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Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy -
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"Twelve months ago we were paying £525 for every thousand bricks laid - now it's more like £575-600.
"That's just barely going to get lads through the gate.
"Whereas if you needed people sharpish we would have to go up to £650.
"A good brickie can do a thousand bricks in a day - that's in a best case scenario with a labourer and just laying bricks 100 per cent flat out full time.
"Me and Gaz were in a gang ourselves - I was looking back at our bookings from 2007 and we were getting paid £300 per thousand bricks.
"So the rates have doubled - and we were still earning £800 a week back then."
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR -
Typical "headline not matching what was said" tabloid click-bait.Comment
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With 20% fixed tax for construction sector. Bookies and pubs must be racking it…Originally posted by SimonMac View PostComment
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How does that work????Originally posted by GigiBronz View Postmerely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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I thought it was an actual benefit but actually not. You overpay tax then get it back.Originally posted by eek View Post
vetran is right.Comment
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Seems people in IT think they somehow earn good pay, £600 a day is pretty standard for Southern England even for a plasterer or electrician.
First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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It's like deja vu all over again...
First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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Except we aren't getting up with the sparrows and doing hard physical labour in all weathers to earn it.Originally posted by _V_ View Post
I'm perfectly happy sitting on my arse in an air con office or at home and getting paid that thank you."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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