[Miss Ivy Balls]

Originally Posted by King Herod

Retail workers here are among the lowest paid, with some shop assistants who work in the West End of London earning as little as £13,000 per annum for 40 hours a week, which is subject to tax and national insurance, commuting fares etc.

Tell me about it.

I work doing restuarant and bar work.

I don't have set day and just go in whenever they need me really as I don't do anything else, although I am guaranteed a Wednesday shift.

Worked 47 hours last month and got £231.24!!!

£4.92 an hour.

So if I did that many hours in just a week, which would be more than full time then I'd get £231.24!!

The worst thing about it is that someone who works at the same place gets £6.00 an hour and they're the same age as me. Neither of us work full time and yet I'm on minimum wage and she's not. My boss didn't tell me this, obviously, but this girl in question did when I worked with her one day.

To piss on the chips, I don't even get paid on time. One month I didn't receive my wages until my next months wages were ready, meaning I was owed two months wages at once. I've never known a restuarant/bar to pay people monthly anyway as most people do it for the easy money, and lots of people come and go in that type of work.

This months wages I didn't receive in full and only got half, but because I'm soft I agreed to half and said I'd pick the other half up when I come in next. Apparently the wages weren't ready or some other stupid accuse, despite me asking on the 7th of the next month when I should have been paid at the end of the last month.