US isn’t the American dream. As a kid i always wanted to live in America, no way would i live there now. Only thing better in the US is ur homes. Cost of living is a joke. Annual Leave u get a max of 10 days off possibly could b wrong. Health insurance is a killer. Less rights in America. Taxes all sorted unless u r Self-employed. Me i get 45 days off paid leave, including bank holidays. Also i get 50 days off paid sick leave. Can visit Hospital without a massive medical bill, when coming out. I hear its costs the American people roughly £2k to call an ambulance. Whereas it’s free here in the UK 🇬🇧 I’d b homeless if i was in an America 😂 with my medication bill. Tbf i’d be covered by health insurance if i was in America because of my job, but not the point
That's why fast food outlets flourish in the UK, finish work, and go to the pub without worrying about cooking, in the knowledge that there is a world of different food takeaway outlets, perfect. When you leave the pub, get your choice of food ,chill on the sofa watching a late night movie while enjoying your food.
Also, she's acting like she couldn't leave lol! Nothing stopping her going to the pub for a couple and then heading off at 7 or whatever. You've gone out, been social, had a nice time. No one's going to lock the doors on you! Or even just order some food at the pub and sod everyone else 😅
On tea and coffee, generally in the private sector the company will usually provide tea, coffee, milk and sugar; local government are actually banned from providing anything other than tap water. Most will provide a boiler or boiling water tap, but the tea, coffee etc you provide yourself.
Companies don’t usually stop you having your holiday if you give them enough notice, but if there are others (say 2 or more) who have already booked for the same weeks you want and they work in the same department the company could refuse.
When I worked in a large UK office, I was targeted by the "tea club" organiser on the day I started. I worked out later, that it was because he wanted to buy a pint of fresh milk every day for his own tea. He had a filing cabinet full of empty glass milk bottles. While most other people would be drinking coffee with coffee creamer. Our large departments had a Christmas meal, last day before Christmas lunchtime pub trip, and a Christmas party one night in the office. It was a strict unspoken rule that nobody bought their partner to the office party. What happened at the party, stayed at the party. 🤭
a lot of companies let you buy an extra two weeks, they take money out of your wages over the year so when you are off you get paid holiday money for the extra two weeks
Uk basic working week if you are 9-5,39 hours a week. Roughly 22payed days holiday plus if you work Monday to Friday.all Bank holidays off. That roughly works out at 30 days,give or take a day or two depending on your initial holiday allowance. You can take two weeks off during and straight after you have passed your probation. Also you have to factor in weekends,when booking holiday.
Most UK companies don't want you to take more than 2 weeks leave without a pre arrangement. But it's actually very normal for people to go on 2 week holidays to Greece or whatever
I don't know about that, but my firm (law) expects people to take at least 1 morethantwoweek holiday a year as you can't relax and enjoy if you only take a few days here and there. We get told to use up our days for the year so loads of people are off for a few weeks before christmas as we can't transfer more than 5 days to the next year.
So i really like that you are interacting and speaking during the video. That there is a stool and dusty but that you are naturally encouraging with the video content live
What was the war cry of the American Revolution? "No taxation without representation" Who represents Americans living overseas? From what I've seen, most senators, or whatever they're called, just represent themselves.
I'm almost 60, and I've never worked anywhere where we regularly go to the pub on a Friday evening. TBH, I would much rather go home than go down the pub with people I've been spending all week with, (and some of whom I don't particularly like). We have been to the pub together on odd occasions, and they all end up talking about work or Big Brother, or "I'm very nearly well known, get me out of here". Besides, if I drink a lot, I pee a lot. And from the nearest pub to where I work, it's about a 20 minute walk, wait for anything up to half ban hour for the bus, then an hours journey until I get home. And no where to pee!
I work in the private sector in the UK and have NEVER seen the pooling of money for tea or coffee. Our office manager normally gets the supplies either delivered or bought locally on the company credit card.. and this includes bread and it’s companions… we even have a fully working ‘grind-your-beans’ coffee machine with bells and whistles. And I mean it’s most offices I have across England and Wales on the same company that is like this.
Nobody goes to the pub after work on a Friday always Thursdays. Even Christmas party is set on a Thursday. People want to either be home or with friends on a Friday.
We have chill out areas where I used to work and there was always soft sofas and coffee machines and hot water on tap for tea. You also had a big wide screen tv or even in the office we had big wide screen tv too.
hHd a US co-worker visiting over here once and he came in to work with a streaming cold and was confused to simply be sent home and told not to come in until he was better.
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"Eating is cheating" I've never heard that, and it's a load of crap. As Alana said, it's not a game or a competition, and there's no rule book. You go out to enjoy yourself, and if that means food, that's fine.
In my experience, going to the pub after work is much more frequent in London than elsewhere in the UK, because of the long commute times and traditionally late evening meal. In other parts of the UK you would tend to go home first, have your meal and then go out with friends. If you work in London then that’s less practical. That was always a big culture shock to me as a Londoner moving between London and other regions.
The coffee comes down to the company, I've never worked for a company that didn't have a coffee machine, and never been anywhere without free tea,milk etc.
The trouble with having a coffee maker in the office is you get into arguments about who's going to fund it, who's going to buy it, (the coffee, the coffee maker AND the filters), who's going to put the filters and coffee in, and who's going to wash it up afterwards. Also, who's going to take all the mugs and actually pour the coffee in and put the milk in? Believe me, it's more hassle than it's worth. You can get coffee bags in the UK now. Ground coffee in bags like Tea bags. It's much more convenient. People can provide their own.
