Hi all,
I recently went to an interview/induction thing for the above role and I'm still a bit confused as to how the whole thing works. Hopefully someone here has either done this in the past or knows something about it!
The job itself is classed as self employed and you deliver for this company on behalf of Amazon.
You get paid £110 daily and have to use your own van, or you can rent one from them for the princley sum of £210/week with insurance etc included (seems like a lot to me).
There is a daily bonus of either £5, £20 or £25 depending on "things". You get reimbursed for fuel.
He also went through some explanation about how if you get VAT registered then it will work out that you get more money because of various tax calculations. I really dont understand that even after asking an accounts friend of mine.
The guy who did the session didnt speak the best English so a lot of things were lost on me and he couldnt really articulate it much better so I just stopped asking questions.
Each delivery run is timed at 8 hours, but before that starts you have to come to the depot and pick/scan and load your parcels for the day. I can imagine that it would take more than 8 hours from things I have read online.
I always refrained from even applying for these types of roles before because I always perceived them to be a kind of slave labour with their daily and not hourly pay.
Can anyone shed any light on this job at all or answer any of the questions?
I have a 5 week job lined up for the Christmas period which I dont want to give up just to do this for a week and quit out of exhaustion.
Cheers!
I recently went to an interview/induction thing for the above role and I'm still a bit confused as to how the whole thing works. Hopefully someone here has either done this in the past or knows something about it!
The job itself is classed as self employed and you deliver for this company on behalf of Amazon.
You get paid £110 daily and have to use your own van, or you can rent one from them for the princley sum of £210/week with insurance etc included (seems like a lot to me).
There is a daily bonus of either £5, £20 or £25 depending on "things". You get reimbursed for fuel.
He also went through some explanation about how if you get VAT registered then it will work out that you get more money because of various tax calculations. I really dont understand that even after asking an accounts friend of mine.
The guy who did the session didnt speak the best English so a lot of things were lost on me and he couldnt really articulate it much better so I just stopped asking questions.
Each delivery run is timed at 8 hours, but before that starts you have to come to the depot and pick/scan and load your parcels for the day. I can imagine that it would take more than 8 hours from things I have read online.
I always refrained from even applying for these types of roles before because I always perceived them to be a kind of slave labour with their daily and not hourly pay.
Can anyone shed any light on this job at all or answer any of the questions?
I have a 5 week job lined up for the Christmas period which I dont want to give up just to do this for a week and quit out of exhaustion.
Cheers!