Remember when a shelve stacker was a mugs job

still a mugs job though isnt it?

Maybe it's harder to stack a shelve than a shelf? Sorry, that was beneath me

The scary thing is, I imagine a decent proportion of those applications come from people with university educations.

Used to walk in they jobs

£8.50 not bad though

friend did it fairly recently as out of work
took him on 4 weeks for nowt job centre sent him
didnt get the job
got the next one for free

Not really a living wage though is it, if you've a family? Probably take home around £1,200pm, be approved for a £60K mortgage if you were lucky. OK for young people and empty nesters, I suppose.

Could never lower myself personally, you might as well wear a t-shirt saying "I have failed in life"

got a bad back then ?

How many would get the £8.50 an hour?

If you were a boss in the private sector you'd be looking to hire someone on £6.75 an hour who was worth £8.50.
Is the £8.50 in the advertisement simply a lure?

i act see anyone getting £8.50


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Could never lower myself personally, you might as well wear a t-shirt saying "I have failed in life"



You slate bob for being in dole and then say this

Shelf stacking was a mugs jobs when I worked at the pottery shop.

was you fired?

No I left after extreme boredom. I couldn't stop my eyes from glazing over.

Couldn't handle it, eh?

That's about right, plus the working conditions were awful. It was like working China.

These jobs used to be done on the night shift. Now there's even goods stacked on pallets in store

Definite minimum wage type of jobs are these.

£8.50 p/h in Aldi/Lidl stores more like, when you multitask all day long, doing the work of 2 people with little time to scratch yer arse.

N0'12 could be a retired sort. On here all hrs. Made millions from 40 years on the bins?

^ *when* you multitask

^ *Where* ffs

As a young teenager the goal was to work at "Woolies" in Leeds, on a Saturday.

Had to be fifteen and a half so, come that day, I was in there.

One pound, two shillings and sixpence, for the day.

It was stifling hot on the many good days that we had, back then, but the answer was to go and sit in the butter fridge to cool down.

The best days were being assigned to making the fantastic chicken and stuffing sandwiches, where we could eat as much of it as we wanted
(put that down to quality control).

I was minted! First stop after work was the tobacconist nearby. "Forty Albany please" which, I think, were three shillings and ten pence.

The canteen was brilliant. They did liver & onions and mash for twelve pence, and the most fantastic B&B pudding for four pence.

After I left I had lunch there many times as there was no security.

Woolies in Leeds ye say? I remember when all that were trees, my lad.

back in the 60s when I was a nipper I used to live in the docklands of  rotherhithe south London and the dockers had a café run by 3or 4 middle aged women  who knew how to cook , in the school holidays after 10.30 when the dockers had had their morning tea break  ,me and a few mates used to go in and it was as cheap as chips (subsidised ) the women used to pour unlimited tea ,pay for the first cup and have as many as you liked after one old dear was like mrs fecking doyle in father ted ,if you turned yer back she would fil the mug up with more tea ,she was like usain bolt scooting around the table ,us kids used to order bacon or sausage sarnies as the break fasts would make feckin desperate dan cry enough it was piled high , anyway whatever sarnie you ordered would also have a fried egg added weather you wanted it or not ! and the sandwiches would choke a donkey !
doorsteps about 4-5 inches high you had to push em down onto the plate to a managable size or you wouldn't have got em in your gob !
sometimes at around dinner time us nippers would just have a desert usually rice pudding with a skin as thik as a rhinos on the top ,or semolina and you would get about 5 or 6 big ladels full and it would fill you up for the rest of the day ..........glory days !

From my weekend job at 16-18 - If you get the toilet rolls or crisps it's fine. If you get pet food, it's too much like hard work!
I enjoyed that job in Tesco's years ago. There were around fifty 16-18 year olds and some lovely women.
A mate of mine met his wife there! The social side was great. A mate of my brothers took a trainee manager job and many took the
p1ss out of him a the time. Now he's on the verge of the board and probably earns more than any of us!

seems likely that £6.75 would be regular pay, £8.50 for working holiday periods and nightshifts.

first adulthood job for me was working at a bakery for 2 quid fifty an hour, 'bout 17 years ago.

