It was disgraceful, but they got away with it, when I was in my suite on my cruise I was talking to our personal cabin staff that was at our beck and call day and night, I felt sorry for them as they earned peanuts and had to stay on the ship for 6 to 9 months at a time without being allowed home.
P&O ferries sacked all the staff on the North sea ferries when they docked in Hull, the police were called in and frog marched all of the British staff off the ferry, they were swiftly replaced by filipino workers on below the national minimum wage, most of them couldnt speak english or had any...
and the proof is in the pudding, only the wealthy could afford slaves. It is not really any different now by importing cheap labour from other countries to do work we dont want to do for low wages. Now they are going home our fruit farmers etc are crying about it.
Exactly, I used to use it when I was programming working from home, I decked it all out with everything top of the range as thats the type of guy I am.
No doubt about it, I was asked to give them a once over and do something spectacular so instead I did my own thing and lit up the blackpool tower. There is a plaque of me until they can get my statue erected at the foot of the tower.