it certainly feels that way when you're the bastard who will be in work (i) late tonight
(ii) tomorrow morning (iii) all day sunday

and will be getting raped for tax at the end of the month, yes!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Sucks to be you then doesn't it
I'm going to be having fun this weekend with my friends, and I'll probably pay less tax than you.

But, you live right in the middle of central London, drive an expensive sports car, are a member of a nice gym and have loads of nice shoes. And on top of that, you'll almost certainly have more money in your bank account than I do.

On the flip side I spent most of my savings from the last five years on a ford fiesta, I live in a small terraced house on the outskirts of london which I can only afford because of sharing the mortgage with my wife and the generosity of my parents in getting a deposit together, I haven't bought a pair of shoes for over a year and I owe nearly 3 Grand on a credit card.

So, you see, you may pay more tax, but you are still better off than me, and if you didn't want to work all those hours, you are not being forced to. You are simply being well rewarded for the hours you do work.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:07, Reply)

nah, it's great
i'm also at a birthday party tonight, out tomorrow night, and out for dinner on sunday night. i like my job and although i prefer not working weekends, it's interesting and massively challenging.

also the honest truth is, i couldn't live as i do if i had a mortgage even on my city salary. but then my dad earned every single penny of it himself, they come no more working-class than him!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:18, Reply)

Ugh, an arriviste.
How simply vile.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:20, Reply)

worse than that monty
proper peasant stock, i'm afraid. his mother worked down t'mills and his father worked on t'railways.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:23, Reply)

Eeee, by 'eck.
There's nowt as queer as folk.

I'm not calling your pater a bender here, by the way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:25, Reply)

i wouldn't
he might be 67 but he's still built like a block of yorkshire stone, there's more fat on a butcher's pencil!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:31, Reply)

Eee, champion.
Nowt taken out.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:54, Reply)

I bet I miss the however-many hundreds of quid a month in tax that I pay
A damn sight more than you miss the however-many thousands you pay.

Which is kind of the point in charging higher earners more in tax.
( Kroney, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 17:13, Reply)