Can't get the staff

[gant]

Should put the cat amongst the pigeons.

 

[Vinty]

£400 a week is not in itself a bad wage, depending on where in the country and living expenses. But it is not even an average wage

400 quid a week is better than nowt.
If you have a couple, both working, that's 800 quid a week.
The above is a good start for anyone.

 

[Vinty]

Which were out of date in 1822

How would you define traditional values.

 

[fillyboy]

Should put the cat amongst the pigeons.

I like cats.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

It's the unfairness of it, on the working population, that's what. I'm at the age where time is more important than money but I have to work. Part of my earnings go to those who choose not to work, so it would redress the balance a little if the workers and the workless could swap places for periods of time, or at least if the workless could provide some kind of service for the workers.

I've considered applying for PIP for a laugh. Since covid it's easier to get, so I'm told. It would be interesting to see how many points I'd get. My knees and eyesight are worse than most of the doleys I see knocking about.

Life is unfair for many in many different ways. Rightly or wrongly I try not to sweat or stress about stuff that, in reality, I have no control over. I used to, then realised all that might happen is I drop dead from a heart attack and those I was getting stressed about continue on their jolly way.

I'm not meaning this in the way it might come across in type, however perhaps you're the mug for not applying for PIP? Why not take anything you can get as others do?

Like I say, I never used to think this way, however the longer I'm on the planet and see injustices left right and centre I kind of think so what (in the context of people not working that perhaps could.)

Maybe if all jobs from the bottom up had a decent enough pay, more folk would be motivated to work. We have folk in full time work, some of them professionals, having to use food banks ffs.

 

[JohnD]

Priti Nasty.

before she took up politics, she used to do PR for the Tobacco trade.

That should have knocked any traces of morality out of her, so as an MP presumably she saw no shame in voting for the smoking ban to be overturned, and leading the Conservative campaign against plain tobacco packaging

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Ha, ha, ha,
A superpower that is ****ting itself in case a country, which you described as a micky mouse economy, could turn their gas off
The EU will reap the harvest which it has sowed.

Russian gas has booger all to do with the EU - the first pipeline from Russia came out of a 1960s German concept called Ostpolitik, and it was Germany who led (and partly financed) the gas pipeline network, the first agreement being signed in 1970. No EU money or influence whatsoever. But I'm damned if I am going to repeat what I wrote in detail about this only a few weeks ago only to have you ignore facts yet again, so I'd suggest you do a search of the site using the key word "Schroeder" and you are bound to find it. Despite your anti-EU stance they are NOT responsible for all the evils in the world

 

[transam]

before she took up politics, she used to do PR for the Tobacco trade.

That should have knocked any traces of morality out of her, so as an MP presumably she saw no shame in voting for the smoking ban to be overturned, and leading the Conservative campaign against plain tobacco packaging

Did any Labour MPs vote against it ?

Did or have any Labour MPs accepted hospitality paid
For by the tobacco companies ?



Just interested

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I remember working in London year's ago, i think it was, down around Harlesden, (don't know whether i spelt that right), early in the morning you would see vans and lorries pulling up and picking up groups of blokes standing outside a pub looking for a days casual work.

I remember when almost all site work was done on "the Lump" (i.e. cash in hand and no safety standards) and when most trades could carry a toolkit over their shoulder or on their back. IR35, IR60 and CIS (about 25 years ago) have pretty much put paid to a lot of it and the need to have a much wider tool kit for many trades nowadays makes turning up with your kit in a bass impossible for most trades (it won't fit). These days almost the only people you'll see doing day labouring are going to be demolition and site cleaning people

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I like cats.

So, proof that you aren't all bad, then

 

[Deleted member 174758]

before she took up politics, she used to do PR for the Tobacco trade.

Ah, so, and now she's working in places where smoking is banned, so you are saying it must be withdrawal symptoms, combined with a complete lack of morals and ethics?

 

[carmanmemoranda]

400 quid a week is better than nowt.
If you have a couple, both working, that's 800 quid a week.
The above is a good start for anyone.

Which is what I said, depending on where in the UK. But it a manager position and well below an average wage.
What are the staff on, so how well are they motivated, and of what ability.
Fancy managing that for that amount when you can get more sat on a till?

 

[JohnD]

you are saying it must be withdrawal symptoms, combined with a complete lack of morals and ethics?

I did not mention withdrawal.

 

[Notch7]

Should put the cat amongst the pigeons.

Not really, there are blind fools in left and right camps

Eddie Dempsey, a socialist supported Brexit which put a right wing populist party in power.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I did not mention withdrawal.

Withdrawal from smoking can cause extreme irritability