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It is not an inequality to reward skill, knowledge, responsibility, long service, innovation etc within a company. It is an iniquity to reward everyone regardless of their contribution.
I have work with some now ex air crew. They found other jobs in covid, and covid gave the companies a chance to change their routes and conditions, as I had explained to me crew get a base wage but it was made up with allowances for stop overs, which have been reduced. The young can perhaps do it for the experience but those who have children and a home to keep are now not going back, these are already trained so to recruit they have to hire, train, and pass all the checks.I am not sure what the situation is with the railways, probably a cocked hat of course. But the airlines, I have zero sympathy for. It should have been illegal for airlines to shed staff whilst at the same time receiving government bailouts. Our government has been far too soft on big business for far too long.
This.No one should be working full time, and having to top up from food banks. I lived through the 70's and even if money was tight, I lived at the side of a large council estate, no one was going to school to get food bags.
Farmers really do live in a world of their own.I think most people are unfortunately.
Most now seem to look at monthly payments, not how much something actually costs! Car salesman look at me like I've got 2 heads when I say I'm only interested in cost to change.
I don't put car through business. It's bought out of mine and my wife's personal money. Nothing to do with any assets to fall back on.Farmers really do live in a world of their own.
not everyone has assets to fall back and can put things through a business.
Joe bloggs on 30k a year can’t rock up and buy a family car for 30k with cash these days. Most people live month to month and attempt to budget as such. Some will cut costs accordingly.
I have work with some now ex air crew. They found other jobs in covid, and covid gave the companies a chance to change their routes and conditions, as I had explained to me crew get a base wage but it was made up with allowances for stop overs, which have been reduced. The young can perhaps do it for the experience but those who have children and a home to keep are now not going back, these are already trained so to recruit they have to hire, train, and pass all the checks.
I think a lot of people are on unofficial 'strike', they have left their jobs because of covid and balance if they can manage its now not worth going back. The over 50's, who children are older and perhaps have less of mortgage, but which also are our trained experience workforce, have decided it's just not worth the stress, or go and work in a supermarket and do sixteen hours a week. We are 1.2 million workers short.
I looked at the newest survey from the NMC, and a lot of the 'new' nurses almost match the nurses that went back on the register for covid, most are over 55, and there are forty four over 70! There has been the will to work and help, but the majority of them, including me wouldn't want to work thirteen hour shifts, or be able to do them.
No one should be working full time, and having to top up from food banks. I lived through the 70's and even if money was tight, I lived at the side of a large council estate, no one was going to school to get food bags.
We have a double stress factor, covid which is causing short and long term sickness, and brexit, which is contracting the labour market.
The 'churn', from people going from job to job costs money, they make worker redundant, they rehire them they hope, on cheaper rates, and not having to pay a full pension in the future, or through an agency, the agency takes a cut. If they can not get workers, which is already happening in the NHS, they will end up paying more ,plus the training, plus the 'contractor' takes their cut and you get constant staff poaching.
The government sees business as a solution, that the quest to make profits will make them get the best for our money.( I am being kind, I think they want to help their mates to get our money) Great theory, but its a bit like tax avoidance, they just employ someone who works out how they can hang on to as much money as possible, pay the least tax, and provide a basic service, pay as little as possible to the people who actually do the work, and then only the shareholders or those who get a bonus are happy. Slight of hand, then blame workers for not working hard enough, 'we gave them all this money', and you can just about put any group of the week, in there from farmers to GP's.
In the 1970's people tightened their belts and got on with it, I'm not saying that there arent people who are really hard up but when you see newsxarticles about food banks you dont see people who look like they are starving very often well over weight, dressed well etc, like all things poverty is relativeThis.
I was born in 80 and nothing like this has existed in my lifetime. If my parents are to be believed - born in 48 and 49, one of whom was a primary teacher in some of the roughest parts of Salford in the 70s, it didn't exist then either. I think the last generation to have experienced this was my grandparents.
So you want they to look as if they are starving and be badly dressed, before they get help?dont see people who look like they are starving very often well over weight, dressed well etc, like all things poverty is relative
I dunno. If fert and diesel is still high next year, and grain falls back to £200/ ton or less, could be a few thinking about not planting. And if you don't plant anything, where's your income ?Farmers really do live in a world of their own.
not everyone has assets to fall back and can put things through a business.
