cesare
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Me neither. Just seen some ranty type comments in the press.
Sick of rightwing attitudes to workplace rights, pay, security etc
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Me neither. Just seen some ranty type comments in the press.
Is there such a thing as a job for life any more?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
No, there's not. There used to be up until the late 80s/early 90s, but then some management guru (on the back of that recession) invented restructuring. Now all of that worked short term for employers, and then - once the recession had receded - they suddenly found that loyalty had gone and faced the costs associated with a maintaining a workforce that had become largely itinerant. Baby out with the bathwater. And so labour turnover figures and exit interviews became the new order of the day.
But that wasn't my point. Just because you've been able to just leave and find something else easily, doesn't mean that everyone can.
So if the tube strikes happened once a month rather than once a week would that be more acceptable?
But idiots like Gabi and STFC seem perfectly happy about it. If it's good enough for them then it's good enough for everyone.
I'd love to know what they do for a living.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
But idiots like Gabi and STFC seem perfectly happy about it. If it's good enough for them then it's good enough for everyone.
I'd love to know what they do for a living.
Presumably they've been fortunate enough to have the education and/or skills to make finding jobs relatively easy - and assume that everyone else has the same.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
They all look quite relaxed from the footage I've seen, just shuffling along and getting on with it to a soothing backdrop of trad jazz:
But idiots like Gabi and STFC seem perfectly happy about it. If it's good enough for them then it's good enough for everyone.
I'd love to know what they do for a living.
Idiots eh? Is that supposed to make me more understanding of your situation?
I'm more than happy to tell you what I do for a living: I work in insurance. It's not that glamorous or exciting but I get to travel quite a bit and the pay's not bad.
You're not making much sense. Who said they were once a week?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
But sometimes it can contribute to the attitudes that poster342002 is complaining about?
Nor do I, unless you're old bill or something.
Kanda
Diving wanker
I don't think so. I think that's more upbringing.
As said in the other thread, I work in one of the wankiest places possible but no-one here really has the attitudes mentioned in the OP.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I think upbringing as much to do with it as well. Upbringing contributes to levels of education and skill.
You're lucky if your workplace doesn't have those attitudes, but there are many that do. I completely disagree with poster342002's 90% figure though.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Oh definitely. Loads of places.
But I'm just pleasantly suprised that a company you'd expect it more in, doesn't have it.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yep. Funny though, I've found that many of the smaller trading firms have a friendly laid back atmosphere contrasting with the big ones.
I'm past giving a fuck tbh.
It was tongue in cheek. but you're not the brightest button in the box I'll give you that.
Tongue in cheek? No, it was just gibberish. Oddball.
It was clearly ripping the piss out of your assertion that tube strikes happen 'all the time'.
*whooooooooooosh*
I didn't make any such assertion. What a fool you are.
Tacita
Pipe Dreamer
My experience, too. I've been surprised by the number of comments I've heard, in favour but my own colleagues are refusing to strike because they think they may be one of the few to keep their jobs.
because they have no sense of honour or respect for fellow man. I worked with several crawlers at Asda and the decent few of us just took the piss out of em constantly. They are beyond help. Even when they're made redundant by the bosses they LOVE they will probably STILL think it's fair....
There's some seriously fucked up people about. Should people like this have the vote? I mean my 11 year old knows more about politics than people like this...
King Biscuit Time
Well-Known Member
Personally I fucking love it when the Jobcentre Plus staff go on strike as it means I don't have to sign on.
And a teacher's strike was like two birthdays at once when I was a young 'un
I remember it well. On the day of the School Cross Country no less. Double Win.
The problem was that the only way I could rebel on those particular days was by turning up to school... (I didn't).
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