Where are The News Finding Them....?

PasturesNew

Lots of interviews today on the news of the unemployed yoof.

So far I've not seen/heard one that sits up straight and speaks properly!

I'm sure there are some polite, upstanding young people looking for work unsuccessfully, but the news seem to have dragged up the dregs!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

My personal opinion is threads like this are purely self-indulgent.

Or are you just getting old?

OptionARMAGEDDON

BBC. Need you say more? They probably got the "Krew" of one extra on the news.

Cleaver

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lots of interviews today on the news of the unemployed yoof.

So far I've not seen/heard one that sits up straight and speaks properly!

That's because the one's who can sit up straight and speak properly get all the jobs.

I saw an 'unemployed yoof' on the news the other day talking about how he'd applied for hundreds of jobs with no success. He had on a black shirt and a white tie. That, right there, is why you're not getting any jobs. Harsh but true. I'm no don draper, but every man should know the rule that you don't wear a tie lighter than your shirt and the black shirt / white tie combo is the ultimate sin. Mind you, he couldn't really talk either, which was probably also hindering his job search.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cleaver wrote: »

That's because the one's who can sit up straight and speak properly get all the jobs..

And then, when there's no employable Brits left, companies turn to immigrants to fill the remaining vacancies.

DaddyBear

It's probably because the BBC has moved a lot of its offices to Manchester. It's grim oop north.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm sure there are some polite, upstanding young people looking for work unsuccessfully, but the news seem to have dragged up the dregs!

Trouble is, even the ones who can come over well in interview aren't necessarily cut out for what they're applying for.

When I was a yoof, I'd no problem with anything: interviews, driving tests, exams etc. However, when I was straight out of 6th form, I knew FA about anything real.

A few years on, when I'd been a delivery boy, booking clerk, poultry keeper, civil servant, domestic cleaner, taxi driver, Tesco worker etc etc I had a bit more to offer. People could then take me on and I'd do whatever it was without saying, "Man, this is boring!" or alternatively, wetting myself because the expectations far exceeded what my soft, school-fattened, tunnel-visioned brain could cope with.

Understandably, that's really what employers want; people with some real life stuff under their belts.

Ironic then that when I applied for a post after graduating at the age of 24, the factory manager looked at me and said, "All this eh? You'll be crap!"

I like to think it's attitudes like that which made our manufacturing industry what it is today.

(Yes, of course he took me on! )