Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ricardo
I hope they don't pay better than my firm, although that wouldn't be difficult. 
We get £120 approx for a week of 24/7 cover and O/T when we're out. |
It used to be $14 a day when I was last on call for ntl about 4+ years ago, that was a massive $98 a week. It might sound OK to people on low wages but remember that's 24/7 so all day Saturday $14 and all day Sunday $14.
They used to only give you a day off in lieu for a bank holiday if you were called out and worked over x amount of hours, I know we had that locally and it was the managers discretion and we had to keep quiet. You could spend all bank holiday sitting at home for $14 a day and not get time off in lieu if you didn't get called out, I know other departments got $25 for the same and there was a big fuss about it. The worst part I hated was customer care would wake you up at 3am by calling your house phone when you weren't on call, they once said we are not sure who's on call can you tell us because we dont want to go waking everyone.
It was for a bl**dy switch fault that was nothing to do with me if I had been on call.
