Never mind the extra day's work for nowt once every 4 years it's the 3 hours a day you're expected to work for nothing when you're salaried that used to annoy me .
I remember a conversation we had at a plastics factory I used to work at, the pattern shop manager had just worked through a weekend, again and for nothing."If we got paid by the hour, this company would go bust" he said
"No, if we were paid by the hour, we'd go home at 5 o'clock like the shop floor do" came the reply.
And that's the truth of it, a salaried position should be a perk, a reward or somethin to aspire to but in truth it's a con. The paid sick days/holidays that is used to ensure are now governed by law and with the rise in the minimum wage it's hardly worth taking a job with responsibility. In that place one of our technicians worked out that for the hours he had to put in, he earned less per hour than the cleaners and the lads who came off the shop floor to work as quality technicians had to take a pay cut to do so.
