Anyone else get a shock in their Jan pay packet?

[Xray]

I knew I took a serious hit in the budget but the back and white in my pay packet is shocking. When all is said and done I now only net half of my gross pay. If I went from a 5 day week to say a 3 day one it would make very little difference to me, I am certainly working for less than the minimum wage for the last few hours in the weeks. It wont take people too long to twig that either dropping hours or giving up work completely is in their interest.

There is little point getting up early on a Friday to waste people and drop a child in a creche to pay off the debts of Anglo and keep the ECB happy.

Should focus the mind before the election in the minds of any floating voters that are getting a bit weak on FF

[Ah Well]

I knew I took a serious hit in the budget but the back and white in my pay packet is shocking. When all is said and done I now only net half of my gross pay. If I went from a 5 day week to say a 3 day one it would make very little difference to me, I am certainly working for less than the minimum wage for the last few hours in the weeks. It wont take people too long to twig that either dropping hours or giving up work completely is in their interest.

There is little point getting up early on a Friday to waste people and drop a child in a creche to pay off the debts of Anglo and keep the ECB happy.

Should focus the mind before the election in the minds of any floating voters that are getting a bit weak on FF

Can see why FF would love to stretch the Election out as far as possible ... now if only it were taking place in the middle of February :cool:

[Xray]

I don't think people will forget by April or May, in fact many will be in an even worse state by then. It will take some people a few weeks to let the full horror sink in. Middle Ireland has taken a massive hit here, that means seats will be lost on the back of it. Nobody cares future plans or manifestos as they are always works of fiction. People will care deeply about grossly unfair cuts, ill thought-out changes to the tax system. There has been no holistic approach taken to family finance when making these changes. They have made fools of people trying to work to survive, bad move.

The monotone sentence about difficult decisions will not hide the fact that they simply are uninterested in the detail of peoples problems. The grinding unfairness of the way this country is run is enraging.

[Kev Bar]

I knew I took a serious hit in the budget but the back and white in my pay packet is shocking. When all is said and done I now only net half of my gross pay. If I went from a 5 day week to say a 3 day one it would make very little difference to me, I am certainly working for less than the minimum wage for the last few hours in the weeks. It wont take people too long to twig that either dropping hours or giving up work completely is in their interest.

There is little point getting up early on a Friday to waste people and drop a child in a creche to pay off the debts of Anglo and keep the ECB happy.

Should focus the mind before the election in the minds of any floating voters that are getting a bit weak on FF

Jesus!
So we truly are back to the 80s.
But X-Ray - nice Freudian slip - you have actually given us the only reason to get up on a Friday ... "to waste people".

I'm on a three day already so if you need some back-up on yr mission.

(Sssh though, don't tell CF... she's on my case about my psychopathic tendencies).

[Stendec]

Stendecs down nearly 63 pound a week!!! ****** ***** ******* ******* ****** ** ****

[youngdan]

Just vote for the left and it will be down another 63. Keep the chin up, we all appreciate the effort

[DCon]

I don't think people will forget by April or May, in fact many will be in an even worse state by then. .

Especially when you throw rising interest rates into the mix

[Ah Well]

Especially when you throw rising interest rates into the mix

And things like the rising cost of petrol, home heating oil and a spot of crappy Irish weather (always a good bet) and there's plenty scope for public agitation indeed ....

[TotalMayhem]

I knew I took a serious hit in the budget but the back and white in my pay packet is shocking.

You thought they were kidding when they said they'll bail out the banks, did you?

[Xray]

Minimum wage cut will appear days before the election.

Oh the justice....

[Stendec]

Just vote for the left and it will be down another 63. Keep the chin up, we all appreciate the effort

its Ff an the *** pds has us in the ***** now if labour was in wed be better off!!! vote gillmore for taoseach!!!

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Just vote for the left and it will be down another 63. Keep the chin up, we all appreciate the effort

I see your mates the socialists in the banks were lobbying hard at Davos and at the ECB for interest rates to rise. Mind you they would be seeing as they sitting on a handout of cash worth billions.

The most effective socialists and statists in the world at the moment are the western financial markets.

[youngdan]

its Ff an the *** pds has us in the ***** now if labour was in wed be better off!!! vote gillmore for taoseach!!!

Learn how to spell the ******'s name and that of the post he seeks, you *********. You should not even have a vote

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