[QUOTE] ?40K, 35 hour, 4 day week.[/QUOTE] ....and how much annual holiday?
Only if I can say that the telesales call I recieved earlier from an Indian callcentre makes me an international trader in high demand.
Normally get busted down to cleaner - got, or had, a couple of ex- drivers cleaning trains at the Brighton depot. On drivers pay for a year I think.
Don't see why not - need to pass the assessments and training though. Usually stiff competition for vacancies.
It sounds better every time you describe it. If I was either unemployed or pissed off with my job I'd seriously consider applying for a job as a driver. They'd probably tell me to **** off but if you don't ask you don't get.
So that's six weeks, then? That's a longer "weekend" than the normal four day working week would imply...? I apply... where?
Two coffees and a tuna salad, although he was tempted by the "If you can read this, the bitch fell off!" t-shirt. I got a pair of paddock stands for £40 - I could have got a pair for £35 but they didn't seem as sturdy as the £40 ones, and these are black as well. I need a front stand and my other (normal) paddock stand has broken a wheel, so any bike on it tends to list a bit. The show was ok, but then I've not been to the NEC for years, and I only went because I got free tickets. It certainly wasn't as big as I remember it and most of the manufacturers had a good range of stands; Kawasaki, Suzuki, BMW, KTM, Triumph and even Norton. Ducati was poor (only the new Hyper Evo and the new Multi) and obviously Honda wasn't there at all. Dunno if there were any bargains as I wasn't there looking at the prices to buy anything, just wandering around for the fun.
£45 for turning up on a Sunday, plus the hours. If (when) they get their 33 hour week (for safety reasons, nothing to do with the lowered tax bracket, oh no), it would make sense that their OT be severely capped. But I can't see that happening. But gain free/heavily discounted rail travel, which with my new (secondment) commute is worth several thousand every year. Plus a couple of grand's worth of free parking permits. They have horrific start and finish times. But they also get job and knock at times. And paid taxis if they finish away from their 'base' station.
Much of motorcycling humour is really stuck in the 90s as was so much of the stuff at the show. Same old t-shirt slogans, same old multi coloured, plastic tat to bolt to your bike. Generic, lycra clad slappers handing out leaflets or posing with fat northerners while their drunken mates took pictures with shit phones. The stunt show where the only thing that changes each year is the music. It's a wheelie, a stoppie, a burnout or a variation on these three. I was genuinely disappointed to find there was absolutely nothing at the show which caught my eye or sparked any interest whatsoever. Tell a lie, quite liked the Speed Triple.
