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  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    The best way for British workers to retain highly paid jobs, preventing them from being outsourced, is to create a layer of mystique surrounding the job; use your own arcane language to describe how you do things, almost verging on code.

    Occasionally, wearing a disguise will help. Nothing too obvious. A well dodgy white wig and long gown should do the trick, but you may have to push for something in red with oddball stockings.

    You'll need a ready market of people for your services. Tattooed wannabe shipworkers with a penchant for Big Macs, complaining of discrimination. They'll do.

    ;)
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    Malcolm. wrote: »
    Avoiding the question (regarding where you got BNP supporter from) and finishing with lines like this (How confusing this all is.) can lead to just one simple truth...

    You are Graham Devon. :eek:

    Where did I get the BNP thing from? Simple - a wild and ironic flight of fancy. Nothing more sinister I'm afraid. I was simply trying to conjure up an image of the most repulsive type of job applicant I could imagine.

    Does that help?
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »

    You'll need a ready market of people for your services. Tattooed wannabe shipworkers with a penchant for Big Macs, complaining of discrimination. They'll do.

    ;)


    Not a chance. They couldn't pay our fees, and we wouldn't want our lovely offices sullied by such horrific people.

    We are as selective about our clients as we are about our employees.

    It's all about quality, innit?
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »
    Not a chance. They couldn't pay our fees, and we wouldn't want our lovely offices sullied by such horrific people.

    We are as selective about our clients as we are about our employees.

    It's all about quality, innit?
    Heehee, it is indeed.

    Actually, I have respect for the legal profession in that they know how to defend their patch.

    In comparison, the IT workers here are busy bickering between themselves whilst work moves elsewhere. The irony is that we helped build the technology to support this export of work!

    We must have been particularly stupid that day.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »
    The Filipinos are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the global shipping industry.

    I don't why but the Filipinos have been the workhorse of the marine industry for many a year, why do you say becoming?
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • lynzpower
    lynzpower Posts: 25,311 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »
    Where did I get the BNP thing from? Simple - a wild and ironic flight of fancy. Nothing more sinister I'm afraid. I was simply trying to conjure up an image of the most repulsive type of job applicant I could imagine.

    Does that help?

    Some would say voting Labour is the most repulsive thing ever :eek:

    Or LIb dem :eek:

    Or conservative :eek:

    As an aside Ive never been asked who I vote for on a job application :eek:
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    I don't why but the Filipinos have been the workhorse of the marine industry for many a year, why do you say becoming?

    True. I stand corrected.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »

    Two hundred words, on my desk, by the end of the day please.
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    Luv, VickyP
  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »
    We are as selective about our clients as we are about our employees.

    It's all about quality, innit?

    Is spending all your time on an internet forum on the list of competencies at Exchange House?
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »
    Heehee, it is indeed.

    Actually, I have respect for the legal profession in that they know how to defend their patch.

    the legal profession is, in many ways, an export.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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