Easy Come, Easy Go
 

To my surprise I have been awarded a pay rise, I do feel like I have earnt it but had resided myself to the fact that there is no money this year anywhere..So very grateful and surprised.

I thanked the director and merilly carried on about my way.


the next day I cheerfully ran Catherine's car to the mechanic to have a vibration fixed, a little Y reg 1.2 16 v Auto which had been serving here well for 2 and a half years now,

Outcome.. Both drive shaft inner CV joints shot, because the gearbox output bearings from the diff are bolloxed.....

thats a £1400 repair bill on a £1500 car which is due and MOT in a month...

Thats the payrise and some blown on replacing the car then....

still... easy come.. easier go...

:)

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Well done on the rise... the emrgency budget, after the election will more than scoop the pot too.

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Better to have the extra money to cover the cost (this year) ....

Well done ...

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Lucky you, ive had to take a 20% paycut this year with no sign of that going back up for at least a year and possibley might face redundancy.

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12.5% for me june last year...no sign of ever getting it back. Ironically I am run off my feet and dont have enough time in the day to do the workload that I am currently working with. Car policy has also changed to complete crap car and crap mileage rate all in the name of the environment.

I am earning the company 600% my salary now and getting nothing in return.

The partners have been buying some very nice new cars though, which completely go against the nice new environmental car policy.

:rolleyes:

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Woo and yay for the pay rise! :-D

Crap about the car! :-(

I've just found out today I'm getting a 10% pay rise effective 1st May :-D..... so say I've been high or day is an under statement! ;-) Long over due from the extra work I took on last june!

Sorry about the pay cuts others are taking, that's crap news :-(

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great stuff..

I didn't know weather to post re the pay rise with the current environment, I do know I am very lucky and was desperately hoping to get some money in the bank as a back up, not as likely to happen now. Still Very gratefull for everything.

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Nice one on the pay rise. It's not something heard often in the current economic climate. No pay rise for me but I did get a bonus (Waitrose yearly bonus for partners ;))

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Yes my Director bought himself a £100k Merc SLK about 3 months before they decided we had to take the paycut.