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elkiedee
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1. What is your base salary? Hourly or Exempt?
I earn about £24,600, on a salary scale as I'm in the public sector. That's the top of scale 6 with inner London weighting - my employer is one of the better paying in the sector. We have a currently good pension scheme which is almost certainly going to be attacked severely, but as I'm just about to turn 36 that's some time off for me, and I don't imagine much pension provision or a retirement age will exist in 29 years time (or 34 or whatever...) If I have kids there's good maternity leave provision.
2. How many hours do you generally work for overtime and do you get paid for this?
Probably half an hour to an hou ra day and no pay. I would be on flexitime but my timekeeping isn't great and I got taken off, but I do stay and finish stuff, and am working on the timekeeping.
3. Do you feel that you are overworked? Or, that your office is understaffed?
One solicitor has just left and I think we have about the right number of solciitors now. I think I have a bit too much work but there's a question of what my job is, as I work for several people but there is a lot of dealing directly with people who ring up, problem solving, non fee earning tasks (ie it has to be done but other departments are reluctant to find money in the budgets to pay for it). Our management seem to want less secretaries to provide low level support for more fee earners - I'm not sure this is best use of the council's money (and that paid by the borough's residents) but what do I know?
4. Do you work for a small company or for a large company?
Quite a big organisation but the department is about the size of a medium sized law firm, and many of the sections we mainly work for are small to tiny. In a council the kind of joibs and areas people work in are much more diverse than anyone outside would realise.
5. How many people do you support?
3 directly, but I also have to cover if other secretaries are off, and help out with lots of little queries across the team. I've had moments of having our main clients demand stuff directly (it may not help that I was once their temp even though it was 9 years ago for 3 months).
6. Are you provided w/ a cell phone or laptop?
No! I wouldn't want the first one, as it would only be for work to chase me elsewhere and my job really involves being in one set place, so why would they want to give me a laptop?
Luci
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