Interesting the difference in attitudes

It was a description of your posts not an endorsement of ideals .

 

To characterise Cowboy's message as anything other than conveying his credentials and eagerness to return to a productive life is pure provocation! So as his life's journey has only left time to post on 263 occasions at the age of 61, could you tell us something our your own endeavours and how many of your 18,000 posts have been productive?

 

Think you need to re read tbh.

 

Can you tell me what you're reading because I'm genuinely interested in this as I didn't know about the payment.

 

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Agreed, whenever we advertise for operatives we get lots of applicants who just don’t respond/turn up when invited for interview. A colleague told me that the unemployed have to demonstrate they're looking for jobs so have to show what they’ve applied for. Don’t know if there's any truth in it. Disappointingly after our company generously announced it would pay full pay for anyone self isolating due to symptoms about a third of our workforce reported that their wives/kids/budgies had developed a dry cough so wouldn't be in for the next two weeks. Putting xtra pressure on the rest of us trying to keep the business afloat. As you rightly say if there’s a way to work a system put in place with every good intention some folk just cant wait to abuse it.

 

I think you need to ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!And if you don't, everyone will know why!

 

To the gulags with them!

Who has said that?

 

Answer what !! ??

 

Exactly that. Hundreds apply with no intention of taking the job because they only have to prove they have applied.

I really wish that indeed and other job sites were actually linked to the job centre and once they apply it's automatically logged. If offered an interview it's automatically logged. If they fail to attend interview that's automatically logged too

Its the only way to stop it sadly

 

Which sadly is why the genuine ones like Cowboy can often get no response.

 

"I too am in favour of forced labour" — Xi Jinping

 

Interestingly at our last soil strip at a quarry near selby during pre commencement (and very expensive!) archaeology as well as a bronze age round house with well, multiple field boundary ditches, a Roman grain store and settlement the later archaeology revealed deposits of cobbles picked from the farmland by Italian pow’s interned at a camp which was at what is now Selby golf club. How they knew they were Italian pow’s I don’t know, but fascinating to see how the land had been cultivated for thousands of years.

 

Yes it's exactly why we don't respond to everyone. In fact it's why a lot of genuine and good candidates don't just not get invited for an interview but often don't even get their application read. It shouldn't be like that but it is.

What can you do when you advertise a job and within a day you have 5 or 600 applicants? You can't read all of them to respond to them all and you start to lose the will to live after the 100th that clearly hasn't even read the job ad.

If these could somehow be cut down the many genuine people would stand a far better chance not just of getting the job but being treated how they deserve too

 

As expected, you refuse to reply! And as stated, everyone will know why!!!! And go satisfy your needs elsewhere!

 

WTF you on about!! Everyone will know what???
You’ve had a bear in your head since your arse licking Boris post was ridiculed .
So in your head because I’ve posted 18000 posts in nine years of being on the BBS I’ve never worked ? Is that what you’re honestly saying ?
I’ve more than 45 years service to the tax man if you must know and if you’re an expert on my 18000 posts you’ll have seen references to my working life in them.

 

I'll have to get back to you on it....it was a discussion on another forum about WW1 POW's, and the treatment and handling of them....both theirs and ours.

 

Ok thanks. I've read quite a lot of history/literature around WW1 and hadn't come across any mention of payment.

 

I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the working conditions in the war, also I don’t buy this blitz spirit crap, people were not happy- they booed Churchill in the East End, people suffered and no doubt complained just as much as they do today, the difference is we didn’t hear about it because communications were basic and no doubt censured. If there had been Twitter in 1942 I don’t doubt there would be plenty of people complaining on it.

 

google Prisoners of War and Internees (Great Britain) - some interesting facts there.

I know a lot of Italian POW's were held in South Wales during WW2 and worked on local farms - don't know if they were paid.

o/t Have you read Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth - very moving (if a tad long!)

 

Could always get some nice, hard working EU nationals in.