As well as PAYE you can also ask to submit your own tax assessment which is really easy. Before I retired I would submit my tax form and every year I would get a tax refund. Every where I have ever worked had a coffee maker, that coffee maker was the person who took the last cup of coffee, it was your responsibility to make sure there would be coffee for the next person. Every company I ever worked for paid for tea, coffee and supplies. One company would get their supplies from Costco and they even arranged for every employee to have a Costco card. It is worth pointing out that all employees in the UK both full time and part time get the 28 days holiday (vacation). However most companies will only let you take two weeks in one block in any one year. I did one year take the last two weeks of one year then the first two weeks of the next giving me a block of 4 weeks. As a result they changed the company policy so you could only have two consecutive weeks even if they spanned years. Combination of office banter and sickness; at one company within a two month period I caught measles and chickenpox, I had both as a child but I got them both again from one of my young sons. On returning from the second illness I was stopped in the corridor by the regional director who with a smile on his face said "we are going to have to let you go, you lied about your age on your application, We aren't allowed to employ children." With one exception every company worked in paid for the Christmas do. A few also had what they called company days where they would arrange a day or weekend away for you and your partner that was fully paid for. One even paid for an after opening hours evening at a theme park.
When she mentioned the first "Kitty", she doesn't mean the cat. The kitty is the money that is collected in order to buy cakes, tea,and coffee for workers in the office.
Statutory holiday leave does often include the UK's 13 bank holidays, as businesses are often shut on those days. But the rest the employee can choose to take. They may need to apply in advance, and the employee can refuse thar particular time period, but can't refuse 5.6 weeks' holiday over a year. Sick - you can self certify for 5 working days, after which you need a sick note for a specified time frame. The sick note can be renewed. Long term sickness employees (more than 4 weeks) can only be dismissed after the employee has looked at flexible or staged returns to work, and has talked the situation through with the employee to see if there is a likelihood that they could return to work.
Now finished working and only made one tax return in all that time! That was only because I inherited my mother's half of their house and, on selling it when my father died, I had to pay Capital Gains Tax on my half as I didn't live in it. The following year, they agreed that I had no reason to make any more tax returns as I was paying PAYE through my employer.
Everywhere I've worked in the UK, the tea, coffee, milk, sugar, biscuits were paid for as part of admin. Most of the places I worked had a kettle, and at least one microwave and fridges for folks to bring their own food. Several places also had ice machines for those of us that liked iced drink, e.g. coffee. A few companies in London also provided free soft drinks (Pepsi, Fanta, Sprite, etc.) In one company, not only did folks bring in their own cakes on their birthdays, but food from their country of origin on the national holiday for that country.
The holiday thing was wrong we get a base of 28 days off but because of bank holidays it works out more like 33 days. We also have to account for Christmas so 32 total.
In the Netherlands the birthday person also does bring the treats(it can be cake, pie, sausage rolls, cookies or what I do is bring a huge bowl of sweets, candybars etc..., because I like the idea of doing the treats like a child would do it for nostalgia and so people can choose what they like and as many as they like) . I've had multiple co-workers do the same after I started doing it, it's like I broke some "candy is for kids barrier". I think before people felt like they had to bring cakes/pies for some reason as if that was the only acceptable option. I think it's great that we have some variation. :) Though, at my workplace at least we also get a gift from HR. I think work culture of the UK is similar to the NL.
i broke my foot at the beginning of this year i was off my work for 8 weeks i was going stir crazy i received sick pay then statuary sick pay . but i couldn't wait to get back to work
I only go into the office Thursdays, I buy loads of chocolates/cakes/etc when I see them and leave the boxes near my teams. The other teams bring in their own treats for their teams, but we are all interconnected, so we share everything! they'll all be a lot skinnier once I retire..
Im from the uk and Where i work christmas do is fully paid by the company and is a open free bar always a good time as its a thank you for a good job well done from the boss
I worked 35 hours a week and had 30 days paid annual leave plus 8 public holidays. I also would flexi-time which meant I could work over my normal hours to build up time and could take an extra day and a half every 4 weeks if I wanted to.
Yes, when we're sick, for the first 3 days, we can just phone in for the first day and go off sick, and you still get paid for it. After the third day, you need a doctor's certificate, which generally lasts for a couple of weeks. Then if you're going to be off sick any longer, you need to renew it. Where I work, we get up to 6 months sick leave on full pay, and 6 months sick leave on half pay. If you're still sick after that, the government steps in and helps you out financially, though it's only a fraction of your normal pay. You can't be sacked just for being off sick, but you can be sacked if you've been off sick for a considerable time and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Then the manager would have to visit you at home and discuss it with you.
I get 36 days holiday, but my friend has the best shift pattern I heard of he does 2 x 12 hours night shift then 24 hours off then 2 x 12 hours day shift then 6 days off then he starts again
PAYE is a godsend. The tax authorities give your employer a tax code based on your tax allowances. Your employer works out the tax you have to pay over the tax year. The employer then works out what to pay the taxman and what to pay you per month, so at the end of the year you have paid the correct amount of tax, and your income is constant over the year. The system is self adjusting so if you have a pay rise your new tax is worked out and the tax needing to be deducted is adjusted over the remainder of the tax year.
