Are you or your employees "working class"

[Campbell]

It depends entirely if one adds milk to one's tea or adds tea to one's milk......

 

[Wuffler]

Its probably defined as 'less Old Etonians'.

'Fewer' ...pleb!

 

[unlacedgecko]

A gentleman simply doesn't lower himself to discuss such vulgar notions.

 

[Bald Rick]

It's Eton not Eaton old chap, don't you know.

Both ..... but only if you are the Duke of Westminster

Anyway, as gentry, I won't demean myself by posting on this thread

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Accountancy giant KPMG to recruit more working class staff

By 2030, KPMG wants 29% of its senior staff to have parents that worked in "routine and manual" jobs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Many staff are skilled workforce now.

Bit old fashioned to lump farm workers in as working class.

An interesting yet rather outdated method of classifying people. The reality is that it's irrelevant except to the fools and idiots who think otherwise.

 

[DeeGee]

Both ..... but only if you are the Duke of Westminster

Anyway, as gentry, I won't demean myself by posting on this thread

Gentry or not it’s getting late for you now Balders, best flap off back to your crypt before the sun rises......

 

[jondear]

 

[An Gof]

I know my place.

I look up to him and look down on him

 

[kfpben]

My young employee left a comprehensive school with 3 GCSEs and is a proper grafter. Practical lad, gets his hands dirty but not academic.
His father went to Eton.
Where does that leave him on the KPMG class ladder? Who cares!?

 

[primmiemoo]

I look up to him and look down on him

I carry a shovel and a portable step, so as to look each in the eye.

 

[Breakthru]

There needs to be a reset about skilled workers. Days of Fergies and the like where as long as your legs were long enough you got to drive. Now some look like an electrical shop display area. The shortage of labour will be felt if the present operator feels he can get better money elsewhere. Try replacing him. The problem is the wokies regard skill as twiddling a keyboard. I used to build, programme and sell computers and my main lesson when people had got the rudiments was anything that runs by 1's and 0's (binary) is a fast idiot. Make sure you aren't a slow idiot sitting in front of it. Even if it says yes it might just be maybe. Many of these "skilled" workers will be replaced by their very tools and suddenly the very skilled work be it haulage or tractor driving etc will be regarded much better.

 

[Red Fred]

On the old forum, the chap who used to SHOUT A LOT once said that all ex-public school pupils should be killed. I thought this was a bit unfair as dad scraped enough to send me to a reasonable school, as I'm sure many of our farming dads did.
Out of my old gang, I can't think of anyone who would deserve killing for fitting the stereotype. No one became an MP, minister or civil servant- one drove an artic until he jacked it in and became a self employed builder; one runs a couple of fish n chip shops, one is an agronomist and one is an insurance agent.
Once we all left, it didn't really matter where we went to school. The only people who seemed to have a bee in their bonnet were a couple of neighbouring farmers who really had a chip on their shoulders ("My boy only went to the village school and he is just as good as anyone else!").
When I was a student, I did a year on a very well run (ie posh) huge arable farm and it was a fantastic experience, but I remember the boss giving me a pep-talk on my first day. He told me not to get any ideas about his daughter while I was there as she was very bright and destined for a sparkling professional career. Ever since then, I have tried to remember my place in the farming hierarchy.

 

[toquark]

I was state educated and scraped into a decent university where I came to rub shoulders with many very privileged, exclusively privately educated folk (probably upper or upper middle class). They always had a slightly different outlook on life and their way of interacting with people outwith the set was noticeably different to what I was used to. That said, they were just people and we got along well, many are friends to this day, 20 years on.

However the thing that always stuck in my head during my time there was that their parents had probably blown six figures to get them to exactly the same spot as I was for free.

I can't help thinking that a lot of the reason behind that was based on class and driven by their parent's desire to maintain family prestige or keep up with peers, rather than the supposed advantage it gets their kids.

 

[jondear]

On the old forum, the chap who used to SHOUT A LOT once said that all ex-public school pupils should be killed. I thought this was a bit unfair as dad scraped enough to send me to a reasonable school, as I'm sure many of our farming dads did.
Out of my old gang, I can't think of anyone who would deserve killing for fitting the stereotype. No one became an MP, minister or civil servant- one drove an artic until he jacked it in and became a self employed builder; one runs a couple of fish n chip shops, one is an agronomist and one is an insurance agent.
Once we all left, it didn't really matter where we went to school. The only people who seemed to have a bee in their bonnet were a couple of neighbouring farmers who really had a chip on their shoulders ("My boy only went to the village school and he is just as good as anyone else!").
When I was a student, I did a year on a very well run (ie posh) huge arable farm and it was a fantastic experience, but I remember the boss giving me a pep-talk on my first day. He told me not to get any ideas about his daughter while I was there as she was very bright and destined for a sparkling professional career. Ever since then, I have tried to remember my place in the farming hierarchy.

Bit like lady Chatterley!

 

[Castle Farm]

If you are 'paid' your working class. We sell our minds and bodies to the highest bidder..Bit like prostitutes really.

 

[Pilatus]

Are “Champagne Socialists” ie Mr Blair (once Labour Party Prime Minister) representative of so the say working class (what the hell does working class mean nowadays ???outdated saying)!!!!!
For goodness sake .

 

[CopperBeech]

It’s all a bit funny. Most of my friends who went to uni and did a degree and struggling on and my mates who dropped out and became chippys and sparks are on £2000 a week and buying their third house

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Both ..... but only if you are the Duke of Westminster

Anyway, as gentry, I won't demean myself by posting on this thread

My BIL was at uni in Newcastle with the Duke of Westminster without realising. BIL was in a basketball team with the Duke, and the Duke would give him a lift in his old VW. Thoroughly nice person, apparently.

 

[manhill]

Well I have my dinner at dinner time not tea time so I m working class!

Better for digestion too, so they say.

 

[manhill]

It depends entirely if one adds milk to one's tea or adds tea to one's milk......

This is a matter of common sense. If it's milk first there may not be space in the cup to get the mixture right. Hmmmm now let me think!