You want to make money playing video games, right? Well, if you're in London, here's your chance! Sega are after a QA Tester: https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?b=nyRPqvwE&j=oiAv2fw9 The only problem is that the 35 hour per week shift work is on a dreaded zero hour contract! That means Sega are joining the list of dubious employers who have no obligation to give you a minimum amount of hours.
This should be made against the law. Many times people have been forced to work with zero hour contracts and ended up getting no hours meaning no pay. Some even lose homes/etc. If I got offered a zero hour contract I'd chuck the papers in the persons face. It's disgusting.
That's an immediate "NO" from me. If employers are all high and mighty about your resume and cover letter being error free, then their materials need to be as well.
i used to do this years ago when i had just finished uni but for a different company. great fun but living in or near London on a zero hour contract is a very brave thing to do, in the end i left due to the fact that I was barely earning enough to eat once I had paid the rent + bills and if you get even a single week with no hours (and believe me it happens alot) then your up shit creek quickly
That's even legal? It shouldn't be. It has to be hell to deal with that kind of job if you got kids, and you can't really get another one to fill the gaps in the first one because you don't even know in advance when you'll get shifts... I'd rather have 3 predictable-hours-jobs with interlaced schedules than 1 with an erratic one...
Was talking about the practice in general, not this specific job. And people that got kids to care and have difficulty finding a job will end up in jobs with such shitty conditions because they can't afford to wait for the right opportunity. In turn, this super-unstable job will hinder their capacity to find another part-time job to fill the gaps. It's a very shitty way to hire.
huh Oh, that. Yeah it's horrible. You can't plan a day ahead cause you never know if you're working or not. I had a job like this at a utility store. It really stressed me out not knowing wether I'll be needed tommorrow or not. The best thing you can do with such a job is work for a couple of months and save as much money as possible. Then you can quit, live on the money you saved and look for a better job fulltime.
Absolutely. And no, they're not good. In the past, it was even shittier because employers would use it to have people on-site on standby without paying them. Now, any time spent on-site has to be paid for. https://www.gov.uk/contract-types-and-employer-responsibilities/zero-hour-contracts It's in the news a lot: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/zero-hours-contracts As you can see, some big employers use them - the vast majority of employees for Sports Direct, McDonald's, Curzon cinema, Cineworld, Yo! Sushi, Burger King and Domino's are on zero hour contracts. Other employers include CeX (they sell video games, DVDs, phones, laptops etc. - like Cash Converters... basically a pawn shop but I'm not sure if they pawn so you can get the goods back, I think it's just straight up selling), Tesco (major supermarket), Subway, Boots (still technically a chemist but expanded into a bit more - opticians, photo printing, gifts, baby stuff, a few toys, used to do video games but stopped), The National Trust (nonprofit looking after landmarks), Hertz (car rental) and... Buckingham Palace! You're too kind, your majesty. You could argue that, as you don't HAVE to take the work offered, it's advantageous for parents to work around school pick-ups and such. In reality, if you refuse hours on such a contract, they're probably just going to stop giving you hours. It's not a nice thing for anyone to get into, let alone parents.
Wow I didn't know there was a term for it. In my area we just call it "On Call". I had one of those job and it blew. When they call you they need a 80hours+ week, and then they leave you dry for no hours for 2 weeks... with no planning or communication.
yep its perfectly legal and a really shitty practice. at the end of each day you would go to a notice board and it would have a list of the staff and what games they would be testing the next day, if you werent on the list you didnt come in, you would then wait at home until you get a phone call (usually between 5-6pm) asking you to come in the next day, if you couldnt make it (if you had made plans) then you would go to the bottom of the selection for next time. also for anyone considering this its not as simple as sit down and play games all day, you have to write bug reports to the developers with very precise instructions on how to re-produce the errors, you must also play any games that you are given, so the person next to you would be playing some GTA style game and you would be testing the new Cricket game, its not as much fun as you would imagine. Also finding bugs and then the developers telling you to ignore them because they are not show-stoppers (and believe me some of these bugs did need fixing) is very annoying
