Kentish Salad factories Vs Buckingham Palace
- 23 October 2012 01:15197220Talking of Tilmanstone Salads!
Buckingham Palace is offering a job for maid at £273 a week, for 40 hours a week work.
According to Sky News. the job involves tidying the royal family's private suites, as well as the state apartments, corridors and staircases. In all, 775 rooms, including 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 19 state rooms and 78 bathrooms.
That's not all:
"Dusting and polishing a huge collection of antiques and ornaments is another daily chore,"
In return, they will be given accommodation and food, "for which there will be a salary adjustment".
But, don't overlook the small print: corridors and staircases must be cleaned too, which connect all these rooms.
Sky News flings in "More than 50,000 people visit the palace each year - many of them to attend banquets, receptions and garden parties."
So! If you can cope with all the involved cleaning, and can manage it all in 40 hours a week, then Bob's your mother's brother
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23 October 2012 06:49197225and whats that got to do with tilmanstone salads.?
- 23 October 2012 06:59197226Was wondering that myself Brian, perhaps it is to do with the minimum wage on offer at both establishments?Audere est facere.
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23 October 2012 07:14197227martin,permanant staff where on wages twice the minimum wage,tempory/agency workers where paid minimum wage while i was there.but saying that buck house allways paid low wages. - Jan Higgins
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23 October 2012 08:58197239I bet 'I worked at Buck House' on a c.v opens a few doors when job hunting.
Yet again Alexander you have confused me, who was talking about Kent Salads???????????
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 October 2012 09:02197241But, Jan, what could one possibly put as a reason for leaving?...To better oneself?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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23 October 2012 09:20197244
To be practical though how about.... change of circumstances, promotion or even returning to work after being a carer or raising children.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 October 2012 09:46197247Being practical is a thing of the past jan
- 23 October 2012 10:54197254The object of the post is to highlight the standards set by Buckingham Palace in paying wages for manual work: 100% minimum wage in this case. And this in London where the minimum wage is usually increased by a one or two pounds an hour owing to the cost of housing/rent.
It certainly doesn't constitute an example to employers to give hard-working people a more generous wage than the minimum, even if they have the financial means to do so.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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23 October 2012 11:00197258Oh to live in a fairyland called Utopia where all wages are higher than they have to be, where perks are not abused, where there is no crime and where there is no illness.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 October 2012 11:10197264Its called lala land jan, theres a few on here who live there