Do you get the feeling that
Jan 23rd 2004 | 2:47 am
#16
Gone Senile Member
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 3,014
From: Sydney
Originally posted by Mummy
Still not 100% decided. Either Sydney or Melbourne. Would prefer Sydney as have some friends who have offered to babysit! No, seriously it depends where Daddy gets a job. Out of those two cities though because of IT needs.
Mummy
Still not 100% decided. Either Sydney or Melbourne. Would prefer Sydney as have some friends who have offered to babysit! No, seriously it depends where Daddy gets a job. Out of those two cities though because of IT needs.
Mummy
Money for living in both cities is foremost - you learn to love the rest.
PS from a confirmed, I am going to Melbourne never a doubt, visited, loved it, liked it.........
living in Sydney, after spending 10 hrs here in 98, 6 of them in a pub! Sydney was where the job was and the money?
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Jan 23rd 2004 | 2:51 am
#17
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Re: Do you get the feeling that
Originally posted by bundy
Oooohhh, I'll join in on that one just as soon as I hand in my notice on 27 Feb!
Oooohhh, I'll join in on that one just as soon as I hand in my notice on 27 Feb!
Good luck - bet there's at least one person you want to punch !
Jill
Jan 25th 2004 | 6:49 pm
#18
She's a bird, you know
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 7,655
From: Yorkshire
Re: Do you get the feeling that
Originally posted by Go Banana's !!
It's killing me not to say anything, but I thought it would be a thread with laughter and tears !!
Good luck - bet there's at least one person you want to punch !
Jill
It's killing me not to say anything, but I thought it would be a thread with laughter and tears !!
Good luck - bet there's at least one person you want to punch !
Jill
Jan 25th 2004 | 8:25 pm
#19
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 11,149
Re: Do you get the feeling that
Originally posted by Mummy
My hubby hates his job. He was made redundant 18 months ago and was forced to take this job as we needed the money. He has been unable to find another job since (he is in IT). He has just been told by his company that he has been given a £1500 pay rise and a £1000 bonus. Very nice, thankyou very much. They also want to make him a "senior" this year. But they have also told him that the 4 weeks of courses he needs to attend for his MSc need to come out of his own annual leave/unpaid leave/flexitime rather than company paid for training time, even though the courses are of benefit to the company as well as him.
I am on maternity leave until May. My company has a regrading structure put in place last April (rate for the job) and my grade was split into three. Needless to say I was not happy with the grade I had been put in as it meant that I would get no pay rise . . . ever. I appealed against my grading, on the grounds that I had been put into that grade because of my current salary and not because of my level of skill and experience. My appeal was rejected. I appealed against the appeal decision. This too was rejected and they told me that "It would appear that your job has changed significantly since April, and we suggest that you go for merit promotion to the grade that you are seeking". My job was exactly the same. Merit promotion involves being interviewed by the executives of the company, who have absolutely no idea what it is that you do. I was told that my interview is best conducted after I return from maternity leave. The whole company has just awarded a 2% pay rise to everybody (the first pay rise in 4 years) and 5% to everybody who is currently paid below their rate for the job threshold (i.e. not me). If my merit promotion interview had been before I went on maternity leave, or indeed they had just accepted my appeal in the first place then I would have got 5%.
So, on balance, we are still moving to Oz as it can't be worse can it? (What do you mean we may move out and not be able to get a job, spend all our money on ill thought out dreams) A risk worth taking?? We think so. We are planning to leave this summer.
Mummy
My hubby hates his job. He was made redundant 18 months ago and was forced to take this job as we needed the money. He has been unable to find another job since (he is in IT). He has just been told by his company that he has been given a £1500 pay rise and a £1000 bonus. Very nice, thankyou very much. They also want to make him a "senior" this year. But they have also told him that the 4 weeks of courses he needs to attend for his MSc need to come out of his own annual leave/unpaid leave/flexitime rather than company paid for training time, even though the courses are of benefit to the company as well as him.
I am on maternity leave until May. My company has a regrading structure put in place last April (rate for the job) and my grade was split into three. Needless to say I was not happy with the grade I had been put in as it meant that I would get no pay rise . . . ever. I appealed against my grading, on the grounds that I had been put into that grade because of my current salary and not because of my level of skill and experience. My appeal was rejected. I appealed against the appeal decision. This too was rejected and they told me that "It would appear that your job has changed significantly since April, and we suggest that you go for merit promotion to the grade that you are seeking". My job was exactly the same. Merit promotion involves being interviewed by the executives of the company, who have absolutely no idea what it is that you do. I was told that my interview is best conducted after I return from maternity leave. The whole company has just awarded a 2% pay rise to everybody (the first pay rise in 4 years) and 5% to everybody who is currently paid below their rate for the job threshold (i.e. not me). If my merit promotion interview had been before I went on maternity leave, or indeed they had just accepted my appeal in the first place then I would have got 5%.
So, on balance, we are still moving to Oz as it can't be worse can it? (What do you mean we may move out and not be able to get a job, spend all our money on ill thought out dreams) A risk worth taking?? We think so. We are planning to leave this summer.
Mummy
