Turned up at the orifice today to find my first payslip on my desk today :D

Nice feeling! Now i just gotta find my bank card so i can spend it lol

Does this mean that you wull now pay back all that money I lent you? With the 78.9% interest on the original £50, you now owe me £4779.38 ;)

Yes mate, call that gay chat number you asked for and "big Ben" will see you right :D :thumb:


The thread was started in jest to simply take the pish out of myself for the fact I'm on approx £3.17 an hour but enjoying life again.

It may doube next year to just over min. wage :norty::eek:

Self respect is worth more to your well being than a big bank balance mate. Hang in there... what life has planned for you next year if you keep working hard may amaze you!

How can you be on 3.17? That's less than minumum wage?

When I said about the weekly wage I was serious......so I don't really understand!

That's my boy!!! Congrats Andy, now you're a man my son! :thumb:

Great news COB, congratulations and well done. Bet you feel good about that too.

Les :)

Well done mate.

I wonder if Matteeboy can resist coming back to post his wage slip up?

How come you are under the min wage requirements ?

Nice one cob. You wear your heart on your sleeve in here somewhat and have been on the end of some pretty harsh treatment for it in the past, but fair play to you for keeping focused and getting that job and posting this thread must have felt sweet.

He's an Apprentice

:D

Congratumalations Mr CoB :thumb:

Well done mate - onward and upward.

Now you can spend your own money on sex and drugs - just like me ;) ;)

so which one is he exactly -- surely not that git on the right

He'll be off to the stores for a long weight and some sky hooks then

and to the post office for an Artistic Licence

Ah yes, reminds me of the time I sent the new young lad for a long stand.... He came back with a 3 metre long steel stand :brickwall

Employers don't have to pay you while you are "trained". In fact you can be in "full-time" training and never earn a dime while you try to prove your worth :( Something a friend of mine has just found out to his cost. Some sh1tter of an employer kept dangling a really nicely paid job in front of him, only after working for 6 months for no pay they took on another trainee instead :mad:

Nice one COB, onwards and upwards.

I'm an apprenctice engineer, so I am entitled to an apprentice wage like anybody else, i.e. £50 a week or more dependant on employer. I started the apprenticeship the day before my 25th birthday so fall into the 16-24 group.

Unless you have some material which I can use to demand more money :idea:

Erm... yes it did actually. Shame being, some of the real "haters" (apologies for the Americanism) were quick to jump down my throat and send me abuse but yet when something goes right through hard graft they are nowhere to be seen. Leslie picked up on this in a previous thread some months back I believe. Thats the real sweet feeling.

Fair play for learing a new skill!

Good luck.

He still needs to work on his coffee making skills though :D