In reply to estivoautumnal:
> Is this normal?
That seems pretty standard in the service industry, there's certainly managerial roles out there that pay less. It's a competitve profession, more responsibility, harder work, longer hours and less pay? What's not to like?
The living wage is £8.45 btw (i think), minimum wage is £7.20 (£7.50 in april)
To be fair most small business owners aren't sunning themselves in the bahamas and topping up their swiss bank account while they exploit their staff. They pay what they can afford based on big overheads and the stingy amount of money people will complain about paying for their services. There are similarly skilled managerial roles in bigger companies within the service industry that will pay £25-40k pa and offer training and career progression. I'm talking about the likes of macdonalds, tesco etc. that everyone loves to hate but have a high enough turnover to pay decent wages and have big HR departments and legal beagals to make sure they comply with the most recent batch of half baked unrealistic employment legislation and at least on paper offer a career.
I remember seeing a job advert on here for a climbing wall manager, iirc they wanted a degree, minimum of SPA but preferably MIA, previous experience managing a busy climbing wall, evening and weekend work, "hands on role", no training offered along with the usual requirement of being able to pretend you're customer centric, a good comunicator and dynamic (whatever that means in an employment context). Oh and a salary less than £20k per year. In other words "must be incredibly amazing and willing to give the best years of their lives whoring themselves every evening and weekend for very little money". I imagine someone was sat behind a desk somewhere talking about skills shortages and wondering why they've only got applications from disgruntled unemployed twenty year olds with a 3rd in media studies and a genuine passion for customer service.
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