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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:24 am 
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong having so sh..ty jobs alnight. is that my badluck or my name? #-o


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:09 am 
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o-marek wrote:
I don't know what I'm doing wrong having so sh..ty jobs alnight. is that my badluck or my name? #-o


Could have been worse, you could have had no shitty Jobs all night.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:12 am 
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Friday is nothing to write home about lately.

I can earn more on a Thursday nightshift.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:34 am 
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If the students are away i.e Easter Hol then it makes a big difference.

When I was working full time 4/5 years ago my money used to drop by around £150 per week during the summer hols. To add to the problem day drivers tend to do a Fri & Sat night to boost their money, unfortunately Friday has become a grind unless it is the beginning/end of the month when more money is around due to pay checks. I hate Fridays as you are never certain what kind of shift you will have, as opposed to Saturday that seems to have held up.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:16 pm 
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o-marek wrote:
I don't know what I'm doing wrong having so sh..ty jobs alnight. is that my badluck or my name? #-o

Hate Fridays, f***ing hate them. :sad:

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:14 pm 
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Ive seen saturday day shifts slide back 30% in just 12 months....

best ever £180, yesterday £120.....

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:36 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Ive seen saturday day shifts slide back 30% in just 12 months....

best ever £180, yesterday £120.....



And I thought it was just round here. One local company has even dropped his prices because he thinks people are going to other firms. He's not dropped his drivers rentals.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:13 am 
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I must honestly confirm that Saturday was even worse than Friday... but, but, but Sunday as almost usual was better than Friday and Saturday together... =D>


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:33 pm 
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I only do 9.30am till 7pm remember

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:14 am 
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and probably we're back on a track... decent Friday and very good Saturday, let's wait what we'll see on Sunday. 8)


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:21 am 
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better saturday, £160 9.30am till 7pm


did 110 miles "at work"


6pm the base was sending "take no flagdowns" via mercury

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:53 am 
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As their amount of disposable income goes down the punters have changed from having both Friday and Saturday nights out, they now focus on one half decent Saturday night out rather than two mediocre weekend nights, so sadly Fridays are now little better than the other weekday nights.

What's a bit worrying though is that even the old faithful "Saturday Night" is beginning to lose It's lustre as well, I just wonder where It's all going to end, even some of the nightclubs around here are on the brink of closure.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:49 am 
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I take more on a Thursday nightshift than I do on a Friday.

Friday this week was possibly the best in the past 8.

Still nothing to write home about though.

Knocked yesterday on the head after getting sent all over the pork chop for £3 fares. Obviously rubbed a base op up the wrong way without knowing it.

I just hit my target for the week and decided to call it a day. Enjoying the family time for the next two days. Not even looking at the car.


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even some of the nightclubs around here are on the brink of closure.
You have nightclubs? :shock:

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gusmac wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
even some of the nightclubs around here are on the brink of closure.
You have nightclubs? :shock:


They were called Discotheques when you were 19

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