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I think I’m conflating no required holidays with no required time off, tbh. Peas in a poverty pod.
 
When I started at HBOS in 2003 you had to use 10 days of your holiday (ie 2 calendar weeks) all in one block. Basically so they could audit you for fraud/money laundering while you weren't there...

It had been abandoned well before I left in 2008.
 
sycophantia said:
40p per hour at 16, 1975.
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That beats me as I got 87p per hour as an engineering apprentice in 1980. £35 a week ...first purchase, Judas Priest - British Steel album and I still had loads left over... felt rich. Also, we had to take the industrial fortnight break at the end of July. I'd only just started work and told my mother that I didn't need a break but had to have one. She told me she had felt the same way when she first started work but soon felt very differently after working for a few months. These days, I can't wait for the next break!
 
Squeak said:
That beats me as I got 87p per hour as an engineering apprentice in 1980. £35 a week ...first purchase, Judas Priest - British Steel album and I still had loads left over... felt rich. Also, we had to take the industrial fortnight break at the end of July. I'd only just started work and told my mother that I didn't need a break but had to have one. She told me she had felt the same way when she first started work but soon felt very differently after working for a few months. These days, I can't wait for the next break!
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Started a few weeks after leaving school.
My wages (think it was £13.75 after stoppages) went on £5 for my mom, a few pence for bus fairs for getting to and from work. A couple of quid for the record player I bought out of my mom's catalogue. The rest was my own. I saved a bit to buy a motorbike/car. Usually bought an LP once a month if I could which were 4-5 quid, quite expensive at the time.
 
sycophantia said:
Started a few weeks after leaving school.
My wages (think it was £13.75 after stoppages) went on £5 for my mom, a few pence for bus fairs for getting to and from work. A couple of quid for the record player I bought out of my mom's catalogue. The rest was my own. I saved a bit to buy a motorbike/car. Usually bought an LP once a month if I could which were 4-5 quid, quite expensive at the time.
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Yeah...like you, left school and was employed virtually immediately. I had to give £10 to my parents, £5 for the album and then I still had £20 left over. Had to take the 126 bus from Wolves to Dudley, get off at Burntree Island and then walk to Babcock...usually getting soaked on the way to the factory. It was all new so didn't mind... then the gloss wore off. Again like you, saved like hell for my first car, passed test first time and then driving to work and back made a huge difference. Home in 25 mins and not 2 hrs as per the bus. Not sure how many kids would do that today given most think the world owes them a living.
 
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£4:11:6d in my first pay packet August 1969, had a rise about two weeks later £6:15 shillings, i was minted.
Paper round before I left school 17s and 6d.
 
Used to work 14 days during the summer shut down and earn time n half/ double time, and have time off unpaid in leau. Was a good earner and paid for holiday in September somewhere decent.
 
My first wage would've been around £6/hr which I reckon at 8 hours a week must have been mostly spent on PlayStation games for the first few years. Then through the Uni years it probably worked out that each shift gave me a night out. Used to get double time on bank holidays.

Been salaried ever since.
 
I took a year out before uni and worked two or three times a week working as a barista. Think that was about £6.50 an hour in 2013/14
 
Our place (Wolves Council) brought in a shutdown between Christmas and New Year a few years back and we all had to take it as 3 days unpaid leave each year so was a deduction from our monthly pay. A couple of years ago they abandoned this, kept the shutdown but now we have to keep aside 3 days leave to cover it which I don't mind
 
Squeak said:
Yeah...like you, left school and was employed virtually immediately. I had to give £10 to my parents, £5 for the album and then I still had £20 left over. Had to take the 192 bus from Wolves to Dudley, get off at Burntree Island and then walk to Babcock...usually getting soaked on the way to the factory. It was all new so didn't mind... then the gloss wore off. Again like you, saved like hell for my first car, passed test first time and then driving to work and back made a huge difference. Home in 25 mins and not 2 hrs as per the bus. Not sure how many kids would do that today given most think the world owes them a living.
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Think you'd be surprised at the number of kids who've done similar, certainly all mine have and loads of my mates have.
Don't think there's any more youngsters who are over entitled than any other age group tbh.
 
Lupo said:
Our place (Wolves Council) brought in a shutdown between Christmas and New Year a few years back and we all had to take it as 3 days unpaid leave each year so was a deduction from our monthly pay. A couple of years ago they abandoned this, kept the shutdown but now we have to keep aside 3 days leave to cover it which I don't mind
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That was rude!! (The first policy)
 
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