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£6k/yr 1985, graduate recruit ("Professional Engineer", no less) up at BT Research Labs. I have fond memories of living like a king when the incumbant union (STE) settled with BT after 18 months (I had been there 3) and I got a 25% pay rise and a wodge of backdated pay. -
First salaried job - £11,309 a year. Takehome pay was about £700 a month.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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GBP23.50 (plus any luncheon vouchers left over) as a YOP (Youth Opportunities Program, Thatchers idea to make sure that school leavers were not counted in the unemployment figures) computer operator on an IBM 370/168 back in '81“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Like the permies in here, same work, less responsiblities, but double the pay, and no team building, reviews etc.Comment
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I remember when my take home pay was...
The same as I get now... and I was a permy.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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You say that as if they were a bad thing but I did a TOPS course which got me into IT as it did plenty of others of my generation. Especially as I didn't have any academic qualifications.Originally posted by darmstadt View Post...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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For me it was actually a good thing as it got me to where I am now. Some companies used it as cheap labour which was wrong. There was a girl who started after me and she just used it as a way of not sitting at home and to get paid for doing diddley squat. I finished my 6 months and the company kept me on...Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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£34 a week, but it was a fab apprenticeship. There were a couple of welsh blokes in our year, I thought one might have been zeity but neither were green.Comment
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Those were the days
1971. My first temp labour job in the UK at 45p an hour living in a hostel at £7 a week. Lots of women and beer and nights out at the Marquee club in Wardour street all for £20 a week.
1973 Learned to lie, got a temp job at 90p an hour in an accounting department. I was now a well dressed man with petty coat lane clothing.
I am still temping exept now I call it Consulting.Comment
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Yep, a local double glazing company did that with YOPS lads. Cheap labour, let go of them when their term was up, and got another lot. He totally abused the scheme.Originally posted by darmstadt View PostBehold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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