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Matthew_Gibson

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Ahh I miss working at Halfords, was pretty good fun to be honest

The head of Bikehut was a complete dick though, he didn't like that I could do his job better than him, so he would pick faults with everything I ever did, and being the brown noser to the boss he was, eventually got me fired for leaving some bars loose on a display bike... So I could put it on the display, jackass :angry:

Un fair dismissal?? Write to head office! I think thats pretty petty in my eyes!

I pulled a bike off display yesterday. BOTH tyres were flat , bars were angled correct! and the customer sat on it and the seat moved :lol:

Im a bit lazy like. Like its been so so quite lately.(Anyother store noticed that? Sold 1 bike last weekend!!!!!!)

So there nothing to do! I dont look for sumat to do! I do nothing! - Either, have longer on my lunch break, sit on the loo and read nuts/zoo and text people. GO into the ware house and climb over the bikes on the top and look at people while texting. Or just mess about with things!

And we dont get paid untill Next week I really need some clothes, bike bits and to pay for a huge bit of mahogany for m tech project!!!! (bout £250) :o

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Un fair dismissal?? Write to head office! I think thats pretty petty in my eyes!

Oh yeah, definitely, they'd set targets on the weekends to sell a certain amount of bikes each, which I ALWAYS met or exceeded, I did overtime all day, every day, the guy was just a complete arse :)

Think it's a little late to be complaining though, was 6-7 years ago :P

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Yea as Pants said, I'm now a member of the Halfords crew.

I know quite a few of the people in there, and I started with lots of other new people so its not bad.

We're just in the middle of a refit thats expected to be done around March, so the store has been condensed down really small, and Bikehut stock isn't up to scratch.

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Ahh I miss working at Halfords, was pretty good fun to be honest

The head of Bikehut was a complete dick though, he didn't like that I could do his job better than him, so he would pick faults with everything I ever did, and being the brown noser to the boss he was, eventually got me fired for leaving some bars loose on a display bike... So I could put it on the display, jackass :angry:

Do you know a Josh Cooper?

He has come from chilwell and is now working at Derby

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Yea as Pants said, I'm now a member of the Halfords crew.

I know quite a few of the people in there, and I started with lots of other new people so its not bad.

We're just in the middle of a refit thats expected to be done around March, so the store has been condensed down really small, and Bikehut stock isn't up to scratch.

Isn't everyones stock wank :Slol!! As for the people that slated their jobs it was them on youtube type in halfords, thats why they got fired :)

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Boss, why you on your final warning?

I got 515 before tax, got taxed 8.80 for national insurance and that's it.

Apparently though, i didn't get double pay for both bank holidays i worked, only one. Buggered me.

f**king petty really i swapped over some forks for my mate (he was buying my bike) took me like an hour cus i thought the races were the same :( any who..... No money was taken, i also let him have some outer cable :P But meh i think i will find a new job, bored at halfords (TOO MANY RULES) (N)

Tom

EDIT: oh my money was after tax. :P

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£498.56 gone into my bank. At £5.52 an hour that works out as like 18 hours a week. Something smells like bullshit considering my contracts 14 and I do shit loads of overtime since I left college in november, and thats without even taking into account the bank holiday I worked.

Only explination I can think of is that they've back taxed me since the date I left college. I'll have a look at my pay slip later. Need to speak to the manager about how they need to give me some real hours rather than all overtime, and how 5.50ish is bollocks considering I'm pretty much full time and I do about 3 peoples worth of work.

Meh, rant over, I'm off to grovel to my dad and borrow some money so I can afford to pay my car insurance, let alone petrol/living for the next month.

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:S jeez how fatty?

225 on a Canon 350D

20 quid on an angle grinder

32 quid on coustsinks

12 quid on a replacement iPod mini screen

about 7 quids worth of little things on ebay (ipod cable, headphone to phone adapter n stuff)

80 quid to my mother

20 to my sister

Other stuff i can't remember...

Ooh payday. =D

Right I was uncertain of this, but do I get taxed?, I'm 16 and working 10 and a half hour weeks.

I was just wondering as I always thought it didn't apply to some ages.

I'm assuming thats what P.A.Y.E is then.

Still got as much as I expected.

Nope, you won't get taxed at all.

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Ooh payday. =D

Right I was uncertain of this, but do I get taxed?, I'm 16 and working 10 and a half hour weeks.

I was just wondering as I always thought it didn't apply to some ages.

I'm assuming thats what P.A.Y.E is then.

Still got as much as I expected.

I got taxed cus i ahd a huge bonus, plus shite loads of overtime but my 27 odd tax compared to my mate 400 odd tax is fine by me :)

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