a national advertiser as a benchmark is a robber to me im happy wi £25 an hour on the best jobs im also happy wi £ 20 an hour all the other times





greed is gluttony

 

[conny]

horrendous why aint everyone being fair irrespective of the current state of affairs. a fair price is a fair price anyone who uses a national advertiser as a benchmark is a robber to me im happy wi £25 an hour on the best jobs im also happy wi £ 20 an hour all the other times





greed is gluttony

Flipping 'eck!

I'm a trademan and I'm on half that lower figute!

 

[advancemaintenance1]

if your happy wi that and you do a good job who else can slate you its about £6 an hour min wage as long as your charging more than that and you are happy so what however id struggle massively at that price what wi runnin the van liability ins bus runnin costs and so on im far from greedy and think im giving a quality service at a quality price as im sure you are conny

 

[Blasphemous]

horrendous why aint everyone being fair irrespective of the current state of affairs. a fair price is a fair price anyone who uses a national advertiser as a benchmark is a robber to me im happy wi £25 an hour on the best jobs im also happy wi £ 20 an hour all the other times





greed is gluttony

Flipping 'eck!

I'm a trademan and I'm on half that lower figute!

WHAT? You joking conny?

 

[conny]

Nope.

I am not self employed, I work for what is now a multi national company doing electric motor repairs.
Last year we had to take a 3½% pay cut and no pay rise which effectively cut us about 5½%. On top of that our regular Saturday morning O/T was kicked into touch unless absolutely necessary. My actual hourly rate is £10.86 for 40 hours a week and then every 7th week I get £75 stand-by allowance, (taxable). If I get called out in the night I get a minimum of 4 hours at double time.

 

[Blasphemous]

Nope.

I am not self employed, I work for what is now a multi national company doing electric motor repairs.
Last year we had to take a 3½% pay cut and no pay rise which effectively cut us about 5½%. On top of that our regular Saturday morning O/T was kicked into touch unless absolutely necessary. My actual hourly rate is £10.86 for 40 hours a week and then every 7th week I get £75 stand-by allowance, (taxable). If I get called out in the night I get a minimum of 4 hours at double time.

Jeeze mate I hope the barstewards make good in the end. Either that or you get yourself fixed up with something better. Having said that, I know money isn't everything and you may well be very happy where you are.

 

[Norcon]

The thing is conny will still have a job when the people who demand more will be out of a job. Have seen a few examples of that recently.
The snail always wins.

 

[conny]

Well we are a small workforce in our branch but most of the time a happy one. The cut was across the whole board, employees, managers and executives alike in every branch. I'm 2 miles from home so can easily walk or cycle there, (weather permitting ), and often get to do some driving which I enjoy. I'm also able to diversify my skills by doing other trades around the branch such as in house maintenance, yearly equipment inspection etc and am now a H&S rep for the branch so get consulted on ways to improve things.
Other firms in the same line of work are paying more, (not much but a bit), but because it is a specialised trade, (rewinding side anyway), and there is a recession still on there are not many places taking on.
So all in all I'm quite happy but a bit more money wouldn't go amiss.