markavfc40 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Just had water bill for upcoming year through. Pretty much a 10%increase to £626 a year. Robbing bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 26 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Just had water bill for upcoming year through. Pretty much a 10%increase to £626 a year. Robbing bastards. Yet on the big estate I live on there are hundreds of houses paying nothing for more than 2 years because their accounts haven’t been set up yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 7 VT Supporter Share Posted March 7 (edited) 28 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Just had water bill for upcoming year through. Pretty much a 10%increase to £626 a year. Robbing bastards. Someone has to pay their bonuses whilst new infrastructure is built to process our shit. Edited March 7 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 On 06/03/2024 at 10:07, Davkaus said: Mine's gone from £50-60 from 3-7 years ago up to £150... I was paying £90 per month for gas/electric before the massive hike and now it's £220. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 40 minutes ago, Genie said: Yet on the big estate I live on there are hundreds of houses paying nothing for more than 2 years because their accounts haven’t been set up yet. I feel a bit better now knowing that my increased bill may be subsidising those paying f all. Cheers 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 27 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: I feel a bit better now knowing that my increased bill may be subsidising those paying f all. Cheers Sorry mate. In fairness to these freeloaders, many of them are grumpy because they want the account in place (nervous they will get a big bill backdated). It’s a common gripe on the neighbourhood fb page that after many months South Staffs Water are still saying “don’t worry about it, we’ll start charging you later”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 7 Moderator Share Posted March 7 2 hours ago, markavfc40 said: Just had water bill for upcoming year through. Pretty much a 10%increase to £626 a year. Robbing bastards. I've been overpaying this year (because of their f*** up), I think I'll continue to do so this month and report next month 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 9 hours ago, lapal_fan said: As an energy manager, this annoys me. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Noticed I had received an email for my car insurance renewal quote from my current provider.... Full of trepidation as I opened it and scrolled down... only £47 more than last year. Thats an ok starting point. Was expecting much more! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 11 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11 12 minutes ago, Xela said: Noticed I had received an email for my car insurance renewal quote from my current provider.... Full of trepidation as I opened it and scrolled down... only £47 more than last year. Thats an ok starting point. Was expecting much more! The motor book losses have been going on for over a year ago now so they're probably starting to get their loss ratio's back in order again. Increases ease, eventually competition starts driving prices back down till they all start making losses and the cycle begins again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Anyone getting a decent pay-rise this year? Minimum wage going up by 9% for most people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 34 minutes ago, ender4 said: Anyone getting a decent pay-rise this year? Minimum wage going up by 9% for most people. I feel sorry for the people on £24k a year grafting there knackers off, care workers, factory labourers, building labourers, warehouse staff. Could be stacking shelves in tesco express or collecting glasses in the local pub for the same money. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 42 minutes ago, ender4 said: Anyone getting a decent pay-rise this year? Minimum wage going up by 9% for most people. We get 3% plus £2.3k now, and another 3.5% in November and another £1,100 in May next year (on top of usual bonus). A bit random and overly complicated but it is what it is. We got 11% at the end of 2022 when inflation was raging. Minumum wage really is crazy now. So many people doing complicated and important jobs on barely anything above a factory order picker. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 17 minutes ago, Genie said: Minumum wage really is crazy now. So many people doing complicated and important jobs on barely anything above a factory order picker. Yes, minimum wage still needs to go higher as it's expensive to live. But the jobs that were paying £22-30k haven't been increasing at the same rate as minimum wage so more and more jobs are falling into minimum wage. Eventually, all jobs will be minimum wage lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 hour ago, ender4 said: Anyone getting a decent pay-rise this year? I think i'm getting 5.8% which i negotiated in October 2023 and my boss (owner of the company) said he'd do from April 2024. But i have nothing in writing so i'm hoping he honours it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted March 13 VT Supporter Share Posted March 13 (edited) On 07/03/2024 at 13:17, markavfc40 said: Just had water bill for upcoming year through. Pretty much a 10%increase to £626 a year. Robbing bastards. Comes to something when we are charged that much for something that falls from the sky for free. Just needs to convince the Mrs a composting toilet is the way to go and I can tell em to do one......gonna take some time Edited March 13 by tinker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 We're getting 5% across the board. My manager put me forward for an additional raise for exceptional performance, then a few weeks later came back to sheepishly tell me I was one of only a handful that'd been approved and they were giving me 5.6%. Cheers lads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 minute ago, Davkaus said: We're getting 5% across the board. My manager put me forward for an additional raise for exceptional performance, then a few weeks later came back to sheepishly tell me I was one of only a handful that'd been approved and they were giving me 5.6%. Cheers lads. I told a lie earlier, I am actually getting 3.1% this month, an increase from the standard 3% for my high performance rating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 13 VT Supporter Share Posted March 13 Waiting to hear but I'm not expecting anything like the "typical" increase being touted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 3 hours ago, foreveryoung said: I feel sorry for the people on £24k a year grafting there knackers off, care workers, factory labourers, building labourers, warehouse staff. Could be stacking shelves in tesco express or collecting glasses in the local pub for the same money. Yeah absolutely. What was traditionally the 'middle income' jobs, are now barely above minimum wage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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