Saturday Morning Working

[ToothbrushMan]

Has anybody else noticed an increased number of your common or garden office job adverts that you generally associate with mon-fri 9 till 5 hours are now showing maybe 9am to 5.30pm, only 30 mins for lunch instead of the usual 1 hour and more and more jobs showing that a Saturday morning say 9am till 1pm is required either every week or say 1 in every 2 or 3 weeks on rota basis?

So the salary is about where you would expect as an absolute minimum and typically for me this is around £24k to £25k but wheres the premium for you giving up half your weekend ( taking into account no time on a friday night to properly unwind then the early rise on the saturday plus the work and the commute time and cost on top)......

is it me or is this proctive eroding base salaries even more? The ads make no mention of the saturday being classed as overtime for which you can make additional money. Wages in the UK just seem to be getting raped atm.

I know retail requires weekend working but at leats your paid by the hour with sometime enhanced rates for sundays. office job pay seems to be getting squeezed. am I wrong?

[Brainpox]

Saturdays are a normal working day for a lot of sectors and it doesn't matter if you don't want to work them for normal rate as someone else will.

If a business can make money operating at a weekend then they will.

These days weekday-only working is a privilege tbh.