Joe bloggs on 30k a year can’t rock up and buy a family car for 30k with cash these days. Most people live month to month and attempt to budget as such. Some will cut costs accordingly.
If Joe bloggs is living payday to pay payday with no reserves then they are dumb fools to be driving around in a £30k car on tick.Farmers really do live in a world of their own.
not everyone has assets to fall back and can put things through a business.
Joe bloggs on 30k a year can’t rock up and buy a family car for 30k with cash these days. Most people live month to month and attempt to budget as such. Some will cut costs accordingly.
Plenty of folk looking for staff according to TFF. Join the workforce?I dunno. If fert and diesel is still high next year, and grain falls back to £200/ ton or less, could be a few thinking about not planting. And if you don't plant anything, where's your income ?
And we don't all get subsidies BTW, before that old chestnut gets wheeled out.........
So you want they to look as if they are starving and be badly dressed, before they get help?
The boom shops in most town centres are charity shops, and when you have not enough money you tend to live on cheap carbs, pasta, bread, if you are lucky potatoes. Being over weight is not a sign of good nutrition, and the protein part is getting more expensive, so people eat less and try an fill up, because it looks like they get a lot for their money, and its heavily advertised, with refined carbs
Union rejects Rolls-Royce £2,000 living-cost bonus
Unite has rejected the offer of a lump sum and pay rise for thousands of Rolls-Royce staff.www.bbc.co.uk
Even when they get a lump sum bonus the Unions say no!
Nuts .Edit double nuts!Union rejects Rolls-Royce £2,000 living-cost bonus
Unite has rejected the offer of a lump sum and pay rise for thousands of Rolls-Royce staff.www.bbc.co.uk
Even when they get a lump sum bonus the Unions say no!
If Joe bloggs is living payday to pay payday with no reserves then they are dumb fools to be driving around in a £30k car on tick.
@farmerm exactly, I was mid way through this post when you replied. The problem with the 30k income 30k car statement is not with the economy but with people on 30k being programmed to believe they should be in a 30k car. I know too many folk who have bought into that fallacy and who are now trapped in a spiral of increasing car payments for vehicles which are becoming cheaper and of lower spec' with every time they fulfill their robotised, Jones keeping up with two yearly swap as they roll over their payments.
people in the 70's were not fat because they lived on expensive proteins, they all lived on carbs most would not have known a steak in their lives.So you want they to look as if they are starving and be badly dressed, before they get help?
The boom shops in most town centres are charity shops, and when you have not enough money you tend to live on cheap carbs, pasta, bread, if you are lucky potatoes. Being over weight is not a sign of good nutrition, and the protein part is getting more expensive, so people eat less and try an fill up, because it looks like they get a lot for their money, and its heavily advertised, with refined carbs
people in the 70's were not fat because they lived on expensive proteins, they all lived on carbs most would not have known a steak in their lives.
They did not starve since they had never had a foreign holiday or bought a car they could not pay cash for.
Look down any street and where are the old bangers?
people are going to food banks as it is another way of affording the lifestyle they want.
If you want to see why people are overweight, go to any of the multiplicity of coffee shops / cafes McDonald's etc. there you will find the answer, fat people consuming portions I could not countenance eating in one sitting.
If you are poor you cant afford food regardless of what sort of food, I'm all for supporting those who have hit hard times and give a reasonable amount to charities over the year, but we have created a society which expects the government to solve every problem so we can carry on without helping ourselves.So you want they to look as if they are starving and be badly dressed, before they get help?
The boom shops in most town centres are charity shops, and when you have not enough money you tend to live on cheap carbs, pasta, bread, if you are lucky potatoes. Being over weight is not a sign of good nutrition, and the protein part is getting more expensive, so people eat less and try an fill up, because it looks like they get a lot for their money, and its heavily advertised, with refined carbs
It has come to the point where you are helping your self, i.e in work or unable to work through disability, and ends do not meet.If you are poor you cant afford food regardless of what sort of food, I'm all for supporting those who have hit hard times and give a reasonable amount to charities over the year, but we have created a society which expects the government to solve every problem so we can carry on without helping ourselves.
No one should be working full time, and having to top up from food banks. I lived through the 70's and even if money was tight, I lived at the side of a large council estate, no one was going to school to get food bags.