The Dean

........... was an 'interesting' experience for this lady...........

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...cs-worker-bank

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...scist-ideology

Irishbeekeeper

wow! nicely written and sadly sounds very close to the truth!
btw which bank is it?

scrubbedexpat141

I'm always really curious to see what the person looks like.

I reckon she's probably quite honest that some people in high-pressure jobs can act like massive knobheads and they're all out for themselves....but so what?

I'm offering good odds that she's a whiny individual who wouldn't be happy if they doubled her money and let her work from home. I mean....she chose to accept a job on a night shift earning 60%(ish) more and chose to accept that you can't have a break....(before anyone says anything, I don't care how hard it is to get a job in London drawing charts and graphs, if it was that shit she'd have left sooner).

Irishbeekeeper

financial constraints?

scot47

Another illustration of the horrors of wage slavery in post-modern Britain ?

scrubbedexpat141

24 quid an hour. As a contractor. If she's as smart as she says she is, it'll be sole trader / limited company paid. So that's 22% tax (give or take).

24 x 8hours = 192
5 day week = 960
48 weeks a year (she surely took some time off) = 46,080

- 22% = 35,942 annually, nett.
= 2,995.20 Per month, nett.

That's not shit money, which is probably why she chose to moan instead of leave.

old.sparkles

Except that it's only 4 days a week, and not guaranteed to work or be paid the full shift.

Patsy Stoned

Which is slightly over 16K dhs a month here...which , if it was "all in", would be considered an average salary here.

Kix

Have you ever got anything positive to say?

Or are you of the mentalist school of thought?

scrubbedexpat141

But that's freelance life...you get more cash in your pocket because you're not guaranteed work. It's definitely a choice.

Oh yeah, Londoners are peasants comparatively.

old.sparkles

Even if you allow for the four full shifts - £2400 a month is not the greatest of wages in London

scrubbedexpat141

That's after tax remember, I reckon that equates to about 45-50k gross, in a PAYE job.

I absolutely guarantee that it's perfectly livable to a nice standard, even in London.

old.sparkles

See the posts above - it was £46k gross with an assumption of 40 hour week. On 4 nights (32 hr week I know) it'll be £37k gross which is pants for a permanent nights job in London - and if its a family trying to live off that wage it will be a struggle

scrubbedexpat141

Sorry I meant as PAYE not on a ltd co / sole trader. I took a stab in the dark, to nett 2,400 a month as a normal employee somewhere you need to earn (as you say) about 37/38k.

Family - makes it a different situation altogether, which we don't know about....but folk do it.

old.sparkles

Definitely - but I'm sure if I could find something else for the same money I wouldn't be working nights in a bank in London