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dransy
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PostPosted: 12:13 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Just been offered a job ??? Reply with quote
Hi all im 19 . and last year i rang an agency up they took my details and siad they would get back intouch and they never did.

This morning i got a phone call from this agency asking if i was still looking for work i said yes .
They have offered me a job driving fork truck at £7.40 an hour , and for a 19 year old is fecking great , but its working nights and ive not worked nights before . I think she said its 10pm while 8:30am

What do you all rekon?
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Go for it mate. If its shifts like that its usually 4 on 4 off or a similar thing. For about the last year ive worked nights simply because i work less hours for the same money. I dont have a boss around. I sometimes sleep and i also play on my psp or watch a dvd Thumbs Up

Nights FTW

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byke95
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PostPosted: 12:19 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Re: Just been offered a job ??? Reply with quote
dransy wrote:
driving fork truck at £7.40 an hour


From my factory days I'm pretty sure fork lifters get paid more then that, so it looks like they're taking a big cut. That may be fair enough depending on your standpoint regarding them 'getting the job for you'. I'm pretty sure I was getting a bit more than that working nights for Nokia over 5 years ago.

Still, as you're only 19 it might be a useful 'stop gap' for some decent cash.
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dransy
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PostPosted: 12:21 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its my reech licence i have most of the jobs are between 5 -6.50 an hour on a job centre site so its not that bad , Its the teliscopic one thats like 9-10 quid an hour
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great pay but you wont have a life really sleeping all day and when your mates go out you cant as yuor working. Not putting a dampner on it i done night duty for a while myself. Its good pay then go for it! Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nights FTW. Thumbs Up

Night's are far better than days, it's quiet and pretty much no bosses around.
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Itchy
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Re: Just been offered a job ??? Reply with quote
byke95 wrote:
dransy wrote:
driving fork truck at £7.40 an hour


From my factory days I'm pretty sure fork lifters get paid more then that, so it looks like they're taking a big cut. That may be fair enough depending on your standpoint regarding them 'getting the job for you'. I'm pretty sure I was getting a bit more than that working nights for Nokia over 5 years ago.

Still, as you're only 19 it might be a useful 'stop gap' for some decent cash.


FLT wages are going down cus the job centre is offering free FLT courses to people on the dole (which normally cost £700 for a counter balance/reach) , such that they can pick and choose, often threatening dolees go or no dole for you!,

I used to drive a FLT sans licence piss easy its like a car but can turn in its own circle,
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Itchy
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Re: Just been offered a job ??? Reply with quote
dransy wrote:
Hi all im 19 . and last year i rang an agency up they took my details and siad they would get back intouch and they never did.

This morning i got a phone call from this agency asking if i was still looking for work i said yes .
They have offered me a job driving fork truck at £7.40 an hour , and for a 19 year old is fecking great , but its working nights and ive not worked nights before . I think she said its 10pm while 8:30am

What do you all rekon?


its good , compared to what your peers will do ie work in a super market for the youth min wage rate about £4.25? , look carefully at the shift patterns else you may kiss your social life good bye , which is why it pays a bit more than a stand warehouse job the anti social hours thing. £7/h translates to about £4.90 an hour after tax and NI
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yambabe
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PostPosted: 15:10 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Re: Just been offered a job ??? Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
£7/h translates to about £4.90 an hour after tax and NI


Depends how many hours worked but no it doesn't. Confused

50 hours @ £7.40 will get you a gross of £370, deductions on that will be about £90 leaving around £280 take-home which translates to £5.60 per hour after tax. Razz

On a wage of £7/hour it drops down to about £5.35 based on 50 hours.

You need a new calculator! Wink
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 06 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I did some night shifts during my gap year to cover different ongoing projects.
They were great fun Thumbs Up

Pootle around, do a bit of work. Watch Tv, listen to the radio. Most of the lads slept while there were cycles on (day shift there would always be more packing/unpacking and cleaning to do).

I would get in at around 9am, sleep until 1 then get up and have the afternoon to do as I liked. Most of our lads were on Continental shifts which is 4 days/nights on, 4 off, 3 on, 3 off. Which meant they had enough time during their breaks to have a 'normal' social life.
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