Where I come from in the UK a good party will have a " yard of ale" contest. A yard of ale is a long narrow glass with a big bulb at the end. It holds about 2.5 pints, the idea is to drink it as fast as you can without getting soaked in beer in the process., the fastest wins. According to the Guiness book of records 5 seconds is the fastest time.
We're big tea drinkers in the UK. Instant coffee isn't nice. Working in mainland Europe is so much nicer. Proper filter coffee or bean to cup machines in every office. Coffee is more popular in the UK now but we're still behind a lot of the world on that front!
when i was self employed i used to just pay an accountant £200 a year or something to do mine for me. Aways got a rebate between £2000-£4000 per year depending on my earnings and expenses... which the accountant actually took his fee out of. As for the Christmas doo whilst self employed Electrician we would save up all the scrap copper cable in the last few months of the year and that would pay for the whole event.
I know a few people who are US citizens and work in the UK, they have to do a tax return to the US but generally their assessed taxation is zero. I looked into self publishing through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, if you do this then Amazon take 40% of your income for tax to the US even if you don’t have any connection to the US.
We have paid holidays plus paid Bank holidays and sick leave. We can have more than one sick leave a year but after your self certificate for the 5 days you need a sick note from a dr. We dont go into work ill because you can pass it onto the whole workforce.
One thing I don’t think she said was that if you are sick you still get paid!!! There are limits but that can be weeks or months before it stops, depends on the business but there are government minimums!
Honestly the amount of Xmas Dos with free flowing alcohol = standard and it gets so messy! Especially when there’s not enough food… because as they saying goes in the U.K : “Eating is cheating!” 😮😂
Why don't you make a video about your experience of having a baby in the USA.. I'm really interested how much money it genuinely costs.. And a big congratulations and to you and your family.. Love and light from across the pond 🙏👶👨👩👦🥂🎉😘🇬🇧
The other thing is that if you move to another country and get their citizenship if you don’t want to pay double taxation with USA to give up your USA citizenship they charge $2450… whoa
Coffee fact for you. Once you grind the fresh coffee bean, all the medicinal goodness of the bean is gone after 10 minutes. Granulated is better and cheaper for you.
The only people in the UK who have to file their own taxes are those who are self employed (they work for themselves and don't have any other employee's).
Pay As You Earn = PAYE , it’s the way we are taxed in UK , unless your self employed or earn over the threshold , no idea what that is though , never earned enough to find out .
Can I just say as a person from England this is only office work she is describing, outside the office environment this isn’t the same , yes if you work for a company they pay your tax you don’t have to do it , also 28 days holiday plus all bank holidays, Christmas Day is a bank holiday Boxing Day is a bank holiday new year day is a bank holidays their is 8 in total , some places especially government offices the longer you work their you get more weeks, but everyone gets 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, Iv never worked in the environment she has been talking to as Iv been mainly in construction and oil and gas industry and self employed Iv worked all over the world , in the uk if I am in the uk for more than 28 days in one year I must pay my taxes in the uk , for me the company I would work for even though I was self employed would pay the taxes in the country I had been working, that was always my deal with the company I would insist on and have it it writing and checked to make sure it was correct, my foreign taxes would also be taken from wage before I got my amount and my amount was what I agree to , for eg if I was making $1000 a day the company would pay the taxes on that amount was mine I didn’t get any fluctuating wages, and yes as a British person working abroad I would be payed in dollars, mainly due to it being oiled and gas , that is changing though, as self employed I don’t get holiday pay or sick pay I could pay myself but it doesn’t feel the same 😂🤣😂
LOL yeah mate just try working here if no one is filing taxes for you, If you're employed someone is filing taxes for you, if you're self employed you're supposed to be doing it yourself.
Scottish government jobs, utilities etc. Six months paid sick leave. Six Months half pay there-after. 31 days annual leave, paid in full. 5 days paid statutory holiday. Company final salary pension scheme.
The idea that as a US citizen who works, lives and pays taxes in another country and you still have to pay taxes in the US is unconscionable. I now understand why so many US citizens living long term in the UK opt to apply for UK citizenship and make the UK their permanent home. I also now understand why such people travel to the US on their British passports to visit their US relatives.
That's the same as a UK citizen. If your working abroad and your a UK Resident you are still required to pay both foreign Tax and British Tax unless you're a resident of the foreign country then you're exempt so pretty much the same as US but the tax system there is slightly different
Every County council in the country are past masters at having ‘meetings to arrange ‘ meetings. I work for one 35 yrs of my 45 yr working life. I had 5 weeks plus 8 or so Bank holidays .If sick we get 6 months on full pay,6 six months half pay ,can’t be sacked while off ill. After 12 months you would be finished on disability.
You really need to watch the one from our man Evan Edinger on double taxation it’s just the tip of the iceberg I’ll let you see the rest plus I’d say it’s one of his best and he made it funny
UK does tax you if you work abroad as a UK resident you pay UK tax no matter where you work even if that's the other side of the world. You have certain criteria that would make it less or make you exempt but that's definitely a thing for probably most of the world. I think USA is a little more extreme but yea still a thing in UK.
I spent 50 years paying paye friends who were self employed earning double my wage, used an accountant and paid less tax than I . Did it piss me off O YES
Just ment that you didn't have the business expenses. To offset against tax. Or have to make financial provision for time off. Not have zero income when sick, or have to pay someone to do the work. You couldn't do when sick. No employer contribution to pension.
