Hard working people

Hard working people. The new Tory buzz phrase. Watching the news and every tory w@nker thats been on has managed to get this phrase into the **** he is spouting. Suppose it will go down well with the narrow minded Dail Mail readers.

 

The only buzz word these bastds should get is buzz off

 

Slave conditions...in tory britain.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/25/amazon-staff-investigation_n_4335894.html

 

I used to work in a circuit board factory years ago. I took part in a time in motion study. I clocked up just under 10 miles in a shift. Just part of the job. Can't remember anyone complaining about being a slave. Some jobs are ****, but not much can be done to change them, its just the nature of the job.

 

Cammeron was at that place in Grimey the other week, biggin it up as an example success but I've heard that it isn't a good place to work, it's only hearsay but I was told that they actively recruit abroad in eastern europe and that the wages are low.

 

It's just not the amount of ground covered though is it, it's also about being controlled by a hand held device that's dictating your pace of work for 11 hours and all for poor wages.

 

Most of em wouldn't recognise hard work if it slap em round the face. Spending daddies money no doubt obtained through dodgy tax avoidance schemes.

 

Similar to call centres who monitor your call activity to make sure you are pulling your weight. We all have targets etc that dictate work to us.

 

You're right that some jobs are hard work and a bit crap. We'll always have jobs like this. I used to deliver coal for many years. I would imagine that I walked plenty of miles every day, half of them with a bag of coal on my back. That's the job, that's what you do. Sometimes, around Christmas and when it snowed, we'd rush about like blue arsed flies doing 12 hours a day. When you're doing that you can't eat enough food to maintain your body weight. Breakfast, then a bacon sarny, then a bun, then fish and chips and a bun, then a bar of chocolate, then some biscuits, then your tea and a bun. At the end of the week you've lost half a stone.

Hard work, but we didn't have an electronic device attached to us counting down, blinking and beeping if we didn't get to the next delivery spot on time. I would imagine I would have stood for that sort of **** for about 30 seconds before I threw the fcuker in my boss' face, who happens to be me dad. We're human beings, we can work hard, we can be dedicated to our jobs even if they're crap, but that sort of **** will send us mental because we're not robots, we're not built that way.

 

Of course these jobs just wouldn't exist in your socialist utopia would they.

 

I'm not tory lover but what has this to do with the tory party? I'm pretty sure Amazon have been around a lot longer under labour than the tories.

 

Don't be silly now Mario, of course they would exist in a socialy fair economy, it's the conditions I'm worried about, I worked in the steel industry for about 35 years, hard work, long shifts, targets to meet but we weren't tagged and our every movement tracked and analysed and then used to disciplin. I very much doubt you have been tracked for every second of your working day, day in day out, the unrelenting pressure must be moral sapping, is this the way we want our fellow humans to be treated, like automatons but unfortunatly in this continuation of a tory led, NEW "labour" complicit, back to a tory led attack on workers rights and conditions people are accepting it as the norm.

 

Repak on summer lanes been recruiting again.

Hard menial work on basic wages.

Folk from barnsley see it as beneath them so the company has to ship in Eastern Europeans from all over the region.

 

tory or labor they all c*8p in the same cup
this country is fe8ked and theres nothing right now anybody could do
for all the anti tory stuff we have to remember how deep they were left in it...

i own a buisness...carnt even afford to work there.. were taxed to death and get NO help from banks or goverment...
i still do seven days(for someone else) and every hour god sends is that hard working enough

localally were still labour... got no help AT ALL from them when we needed it...

THERE ALL TALK NO ACTION

even ALI G made more sence when he said "keep it real"

 

Pass this place every day and see em outside having a smoke, I don't know anything about this place, what do they do there and is there no Barnsley people in there at all.

 

I understand your point and I have too have issues with some of the jobs, conditions and contractual terms that are being forced upon workers these days - my son is being exploited (IMO) by a company that I don't think are particularly good and don’t have his interests even on the radar, never mind close to heart, but I feel helpless to do very much about it because ultimately it is a job, it keeps him busy and it pays him a wage which he is happy with now (while he lives at home). I am seemingly a lot more concerned about his future than he is but I'm not the only parent with these concerns.
I wasn’t aiming my point at you in particular by the way, I just feel that there is a prevailing opinion on here that everything was brilliant under Labour and its all turned to ***** since they were kicked out of office. I’m sure the same was said in 1979 and that isn’t a political dig its just an assumption that no matter how bad things get under Labour they are viewed as the halcyon days of milk and honey by some.

 

My wife worked there for a while. Not as a career or owt, she took a year out of education and worked at Yorkshire Repak for a few months, then got a job at Gents. This was about 20 years ago and it was all locals then. I don't think we had much of a foreign population at the time.

They pretty much do what the name suggests. It's a quality control place. Glass bottles and jars arrive from the manufacturers, those at Yorkshire Repak unpack them, check them for flaws and cracks and stuff, repack the good ones and toss the faulty ones. No idea why it makes more commercial sense to do it this way rather than have the quality control on-site at the manufacturers, but that's the job basically.

 

Cheers, I always wondered what they did. The commercial sense will be cost, it always is with outsourcing.

 

Mario, I feel for kids like yours, wanting to work and been treated like **** for it and unfortunatly I can't see any end to this attitude from these employers towards their employees. Wether you like it or not this situation sits firmly at Thatchers door because of her anti union legislation and the lot in power now are going to take it further. A strong union presence is essential for decent employment rights. I am a socialist through and through ( NOT a communist ) but I can see the short comings that occured under labour, I mean the last labour government pre Thatcher because the last lot cannot be called Labour in any way shape or form, but that pre Thatcher government did care about the working classes despite their short comings.

 

The sad thing is it doesnt matter if its Tory or New Lablour led they both p@@s in the same pot..