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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: The Smiths on February 18, 2008, 00:48:13
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Well it is leap year again :).
Everyone gets an extra day :D
But if you are salaried then you do not get paid for working it :evil:.
Your annual salary split into 12 equal payments = nothing for working Feb 29 :twisted:
Hourly paid = extra day money :D.
Staff = should be annoyed :twisted:
Workers = extra money should be happy :lol:
Or should we have a national holiday on Feb 29 and make everyone happy, and it is only every 4 years :cool:
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29th national sickie day then :lol:
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29th national sickie day then :lol:
:dance: woohoo
It would be great wouldn't it, just the managers etc turn up :lol:
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National Trust have made it a Holiday for their staff.
As for the payment argument? if you get paid 12 equal installments, is that for 31 days, or 30 days - and then of course Feb is only 28 days for three years.
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BE GRATEFULL You have a job!
unless you win the lottery, you cannot have it all.
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29th national sickie day then :lol:
:dance: woohoo
It would be great wouldn't it, just the managers etc turn up :lol:
It should be the managers having the day off - the workers get paid for it :lol:
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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.