Got an interview w00t

Congratulations dude, well done :)
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. Good luck with your new job.
 
Please dont take this personally, but the folks in phone shops are normally suited up monkeys, i give em about the same respect as mcdonalds employees but at least they're paid a little better

pretty much every one of them i've delt with couldnt tell their ass from their elbow

with this in mind you dont have to aim very high to do better than most of them
 
Do McDonalds employees get paid more than say, The Link?

Also, could someone tell me what the minimum wage is these days?

Arufell, since you seem to be going into retail, have u not tried looking in other retail outlets? They may well offer you more than £4.25ph. I live in London, so the salaries tend to be higher in this part of England, but i still think £4.25ph is on the low side. When i used to work at Sainsburys, some 2 yrs back, on Sunday our pay was around £9.50ph. If u work for one of the big supermarkets, i think u might end up getting paid more than that. (I know ALDI pay a lot these days). Also, if u join a supermarket, i feel there is a lot of scope for career progression, especially down the route of retail management. a lot of retailers who employ managers tend to look highly upon managers who have managed (at some level) in a supermarket. Working in a supermarket is hard work though.
 
sunama said:
Do McDonalds employees get paid more than say, The Link?

Also, could someone tell me what the minimum wage is these days?

Arufell, since you seem to be going into retail, have u not tried looking in other retail outlets? They may well offer you more than £4.25ph. I live in London, so the salaries tend to be higher in this part of England, but i still think £4.25ph is on the low side. When i used to work at Sainsburys, some 2 yrs back, on Sunday our pay was around £9.50ph. If u work for one of the big supermarkets, i think u might end up getting paid more than that. (I know ALDI pay a lot these days). Also, if u join a supermarket, i feel there is a lot of scope for career progression, especially down the route of retail management. a lot of retailers who employ managers tend to look highly upon managers who have managed (at some level) in a supermarket. Working in a supermarket is hard work though.
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You're forgetting commission which you won't earn in a supermarket.
I know my basic wage goes up to £10 an hour quite easily when you factor in commission and I'm still working my way up to a good sales pitch.
I know a number of people I work with can earn £70-80 a day commission alone without too much difficulty.

Would have thought the type of experience would look useful on a CV too. Hell of a lot more to it than you'd think, lot of training to it both initially and later on, keeping up with price changes by the day, being able to diagnose basic faults in phones and fixing them etc.

From a personal perspective I'd say it was much more fulfilling than McDonalds and Sainsburys too. :) Having talked to people who have worked in both jobs, I know I'd much rather work where I am then as a till worker.
 
Indeed, there are positives to be had wherever u decide to work, in terms of skills to talk about during an interview (or writing down on an application form), but do u not find that when working on commission u r under more stress and pressure?

Also, working the till is perhaps the worst job i have done in a supermarket (and believe me I've worked pretty much all the depts when i was working at JS).
 
sunama said:
but do u not find that when working on commission u r under more stress and pressure?
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Nope, it just encourages me to try to sell more :p
Great feeling of satisfaction at the end of the day too, can't beat it :) Feels like I actually earned it.

Suppose it just depends what you're like, a 'regular' retail job or something like McDonalds would bore me to death but this actually feels like I'm doing something and learning things.
 
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