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Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Still on a temporary contract, i don't particually mind, they can't make me full time until contracts have been signed with their customers...and theyre playing hardball.
Dont work in an industry that supplies supermarkets....you're on a hiding to nothing.
The industry has changed beyond belief in the last 20 years, ive seen the erosion of rights, terms and conditions, pay, holidays, hours, everything, all in the name of allowing the supermarkets to make monstrous amounts of profit,
No overtime pay on weekend working is almost the norm now.
Saturday and Sunday working is considered normal now, even compulsory.
There are no set hours for many within the industry. Many can get sent home after 4 hours if its quiet, if its busy, you stay till its finished. That may mean starting at 6am...finishing at 7 or 8 pm.
Bank holidays dont exist. While everyones out enjoying themselves, you will almost certainly be working.
Absolute minimum holiday entitlement....and fat chance of you getting holidays when YOU want them, nooo, that'd be giving you something YOU want.
I'm lucky, my hours are regular barring breakdowns when i will stay till its working, i only work one in three weekends (which means 12 days on the trot although weekend days are only 5 hours each), i get left alone and treated with some respect...but for normal labour, they're treated like cattle with no rights. Disgusting really.
Management in the industry ?...i wouldnt touch it with a bargepole. If you want to get on, or get there in the first place, you have to sacrifice your personal life altogether...ALL the management in my company work longer hours than almost everyone else...there at the start, there till the end.
I still get paid 'ok' but i'm earning less now than i was 8 years ago...some of that is because of the recession, some is partly the unending drive to cut costs...so the supermarkets can make more profit.
I like my job, i hate the industry. its stressful at times, there's too many hours at times, its boring at times, but its never the same hour to hour, let alone week to week. You never know what the day will bring.
I'd like to get out of the food industry for all the reasons above. God rot the balls off the supermarkets, we've all sacrificed so much so they can maximise profit...but my skills and experience is what ive got.
Dont work in an industry that supplies supermarkets....you're on a hiding to nothing.
The industry has changed beyond belief in the last 20 years, ive seen the erosion of rights, terms and conditions, pay, holidays, hours, everything, all in the name of allowing the supermarkets to make monstrous amounts of profit,
No overtime pay on weekend working is almost the norm now.
Saturday and Sunday working is considered normal now, even compulsory.
There are no set hours for many within the industry. Many can get sent home after 4 hours if its quiet, if its busy, you stay till its finished. That may mean starting at 6am...finishing at 7 or 8 pm.
Bank holidays dont exist. While everyones out enjoying themselves, you will almost certainly be working.
Absolute minimum holiday entitlement....and fat chance of you getting holidays when YOU want them, nooo, that'd be giving you something YOU want.
I'm lucky, my hours are regular barring breakdowns when i will stay till its working, i only work one in three weekends (which means 12 days on the trot although weekend days are only 5 hours each), i get left alone and treated with some respect...but for normal labour, they're treated like cattle with no rights. Disgusting really.
Management in the industry ?...i wouldnt touch it with a bargepole. If you want to get on, or get there in the first place, you have to sacrifice your personal life altogether...ALL the management in my company work longer hours than almost everyone else...there at the start, there till the end.
I still get paid 'ok' but i'm earning less now than i was 8 years ago...some of that is because of the recession, some is partly the unending drive to cut costs...so the supermarkets can make more profit.
I like my job, i hate the industry. its stressful at times, there's too many hours at times, its boring at times, but its never the same hour to hour, let alone week to week. You never know what the day will bring.
I'd like to get out of the food industry for all the reasons above. God rot the balls off the supermarkets, we've all sacrificed so much so they can maximise profit...but my skills and experience is what ive got.
). I am finding it hard to keep a smiling face for customers which I keep getting pulled for and frequently get told that I look knackered. I long for regular 9-5 shifts but no-one has a chance of getting anything close to that there.
) so on first glance I don't look like the ideal candidate but I will see what comes up in the next months.
