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Payslip

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lukew
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Payslip

Post by lukew »

Am I being dumb and should take more notice, But I got my wage slip today and had a deduction of £9.89 (POAL) Can anyone shed some light on what this is? This is the 1st time I've ever had it, Well what i can remember.
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lukew wrote:Am I being dumb and should take more notice, But I got my wage slip today and had a deduction of £9.89 (POAL) Can anyone shed some light on what this is? This is the 1st time I've ever had it, Well what i can remember.
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Post by PhilthyPhil »

why can't they just put 'purchase of annual leave' on the payslip so people actually know what it is instead of POAL which makes no sense to anyone :crazy:
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Post by bag69 »

Because then they would have to make the person who keeps coming up with all these acronyms redundant. Never known a company to have so many that so many dont know what they stand for.
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All you need to know is that when DSA, DIM, DOM, PDA, MECH, P739 (?), ATOS, HCT, IPS or IWT are mentioned do what I do - just squint and nod. Nobody really knows what's going on and since no one admits it everything remains fine.

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lukew
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Post by lukew »

Cheers for that.(sorry work nights) But is £9.89 a bit excessive for an extra week? or will it be a one off that high?
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lukew wrote:Cheers for that.(sorry work nights) But is £9.89 a bit excessive for an extra week? or will it be a one off that high?
That would be payment for 2 weeks not 1.
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arnold cheshire
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Post by arnold cheshire »

Stormproof wrote:
lukew wrote:Cheers for that.(sorry work nights) But is £9.89 a bit excessive for an extra week? or will it be a one off that high?
That would be payment for 2 weeks not 1.
£514 a year we are on £380 quid a week so not that high and then with the pay rise people are going to be paying more for extra holidays
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Post by paulthepostie »

So we pay an extra £514 a year for extra holidays.I take it that's what you mean?.
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paulthepostie wrote:So we pay an extra £514 a year for extra holidays.I take it that's what you mean?.
yes
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Blue29 wrote:All you need to know is that when DSA, DIM, DOM, PDA, MECH, P739 (?), ATOS, HCT, IPS or IWT are mentioned do what I do - just squint and nod. Nobody really knows what's going on and since no one admits it everything remains fine.
We were once asked to congregate in the ISS - and nobody knew where to go.
Apparently it meant the Inward Secondary Sorting area - and I still don't know where it is.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
Hob Goblin
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Post by Hob Goblin »

Hello. I was wondering if there was someone out there who could just tell us what all the different acronyms mean please? A list will do as I'm getting fed up with looking and trying to figure out if the idiots at my place have actually paid me correctly! :mad I've just called HR and they told me to go to my manager, who is also useless so whats the point! Grrrr.
Thanks in advance :wave
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Hob Goblin wrote:Hello. I was wondering if there was someone out there who could just tell us what all the different acronyms mean please? A list will do as I'm getting fed up with looking and trying to figure out if the idiots at my place have actually paid me correctly! :mad I've just called HR and they told me to go to my manager, who is also useless so whats the point! Grrrr.
Thanks in advance :wave

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