Basically your employer just does nothing for you, if your ill you have to find cover, you have to sort your health and you are responsible for your taxes.😭
The double taxation kicks in when you earn over 100,000 USD. BUT, even if you owe zero USD, if you DON'T fill in the forms or you fill them in wrong you get charged. Worse if you get sick of that (say you've moved permanently and have no intention of ever living in the US again) and renounce your US citizenship. If you mention the taxation as a reason you'll be blacklisted and have a good chance of being barred from ever entering the US again.
It's even worse if your an accidental US citizen like my cousin children . Father is english, mother a US citizen they have citizenship via their mother even though they have never been to America but strictly speaking they are US citizens. They can get a US passport
@geoffpriestley7310 That only applies if you register them in the country. I would have to register my child, apply for birth certificate in my country too for them to be able to get a citizenship, passport ect.. but they would never just get that if I don't unless they try apply when older maybe 🤔🤷♂️
@iverson2977 If they are born in the UK they will have uk birth certificates you get the birth certificate from the country your born in .they still get US citizenship through their mother side of the family . If I remember on the birth certificate it say mother's nationally and profession
@@geoffpriestley7310 But how are they US citizens if they ain't born there or registered there. They can become a citizen I get that but to automatically become a citizen is totally bizarre because how does that even work they need some documentation for say social security number ect... which you would have to apply for so technically they are not a citizen until they do that are they 🤷♂️ are you sure you know what you're talking about 🤔😂 you have to claim citizenship it's not just as you say it is... I think you're confused
@iverson2977 they only only have to prove that their mother is a US citizen and they can get a US passport. My step daughter can get irish citizenship even though shes never been there her father is an Irish citizen. Her mother was a UK citizen that lived in Ireland, but my step daughter was born in the UK. Don't forget you can be born in the UK and not be a UK citizen or have the right to reside here. Been born in the UK does not automatically give you citizenship like it does in the USA
I left the US for the UK in 86. I was never chased down by the IRS. Spoke to somebody today actually, who left the US for Spain. They had trouble at the Spanish end but not the IRS. No intention of living in the US again other than vacation. After 38 years, I think I'm probably off the radar.
Doctors don't need you wasting time for a doctors note for the flu 😂 if you only having a couple days off. You loose the first 3days pay with consecutive days off
You can self-certify for the first 5? days sick in each sickness period. In fact if you go to the doctor for a sick note, they will refuse if the expected recovery is within a week.
@phillee2814 I'm aware, that's why I made that comment 🤔😬 was referring to her comment in the video about getting a doctor note for work even just for 1 day off in the US but in UK it's different, she said something along those lines 🤦😂
Here in UK I only work 4 days a week and still get 27 days holiday fully payed! USA sounds dodgy as fuk
Do you get paid as well as being "payed"?🤭
@@crackpot148we get paid, payed and occasionally laid
Me too! All pro-rate'd... But I'm taking early retirement in January, and I CANNOT WAIT!!
*Paid.
US isn’t the American dream. As a kid i always wanted to live in America, no way would i live there now. Only thing better in the US is ur homes. Cost of living is a joke. Annual Leave u get a max of 10 days off possibly could b wrong. Health insurance is a killer. Less rights in America. Taxes all sorted unless u r Self-employed. Me i get 45 days off paid leave, including bank holidays. Also i get 50 days off paid sick leave. Can visit Hospital without a massive medical bill, when coming out. I hear its costs the American people roughly £2k to call an ambulance. Whereas it’s free here in the UK 🇬🇧 I’d b homeless if i was in an America 😂 with my medication bill. Tbf i’d be covered by health insurance if i was in America because of my job, but not the point
As a Brit, everything she said was spot on, even the 'bringing in your own cake on your birthday' haha I thought that happened everywhere.
Bring your own cake is the norm in Denmark too
We do it on our skittles team.
Whoever's birthday brings a cake.
It was standard practice in Australia, too.
Isn't that only in the South?
I am brit I never seen anyone bring in a kake into the work place but I am a plumber we go out on the weekend on the lash🍻 for someone birthday
That's why fast food outlets flourish in the UK, finish work, and go to the pub without worrying about cooking, in the knowledge that there is a world of different food takeaway outlets, perfect. When you leave the pub, get your choice of food ,chill on the sofa watching a late night movie while enjoying your food.
Kebab anyone? Lol
Also, she's acting like she couldn't leave lol! Nothing stopping her going to the pub for a couple and then heading off at 7 or whatever. You've gone out, been social, had a nice time. No one's going to lock the doors on you! Or even just order some food at the pub and sod everyone else 😅
No POISON FOOD either
On tea and coffee, generally in the private sector the company will usually provide tea, coffee, milk and sugar; local government are actually banned from providing anything other than tap water. Most will provide a boiler or boiling water tap, but the tea, coffee etc you provide yourself.
Companies don’t usually stop you having your holiday if you give them enough notice, but if there are others (say 2 or more) who have already booked for the same weeks you want and they work in the same department the company could refuse.
Depends on the company / team / director / manager ... iv never had holiday refused i just fill out a form online
I've seen careers ended at christmas do's lol. The "birthday person" where I work left to work somwhere else and now the whole thing is chaos.
Also in the UK the 'sick note' form the doctor is free of charge.
When I worked in a large UK office, I was targeted by the "tea club" organiser on the day I started. I worked out later, that it was because he wanted to buy a pint of fresh milk every day for his own tea. He had a filing cabinet full of empty glass milk bottles. While most other people would be drinking coffee with coffee creamer.
