Costa del Dole - hundreds apply to lob lattes at yumummies

purch

:j:j

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Another British success story.

Yes, Costa Coffee is a huge BRITISH success

Thrugelmir

purch wrote: »

:j:j

Yes, Costa Coffee is a huge BRITISH success

Owned by Whitbread isn't it?

zagubov

purch wrote: »

:j:j

Yes, Costa Coffee is a huge BRITISH success

Yep - maintaining high prices for beverages for the affluent and time -rich (and possibly idle) non-productive parts of the population and adding to imports rather than exports.

:eek:

Kennyboy66

Generali wrote: »

Does this reflect the state of the UK's economy or that in the Internet age, applying for a job is effectively free?

I remember us putting up job ads for part time nanny/babysitters in about 2007 (definitely in the boom) and getting 2-300 responses in the first day.

It used to be 'expensive' to apply for a job as you'd have to have a physical copy of your CV and get it to the employer somehow. Now you briefly type a cover email and attach a CV. It takes a matter of moments.

What ? The price of a stamp ?

yeah nothing to do with the state of the economy at all.

Its not the cost of applying that has changed (which historically you could do for 'free' at a job centre / job club etc. etc), it is the cost of advertising that is effectively free.

Costa frequently advertise on gumtree - you can reach millions for nothing - in ye olden days, people would be waiting for the Thursday jobs adverts in the local evening paper.

Kennyboy66

kabayiri wrote: »

I guess this puts the myth to bed that all jobless people in Brits are lazy, good for nothing types who would rather watch daytime telly.

People obviously want to work. I'd say it's actually a strength we have.

not on this board it won't.

Generali

Kennyboy66 wrote: »

What ? The price of a stamp ?

yeah nothing to do with the state of the economy at all.

Its not the cost of applying that has changed (which historically you could do for 'free' at a job centre / job club etc. etc), it is the cost of advertising that is effectively free.

Costa frequently advertise on gumtree - you can reach millions for nothing - in ye olden days, people would be waiting for the Thursday jobs adverts in the local evening paper.

The price of a stamp, of getting copies of your CV (now they're effectively infinite), the time of going to the post office/post box to send.

As you say, the ability to reach people very cheaply has also increased.

Something to do with the state of the economy perhaps but probably not the single biggest reason. Mrs Generali has been applying for jobs in a country with an unemployment rate of a little over 5% and still comes up against many hundreds of applicants each time (600 for the last interview she had).

It's a sign of the times.

Generali

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Owned by Whitbread isn't it?

Yup, founded in South London and is another London immigrant success story.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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It's a sign of the times.

The job application of the future :-

- you log onto your hypertablet. Shut down Minesweeper because your machine only has 128Gb of Ram and you can't possibly hope to have the browser and Minesweeper both running at the same time under Windows 17

- the built in facial scan software verifies that you don't match one of the 17 internationally agreed terrorist standard image profiles. You continue

- you're about to fill in the job form in IE29 when a prompt appears, perhaps you'd like to verbally put in your application with "Samera"? [Samera is an illegitimate love child descendent of Siri, the voice control app]. Tentatively you agree.

- Samera listens to your details; makes a few helpful comments; she moans about the lack of applicants with heavy eyebrows and big bushy beards for a bit; she notes the stress patterns in your voice when you go on about lifting heavy objects - she notes the maybe signs of mistruths - and makes a mental note to ring Jazeera, her virtual sista over on the ATOS claims server (just to check you're not claiming for that back)

- it all feels impressively smooth and slick. You're a consumer of the 21st century Back to Work government mega products. No, not just a consumer - a "customer" you think to yourself.

...then a human Brummie accent interrupts your train of thought. "Computer says No" - those 3 little words. Bummer!

:cool:

grizzly1911

zagubov wrote: »

Yep - maintaining high prices for beverages for the affluent and time -rich (and possibly idle) non-productive parts of the population and adding to imports rather than exports.

:eek:

Imports are pretty low for the return they make. I don.t think the dessert spoon of coffee is a big part of their cost base (Tim Harford, Undercover Economist). Rent to landlords is probably the biggest, of course they could be "Lithuanian" I suppose.

zagubov

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Imports are pretty low for the return they make. I don.t think the dessert spoon of coffee is a big part of their cost base (Tim Harford, Undercover Economist). Rent to landlords is probably the biggest, of course they could be "Lithuanian" I suppose.

That's true but the exports would even be closer to nil, unless it's in a tourist hotspot.;)