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Any one stayed just for the money?

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Headexplodinganyoneelse · 22/03/2022 08:13

Hoping you all can get my head straight with my potential job dilemma. Currently working part time in a role that's changing quickly to a telephony only role ( My strength is face to face) My hours are 22.5, but these include Saturdays & late shifts. The late shifts have recently been introduced & not what I signed up for ( I applied for my current job because of a better work life balance which has now gone)
I have been interviewed for another job which is full-time, but not much more in salary than my part-time job. This role has no weekends, no bank holidays, no lates & time off over Christmas. There are no targets with the new job or constant name & shame emails etc
Has anyone been in this situation? What did you decide to do?

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Furcoatandnoknickerz · 22/03/2022 10:57

I have just left a job with a similar situation. I was full time, the job was advertised with weekend work essential, at the interview I asked if this meant every weekend, the reply was no of course not your the manager and sort out the rotas, as long as you do at least one a month will be fine.
Although, it soon wasn’t fine , a new regional manager, new t and Cs , now all managers must work work every Saturday even on a week off you cannot book two Saturdays either side.
Also, as a manager not allowed to tag a Monday off next to Sunday, no two consecutive days off………Wow I thought I was supposed to be a bloody manager! Absolute joke!
As you said, I didn’t sign up for that, would never have accepted the job with those conditions.
Discussed with management, got nowhere, resigned with not yet another job to go to.
My home, family and work life balance are far more important to me than the whim of some jumped up manager trying to prove something…..all she’s proved so far is how good she is at making four managers resign in the space of a few weeks!

Iamblossom · 22/03/2022 11:04

If its the same or similar money I would move to full time job

user1471464218 · 22/03/2022 11:16

Do you mean work full time and get the same amount of money as you currently get for working part time?

No I wouldn't move. However I find shifts work ok for my family life. I've done boring/ annoying jobs but was able to treat it like a factory- in, do the thing, get paid, home and forget about it til the next time.

canthecardsbewrong2022 · 22/03/2022 12:13

Yes, I've part stayed because of salary being 1k more per year, my tax code had been put right and I don't mind the shift pattern under trying better the devil you know - and totally didn't fancy doing team away days which came with other new job on my time for the whole not working most weekends! (this most certainly was not mentioned at interview, I would not have been pleased to know this after starting)

But my current job has let someone from our training go 2 months into the job for not meeting 'targets' they didn't even get all of probation to prove themselves : (

So I suppose a job that doesn't come with targets and a role that is not 'throw away able' is probably gold dust.

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