Nothing more to add really.
I left permanent employment due to personal circumstances, returned to work and quickly found a job that would pay the bills and signed on to a zero hours contract (which for anyone outside of England, is a contract that ensures exactly what it says on the tin).
I've been there for six months now and am treated as nothing more than a money churner.
Like all staff there, of which there is a limitless supply: we're ground to the bone, paid by the minute, inspected over the top, micromanaged to the tee and guaranteed exactly… zero hours.
There's no procedure for rebuttal that doesn't risk your hours and therefore are forced to sacrifice your own dignity to keep managers sweet and get your next batch of hours, less than 16 hours before the next shift.
On the other side of things, uplines are on permeant contracts, are given the privellage of working remotely all the way from Greece to Bali, and get all of the benefits of permanent employment whilst they're at it (for example, annual leave, the right to tribunal without risking their job and sick pay).
Unlike us, where pay is docked if we use more than 4 mins : 1 hour to do things that aren't work, our uplines are given the privellage of a trust based agreement, which is, if you can get the work done, in however much time it takes, you'll still be paid – the 'pay by minute' thing only applies to us.
I'm absolutely exhausted.
What a grind…