Our large departments had a Christmas meal, last day before Christmas lunchtime pub trip, and a Christmas party one night in the office. It was a strict unspoken rule that nobody bought their partner to the office party. What happened at the party, stayed at the party. 🤭
Why would you bring a partner. Lol. So British.
a lot of companies let you buy an extra two weeks, they take money out of your wages over the year so when you are off you get paid holiday money for the extra two weeks
Uk basic working week if you are 9-5,39 hours a week. Roughly 22payed days holiday plus if you work Monday to Friday.all Bank holidays off. That roughly works out at 30 days,give or take a day or two depending on your initial holiday allowance.
You can take two weeks off during and straight after you have passed your probation.
Also you have to factor in weekends,when booking holiday.
Most UK companies don't want you to take more than 2 weeks leave without a pre arrangement. But it's actually very normal for people to go on 2 week holidays to Greece or whatever
I don't know about that, but my firm (law) expects people to take at least 1 morethantwoweek holiday a year as you can't relax and enjoy if you only take a few days here and there. We get told to use up our days for the year so loads of people are off for a few weeks before christmas as we can't transfer more than 5 days to the next year.
I took the whole month of December off just by booking it early enough
So i really like that you are interacting and speaking during the video. That there is a stool and dusty but that you are naturally encouraging with the video content live
What was the war cry of the American Revolution? "No taxation without representation" Who represents Americans living overseas? From what I've seen, most senators, or whatever they're called, just represent themselves.
Bu the way, some countries have representatives for citizens living outside the country. I know France has 11 of them, out of 577 representatives.
The representatives of their "Home" state
By the end of the year I will have been on holiday abroad 8 times this year - its cheaper than being at home and return flights are often around $60
I'm almost 60, and I've never worked anywhere where we regularly go to the pub on a Friday evening. TBH, I would much rather go home than go down the pub with people I've been spending all week with, (and some of whom I don't particularly like). We have been to the pub together on odd occasions, and they all end up talking about work or Big Brother, or "I'm very nearly well known, get me out of here". Besides, if I drink a lot, I pee a lot. And from the nearest pub to where I work, it's about a 20 minute walk, wait for anything up to half ban hour for the bus, then an hours journey until I get home. And no where to pee!
Normal form to go the pub after work on a Friday 1970-80s
Unlucky 😂😂
I worked 48 years in uk and we all hit the pub weekly but we took public transport
By the sounds of your attitude toward your work colleagues they probably are going to the pub together regularly, they just aren't inviting you.
You sound like a good person to spend time with.
I work in the private sector in the UK and have NEVER seen the pooling of money for tea or coffee. Our office manager normally gets the supplies either delivered or bought locally on the company credit card.. and this includes bread and it’s companions… we even have a fully working ‘grind-your-beans’ coffee machine with bells and whistles. And I mean it’s most offices I have across England and Wales on the same company that is like this.
Nobody goes to the pub after work on a Friday always Thursdays. Even Christmas party is set on a Thursday. People want to either be home or with friends on a Friday.
We did, wage packet pub.
We have chill out areas where I used to work and there was always soft sofas and coffee machines and hot water on tap for tea. You also had a big wide screen tv or even in the office we had big wide screen tv too.
hHd a US co-worker visiting over here once and he came in to work with a streaming cold and was confused to simply be sent home and told not to come in until he was better.
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"Eating is cheating" I've never heard that, and it's a load of crap. As Alana said, it's not a game or a competition, and there's no rule book. You go out to enjoy yourself, and if that means food, that's fine.
We use eating is cheating among friends on a night out. 😂
Acting like you can't just grab some food, it's just bants between friends. Guess they wouldn't get it unless you live over here @@yvonnejamieson2499
In my experience, going to the pub after work is much more frequent in London than elsewhere in the UK, because of the long commute times and traditionally late evening meal. In other parts of the UK you would tend to go home first, have your meal and then go out with friends. If you work in London then that’s less practical.
That was always a big culture shock to me as a Londoner moving between London and other regions.
The coffee comes down to the company, I've never worked for a company that didn't have a coffee machine, and never been anywhere without free tea,milk etc.
The trouble with having a coffee maker in the office is you get into arguments about who's going to fund it, who's going to buy it, (the coffee, the coffee maker AND the filters), who's going to put the filters and coffee in, and who's going to wash it up afterwards. Also, who's going to take all the mugs and actually pour the coffee in and put the milk in? Believe me, it's more hassle than it's worth.
You can get coffee bags in the UK now. Ground coffee in bags like Tea bags. It's much more convenient. People can provide their own.
I remember coffee bags in the mid 70's. Can't remember who produced them
Yeah im in NZ my taxes are all done for me i can't remember the last time i had to fill out tax returns....
As well as PAYE you can also ask to submit your own tax assessment which is really easy. Before I retired I would submit my tax form and every year I would get a tax refund.
Every where I have ever worked had a coffee maker, that coffee maker was the person who took the last cup of coffee, it was your responsibility to make sure there would be coffee for the next person. Every company I ever worked for paid for tea, coffee and supplies. One company would get their supplies from Costco and they even arranged for every employee to have a Costco card.
It is worth pointing out that all employees in the UK both full time and part time get the 28 days holiday (vacation). However most companies will only let you take two weeks in one block in any one year. I did one year take the last two weeks of one year then the first two weeks of the next giving me a block of 4 weeks. As a result they changed the company policy so you could only have two consecutive weeks even if they spanned years.
