pow
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Also, you can up/down your student loan payments, or keep defering them like my colleauge does!
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Daimo B
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How comes the Jubilee line is so bad?
They only built it a few years ago? Isn't it the most advanced decent tube line in London?
Whys it so bad?
PS, get a bike, no tube or any public transport FTW.
Bad london drivers though out to kill you FTL
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Who gives a fuck what other people earn 
My thoughts exactly, only salary i'm interested in is my own 
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Fro
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Very new in comparison to others but my god i swear it runs with delays at least once every week due to a failure of somesort. Its also closed alot of weekends for engineering works too.
When it's running properly it's decent, just rare at times.
Daimo thats the main reason i havn't got a bike/ped to get to work. Would save on travel costs (currently pay 2k a year for my travelcard) but I know I would die 
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ste_p23
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Student loan is paid back at 9% of your wage over £15k.
Sure this has now been changed to 18k
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RichR
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I hope it hasn't, I want to pay mine back asap
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ste_p23
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Im sure ive seen that on direct.gov somewhere
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian W
quote:
Originally posted by ed
Who gives a fuck what other people earn
My thoughts exactly, only salary i'm interested in is my own
My point is... be careful blurting out as although I don't really care what other people earn, it can cause rifts between employees like James / VXR were saying.
E.g.
I know the guy sits next to me, he's older than me, been working here more years.
I started below him on wage, then matched his wage and then overtook his wage.
We've both been getting rises, but I've been getting more.
I know this all because he constantly told me his student loan re payments.
I know that are one point we both paid the same amount (thus the same) and I know that now i'm 3k ahead of him.
Yet he still believes I'm on the starting wage I had and thus constantly refers to how he thinks I should be paid more / look for other jobs which pay more etc.
e.g. the other day we were looking at a job advert where my wage was the lower end of the job advert and he said 'Bloody hell! you should go for it mate, that'd be a fair increase on what you're on now even if you got the bottom end of the salary!'
Anotherwords, he doesn't know... and doesn't suspect this.
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If I told him my student loan repayments and he worked it out, and realised I was now earning more than him, being younger and a 1/3 rd of the time here at the company - he'd be a bit pissed off, treat me like a prick and go and complain to his manager.
Point is... don't say your student loan repayments.
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Daimo B
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Great way to entice a pay rise
"boss, why the f**k is that younger bloke who started on less money now earn more than me"?
Boss: How do you know that?
"becuase I worked it out"
Boss: That is confidential information. Why should I give you a raise just becuase someone else earns more.
Tip: If you want a rise, don't ever EVER mention anyone elses wages. If you want a rise, go in and prove why you should get a rise, why you deserve it, what work your doing etc... Going in and moaning will only make you look bad, and decrease chances of a raise, not increase them
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lostboy
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quote:
Originally posted by VXR
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Originally posted by James
Anyone intelligent enough to do a degree to warrant a student loan in the first place should be intelligent enough to realise it's easy to work out salary from the repayments TBH
I hate this. This is a London attitude if ever I saw it (might be the way i've read it, but its a typical londoner thing).
Doing a degree does not mean your intelligent at all. It means you are book clever.
I've met some extremely book educated people, but when it comes to common sense intelligence, they've got less that a potato.
For once, just for once, I agree with this dweeb.
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whitter45
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christ mine used to 125 a month
All paid off now
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by whitter45
christ mine used to 125 a month
All paid off now
Wish mine were that small 
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whitter45
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quote:
Originally posted by James
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Originally posted by whitter45
christ mine used to 125 a month
All paid off now
Wish mine were that small
thats a good thing though surely - you will pay it off quicker
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James
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I guess you could look at it like that
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Tom G
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quote:
Originally posted by James
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Originally posted by whitter45
christ mine used to 125 a month
All paid off now
Wish mine were that small
Check out my E-Penis
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A2H GO
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quote:
Originally posted by VXR
NEVER a good thing to know how much your peers earn.
It'll only wind you up in the long run.
Of course people get different wages. Someone at your position might have been at the company longer, started off on a lower wage and hasn't had the rise to match yours, or the other way around, they've been working longer at that company so are on a lot more than you.
Either way, its none of your business.
I hated finding out how much peer's earnt. Both sides. Feel sorry for those earning less, unfair etc, and hatred for those earning more who sat on their backsides all day.
I earn 19k and work my arse off all day managing teams of people which i dont get paid for and generally doing 50% more work than everyone esle whereas my mate in the room next door who's worked here years earns £35k for turning up and going home when he wants and sitting on the internet all day
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Who gives a fuck what other people earn
Agreed....plus overtime aside everyone on the same level is on the same wage anyway in my job.
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Andrew
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Mine is £17 a month. Someone work out my crap wages
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whitter45
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
quote:
Originally posted by James
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Originally posted by whitter45
christ mine used to 125 a month
All paid off now
Wish mine were that small
Check out my E-Penis
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RichR
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£17,266.66
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Welsh Dan
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My total loan is £16k or so, which will take me about 16 years to pay off at current rates
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
£17,266.66
If thats Andrews wage, thats a TOTAL pisstake. I don't even have a degree and I wouldn't get out of bed for that at 20
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Andrew
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Exacally Pow. Also have an MCITP - Enterprise Engineer...
Piss take is not the word
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
£17,266.66
If thats Andrews wage, thats a TOTAL pisstake. I don't even have a degree and I wouldn't get out of bed for that at 20
You might not
But hundreds would, so Andrew should be thankfull that he has that amount coming in, better than jobseekers.
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Colin
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All my workmates are on around 60k & Im on a third of that!!
This time next year rodney....ey ey 
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