Cost of Living and Glastonbury

[JoeyT]

My firm has announced this morning that to help with the cost of living it has been decided that everyone is getting a £2k pay rise as of Oct 1st.

That'll help a bit.

[Old_Johno]

13 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

My firm has announced this morning that to help with the cost of living it has been decided that everyone is getting a £2k pay rise as of Oct 1st.

That'll help a bit.

We’re getting free milk for tea and coffees 

[Punksnotdead]

1 hour ago, Old_Johno said:

We’re getting free milk for tea and coffees 

We're getting fuck all!

My union has a meeting in a couple of weeks about setting up a strike fund before we've even had a vote on it! Looks like they're pretty certain that we won't be getting a better offer from the government!

[Hugh Jass II]

We’ve had a pay increase too.

I reckon some companies are looking at the strikes happening across a number of sectors and are trying to head off any talk by getting early with a decent rise.

[Crazyfool01]

I’m on the huge amount of £10.10 per hour … we have had our raise for the year whoopie … in fact we had 2 because the first one was embarrassing 

Edited September 29, 2022 by Crazyfool01

[WestCountryGirl]

I work for a small charity, so I'll just be happy if we manage to keep the lights on and still have a job again after funding comes in in January.

I'm still going to be going for Glasto as normal though.

[MrHew]

We got a 5% pay rise back in June as our owner saw this coming, if not the full extent. 

[Crazyfool01]

Our gym now shutting the hot tub for autumn / winter it barely worked anyway … might save myself the money soon and quit it … overheard the manager saying the London branches putting up fees by £30 a month …. Nuffield health 

[plaskins]

The 5% pay increase I had in April doesn't seem great now the world is falling to bits. 

[squirrelarmy]

On 9/26/2022 at 1:09 PM, dotdash79 said:

A lot of these holidays were bought and paid for last year. The number of flights are still way below the level at the start of the pandemic. 

Just been out of the country. Flight out was only 2 thirds full so you can see people aren’t traveling to the more pricer places. 

[dotdash79]

12 hours ago, plaskins said:

The 5% pay increase I had in April doesn't seem great now the world is falling to bits. 

I got 3.5% in June, but also got a cost of living payment as well. 

[Neil]

On 9/29/2022 at 8:56 AM, Ayrshire Chris said:

Yesterday’s monetary  disaster won’t help personal finances especially with the probable rise in interest rates.
Todays press makes scary reading , oh apart from the Tory Mail which leads with a story of a prisoner with a phone hidden up his arse. 

i'm not sure tickets are part of the budget i think each area gets an allocation; i guess they only eat into the budget if you want extras.

[gigpusher]

I started working for my current company 3 years ago this November not had a pay rise since I started. If it weren't for the fact that it's very flexible and I work from home full time I'd already have left but I will be starting to look for something else as they are not doing well so unlikely to give pay rises. My boss just quit as he hadn't had a pay rise in 4 years. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

17 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

I’m on the huge amount of £10.10 per hour … we have had our raise for the year whoopie … in fact we had 2 because the first one was embarrassing 

I’d expect the living wage to be upgraded in line with inflation. Well that’s what should happen but God knows what’s going on in the minds of Truss and Kwarteng.  I noticed he mumbled a bit when taking about any benefits increase and didn’t sound convincing when saying pensions would still rise in line with the triple lock.  It seems to me those who can least afford it will suffer the most.  Not unexpected with this lot in charge. 

[moogster]

Received the new prices for electricity. Only a 70% increase. It's almost funny it's so ridiculous.

I changed jobs at the beginning of the year, taking a relatively sizeable paycut, which was doable. That was before we got to this double digit inflation. Waiting to see where the company wide salary negotiations will go, knowing that the price of energy has gone x 3 for our manufacturing company... Kind of glad I am not in the negotiating team...

[DeanoL]

Are you in the UK? Should have only gone up 25% because of the govt cap unless you're just coming off a fix.

[moogster]

22 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

Are you in the UK? Should have only gone up 25% because of the govt cap unless you're just coming off a fix.

No. Our cap is still higher

[March Hare]

On 8/12/2022 at 1:41 PM, March Hare said:

£315 makes sense if you just address inflation. There is some logic to why I went for £345 ish. Obviously it’s all guesswork from my side.

It means that after the £50 deposit the balance is still less than £300 (a mental barrier)

Tickets for 2022 were £280 and inflation alone (if it stays around 10-12%) puts the increase to £310.

The festival took a hit of a few million from the two cancelled festivals (even taking account of the government recovery fund)

The additional £30, on top of the inflation increase of £310 brings in roughly £4m from the punters. I’ve taken off the £5 booking fee.

That would clear the debt and I think £345 is pretty good value for money in most peoples eyes given it’s still selling out in sub 1 hour.

I think they will go £345 and get away with it after an amazing sunny year and all the positive vibes.

I love saying I told you so (just so we are clear on that)

[Crazyfool01]

What are peoples thoughts on how much cost of living impacted initial sale … annecdotal of course and I know some missed out but I feel maybe this initial sale might have been less in demand than previous ? 

[Muppetmark]

3 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

What are peoples thoughts on how much cost of living impacted initial sale … annecdotal of course and I know some missed out but I feel maybe this initial sale might have been less in demand than previous ? 

I don't agree in the slightest. The vast majority of the tickets I know of being bought were after the sold out tweet which would have made a lot of people stop trying. 

[stuie]

3 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

What are peoples thoughts on how much cost of living impacted initial sale … annecdotal of course and I know some missed out but I feel maybe this initial sale might have been less in demand than previous ? 

I think the only thing that affected this sale was the payment system falling over and orders not being successful.  The demand was still there and if they hadn't had so many failed payments (some of which were after they tweeted they were sold out) it would have been the same duration as 2019.

 

[kingbadger]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

What are peoples thoughts on how much cost of living impacted initial sale … annecdotal of course and I know some missed out but I feel maybe this initial sale might have been less in demand than previous ? 

Not impacted anyone in our group, anyone missing out is due to choice - people got weddings to plan, babies to have etc. 

To be honest I can't imagine too many being put off at this stage - not from the initial sale anyway. Might be a few who give it a second thought when the balance is due, but probably stumped up the deposit regardless.

If you can't afford to go without £50 for a few months then you've probably already written off the festival as too expensive anyway. Given how pricely Glastonbury is regardless, I imagine 99% of regular  punters would be able to cough up the deposit. 

[kingbadger]

1 minute ago, stuie said:

I think the only thing that affected this sale was the payment system falling over and orders not being successful.  The demand was still there and if they hadn't had so many failed payments (some of which were after they tweeted they were sold out) it would have been the same duration as 2019.

 

It will always sell out as quickly as the servers allow. Even if demand fell by 75% it would still be an instant sell out. 

[Hugh Jass II]

1 minute ago, stuie said:

I think the only thing that affected this sale was the payment system falling over and orders not being successful.  The demand was still there and if they hadn't had so many failed payments (some of which were after they tweeted they were sold out) it would have been the same duration as 2019.

 

Yeah it made no difference whatsoever.

The real interest will be in April after a financially tough winter.

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Muppetmark said:

I don't agree in the slightest. The vast majority of the tickets I know of being bought were after the sold out tweet which would have made a lot of people stop trying. 

Yeah absolutely a fair point