Combination of office banter and sickness; at one company within a two month period I caught measles and chickenpox, I had both as a child but I got them both again from one of my young sons. On returning from the second illness I was stopped in the corridor by the regional director who with a smile on his face said "we are going to have to let you go, you lied about your age on your application, We aren't allowed to employ children."
With one exception every company worked in paid for the Christmas do. A few also had what they called company days where they would arrange a day or weekend away for you and your partner that was fully paid for. One even paid for an after opening hours evening at a theme park.
I was at Tim Hortons in Alicante airport in Spain last week. 😁😁
one of our drivers made an error, the message from the boss just said "knob head"
When she mentioned the first "Kitty", she doesn't mean the cat.
The kitty is the money that is collected in order to buy cakes, tea,and coffee for workers in the office.
16:52 you are including weekends saying 4 weeks. It is 28 work days. Which is 5.6 weeks.
Alcohol affects you much much more if you drink on an empty stomach. I know, I've been there.
Statutory holiday leave does often include the UK's 13 bank holidays, as businesses are often shut on those days. But the rest the employee can choose to take. They may need to apply in advance, and the employee can refuse thar particular time period, but can't refuse 5.6 weeks' holiday over a year.
Sick - you can self certify for 5 working days, after which you need a sick note for a specified time frame. The sick note can be renewed. Long term sickness employees (more than 4 weeks) can only be dismissed after the employee has looked at flexible or staged returns to work, and has talked the situation through with the employee to see if there is a likelihood that they could return to work.
Now finished working and only made one tax return in all that time! That was only because I inherited my mother's half of their house and, on selling it when my father died, I had to pay Capital Gains Tax on my half as I didn't live in it. The following year, they agreed that I had no reason to make any more tax returns as I was paying PAYE through my employer.
Everywhere I've worked in the UK, the tea, coffee, milk, sugar, biscuits were paid for as part of admin. Most of the places I worked had a kettle, and at least one microwave and fridges for folks to bring their own food. Several places also had ice machines for those of us that liked iced drink, e.g. coffee. A few companies in London also provided free soft drinks (Pepsi, Fanta, Sprite, etc.)
In one company, not only did folks bring in their own cakes on their birthdays, but food from their country of origin on the national holiday for that country.
Love alana, such a lovely lass, hope she stays here x
The holiday thing was wrong we get a base of 28 days off but because of bank holidays it works out more like 33 days. We also have to account for Christmas so 32 total.
Minimum is 20 plus 8 BH
In the Netherlands the birthday person also does bring the treats(it can be cake, pie, sausage rolls, cookies or what I do is bring a huge bowl of sweets, candybars etc..., because I like the idea of doing the treats like a child would do it for nostalgia and so people can choose what they like and as many as they like) . I've had multiple co-workers do the same after I started doing it, it's like I broke some "candy is for kids barrier". I think before people felt like they had to bring cakes/pies for some reason as if that was the only acceptable option. I think it's great that we have some variation. :)
Though, at my workplace at least we also get a gift from HR. I think work culture of the UK is similar to the NL.
i broke my foot at the beginning of this year i was off my work for 8 weeks i was going stir crazy i received sick pay then statuary sick pay . but i couldn't wait to get back to work
I only go into the office Thursdays, I buy loads of chocolates/cakes/etc when I see them and leave the boxes near my teams. The other teams bring in their own treats for their teams, but we are all interconnected, so we share everything!
they'll all be a lot skinnier once I retire..
Im from the uk and Where i work christmas do is fully paid by the company and is a open free bar always a good time as its a thank you for a good job well done from the boss
I worked 35 hours a week and had 30 days paid annual leave plus 8 public holidays. I also would flexi-time which meant I could work over my normal hours to build up time and could take an extra day and a half every 4 weeks if I wanted to.
we are big drinkers in the uk any excuse for a drink is a good reason. and Thursday is weekend eve no need to wait till fridays to start it off lol.
True. Those Who do not just smoke lots of Cannabis mostly illegally but growing Numbers of legal users for genuine medical reasons
Yes, when we're sick, for the first 3 days, we can just phone in for the first day and go off sick, and you still get paid for it. After the third day, you need a doctor's certificate, which generally lasts for a couple of weeks. Then if you're going to be off sick any longer, you need to renew it. Where I work, we get up to 6 months sick leave on full pay, and 6 months sick leave on half pay. If you're still sick after that, the government steps in and helps you out financially, though it's only a fraction of your normal pay. You can't be sacked just for being off sick, but you can be sacked if you've been off sick for a considerable time and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Then the manager would have to visit you at home and discuss it with you.
I get 36 days holiday, but my friend has the best shift pattern I heard of he does 2 x 12 hours night shift then 24 hours off then 2 x 12 hours day shift then 6 days off then he starts again
PAYE is a godsend. The tax authorities give your employer a tax code based on your tax allowances. Your employer works out the tax you have to pay over the tax year. The employer then works out what to pay the taxman and what to pay you per month, so at the end of the year you have paid the correct amount of tax, and your income is constant over the year. The system is self adjusting so if you have a pay rise your new tax is worked out and the tax needing to be deducted is adjusted over the remainder of the tax year.
In a Pub besides drinking is, crisps, peanuts or ploughman's lunch!
