To every bookmaker opening tomorrow and Xmas Eve

very well put .... but calm down lass

I can't.. I'm seething, incan**ingdescent with rage... and all these cheese threads aren't helping my mood

glad i got out years ago.

complete skum.

Best of it is, most of the people going in them 2mrw wont notic there is no real racing.

Yeah you're right monmoreman... they'll say tut tut, shouldnt be open etc etc.. then stay all day gambling on FOBTs and virtuals

What dio you do now Gashwan?

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work the other side of the counter ;-)

Hahaa I like it.. If that's true amigo, all the best to ya.. I wish you luck... Happy Christmas folks...I'm off to get**sed

ps Gash If you meant you're the cleaner in the bookies, that's cool too :)

every betting shop staff I speak to that works for the big 3 only do 4 day weeks,

all employees any trade have options.

FIND A BETTER JOB

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BD. sadly that's what all the decent staff have done.

hence why the shops are full of clueless morons these days.

pay peanuts, get monkeys.

gashwan, 1961, start midday alternate days, finish 6.30. only 2 meetings a day midweek. wages £20 per week

2009 start 8.00am finish 10.pm about 200 races per day

loved it in 1961, the few days I worked my shop 2009 bored to tears.

knew it was time to get out

What would you be paid in 2009 , for the equivalent of £20 a week in 1961?

used to work 10.15 till 6.30. be in the pub by 6.31.

now 8.30 or 9am opening, some shops don'rt close till 10.00pm in winter!

complete joke.

epos ruined the whole industry. no skill to the job whatsoever now, so the firms are happy to make working conditions so bad that any old sckool staff are forced out.

£300

sorry £300 is current wage, should be equivalent £1200

£1200 :0

yeah tober but remember, 50/1 limit doubles 100/1 limit trebles 200/1 accas.

most races 140%, John Banks famous words, their money factories.

my firm had 20 shops cant remember a losing shop any week.

did high st. betting shops exist in 1961?

legalised in 61

Yes, we all know that opening when no racing is all about FOBT's.

Perhaps opening when there is racing is all about FOBT's.

You'd think they could afford their staff (and customers for that matter) a couple of days of before Xmas.

I to hope they do their Jackson Pollocks but we all know that isn't possible.

thanks gerbs

20 or so years ago no shop would lose, there was no internet gambling. It was the only way to bet, go to the bookies. Not any more.

Thank God for the Tote being open today. Saved me from a very heavy rain shower and from pis sing myself :-)

i work in a bookmakers...it's the second one i've worked for in 4 years, worked for pagebet for 6 months, paid really well, all the overtime i could want with no pressure to do it, and a very understanding and loyal company to their staff, our christmas rotas there were fair and the opening times round christmas were flexible and pretty much based on manager discretion. I know work for another company (had to leave pagebet as they were relocating the shop i was in to another part of the city and i wouldn't have been able to get home after closes (was told i could work mainly opens where possible but just didn't fancy all the travel). When leaving there within a day i got a call from a guy that had left to work for another company which will remain un-named. pagebet being manual at the time he knew i was trained well and epos would be a walk so went for a formality of an interview and got the job. The reason this second company i now work for will remain nameless is because of how they treat their staff(it isn't one of the big four which i've heard treat their staff well)...i have now cut my hours down to 16 from full time because of how bad it is and am currently looking for a new job. Due to my low hours i'm ok over christmas but my co-workers feel like they're being raped...managers are working christmas eve, boxing day, new years eve and day with no bonus incentive and no option for days off. Until i cut my hours i was regularly single maning for 12 hours a day with no breaks, although we got paid 11+1/2 as they bull you that breaks can be taken while quiet behind the counter as "you have to eat and we won't pay you for that". closing the shop to take a break is deemed gross misconduct...it makes using the toilet difficult! Our customers however understand what this is like so can be understanding...staff are greatful of this. Anyway this has been a long rant. sorry.

got out a couple of months ago - (AGAIN!) thank feck

why not name and shame them blinky?

(it isn't one of the big four which i've heard treat their staff well)

I work for the smallest of the Four, and I'm working Xmas Eve and Boxing Day for minimum wage.

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tote?

there's a big 3 imo.

betfred and tote don't make the cut.

Fred.

Actually, I'll elaborate on how we get treated like sh*te.

We had a "pay review" in October, and we got a letter saying that we wouldn't be getting a payrise. Given the economic climate (even though, imo, bookies are recession-proof), this was fair enough. However, the letter claimed that we weren't getting a payrise because football results had been going against the company.

Never mind what must have been the most profitable Grand National for years. Never mind Man Utd drawing with Sunderland/Liverpool constantly not obliging at odds-on/etc.

So yeah - minimum wage (flat rate, too; nothing extra for Sundays/bank holidays/Xmas/New Year). Thank **** the job itself is laughably easy. I'm not too bothered, because I'm in the final year of a law degree (I'm 21), and will be ****ing off post-haste. I just don't want my manager and assistant manager (both 23) to settle for this job for the rest of their lives!