A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

mardatha

Isn't it funny how this has not been on tv more? It shoudl be plastered all over the media. Wonder who they're leaning on or bribing or blackmailing to keep it quiet..

scrabbles_2

anguk wrote: »

How can it be right or moral that a company as big as Tesco with it's huge profits gets workers for free under this "Workfare" scheme? If they need workers they should be employing them and giving them a decent wage, the state should not be paying Tesco's wages! :mad:

They pulled the ad shortly after the media picked up on it. They're blaming an 'IT error' apparently.

But I agree. The thing about the work fare programme is, it allows bloated corporations undermine the state, the taxpayer and their own employees by getting freebie temp workers in return for an 'interview' at the end. Not a guarantee of a certain number of employees taken on through the scheme, or even guarantee that the interview is for an actual vacancy or a job that actually exists. The placements don't have to offer the worker anything in terms of useful skills or experience.

But that's alright, because all jobseekers are lazy scroungers and has nothing to do with finding them jobs, it's about teaching them a lesson.

IMHO it's a really dangerous programme that actually undermines the lower end of the UK job market. Why on earth would any employer bother to pay someone when they can have the state force someone to do it for free.

greenbee

scrabbles wrote: »

IMHO it's a really dangerous programme that actually undermines the lower end of the UK job market. Why on earth would any employer bother to pay someone when they can have the state force someone to do it for free.

Surely if they want people to work to get experience, they should work for the state? After all the state is paying them...

ginnyknit

Where are all these jobs coming from ? Manchester is that bad that the only person I know who has got a new job lately is a guy whose plight was written about in the local paper and was offered one job from it! All the supermarkets are cutting back on staff and office jobs are rarer than hens teeth :mad:

scrabbles_2

greenbee wrote: »

Surely if they want people to work to get experience, they should work for the state? After all the state is paying them...

I see your point, yes. But what would they do - one of the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are being cut from the public sector? I think this must be what our mate Dave means by Big Society - getting someone to do for free what an employee was once paid to do.

In any case, it would cost the government a lot of money to administrate a work fare scheme themselves. It's nice and cosy the way it is - the government saves money having to run the scheme, the private sector saves money having to employ people, and nobody cares what the poor sod doing the work gets out of it.

mardatha

Exactly scrabbles. Profits matter, banks matter, shareholders matter, the Old Boys Network matters. The people who do the work and keep the damn country running are being sidelined and having their rights slowly and silently eroded. Previous generations fought like hell for these rights and we are all sitting around watching while this govt takes them away. Not that I'm a labour voter either cos they were just as bad lol! But I am great believer in ordianry people's dignity - and nobody should be forced to live their lives in misery and want.
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http://rationingrevisited.com/2012/02/17/questions-we-get-asked-as-1940s-rationers/

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mardatha

No government on this earth can stand up to a woman who has
no chocolate! :eek::eek::eek:

WeegieWumman

mardatha wrote: »

No government on this earth can stand up to a woman who has
no chocolate! :eek::eek::eek:

LUV IT!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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mama67

katieowl wrote: »

Morning Gang!

Apart from that...I washed all the white approved foods aprons from the choccie workshop yesterday, the good news was that all the choccie came off, the bad news was that they all got tied up in a great big knot, and it took OH and I about half an hour to untangle them! Note to self...never wash lots of things with strings together!


Kate

I've washed the ones from the school cooking club I run a fair few times and even tying the strings up doesn't stop them from tangling, if anything they are worse.