Reply to: Cant get a new gig

[Sockpuppet]

DA will soon be advertising for fruit pickers, excellent rates. There may be more margin in it

32% - So yes there is.

ClientCo employs 400 odd agency staff. Roughly £11 per hour with agency markup. So agency gets £3+ for each hour worked.

Thats close to £9k a day. I don't know many rec consultants bringing in 9k a day in the IT game.

[Board Game Geek]

Increase minimum wage so that there is no reason to be long term unemployed if laziness is the only option.

One Herefordshire farmer faces the loss of strawberries worth £200,000

Simple answer. Increase their pay. So what if he only makes 100K, instead of 200K ? He's still in business and now has a labour force again (and a well paid one at that..who have more income to plough back in to the economy)

[BrilloPad]

Under New Liebour nobody is unemployed, they're all "unfit to work" for some crappy medical reason or other.

Nothing crappy about a sore little finger.

[RandyW]

Why can't the unemployed pick the fruit?

Under New Liebour nobody is unemployed, they're all "unfit to work" for some crappy medical reason or other.

[BrilloPad]

Why can't the unemployed pick the fruit?

[BrilloPad]

Fairness at last

And your margin?

[sunnysan]

Well

If you look at the situation objectively, everybody was up in arms about immigration and surely the market is more effective than any government at actually rectifying the situation.

[thunderlizard]

I think it's more likely that there will be some cutbacks and slip ups in the Immigration and Nationality Agency (or whatever it's called this week) and - hey presto! problem solved. No government could afford the political consequences of suggesting that farmers and supermarkets might be forced to pay decent wages.

They might try that one - but to have any success, they'll need to get the £/Euro exchange rate back to what it was 3 years ago, so the Central Europeans would want to come back.

[sunnysan]

FruitPickers

Interesting assignments with this perk laden opportunity to work fro one of the countries biggest fruitgrowers.

Your work will be used by all the biggest supermarkets in Britain.

Flexible hours, training given as well as perks like a 15 minute tea break and Mars Bars in the canteen.

First come first serve but dont wait. Agency work at minimum wage does not hang around for long.

Contact DodgyAgent on -----------

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I predict that in 3 years time fruit pickers will get paid more than J2EE architects.

I think it's more likely that there will be some cutbacks and slip ups in the Immigration and Nationality Agency (or whatever it's called this week) and - hey presto! problem solved. No government could afford the political consequences of suggesting that farmers and supermarkets might be forced to pay decent wages.

[BA to the Stars]

DA will soon be advertising for fruit pickers, excellent rates. There may be more margin in it

[DodgyAgent]

I predict that in 3 years time fruit pickers will get paid more than J2EE architects.

Fairness at last

[sunnysan]

Well

I predict that in 3 years time fruit pickers will get paid more than J2EE architects.

[gingerjedi]

Tightening of immigration laws means farmers face losing 50,000 tonnes of fruit

Piss poor wages.

[hyperD]

Tightening of immigration laws means farmers face losing 50,000 tonnes of fruit

That's Sir Elton John out of the equation then...