As a Brit I'm too busy enjoying my 28 days holiday and having a work life balance to be bothered doing my taxes.
That way, you know you'll get a cake you enjoy lol
Where I come from in the UK a good party will have a " yard of ale" contest. A yard of ale is a long narrow glass with a big bulb at the end. It holds about 2.5 pints, the idea is to drink it as fast as you can without getting soaked in beer in the process., the fastest wins. According to the Guiness book of records 5 seconds is the fastest time.
I saw someone attempt a yard of Guinness once. He had chips for tea.
You get 28 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays in the UK. If you work Bank Holidays you get those added to your Holidays
Depends on the job. If you have your own business you have to file them. You just do them online.
We're big tea drinkers in the UK. Instant coffee isn't nice. Working in mainland Europe is so much nicer. Proper filter coffee or bean to cup machines in every office. Coffee is more popular in the UK now but we're still behind a lot of the world on that front!
38 paid days holiday this year for me, that includes our UK bank holidays.
when i was self employed i used to just pay an accountant £200 a year or something to do mine for me. Aways got a rebate between £2000-£4000 per year depending on my earnings and expenses... which the accountant actually took his fee out of. As for the Christmas doo whilst self employed Electrician we would save up all the scrap copper cable in the last few months of the year and that would pay for the whole event.
I know a few people who are US citizens and work in the UK, they have to do a tax return to the US but generally their assessed taxation is zero. I looked into self publishing through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, if you do this then Amazon take 40% of your income for tax to the US even if you don’t have any connection to the US.
When I worked we went to the pub on a Friday lunchtime, especially when we went onto flexitime. This is frowned upon nowadays for some reason.
We have paid holidays plus paid Bank holidays and sick leave. We can have more than one sick leave a year but after your self certificate for the 5 days you need a sick note from a dr. We dont go into work ill because you can pass it onto the whole workforce.
One thing I don’t think she said was that if you are sick you still get paid!!! There are limits but that can be weeks or months before it stops, depends on the business but there are government minimums!
Most brits also have the unofficial weeks “sick” leave if they work in a paid sick job😂
Wasn't paying taxes without representation the whole reason for the Boston Tea Party? With regards to paying tax in the USA if you're working abroad.
Never eat when you're out. Grab a pre night sandwich or something but eating when out bloats you and you can't then have a good drink!
Christmas do …..we do that for some reason. We also have a birthday bash
Honestly the amount of Xmas Dos with free flowing alcohol = standard and it gets so messy! Especially when there’s not enough food… because as they saying goes in the U.K : “Eating is cheating!” 😮😂
Why don't you make a video about your experience of having a baby in the USA.. I'm really interested how much money it genuinely costs.. And a big congratulations and to you and your family.. Love and light from across the pond 🙏👶👨👩👦🥂🎉😘🇬🇧
Depends on the State, Hospital and Insurance Coverage. So would vary
The other thing is that if you move to another country and get their citizenship if you don’t want to pay double taxation with USA to give up your USA citizenship they charge $2450… whoa
My uncle worked for John Lewis for like 20-30 years and they gave him 6 Months off paid 🤣 (for that mile stone not every year)
My last job, they'd let you choose bottle of alcohol of your choice at Christmas. Wine, beer, spirits...😊
You do have to do tax returns if you are self employed or are a sole trader/partnership business
You can call me Wanker as Much as You Like as long as i get 27 days holiday and free health Care!!🤣
Coffee fact for you. Once you grind the fresh coffee bean, all the medicinal goodness of the bean is gone after 10 minutes. Granulated is better and cheaper for you.
The only people in the UK who have to file their own taxes are those who are self employed (they work for themselves and don't have any other employee's).
Pay As You Earn = PAYE , it’s the way we are taxed in UK , unless your self employed or earn over the threshold , no idea what that is though , never earned enough to find out .
Can I just say as a person from England this is only office work she is describing, outside the office environment this isn’t the same , yes if you work for a company they pay your tax you don’t have to do it , also 28 days holiday plus all bank holidays, Christmas Day is a bank holiday Boxing Day is a bank holiday new year day is a bank holidays their is 8 in total , some places especially government offices the longer you work their you get more weeks, but everyone gets 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, Iv never worked in the environment she has been talking to as Iv been mainly in construction and oil and gas industry and self employed Iv worked all over the world , in the uk if I am in the uk for more than 28 days in one year I must pay my taxes in the uk , for me the company I would work for even though I was self employed would pay the taxes in the country I had been working, that was always my deal with the company I would insist on and have it it writing and checked to make sure it was correct, my foreign taxes would also be taken from wage before I got my amount and my amount was what I agree to , for eg if I was making $1000 a day the company would pay the taxes on that amount was mine I didn’t get any fluctuating wages, and yes as a British person working abroad I would be payed in dollars, mainly due to it being oiled and gas , that is changing though, as self employed I don’t get holiday pay or sick pay I could pay myself but it doesn’t feel the same 😂🤣😂
LOL yeah mate just try working here if no one is filing taxes for you, If you're employed someone is filing taxes for you, if you're self employed you're supposed to be doing it yourself.
Tapas on a Friday night is buying 4 packs of nuts, pork scratchings, crisps and maybe some fancy pretzels, between 8 of you! 😂
Eat'n is cheat'n.
You roll outta the pub about 12-1 & fall into a fast food joint.
My workplace has a cafe - we do not have to pay for any drinks or food.
