I'm at home now

isint your home in Malta?

Well, I'm back from london.

I -never- want to go there again. You can't walk for more than 2 centimeters before you have to slam on the brakes and get whiplash because some stupid Arabian family are stood gorping at a piece of chewing gum on the floor.

Not to mention our hotel sucked. We went to the Hilton Metropol (called someting like that) what was in a rather run-down part of London. I believe one of the games we played while looking out of our window was "spot the white guy!".

And they said it had free Wifi. Yes, it was free to connect to it, but you had to pay A FIVER FOR NINETY MINUTES to actually get on the web.

. I wanted to enjoy it too.

They have redesigned my nearest motorway junction and decided to stick a huge kerb on the sharp entrance to the slip road, just where you start accelerating hard.

I hit it at just over 60MPH and my car wasn't exactly too happy about it, so I had to make a quick dive for the slip road. The RAC came out and said it needed a new wheel, but it wasn't too bad considering. I'm limited to about 40MPH on my space-saver wheel, so my car's off the road again.

Peter.

I've stayed in that hotel before and it was just about acceptable. I complained and did get a full refund and a voucher for another stay at the hotel.

Peter.

And you know that I'm not in Malta how, exactly?

For the record, No, Malta is not my home. It is the island that was the birthplace of my father. I was born in London, (you know, the capital of foreign England?) and I now live in Manchester.

Yes it must be hard to enjoy life when you view the outside world from a narrow perspective though a filter of knee-jerk racial prejudice.

It's spelled 'gawping'.

I've been working flat-out all the way through July on my new work-from-home job. I get an email this evening to say that July's pay of £116.21 will be in my bank account shortly.

I can't believe how little they value the 200+ hours I have worked and the 3000+ calls answered this month. I'm only worth about £0.58 an hour or £0.04 per call actually, despite being top of the sales leaderboards for the majority of the month and meeting all of my targets.

It's unbelievable the amount of abusive calls I have had to deal with all for that £0.04! It's horrible being sworn at and threatened, especially when it's company policy never to disconnect the call. Some callers seem to get a thrill out of ripping me apart for a mistake another employee has made, all whom I have never met or even heard of.

Since I'm technically self-employed with this job, they can get away without paying me minimum wage

Peter.

Did you know it was 4p a call before you took the job? I'd expect about 10x that, although it is about the going rate in India.

No, it was always advertised at "Up to £9 per hour". Considering I met all of the targets and statistics, I cannot understand why my pay is so low.

Peter.

As long as you do 225 calls an hour it would be. You have 0.2 seconds per call.

Sorry to all those that attended the meet-up this week that I didn't attend, especially Sas, as he offered me a room, and I haven't seen his lucious locks in a while.

I have to ask Peter, but didn't you get a full breakdown of the pay structure before you started with them?

I did, but it was all very confusing. It depended greatly on your avergae call time, cross sales, add-on sales, transfer out percentage, number of complaints and dozens of different statistics.

Peter.

I would seriously suggest double checking the calculations yourself, and then working out where the problem occured. If it looks like something impossible / very difficult to rectify, I would drop it.

It really sounds horribly scammy to me.