wages

[ironplanet uk900]

I agree with all of that post.

One thing that is different now, I believe at Timpsons from my day, is the fact that younger members of staff seem to get the chance of managers jobs. as in my days there all the managers were older 40's/50/60.

[skippy]

I agree with all of that post.

One thing that is different now, I believe at Timpsons from my day, is the fact that younger members of staff seem to get the chance of managers jobs. as in my days there all the managers were older 40's/50/60.

 

 

This has been a really interesting topic, but just to pick up on uk900's point my dad became a manager at allied at 18 and releif manager for Timpson at 21 ( but he was good he had to be to teach me!!! . ) Hes 50 now so that makes it mid seventies releif manager for timpson at 21 not 40/50/60. Though I do agree this probably was not the rule. Oh and he said Walkerdine was a nice chap. And personally i prefer raw recruits as they have not got stuck in there ways and you can teach them your way without getting "I've been repairing 20 years as a rebuffer when trying to show them how you like it done.

[kobblers]

i agree to a point hugh about the wages and skill level, just one thing....

 

when i handed in my week's notice from timpson i was on what i would've called a crap wage for the work i did at the time and despite asking my area manager for a pay rise due to the fact that my wife had just had our first child, i wasn't awarded one.

 

when they realised i was leaving i was offered a manager's job in a busier shop with a better wage, or a biggish pay increase if i stayed on in the role of assistant manager in the same or a different shop of my choosing where the position was available as they didn't want to lose (in their words) a hardworking and honest member of staff.

 

now why couldn't they have offered me this before they realised i was about to jump ship?

 

rick.

[ironplanet uk900]

I think I was overlooked at Timpsons, I was very young when I left. And the Manager was very wary of my potential. He was in his 60's and a very insecure guy, a loner who lived on his own.

 

I'm glad I left when I did, otherwise I would still be there now, because I loved it their. I got wed when I was 19 and needed the extra money.

I could have gone back at one stage, but I don't like going back over old ground. Onward and upward

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

Only so much money in the pot Rick, I think that the wage structure is very different now. I had the same problems 25 years ago and to be fair it works both ways, its called working the sytem. Get another job and you get offered more, if you ask for an increase there is no money available so you get another job to get the extra leverage in the bargaining stakes.

I sometimes wonder how much I could earn if I went back 25 years ogo with the bonus sytem that they have today.

Big money is available everywhere if you are prepared to move fast, trouble is you live to that level and then have great difficulty when the wage drops with the turnover.

[Guest jamesstratton]

i was just looking over some (really) old posts that james timpson had left. i'm not sure he knows how much we are really being paid . i'm not supprised we dont see many experienced workers applying if he makes our pay sound so bad!!!

as of last week we had 162 people on waiting lists wanting to work for us and 12 vacancies! our average manager earns in total just over 20k. there are also 26 days holiday and a final salary pension scheme. there are employees who we are happy to look elsewhere. last year only 6 staff left that i was disappointed. iope this helps . james