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I agree with babyyam about the low end jobs being hard to fill. I can imagine how hard it would have been to say been a fruit farmer recruiting fruit pickers.
But also, the employer would've been stubborn and not have paid more than minimum wage so many British people would have told them to feck off. Work a crappy job for a few quid an hour, or be on the dole?
So the options here are lower dole payments to force people to take these dead end jobs, employers raise wages to make the job appear more attractive or get in immigrants who will do the work for cheap.
Obviously the employers jumped at the chance of people who would willingly pick fruit for 12 hours a day for just a few quid an hour. Of course they would.
The middle class always say that the British unemployed should have accepted work for poorer pay than they wanted, which is standard economics.
BUT, these same middle class people are now complaining that their private school fees are getting more expensive and how their nice houses are all getting too expensive thanks to help from rich foreign nationals.
Maybe they have the right to be upset, but so do the British working class who have to work for less if they want a job. Especially when that wage offers such a meaningless existence in life. Look at some of the immigrants. They work 15+ hours a day, live in some dingy shack, just to get by. That's not a life, especially not in Britain which is supposed to be a leading economic country!
The thing is that the ruling elite are middle class, so ultimately they see the world from their own viewpoint. |
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the_guvnor_1_uk wrote: | I grew up in the poor downtrodden class of british society.
So please don't tell me to get a fucking clue. I think only affording to live on shitty council estates where nonces had tried it on twice with me by the age of ten, gives me a clue about all this downtrodden shit.
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Now go back and read what I actually posted Guv.
Don't give me all your prole bollocks about them & us, more of us than you imagine have been there done that we just don't feel the need to shout about it.
I gave you hard facts. Since 1998 I have worked in the admin/accounts office of 2 agencies who supply workers to the sort of jobs that are now predominantly filled by foreign workers. I didn't say foreign = good british = bad at all.
What I said (and I could probably back up with names & numbers if you realy wanted) was that until around 2003-4 it went like this:
Factory/warehouse asks for 5 new starters for 2 weeks on Monday. You advertise local to the work and get maybe 50 applicants, brilliant. You can't get hold of at least 10 so you interview maybe 40, at least 10 are a total waste of space and you can discount them straight away once you have seen them. So now you've got 30 people for 5 jobs. You pick what you think will be the "best" 5 and give them all the details to go to work. Come Monday, if you're lucky 2 will turn up. So you get clever, you offer the job to 10 people and if you're really lucky 5 will turn up. At least two of them will be sacked on the first day because they just won't work. So you send 2 more the next day, but now another one of your original 5 has not turned up for work so you send another couple the day after, which is just as well cos you're now on Wednesday and one has shown late with a hangover and another has disappeared & switched his mobile off. So you send 3 more on Thursday, one never shows. So you've now sent 17 people to fill 5 jobs. Friday is payday and only one person shows for work. The client is on the phone ranting and raving, but there's no point him going to another agnecy because exactly the same thing will happen. I've seen this over and over and over again, not any sort of dig at the working class it's a cold hard fact about minimum wage jobs.
Then come the Poles and the Albanians. You send one, he turns up for work on time, works hard, turns up again the next day. Come Friday his brother/sister/cousin/mum needs a job too, anything going? So you send them too and guess what? They turn up when they are supposed to, and they work while they are there too.
So that's why "your" jobs have gone to the Eastern Europeans, and why employers these days will ask for them over and above other nationalities, cos they turn up for work. No PC bollocks, no racism, just plain old economics. "They are taking our jobs" is just crap, because if we were doing the jobs properly there would be no jobs for them to take...........
Ask anyon who has worked for an agency (I'm sure Colin will agree with me) or recruited direct for an operation who have lots of min wage workforce. It's been a bloody nightmare for years. ____________________ Sod falling in love, I wanna fall in chocolate. |
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Well here is a FACT about agencies for you.
I have been looking for employment lately, I have gained it.
But I spent a fair old while talking to god knows how many agencies who treat you like utter shit, talk to you like utter shit and probably think you ARE utter shit.
When you let them pull your strings, and go to them and do what they say, you find a load of foreigners there who on the whole get treated pretty well, but then Politically correctness means they should be treated well.
PC says Jack about the normal white able bodied british person.
Thats why people fuck agencies off, I know a hell of a lot of people who have exactly the same opinion of agencies, people in manchester and down south, so its not just round here.
People who wont go back to agencies for the same reason.....They treat you like utter shit.
Admittedly there are some very well paid jobs with agencies, but people I know would rather take a slightly lower wage than go back to an agency to be treated like shit.
This is why there are increasingly less British people taking agency Jobs.
An example is a mate of mine who drives wagons with a hiab licence, he could get 11 quid an hour here on some agencies, but he sticks to 8 quid an hour where he is, cos he has done agencies and yep you guessed it.....doesn't want to be treated like shit again for a job.
Now cue a post about....the agency I work for isnt like that. |
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Agency work is a numbers game. As long as you have "bums in seats" so to speak and the people you place on the job turn up and work, the agency will not normally bother where you come from. They don't care if you are red, white, blue or purple with little yellow spots, they don't care if you worship God, Allah or the Honey Monster they just need you to be there cos if you don't go to work they don't get paid.
A lot of agencies do treat their workers like shit. A lot more don't. From personal experience we have never turned anyone away at application stage but they only ever get one chance once they are on the books, if they let us down then we fuck 'em off.
Agencies aren't there to help workers, they are there to make money out of them. If you approach them from that angle then in my experience you usually get on OK. You are, after all, only there for the money too.
