No one working over the Christmas holidays this year then??

[Engineer54]

I'm surprised no-one has come on to the forum telling us how many thousands of £££ they will be making this year!! lol!!
I can remember last year i think it was, when one guy was insisting his mate was going to make £13K for a week of being on call.

Any better takers for this year?? lol!!

 

[7029 dave]

Lucky him!!, I am on call boxing day for 13p. lol

 

[GMES]

I can beat that, I am charging 1 million pound for xmas day, because that is what it will cost anybody who wants my services on the day.

 

[Robotstar5]

There was a waiting list to work safety cover at Rover, Longbridge over christmas, go in for 2 hours and get paid 4 hours at treble time! the routine was clock in, have a cup of tea, do a walkaround of the building, another cup of tea then clock out .

Where I work now has a 5 shift crew who are rostered on as part of their normal shift pattern so no big premium payments.

 

[Octopus]

Well, for me to go out they need a big problem and deep pockets or need to be one of my "regular" older clients and they just may get an Xmas freebie.

 

[Engineer54]

There was a waiting list to work safety cover at Rover, Longbridge over christmas, go in for 2 hours and get paid 4 hours at treble time! the routine was clock in, have a cup of tea, do a walkaround of the building, another cup of tea then clock out .

Where I work now has a 5 shift crew who are rostered on as part of their normal shift pattern so no big premium payments.

As far as i'm aware, where rostered work patterns include Public Holidays, then premium payments are still payable for those day's. Maybe not at the same rates as you describe at Rover, but certainly a minimum of time and a half....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

friday....

got to get some lighting finished.....and a cooker supply...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

There was a waiting list to work safety cover at Rover, Longbridge over christmas, go in for 2 hours and get paid 4 hours at treble time! the routine was clock in, have a cup of tea, do a walkaround of the building, another cup of tea then clock out .

Where I work now has a 5 shift crew who are rostered on as part of their normal shift pattern so no big premium payments.

and this is the reason british industry is knackt..

 

[GMES]

There is far more to life than work, just put your feet up grab a can of beer and some snow in a can and unwind iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttsssssssssssss christmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssss

 

[telectrix]

i'm on call for emergencies. doubt will get any. who knows? had 1 call last year, boxing day.

 

[thekingiam]

got a call out just now was just about to grab a beer! disconnect outside supply as tripping rcd in weather just around corner. was thinking £60 call out for inconveniance.job to finnish off friday as for working xmas day still undicided may pick up phone for simple fault finding not garaunteeing i will be sobber custommer can drive me there and back and need to beg and 100 pound call out

 

[Chris sparky]

Just got a call out. Dont usually do them but for a letting agency who pass quite a bit my way so going to pop out and do it today. Roof leaking from the weather last night into a light fitting. Just want it isolated/made safe till roofer can repair. I'm not getting my hopes up but im planning to retire early off the back of this lol

 

[danzor]

Got a shut down at some lab, back on the 27th. Until then I'll be to drunk to drive

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Got a shut down at some lab, back on the 27th. Until then I'll be to drunk to drive

does this mean your already too drunk to spell?

 

[Brightspark2]

Finished yesterday, only calls out until january...


Cant work over christmas, got to keep staff morale up!...


Plus they'd only end up like this...

 

[ifindoubtdont]

On call 24/7/365 (If the price is right)

 

[JD6400]

I'm surprised no-one has come on to the forum telling us how many thousands of £££ they will be making this year!! lol!!
I can remember last year i think it was, when one guy was insisting his mate was going to make £13K for a week of being on call.

Any better takers for this year?? lol!!

I remember the one , it was posted by fuzzydunlop and he reckoned his mate was going to get 18k for three days cover !

It was a reply in a thread that I had started , to moan about getting a callout at about half ten at night on Christmas Eve which was 130 miles away back down in Bucks .
I then had one come in on Christmas morning as well !

 

[moospark]

Just done a 30 mile round trip to do a freebie for a little old lady, my physics teachers widow. Christmas Karma.

 

[Rockingit]

Must admit..I advertise 24/7 and when my phone went about half an hour ago with an unknown number my heart sank. Good job it turned out to not be a call-out, I hate to disappoint people.

Anyone want my recipe for Zummerzet mulled shiider? Hic!

 

[Marvo]

You must be drunk if you're offering to give away your cider recipe

We have a lot of regular clients so we cover emergencies over the holidays but we charge preminm rates home to home and we have the final say if it's an emergency or not. Some of our clients are in Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia so a call out is usually at least a 2 day affair.