I started a new job 2 monday's back in a small independent key cutting/shoe repair shop in my village. I didn't have an interview as such, just went into the shop and asked about the job advertised in window and we chatted a while and he asked if I could start monday. So I started 2 monday's back. My first day was fine, except I got told I would only get paid 4.00 per hour and he won't pay my nat insurance or tax, which means I cannot claim income-based job seekers allowance, because obviously it's illegal for him not to be sorting my nat insurance and tax. For the 10 hrs per week I work, I get 40.00, 10 pound of which goes on bus fare, 10 pound I have to pay for part time study and so I am left with 20.00!!!
I really dont know whether to get another full time job that I will really enjoy and be worthwhile. Also the shop is small so only the owner works there, including me 2 days a week. A few things he said bothered me. First I dusted the shelves the other day and took all the products off, then put them back on, really neatly. When I went in on Monday he said he could've killed me when he saw they weren't in their usual order! Also on Monday I got a 20.00 note from a customer and put it in the same place in the till as the 10.00 notes because there were bits of paper in the bit the 20.00 would go in, but he said to me in an off tone that it was 'common sense' really that the 10.00 notes go there and there 20.00's go there.