Unsalted

[small_world]

I've managed to get almost to the ripe age of 30, without ever having a job with a salary.
I've worked since the age 1of 16, with a spell of unemployment, but always on a wage.
I've now just been given a promotion, and it's to a salaried position. And I'm just wondering what the main differences are.

It's 40hrs a week, but I will be covering for staff from time to time (especially over the next few weeks as we're a bit short) and the positions I'll be covering will be in my old role. So, if I pull an 8hr shift, will I be paid for it, or is it just extra work for nowt, as that's all part of being a grown up?

Also, I'm very excited and have just bought a filofax. A proper good one, leather bound and with loads of innards. I'm normally really un-organised so I'm hoping it'll kick me into being a bit more sorted.

[Zero Gravitas]

A filofax?

[Consignia]

It should be in your contract if you are allowed overtime or not. You probably won't have any. It's something to discuss with your employer, anyway.

[small_world]

A filofax?

A Filofax. A personal organiser.
My old boss had one, and I'd stare longingly at it during meetings. She'd always whip it out and, 'check the diary'. Then make a 'to-do' note.
I've also labelled it with reference finder tabs, so it looks like Tony Blair's PMQ's note book.

[Big Jack McBastard]

A filofax?

A Filofax. A personal organiser.

I think he's incredulous that you're living like it's the 80's


-_{small world yesterday}

[small_world]

Eh? What?
A filofax. It's fucking, everything you'd need.

When you whip out a hefty bit of leather bound equipment; which once was probably a substantially sized forest, and still resembles a forest in terms of mass, it's a pretty impressive thing.

You can use a phone if you'd like. But it's far easier and easily more impressive to refer to 'written notes' and shit.

[Zero Gravitas]

Makes sense if it's more important to impress than be effective I suppose.

[AsparagusTrevor]

I've got a A5 notepad with pictures of sharks on the cover. And a pen shaped like an arrow. I'm 28.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

How are you going to do work on a mobile telephone?


Pisstaking aside, well done on the promotion.


Why not celebrate with a coke party and a trip on Concorde?

[Jamie Oliver is fat]

Filofax's! The A-Team! who remembers the A-Team? Garlic bread!?!

I bet he shops for vynil records too.

[small_world]

I don't actually buy vynil. (wow, that IS a weird word to spell)

Although I do drive one of these...

[mook]

^ that's a big car - are you going to use the hefty filofax as a booster seat to see over the wheel?

why is this thread called "unsalted" anyway?

[Lyndon]

The word salary comes from salt because it used to be so valuable that troops in WW1 were paid in salt rather than money.

[The Region Legion]

It's vinyl you cretins.