The Oldies Thread

[Brisan123]

We are in the era of more pay for less hours !!

I call them the entitled generation
Think they are entitled to everything and no need to work for it.
If half of them were x-rayed the doctors wouldn’t find a days work in one of them and a long lazy streak in everyone of them

 

[Brendan Janus]

I call them the entitled generation
Think they are entitled to everything and no need to work for it.
If half of them were x-rayed the doctors wouldn’t find a days work in one of them and a long lazy streak in everyone of them

I meant the type of profession where it is extremely high paid for very little work !!

 

[Brendan Janus]

Bob a job was all I ever did on a Saturday !!

 

[gonetomorrow]

The best paid job I ever had pound for pound was in the huge bottling hall of the old Scottish & Newcastle Brewery in Edinburgh in 1971. Constant overtime and your choice of beer along with the wage packet at weekend. I bought loads of albums the first week I was there. Cat Stevens, Stones etc.

 

[COYBL25]

Job a knock on a sat or Sunday
Get paid for 8 hrs and bust your testicles to get the job done in 6.
Although it was 14 hrs pay for sat and 16 for a Sunday

In the public sector, you worked a Bank Holiday and not only did you get double time, but you got the day back in lieu.

I don't think that happens anymore.

Slowly but surely every perk seemed to be eroded under the guise of " if you don't like it, there's plenty out there that want your job ".

 

[Blues Harp]

I call them the entitled generation
Think they are entitled to everything and no need to work for it.
If half of them were x-rayed the doctors wouldn’t find a days work in one of them and a long lazy streak in everyone of them

I relished going down t'mine for an 18 hour shift with no breaks, AND paying mine owner for t'privilege....and when we got 'ome our mums and dads would kill us and dance up and down on our graves.......you tell the kids today that, and they wouldn't believe you !!!!

 

[daza_1973]

Job a knock on a sat or Sunday
Get paid for 8 hrs and bust your testicles to get the job done in 6.
Although it was 14 hrs pay for sat and 16 for a Sunday

Late 90's early 2000's we used to get time and a half for the first four hours of a Saturday and double time from then on and double time before eight a.m Monday to Friday - looking now back a golden age...
Enter Credit crunch/ recession 2007 onwards to present -
we get time and a half only - needless to say - if I can I avoid overtime now

 

[Joey66]

Names, I need names.

Tesco,Morrisons or a bit dearer on Amazon!

 

[Milk]

I relished going down t'mine for an 18 hour shift with no breaks, AND paying mine owner for t'privilege....and when we got 'ome our mums and dads would kill us and dance up and down on our graves.......you tell the kids today that, and they wouldn't believe you !!!!

Luxury.

When I were a kid, my mam & da dug up my grave at 4am every morning and put me to work milking 't horse and ploughin' with 't cow. From 3.30 in the morning til 3 in the morning I worked. Then I got a crust of stale bread and a sip of water fore they buried me again.
Tell that to the kids today and they wouldn't believe you

 

[LEONARD]

After sitting on the upstairs of the 19 bus into town as a kid, amazed I've made it to mature adulthood.

Everyone smoking Woodbines and Capstan Full strength, and all the windows closed.

Talk about passive smoking, more like a laboratory beadle.

 

[tonyhorne]

After sitting on the upstairs of the 19 bus into town as a kid, amazed I've made it to mature adulthood.

Everyone smoking Woodbines and Capstan Full strength, and all the windows closed.

Talk about passive smoking, more like a laboratory beadle.

So many of us must have stunk of fags back then...

 

[peteblue]

The best paid job I ever had pound for pound was in the huge bottling hall of the old Scottish & Newcastle Brewery in Edinburgh in 1971. Constant overtime and your choice of beer along with the wage packet at weekend. I bought loads of albums the first week I was there. Cat Stevens, Stones etc.

Cat Stevens....

 

[peteblue]

Luxury.

When I were a kid, my mam & da dug up my grave at 4am every morning and put me to work milking 't horse and ploughin' with 't cow. From 3.30 in the morning til 3 in the morning I worked. Then I got a crust of stale bread and a sip of water fore they buried me again.
Tell that to the kids today and they wouldn't believe you

Lazy barstewards.......

 

[peteblue]

Nowadays nobody wants two hours overtime, overtime is a swear word !!

Wow, I did 4 hours OT every night of the week then 12 hrs Sat and 12 hrs Sunday.......kept us afloat.....

 

[peteblue]

Exactly
If you stayed in your mam would complain that you were under her feet and give you chores so you went out and stayed out
She never worried if I was out from 10 am till 10 pm in the summer
He’ll come home when he’s hungry she’d say
Often got sandwiches in each other’s house for lunch ( better if there were 2 or 3 of you so whoever lived there wouldn’t be kept in ) and dinner kept warm in the oven till you came in
Peas would dry up and a crust on the mash but you’d eat it up with relish.
Hunger was good sauce

They all moan about austerity now if they can’t afford a new Range Rover.......