Scottish government jobs, utilities etc. Six months paid sick leave. Six Months half pay there-after. 31 days annual leave, paid in full. 5 days paid statutory holiday. Company final salary pension scheme.
Remember someone taking 5 months off with
“ mental stress” 😃
One company i worked for booked a hotel room for you if you were drinking at the xmas party
The idea that as a US citizen who works, lives and pays taxes in another country and you still have to pay taxes in the US is unconscionable.
I now understand why so many US citizens living long term in the UK opt to apply for UK citizenship and make the UK their permanent home. I also now understand why such people travel to the US on their British passports to visit their US relatives.
That's the same as a UK citizen. If your working abroad and your a UK Resident you are still required to pay both foreign Tax and British Tax unless you're a resident of the foreign country then you're exempt so pretty much the same as US but the tax system there is slightly different
If u r self employed,u do have to file a tax return and pay national insurance
Not forgetting having a meeting to discuss the number of meetings, to see if they could be cut back.
Every County council in the country are past masters at having ‘meetings to arrange ‘ meetings. I work for one 35 yrs of my 45 yr working life. I had 5 weeks plus 8 or so Bank holidays .If sick we get 6 months on full pay,6 six months half pay ,can’t be sacked while off ill. After 12 months you would be finished on disability.
You really need to watch the one from our man Evan Edinger on double taxation it’s just the tip of the iceberg I’ll let you see the rest plus I’d say it’s one of his best and he made it funny
UK does tax you if you work abroad as a UK resident you pay UK tax no matter where you work even if that's the other side of the world. You have certain criteria that would make it less or make you exempt but that's definitely a thing for probably most of the world. I think USA is a little more extreme but yea still a thing in UK.
Pay as you earn best system ever ! Get yourself an accountent they sort your taxes for you
I spent 50 years paying paye friends who were self employed earning double my wage, used an accountant and paid less tax than I . Did it piss me off O YES
Just ment that you didn't have the business expenses. To offset against tax. Or have to make financial provision for time off. Not have zero income when sick, or have to pay someone to do the work. You couldn't do when sick. No employer contribution to pension.
And don't forget to add the accountants fees to the amount of tax paid, if it's more than using PAYE, then is it really worth it.
Basically your employer just does nothing for you, if your ill you have to find cover, you have to sort your health and you are responsible for your taxes.😭
Eating is cheating on whom?
If you don’t eat you fall over!😉
The double taxation kicks in when you earn over 100,000 USD. BUT, even if you owe zero USD, if you DON'T fill in the forms or you fill them in wrong you get charged. Worse if you get sick of that (say you've moved permanently and have no intention of ever living in the US again) and renounce your US citizenship. If you mention the taxation as a reason you'll be blacklisted and have a good chance of being barred from ever entering the US again.
It's even worse if your an accidental US citizen like my cousin children . Father is english, mother a US citizen they have citizenship via their mother even though they have never been to America but strictly speaking they are US citizens. They can get a US passport
@geoffpriestley7310 That only applies if you register them in the country. I would have to register my child, apply for birth certificate in my country too for them to be able to get a citizenship, passport ect.. but they would never just get that if I don't unless they try apply when older maybe 🤔🤷♂️
@iverson2977 If they are born in the UK they will have uk birth certificates you get the birth certificate from the country your born in .they still get US citizenship through their mother side of the family . If I remember on the birth certificate it say mother's nationally and profession
@@geoffpriestley7310 But how are they US citizens if they ain't born there or registered there. They can become a citizen I get that but to automatically become a citizen is totally bizarre because how does that even work they need some documentation for say social security number ect... which you would have to apply for so technically they are not a citizen until they do that are they 🤷♂️ are you sure you know what you're talking about 🤔😂 you have to claim citizenship it's not just as you say it is... I think you're confused
@iverson2977 they only only have to prove that their mother is a US citizen and they can get a US passport. My step daughter can get irish citizenship even though shes never been there her father is an Irish citizen. Her mother was a UK citizen that lived in Ireland, but my step daughter was born in the UK. Don't forget you can be born in the UK and not be a UK citizen or have the right to reside here. Been born in the UK does not automatically give you citizenship like it does in the USA
Remember tax rebates! Wonderful😉😄
UK and US have a tax treaty. So Americans don't pay taxes back home if they live here. But you would if you live in another without a treaty.
But Americans that marry other nationals will tax the spouse too even though they are not american
I left the US for the UK in 86. I was never chased down by the IRS. Spoke to somebody today actually, who left the US for Spain. They had trouble at the Spanish end but not the IRS. No intention of living in the US again other than vacation. After 38 years, I think I'm probably off the radar.
Not last until 8 OR 9? Wuss! 😆
Don't understand the pub comment, we did, friday wage packet - pub - sub monday.
Doctors don't need you wasting time for a doctors note for the flu 😂 if you only having a couple days off. You loose the first 3days pay with consecutive days off
You can self-certify for the first 5? days sick in each sickness period. In fact if you go to the doctor for a sick note, they will refuse if the expected recovery is within a week.
@phillee2814 I'm aware, that's why I made that comment 🤔😬 was referring to her comment in the video about getting a doctor note for work even just for 1 day off in the US but in UK it's different, she said something along those lines 🤦😂
Murica 😂😂😂😂😂😂
gave up after 4 and a half minutes cos she was taking so long to get to the point
Capitalism 😂
Instant coffee is deplorable in every way.
WTF?? Double taxed? Only in America..SMH