For some reason I always think of those two other words “Affordable Housing,” every time I hear this mentioned.
Anyway, soon to rise to £10.40/hour. It’s been so exciting, getting those little payments in gradual increments, over the past few years, that my employer, like so many others, has had no control over. So for all those others on the bottom rung of the pay scale, who have actually bothered to get off their arses, like me, and go and do an honest days work, then good show!
Back in 2008, after being made redundant a number of times, I made a career change from engineering. There was a “Living Wage,” back then, but my money had always been, well above. In my area however, Work was drying up. So I made the move to security, which turned out to be a different ballgame.
Security companies, as I soon found out are a notorious bunch of tight fisted cunts, and some even seem to begrudge paying out this so called “Living Wage” to it’s employees, when it is a legal requirement. Mine is no exception. I take all the risks, and if I ‘fuck up,’ like some of the poor chaps I have worked with, could end up being hospitalised. It’s a dangerous world out there, and for all my efforts, I get a pretty dismal pay cheque, each month in return.
My head honcho, so I have learnt, pays himself a “Living Wage” of some £400/hour, for running his ‘family business.’ A greedy cunt by all accounts, and the word greedy just happens to rhyme with his surname.
The company is all ‘Money Money Money,’ that doesn’t give a toss about it’s ‘Bread Winning Workforce.’ I don’t care any more, now that I am getting ever closer to retirement. As long as those cunts at the D.W.P. don’t at the last minute, get the bright idea of chucking another year on top of that last one, something that still really pisses me off. It’s also a bit late now, for any more career changes.
So having worked for 50 years, it will be ‘Gardening Leave,’ and ‘Light Duties’ for me.
That final working day, just can’t come quick enough! The “Living Wage? Get to fuck!
Nominated by: Lord Scunthorpe



