Number 3: Porter - Pontin's Holiday Family Fun Resort - Blackpool, Lancashire
I was paid 1.15 Great British Pounds an hour! It was 1990. 1.15 an hour!
It is illegal now to pay people that little but back then the fuckers could and they did. 1.15! Apparently we could make up the difference on tips but Pontin's is hardly the luxury destination of the rich and famous so on a good weekend we might push it to 2 pounds an hour, heaving heavy, miserable punters' bags of crap in the pissing rain though the camp's concrete huts ringed by a wall of broken barbered wire.
After the coaches had shipped out the punters back to whatever godforsaken northern town they had come from and before they came back with more we had maybe 4 hours to waste. But we couldn't relax, head down the beach - we had to help out in the laundry sorting sweat and piss stained sheets into stinking piles.
It was awful.
It is illegal now to pay people that little but back then the fuckers could and they did. 1.15! Apparently we could make up the difference on tips but Pontin's is hardly the luxury destination of the rich and famous so on a good weekend we might push it to 2 pounds an hour, heaving heavy, miserable punters' bags of crap in the pissing rain though the camp's concrete huts ringed by a wall of broken barbered wire.
After the coaches had shipped out the punters back to whatever godforsaken northern town they had come from and before they came back with more we had maybe 4 hours to waste. But we couldn't relax, head down the beach - we had to help out in the laundry sorting sweat and piss stained sheets into stinking piles.
It was awful.
posted by h at
12:22 pm
1 Comments:
Sound terrible. I dread to think what 2 and 1 are!
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Steve, at 1:12 pm
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