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On job im on at min two lads just started through agency both full jib electricians but couldn't find work so they are working as mates for £10.50 an hour 45hrs a week and got a 105 mile round trip every day to do:eek:
 
Wasn't electrical but.....

Security guard job in a lime-stone quarry for pilkingtons thru agency..

£3.24 an hour, 108 hours a week....

the shifts were 12 hours long and went like this:

3 shift back to back,
12 hours off
3 shifts back to back,
12 hours off,
3 shifts back to back again...

on occasion the middle shift would become 4 shifts back to back making a 120 hour week.

I was a student weghing in a 14.5stones and did the job for 6 weeks.... at the end of it for a medical i went to I weighed 8.5 stones standing at 6'2"..

**Happy Days** :rolleyes:
 
i started on 2 quid a week :eek: wouldnt get outa bed for less than 20 now thats just to get up not for the week :D
 
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