£25k + £2k = Insult
And this after having paid thousands and thousands to get trained in the first place. What a crap industry this is. You work your nuts off to get paid peanuts.
Basically it's ok, but the lates to earlies is a big killer, finish on lates, start on earlies. Especially if you have just come off the back of a 6 day week and then you only get 2 off. The roster is supposed to run something like 5 on 2 off 5 on 2 off 6 on 3 off but it never seems to work that way. Plenty of standbys in the winter, but they have just taken off crew information from the AIMS system, so you can't even see whether or not you're likely to be called any more.
The fact that we get our rosters issued on the 12th of every month can also be a pain, you cannot plan any kind of short term life at all. At best you know what you're working 6 weeks in advance, at worst 2 weeks.
Doesn't sound like they let you have much of a life either. If it was a good lifestyle I could accept the !!!!e pay.