Work Available; Flyering in Shoreditch. From Now

At least cans of worms are fairly cheap these days.

I wasn't offended, Epifania, so don't worry about me. Offence, like newspapers, is something I don't take :)

In 1980 I was an apprentice electrician on 89p an hour, wow I was minted lol

You could buy a lot of mints for 89p in 1980.

you won't want to read this then

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S.A._minimum_wages

My son was in Florida working for $4.20 an hour as he was tipped when it was 2 for 1 so basically £2.10p an hour.......

I get the kind of reverse effect when people tell me that they earn x hundred thousand a year - I can't quite believe that it's possible to firstly do something that pays that much, and secondly that people can actually get shot of that much too.

Exactly. People can only stomach so many mints.

I put a vacancy on jobcentreplus recently and (with hindsight foolishly) included my mobile number. Withing 30 minutes of the vacancy being posted I had 8 phone calls. I got them to pull the number and requested email applications only. Got over 100 of them including applicants from as far as Aberdeen.

You could buy a lot of mints for 89p in 1980.

I can't remember the price of mints as I was more interested in Snakebites ;o)))

Dear Epifania,

What is your address? I would LOVE to send you my last few payslips from Creative Couriers. I think you would find it highly entertaining reading, I certainly laughed (or was it cried? I can't recall).

Yours truly,

Ms. Attack

I've got one where I paid 4 pounds to work. I only went in one day that week and was paying off my radio deposit at the time, £25 a week, I earnt £21 that day.

I don't look at my payslips, the only thing it has the potential to do is depress me.

In 1980 I was an apprentice electrician on 89p an hour, wow I was minted lol

wow. i was on £1 an hour tax free washing cars and bottling up in a pub in 1985, i guess i was lucky.

one thing that amazes me about wages in the u.k. is the amount of cars in the £22-£35k bracket that are on the roads, it seems odd that people are prepared to spend so much of their salary on a car so they can sit in slow moving or stationary traffic all day.

Epifania; those figures for the US are indeed accurate. The minimum wage there is worth less than when Jimmy Carter was president. And that's no accident; that's what Reagan's 'trickle down' economics really meant; take from the poor and give to the rich. A policy continued under Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush 2. There are millions of Americans who work full time and cannot afford to feed their families or pay for health insurance. Let's see what the figures are after Obama's first term.
And of course the Conservative party in this country opposed the minimum wage. Anyone who thinks that Labour has made no difference - for all it's egregious failures - should remember that. 'Class war' is not just an empty slogan.

My first job was crushing crates behind a greengrocer's shop for 60p an hour. I was fifteen years old. When I ran out of crates to crush I would have a 'rest' and my thoughts would turn to a girl in the year above me called Helen Robertson. 1p a minute.

She was cheap.

wow. i was on £1 an hour tax free washing cars and bottling up in a pub in 1985, i guess i was lucky.

one thing that amazes me about wages in the u.k. is the amount of cars in the £22-£35k bracket that are on the roads, it seems odd that people are prepared to spend so much of their salary on a car so they can sit in slow moving or stationary traffic all day.

1985 I had finished my apprenticeship and was on at least £4.50p an hour lol

She was cheap.

She was a lady.

YouTube - Harry Enfield - Considerably richer than you

She was a lady.

Did you tip?

Did you tip?

'Arf a sixpence. Better than 'arf a farthing.

i get paid £6.50 for my shop job. £6.50 for a flyering job is pretty good.

I get the impression that in some industries , eg care homes, the mimimum wage has become the maximum wage ; especially for agency staff. IF you are interested , then there's a good book by Polly Toynbee on what its like living on the mimimum wage and the unintended consequences of its introduction. She spent six months doing it and living in a flat on the Clapham Park estate as well.

See also catering, where tips are supposed to pay part of your minium wage.

Bump. Still work (especially tonight) available. PM me soon