It’s the first job interview I’ve done sweaty and dressed in lycra!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
Courier Systems<\/a> bike crew operate mostly within central London (W1 and W2). Almost all runs will be under 4miles. For a single package run of less than 4mi, I’ll be paid 2.50UKP. If it is longer than 4mi (very unlikely according to Greg) then there’s an extra 70p per mile. If I work 9-6 for the whole 5 days I get a 10% bonus. Yippee! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n I was told the average number of runs in a day is 20. So that’s 50UKP\/day.. BUT.. that’s the average for the riders that actually know the streets and know what they are doing!<\/p>\n On top of that, the bad news is that I have to pay 100UKP before I start as an “equipment deposit”. <\/p>\n The further bad news is that I also have to pay 25UKP per week for 4 weeks (to 100UKP total) as an equipment deposit. <\/p>\n The further<\/i> bad news is that I have to pay another<\/i> 300UKP, at 10UKP per week, as… you guessed it.. an equipment deposit! Sheesh! This gear they hand out is expensive!!!<\/p>\n Basically this is going to totally suck because I’ll end up in the red for the first few weeks (or more) paying off the equipment! That’s if they don’t fire me first for being so slow.. <\/p>\n They use some kind of PDA device to track packages and I assume radios, to track the riders. We (there was another guy there for a van driving job) were shown inside the control room. Seems like quite a big company. I was told the bike fleet was around 30 riders.<\/p>\n Not exactly the role I had in mind when I arrived here, but what the hell! It will give me something to do during the day while I wait for some I.T. company to start paying me 300UKP\/day. I’m thinking the only reason they offered it to me was because we are heading into winter and not many people want to ride 9am-6pm in the wet, the dark and possibly the snow? I’m not even sure I want to do it! I blame “daniel s” \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n Anyway, after hearing the terms and thinking about it I wasn’t sure it was worth the hassle of starting out, especially if I continue to apply for I.T. work in the meantime, but they called me in the afternoon to say I could start next week. Fuggit – I said “yes”. On Monday I’ll go in for some training and then start proper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Of course, just after I accept, I receive my first call from an agency about a database job in Essex.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the first job interview I’ve done sweaty and dressed in lycra!! \ud83d\ude00 Courier Systems bike crew operate mostly within central London (W1 and W2). Almost all runs will be under 4miles. For a single package run of less than … Continue reading