What does your airsoft site membership get you?
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RIFT's membership is £25 for a year, and gets discount on ammo, and a membership patch/'shield'. The main perk is 10% off in a bunch of local stores. Buy one gun and it's paid for itself, then just take advantage of the cheap ammo for the rest of the year. Not bad at all for people who shop local!
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Rogerborg
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But only Sith deal in absolutes.
That's surprising, my understanding is that the local marshals tend to play for free instead. As soon as money changes hands you're into a legal minefield with employee rights, especially if it's all done on handshakes and gentlemen's agreements without a written contract. I hope that doesn't come back to bite them.
ImTriggerHappy
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Why would it?
They are a proper company and as such run as a company. You wouldn't get away with handshakes and no paper trail with the level they are at. A few small woodland places might get away with that but the the bigger Urban sites have a lot more structure. Zed adventures have run the zombie stuff for years so are not just a guy with a field.
I would think that 99% of people who get paid at airsoft sites come under self employed so it would be sort of gig working. I don't know how they deal with their payments to staff and contracts as thats none of my concern but they do make a point in every brief that their staff are not just volunteers.
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@Rogerborg
There are occasionally player marshals, but they always switch to a marshal over player mode when needed and take other peoples fun over their own every time!. Id much rather a player marshal running around in the thick of it than a bloke in a vest the other side of the hall, but at The Mall you tend to get both which is great. They help break up bottlenecks and give advise about how to break out/into areas too which helps gameplay.
Some of the player marshals at EAG on the other hand, are the total opposite! Some of the most shocking behaviour by these bods in the past, but then I doubt they got paid!!
Never had any issues personally with the marshals at The Mall, and would expect it to be dealt with very promptly and professionally by Luke if I were to raise an issue.
Have been to plenty of woodland sites with crap marshals or players claiming they are "player marshals" as they are regulars and have authority over others etc... and the mentioned guys at EAG were A JOKE on occasions!
There are occasionally player marshals, but they always switch to a marshal over player mode when needed and take other peoples fun over their own every time!. Id much rather a player marshal running around in the thick of it than a bloke in a vest the other side of the hall, but at The Mall you tend to get both which is great. They help break up bottlenecks and give advise about how to break out/into areas too which helps gameplay.
Some of the player marshals at EAG on the other hand, are the total opposite! Some of the most shocking behaviour by these bods in the past, but then I doubt they got paid!!
Never had any issues personally with the marshals at The Mall, and would expect it to be dealt with very promptly and professionally by Luke if I were to raise an issue.
Have been to plenty of woodland sites with crap marshals or players claiming they are "player marshals" as they are regulars and have authority over others etc... and the mentioned guys at EAG were A JOKE on occasions!
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I’d say more of a legal minefield to have unpaid Marshall’s then to have paid marshalls
A business should sustain itself and will have the tax man being very attentative if they don’t appear to have the staff to run the business - smells of cash in hand and black markets
There’s no problem with dealing in cash - you just need accounts and records
The Health & Safety Executive, insurers and local council would be interested when something happens and there is no one looking after safety
You don’t need to have self employed staff to make it easier for the site. Establish whether PAYE, pensions etc apply and set the wage
The site may pay minimum wage and not take tax deductions if the people are below the thresholds.
If the marshal only has a part time / zero hours contract single job then happy days, if they have a second or third job then it gets decided to pay tax from pay or the person has to declare their own returns
A business should sustain itself and will have the tax man being very attentative if they don’t appear to have the staff to run the business - smells of cash in hand and black markets
There’s no problem with dealing in cash - you just need accounts and records
The Health & Safety Executive, insurers and local council would be interested when something happens and there is no one looking after safety
You don’t need to have self employed staff to make it easier for the site. Establish whether PAYE, pensions etc apply and set the wage
The site may pay minimum wage and not take tax deductions if the people are below the thresholds.
If the marshal only has a part time / zero hours contract single job then happy days, if they have a second or third job then it gets decided to pay tax from pay or the person has to declare their own returns
