Basically for what i do i'm paid feck all (isn't it always the case), (£5.25 per hour, 40 hour week)
With recent cost of living increases i'm now stuck with a decision to make
1. Stick with it until the end of September
2. Start applying elsewhere i.e. Tesco...
3. Attempt to get some sort of payrise from my boss
Now seems simple enough right?
However, throw into the fray that the company has 3 employees in day to day, it was previously 5
1. The director
2. The office manager
3. The stores manager
4. The store man
5. The driver
Now, due to various reasons, 3, 4 and 5 have left, at which point i entered (having done little bits here and there when needed)
So now there is:
1. The director
2. The office manager
3. me
So everyone has defined roles that are unchanged except mine...
So i have basically taken over 3, 4 and 5 but on nowhere near the money of any of them...
Petrol is now costing me £50 every 2 weeks due to the distance every morning and night (~42 miles per day)
Which obviously throws running costs of the car into consideration, which were also highlighted at the weekend when a rear brake lining fell off and binded the wheel causing me to be rather stuck in the middle of the road...
Finally managed to get the drum off [then obviously saw the problem] then i got my dad to take me to the local motorspares (~20 miles round trip)
New pads @ £17 (which isn't too bad, as i'd rather have the brakes be right than cheap crap...)
So my low wage is starting to get to me TBH...
My problem is, is that the director [who i will have to go to for a pay rise] is some what of a dictator and everything has to be done his way, and he doesn't like the be told that he is wrong or what to do...
So if i waltz in and request a payrise it will more than likely put his nose out of joint and he'll throw back a comment like "but we're already paying you above minimum wage", which is true but it is the youth rate, which hardly anywhere actually uses...
I'm considering going all out and requesting a jump to £7.23 per hour, which is what i deem to be the appropriate point for the work that i do...
Now i know full well that things go down the pan when i'm not there, as i'm the only one that knows where everything is... That was highlighted when i booked a day off for the LAN to get everything sorted, and ended up at work to help out because it "was really busy", which to be fair it was a slightly busier day, nothing out of the ordinary that we don't get all of the time...
For example today, a few pallets came in the van was up for MOT, customers in and out etc etc.
And i'm getting moaned at for doing things in the wrong order... Eh?
I wasn't given an order, the job i was putting up i was doing so to actually make some space to continue with other things...
To which he just kept saying job whatever needs delivering in the morning you need to be on with that... So what about the stuff that needs delivering today?...
Grrrrrrr!!!
I think i've answered my own question... Ask for a payrise and apply elsewhere...


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