Aldi's will pay that for shelf stacking but you have to go some

erse - bakery pay bottomed out by the 90s- when i  left school in the 80s bakery pay was phenomenal , treble pay for Sundays ,double fopr shifts and you were also paid for 12 hours when you worked 6 (it was 30 mins on and 30 mins off)

Coach, I was 16 and just doing the manual stuff (making rolls for about 5 hours and making pies for a couple more). The bakers were on pretty decent pay from what I remember, more like 8 quid an hour.

The guy I worked for was a bit of a charlatan anyway, he'd been in bother with previous failed attempts at running a bakery.

There were many indie bakers back in the day -  they indeed had varying reputations

Crisp77    03 Sep 14 15:02 
That's about right, plus the working conditions were awful. It was like working China.

Desmond Orchard    03 Sep 14 15:00 
Couldn't handle it, eh?

Crisp77    03 Sep 14 14:49 
No I left after extreme boredom. I couldn't stop my eyes from glazing over.

wit-ham    03 Sep 14 14:38 
was you fired?




Fick Kiln hell lads, you can do better than that.

I know. We've gone to pot.

^^^^ indeed.... if they got a job in a pottery pun factory they'd soon be back signing on the Doulton

Did yer eyes glaze over?

Aunty Post I worked in the Woolworths cafe in Leeds for about 12 months. Saturday only, I was in the 6th form at school then.

As you say the food was very good and me and a mate used to eat almost as much as we prepared,especially the battered fish and the sausage. It was a very popular cafe then.

I smoked then and after work we used to walk up to the old lewis's on the Headrow and buy the American cigs they sold in the speciality tobacconist. Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.

Be around 1970 can't remember the wage but it was decent when I was that age.

I really don't see the problems or why you describe it as a 'mug's job' (I hate that expression). It is the obvious place for a new starter to gather knowledge of the workings of the retail trade. I would guess that an enthusiastic person could be Head of Department or Store Manager within three years, and from there he/she could take their career in retail as far as they wished.
All you have to do it is to do the job well. The best managers will have a grasp of the whole of the industry, same as any other job.

I know a couple of chaps who do 2 nights a week £180. Then use their time off for other side interests as it were.  My neighbour did the same, she worked 5 days a week at an insurance brokers office for £260 and now does Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for a tenner more.  I did it for a while when I was made redundant in 2008.  Lucky for you guys on benefits but I couldn't afford to turn down a job which then paid me 16k a year (its 18k I am led to believe)I do find it a bit odd that people say their pride won't allow them to stack shelves but it will allow them to p!as over their jeans and dry them with a hairdrier before turning up at a job centre interview leading to a further increase in their time spent on the social.

Blooming auto correction, urinate over their jeans then

My first job was as a counter assistant in a coop department store. Was paid £7 per week for 5 and half days.
Nothing wrong with this type of job, gets you into the work ethic and is a notch on your CV.

My first job was Saturdays in Iceland.  I did a day and a half before deciding it wasn't going to work out.  The shop floor was baking hot, I was thirstier than a fish and had to stack drinks without being allowed to stop for one.  Shortly afterwards I got a cushy Saturday job in a family run mobile phone shop.  This was 13 years ago, when the fad was to have different covers for your phone.  £30 a day plus a fiver for lunch.  My boss used to get coffee and cakes too.  Happy days.

Out of the 100 applicants 99 of them ticked "non-british" on their application

lybertyne   
04 Sep 14 13:37 
My first job was Saturdays in Iceland.
The shop floor was baking hot, I was thirstier than a fish and had to stack drinks without being allowed to stop for one.

You can go for a drink of water whenever you need one. Obviously if you go over the top, like every 10 minutes, you will be spoken to by the nob in charge.

I went to Iceland once and it was fecking freezing

I can't envisage a job in Edinburgh paying £8-50p an hour.

The 'Living Wage' in London, the most expensive place to live, is only £8-80p an hour, but firms are not under any law to pay that much, unlike minimum wage, which is enforceable.

Obviously if they want the best staff, they need to pay the £8-80p.

'You pay peanuts, you get monkeys' is an old but often true adage.

Schalke. I'm surprised there weren't more local people looking for work. 99% of applicants non-British...just shows how much we need them. At least they are seeking work.

Perhaps all the whiteys already have jobs?