How bad is the job situation in your area?

slugger09

out_of_cash wrote: »

i think some should try living on the minimum wage before they preach from inside their little bubbled blinkered world.:)

Agreed, and you'll often find those stuck in min wage jobs work a lot harder than those stuck in there fancy offices

BreamoreBoy

out_of_cash wrote: »

i think some should try living on the minimum wage before they preach from inside their little bubbled blinkered world.:)

Are you suggesting that some live solely on the NMW and don't bother claiming the numerous benefits that are available?

FWIW I'd like to see the NMW upped and the benefits cut or even scrapped, but this is effectively taxing jobs because of employers' NI contributions.

Oh hell let's do an Eastenders and go to the pub.

DCFC79

It doesnt seem too bad here, a new morrisons store(not sure we need a second store as theres 1 not far from where the new 1 will be) has been confirmed but thats a long way off, there are jobs advertised but not all of them appeal to me but they must appeal to someone. I do apply for jobs that i feel i can do, applied for a job lasy weekend actually at a new maplin store thats opening in may and its just down the road which would be quite good but it means working with customers again even though i thought id had enough of that but ive had to widen my criteriaas im getting pretty desperate with my current job

tesuhoha

BackOnTrack wrote: »

I can understand why people complain about it and don't blame them for wanting more, I would and do support the minimum wage being increased, but refusing work because it is minimum wage is disgraceful. An attitude like yours fruitloops is much better than that of Olias.

I think you are blaming the wrong people by blaming those at the bottom who are supposed to be content with the minimum wage. At the top there are highly paid executives who are not satisfied with the huge amounts they already earn. They want more and more and are squeezing the people who have to work for a living at the bottom. These people are greedy parasites sitting on the back of those who have to work hard. They don't deserve the money they earn and its creating a third world country of two classes, the very rich and the poor.

How is someone supposed to live on the minimum wage, to rent a property, buy a house, go on holiday, buy a car?. Most people wont be able to afford all this in the future because all the jobs are minimum wage. Why don't you criticise the super earners? They want to take everything away from the working class so they have nothing. A few years ago admin jobs etc paid reasonable money but now they pay minimum wage because they can, because they know that there are no jobs, and hundreds of people will compete for one !!!!!! job because its the best they can do for themself.

Blobby8_2

tesuhoha wrote: »

I think you are blaming the wrong people by blaming those at the bottom who are supposed to be content with the minimum wage. At the top there are highly paid executives who are not satisfied with the huge amounts they already earn. They want more and more and are squeezing the people who have to work for a living at the bottom. These people are greedy parasites sitting on the back of those who have to work hard. They don't deserve the money they earn and its creating a third world country of two classes, the very rich and the poor.

How is someone supposed to live on the minimum wage, to rent a property, buy a house, go on holiday, buy a car?. Most people wont be able to afford all this in the future because all the jobs are minimum wage. Why don't you criticise the super earners? They want to take everything away from the working class so they have nothing. A few years ago admin jobs etc paid reasonable money but now they pay minimum wage because they can, because they know that there are no jobs, and hundreds of people will compete for one !!!!!! job because its the best they can do for themself.

Or you could blame the union bashing media which turned "union" into a dirty word, or vile new labour, using the name of a great party to feather thier own nests whilst abandoning the working class.

SurreyBear

Here in Surrey / Berks border area it's not so bad. Some of the scenarios described above seem drastic and alien to us here. I follow a local jobs board on twitter and the amount of forklift / warehouse type jobs seem very high. I suspect it isn't as rosy as I see but then people seem to live in different worlds around here. I'm relatively affluent, with a good job, and suspect I don't see so much else. I have done warehouse / non-skilled jobs before when I was a student but my current students don't seem to have problems getting these sorts of jobs. I expect this area to be a blip on the national picture.

slugger09

tesuhoha wrote: »

I think you are blaming the wrong people by blaming those at the bottom who are supposed to be content with the minimum wage. At the top there are highly paid executives who are not satisfied with the huge amounts they already earn. They want more and more and are squeezing the people who have to work for a living at the bottom. These people are greedy parasites sitting on the back of those who have to work hard. They don't deserve the money they earn and its creating a third world country of two classes, the very rich and the poor.

How is someone supposed to live on the minimum wage, to rent a property, buy a house, go on holiday, buy a car?. Most people wont be able to afford all this in the future because all the jobs are minimum wage. Why don't you criticise the super earners? They want to take everything away from the working class so they have nothing. A few years ago admin jobs etc paid reasonable money but now they pay minimum wage because they can, because they know that there are no jobs, and hundreds of people will compete for one !!!!!! job because its the best they can do for themself.

Good post, I totally agree, its sickening to look in the job market at jobs that were quite well paid a few years ago now paying min wage simply because they can.

The simple fact is on min wage you survive you can't live, you can't afford luxuries such as cars and holidays, you are working just to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head, you can't live

paulwf

looby75 wrote: »

I don't know if you can tell from the photo but the whole section is a quarter of the page and contains 3 "real" jobs and the rest are avon/betterware type ads. There is also an ad for the papers online recruitment site, which is not really much better than the papers section lol

Our local paper is like that, it went from 3+ pages of jobs before the recession to 3-4 jobs. However job ads are fairly expensive so like my company in the last couple of years many people might have turned to facebook & twitter and perhaps gumtree for big cities. Newspaper classified sections are generally in decline.

My town has a high unemployment rate but some job ads have been in shop windows for weeks. When I was recruiting we got very few applications this time round except from college students who are always seem willing to work. We got loads more CVs before and after we were recruiting though, read into that what you will.

Fruitloops

There are good points to be made on both sides of the NMW debate going on here. It's pretty much all I've ever known in jobs I've done and there are times I've hitchhiked after having no travel money after paying bills when working a full time NMW job.

I have to agree the point made about highly paid jobs for people who think they're getting a raw deal somehow. The phrase "we're all in the same boat" is popping up a lot in response to the current climate and all the cuts, but I disagee, we're not in the same boat, some people's boats are a lot bigger than others...