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You know if someone is unemployed by looking at them?
The keybord just brings up what you hear on the news. A little more clearly at times but that is usually down to politicians liking to put chances over as positively as possible even it withholds pertenent information - growth rates for instance and level without mentioning pre covid levels.
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I've seen sufficiently representative examples to extrapolate from.
Get off your laptop and join in with the drinking games then.
Employment does seem to be a strange issue at the moment. When my wife advertised a vacancy pre covid, she would receive 20 sometimes 30 cv's. Since covid she's lucky if she's sent 2, and this in an area where jobs are scarce. Don't know why but peoples appetite for graft does seem to have dried up. My wife worked all through covid because the number of people involved meant she could do so safely. I had 3 months off and used the time to build an extension and fit a new kitchen, then back to work so we were both relatively untouched and retained levels of normality. Equally I know people who are still working from home and others not working at all, one couple I know are still afraid to leave their house.
Many airport and airline workers were laid off and when they were eventually offered there jobs back it was on a much lower wage so they declined the offer.
Many airport and airline workers were laid off and when they were eventually offered there jobs back it was on a much lower wage so they declined the offer.
Andy, you see the world through a lens of bias.
Anecdotal evidence is meaningless as the brain conveniently doesn’t record things we don’t want to believe.
it’s known as choice supportive bias.
Ask a gambler….they always remember the wins not the losses.
Seems to be a shortage of people working in hospitality afaik can make out
Blimey who would want to
Listening to rude ill mannered whingers day in day out
UK a nation of whingers / complainers / curtain twitchers /
Complaining or whinging in some super market because they have sold out of lemons
Or trying to get a refund for an item they bought in a pound shop because it’s of poor quality
Jeez us wept
Blimey who would want to
Listening to rude ill mannered whingers day in day out
UK a nation of whingers / complainers / curtain twitchers /
Complaining or whinging in some super market because they have sold out of lemons
Or trying to get a refund for an item they bought in a pound shop because it’s of poor quality
Jeez us wept
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There are 1.28 million unemployed and 32.8 million employed. How many are you using as a representative sample? Be honest for once...
It depends how you look at it. You can take the view folk are bone idle and simply don't want to work. That will be true in some cases, the law of averages and all that. You can also take the view some of these people are simply fed up working for sh1t wages. Also, it's difficult to argue against the assertion that parts of our current economic models are broken.
Take the ratio between CEO and worker salary. I can't be bothered digging out the exact stats, however I think it's doubled or something in the last decade. You'll notice when many business people and/or politicians are asked about things like this, they'll trot out the line 'to attract the best people you need to offer a remuneration package that reflects that talent ...' blah blah blah.
All well and good. However there's no denying the fact the top x% are getting ever richer year on year, whilst the masses are in real terms getting poorer whilst the cost of things is shooting up.
Yes we'll always have rich people, yes we'll always have poor people. Yes life will often be unfair for many from a financial perspective. However, maybe some of those who've historically worked for sh1t wages are now thinking 'you know what, no, f**k you.'
I saw an ad the other day for a manager in one of the discount stores. A manager. The salary was something like £11.50 an hour. The ad almost seemed to boast about this 'A starting salary of £10.80 an hour rising to £11.50!'
£11.50 an hour to be rushed off your feet managing a store, managing people, dealing with the (often horrible) public.
And we wonder why folk aren't queuing up for these jobs?
£11.50 an hour to be rushed off your feet managing a store, managing people, dealing with the (often horrible) public.
And we wonder why folk aren't queuing up for these jobs?
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What you are disputing is my stating that the work ethic has declined and that there are fewer people working. Official employment figures won't reflect that. As an example, my optician has cancelled 3 of my appointments in the past year, each time the reason was that a member of staff had not turned up that day. That member of staff was fully employed fur the purpose of the employment figures, but was not actually working. More employees are taking sick days, and more employers are tolerating it, and this is a result of the covid craze.
Have you got a graph showing numbers of days lost through sickness pre and post covid?
Also, there are 10 million unemployed (see post 146) and, we are told, numerous vacancies in all sectors.
That would be around £400 a week, which is a good wage, is it not?
No, we don't wonder, we know why. It's because they are paid public money not to.
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