And Guv, I gave the agency example because it's what I've had a lot of direct experience of. What about all the direct recruiters who can't get people in to work in their own companies who are reliable? I've been speaking to employers for 10 years, take the agency out of the picture and employers still prefer to employ foreign workers for min wage jobs these days because they are more reliable. Like I said, if the Brits were doing the jobs in the first place there would be no jobs for the foreigners.......... ____________________ Sod falling in love, I wanna fall in chocolate. |
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babyyam wrote: | the_guvnor_1_uk wrote: | I grew up in the poor downtrodden class of british society.
So please don't tell me to get a fucking clue. I think only affording to live on shitty council estates where nonces had tried it on twice with me by the age of ten, gives me a clue about all this downtrodden shit.
Bollocks.
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Now go back and read what I actually posted Guv.
Don't give me all your prole bollocks about them & us, more of us than you imagine have been there done that we just don't feel the need to shout about it.
I gave you hard facts. Since 1998 I have worked in the admin/accounts office of 2 agencies who supply workers to the sort of jobs that are now predominantly filled by foreign workers. I didn't say foreign = good british = bad at all.
What I said (and I could probably back up with names & numbers if you realy wanted) was that until around 2003-4 it went like this:
Factory/warehouse asks for 5 new starters for 2 weeks on Monday. You advertise local to the work and get maybe 50 applicants, brilliant. You can't get hold of at least 10 so you interview maybe 40, at least 10 are a total waste of space and you can discount them straight away once you have seen them. So now you've got 30 people for 5 jobs. You pick what you think will be the "best" 5 and give them all the details to go to work. Come Monday, if you're lucky 2 will turn up. So you get clever, you offer the job to 10 people and if you're really lucky 5 will turn up. At least two of them will be sacked on the first day because they just won't work. So you send 2 more the next day, but now another one of your original 5 has not turned up for work so you send another couple the day after, which is just as well cos you're now on Wednesday and one has shown late with a hangover and another has disappeared & switched his mobile off. So you send 3 more on Thursday, one never shows. So you've now sent 17 people to fill 5 jobs. Friday is payday and only one person shows for work. The client is on the phone ranting and raving, but there's no point him going to another agnecy because exactly the same thing will happen. I've seen this over and over and over again, not any sort of dig at the working class it's a cold hard fact about minimum wage jobs.
Then come the Poles and the Albanians. You send one, he turns up for work on time, works hard, turns up again the next day. Come Friday his brother/sister/cousin/mum needs a job too, anything going? So you send them too and guess what? They turn up when they are supposed to, and they work while they are there too.
So that's why "your" jobs have gone to the Eastern Europeans, and why employers these days will ask for them over and above other nationalities, cos they turn up for work. No PC bollocks, no racism, just plain old economics. "They are taking our jobs" is just crap, because if we were doing the jobs properly there would be no jobs for them to take...........
Ask anyon who has worked for an agency (I'm sure Colin will agree with me) or recruited direct for an operation who have lots of min wage workforce. It's been a bloody nightmare for years. |
Now while I have no time for people being on the dole because of laziness, there are too many on there because they won't work for shit wages, and why the fuck should they?
You, and those that think like you, are missing the point.
Mass immigration, creates low-pay. It was one of the many negative factors concerning large scale immigration that was pointed out in this video which I posted on another thread a while back. https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5871651411393887069
Of course, it is in the interests of big business, and this government, that wages are pushed down. That is one of the reasons that fuck-all will be done about it except talk.
The new 'points system' that Nu-Labour have brought in, like many of it's schemes, will not work, as it will affect illegals not at all.
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I saw that on one of those White season trailers. The guy turned up and was offered £7.40/hr for some job (couldn't hear it) and he just turned away and laughed saying that they have to be joking.
Is it just me that thinks £7/hr is a fecking good wage for unskilled labour? When I get work in the summer I'll be more than happy with £5-6 an hour! ____________________ Full Motorbike License - GS500E '95 |
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Maybe I'm being stupid here, but surely £7 an hour is more than £600?
Using this website I get to to be just shy of £950 a month.
Then on top of that, no offence, but you live in Kent and work in London. Living in Peterborough will be cheaper I'd have thought and definitely cheaper when I return to Halifax.
No one expects someone to be working in the fields to live like a king, but I think £7 an hour is enough to live an alright life (bar London ) providing you are frugal. But unfortunately some people just aren't.
e.g. that White season program the other day in Bradford where they couldn't afford any money and the guy got a tenner off a scratchcard and was well chuffed. Did you see their TV? Their whole living room furnishings? They were nice!
Obviously you'll find it very hard if you go out buying LCD screens, expensive leather sofas and PS3s, but for most people, £7 an hour is enough to live a humble life in rented accommodation before they try and work their way up.
Edit: Just to state some things.
None of my family has a car. I have a motorbike in which I went for the cheapest one I could find.
My lone mum is now looking for a job at Tesco / Royal Mail etc because my father who was the bread winner died some time back.
Luckily I have been brought up well and got into a good school without any tuition other than my parents helping me with work.
Minimum wage is a bit of a joke to live a proper life on unless you work 12 hours a day and do nothing but sit infront of the TV with a blanket on all the rest of the time, but if I was in need of money and someone offered me £7 an hour for an unskilled job, working the fields, I would bite their hand off!
I disagree with mass immigration as it definitely is for the needs of big business rather than the common person, but treating it as an individual case, £7 an hour is not something to be scoffed at if you have no job! £2.50 is however as I believe a lot of immigrants are scraping by on! ____________________ Full Motorbike License - GS500E '95 |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 16 years, 52 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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