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what do you do pete?

Agent 47 wrote:what do you do pete?

where else would the dsf gold membership money go?

Mod money isn't enough to live on, even living in Bristol. But a few hundred a month tax free never goes amiss

you make £200

lol what do u even do

wub wrote:Mod money isn't enough to live on, even living in Bristol. But a few hundred a month tax free never goes amiss

oh you're only on the 'global' wage, need that 'admin' money...


Eric - My title is 'knowledge engineer'. I'm a computational linguist.

pete bubonic wrote:The social faux pas of openly discussing salary is a construction. Enforced by employers to make sure that salary inequality does not affect work performance.

I'm not convinced about this at all... it might have the knock-on effect of not affecting work performance, but I think it's part of typically English respect for privacy and subtlety tbh. Plenty of other cultures with similar economies don't have such a problem with it. Transparency within companies is often done by the pay-scale anyway... if you're in any sort of a corporate structure, it wouldn't take long for someone to work out a rough idea of what you're earning based on your role.

The only people I ever discuss how much I earn with are my parents, my boss and my girl; nobody else needs to know a thing about it; only whether I'm happy or not. I wouldn't even compare with my brothers... actually... I can barely think of a worse conversation to have with someone that doesn't involve HIV results.

Agent 47 wrote:you make £200

lol what do u even do

A few hundred, I didn't specifically say £200.


Basically we look after the day-to-day running of the site with various tasks and duties. In my case, my main role is looking after you lot. Kind of like having to teach a special needs class, but online.

pete bubonic wrote:oh you're only on the 'global' wage, need that 'admin' money...

Yeah yeah, rub it in why don't you. Not like I do more round here than you or anything

magma wrote:

pete bubonic wrote:The social faux pas of openly discussing salary is a construction. Enforced by employers to make sure that salary inequality does not affect work performance.

The only people I ever discuss how much I earn with are my parents, my boss and my girl; nobody else needs to know a thing about it; only whether I'm happy or not. I wouldn't even compare with my brothers... actually... I can barely think of a worse conversation to have with someone that doesn't involve HIV results.

its eye watering tho yeah?

wub wrote:

Agent 47 wrote:you make £200

lol what do u even do

A few hundred, I didn't specifically say £200.

a few is 2

edit* no thats a couple lol nvm

Agent 47 wrote:

magma wrote:

pete bubonic wrote:The social faux pas of openly discussing salary is a construction. Enforced by employers to make sure that salary inequality does not affect work performance.

The only people I ever discuss how much I earn with are my parents, my boss and my girl; nobody else needs to know a thing about it; only whether I'm happy or not. I wouldn't even compare with my brothers... actually... I can barely think of a worse conversation to have with someone that doesn't involve HIV results.

its eye watering tho yeah?

Sadly not anymore - I knew it couldn't last forever! I'm a permie again as of last Monday.

Agent 47 wrote:

wub wrote:

Agent 47 wrote:you make £200

lol what do u even do

A few hundred, I didn't specifically say £200.

a few is 2

edit* no thats a couple lol nvm

wub wrote:like having to teach a special needs class

magma wrote:

Agent 47 wrote:

magma wrote:

pete bubonic wrote:The social faux pas of openly discussing salary is a construction. Enforced by employers to make sure that salary inequality does not affect work performance.

The only people I ever discuss how much I earn with are my parents, my boss and my girl; nobody else needs to know a thing about it; only whether I'm happy or not. I wouldn't even compare with my brothers... actually... I can barely think of a worse conversation to have with someone that doesn't involve HIV results.

its eye watering tho yeah?

Sadly not anymore - I knew it couldn't last forever! I'm a permie again as of last Monday.

thats a par

u seem clever why dont u become one of those twat financial ppl who fuck shit up

they make bare p

Agent 47 wrote:u seem clever why dont u become one of those twat financial ppl who fuck shit up

they make bare p

Not really a fan of numbers. And my quality of life would suffer.

u seen wolf on wall st yet? thats my perfect job

Agent 47 wrote:u seen wolf on wall st yet? thats my perfect job

I have. Also recommend the following films for you;

Wall Street
Boiler Room (inspired by Wolf Of Wall Street)
American Psycho (which you've probably already seen)

I work in construction and pretty much everybody openly talks about how much they're earning

I dont see the problem with it either tbh, if you want to keep it personal then fair enough but what difference will it make to anyone if i tell you how much i earn?

how much do u earn?

and nice one wub ill check them out

at the moment im on £135 a day, ten hour shifts at 13.5ph

but the rate can changes up or down depending on roles and competencies and who im contracted through. And nights and weekends are like a pound extra per hour


the next step up for me is 18ph midweek and 22ph weekends though tryna cop that

Once I've got this mortgage sorted out and the savings bumped back up, I reckon I'm gonna get on that contracting hype if there's enough work to go around fairly locally, get on the five hunned a day biz.

contracting doing what garethom?

after being a contractor for a couple years now i could never ever go back to working in anything like retail or 97% of office jobs etc

its deff the way forward