Reply to: Tesco job advert protest closes store in Westminster

[Brussels Slumdog]

Probably the kind of experience the Government was aiming for

[QUOTE=gingerjedi;1486432]Funny how its Tesco that jumped on this and not Rolls Royce or KPMG.

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Working one or two weeks free learning to make pizzas maybe useful but what could anyone learn from TESCO ? I doubt whether they would allow a freebe to work at the till.

[petergriffin]

The real question we should be asking ourselves is this:


Will Tesco share price rise or fall and how much money can I make on the deal?


Apart from that, WGAS.

HTH BIDI

No, it's not just that, Dimmo! Would you like to see your lucrative contract replaced with a "voluntary" workface placement that costs nothing to the company? Now you might be thinking: which sane company would do that? Well, ask your clientco manager and tell me about it.

[DimPrawn]

For each job Tesco fills with much lower cost "lazy benefit scroungers" they will cut real job on already minimum wage salary and that person would sign on benefits.

Basically the whole objective of this scam (and I can't call it anything else) is to provide cheaper labour that does not even get paid minimum wage to big companies like Tesco.

The real question we should be asking ourselves is this:


Will Tesco share price rise or fall and how much money can I make on the deal?


Apart from that, WGAS.

HTH BIDI

[gingerjedi]

Funny how its Tesco that jumped on this and not Rolls Royce or KPMG.

Still, not quite as bad as the yanks: Newt Gingrich's child labor plan cleans up | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

[petergriffin]

Tesco to face more 'occupy' protests in unpaid jobs row

Tesco to face more 'occupy' protests in unpaid jobs row - Telegraph

[vetran]

In this case it is about just that. Hence the indignation from all sides.

Just as Amy Winehouse was a crack head so Cliff should be one as well?

Check the baby in your bathwater.

[SueEllen]

Exactly, glad someone else gets it.

There is nothing to get as these schemes aren't work, they are slave labour.

I fully expect people who are unemployed to pull their finger out and do something but that doesn't include working for a large retailer stacking shelves and not being paid the minimum wage for it.

The entire point of Tesco using this scheme is to undercut the minimum wage and increase their profits.

[SantaClaus]

For each job Tesco fills with much lower cost "lazy benefit scroungers" they will cut real job on already minimum wage salary and that person would sign on benefits.

Basically the whole objective of this scam (and I can't call it anything else) is to provide cheaper labour that does not even get paid minimum wage to big companies like Tesco.

Got it in one ATW, at least someone can see this scheme for what it is.

Why would anyone take on paid staff when they can get the same slaves for free? This country seems to be undergoing a change to Victorian values, and not the good ones.

[wim121]

Applicant - I have been out of work for 12 months, just done 3 months working for tesco but they haven't got any long term jobs, got a great reference though.

Interviewer - great you are better than the guy who was just in he hasn't worked for 6 months.

Exactly, glad someone else gets it.

[vetran]

why?

Applicant - I have been out of work for 12 months, just done 3 months working for tesco but they haven't got any long term jobs, got a great reference though.

Interviewer - great you are better than the guy who was just in he hasn't worked for 6 months.

[EternalOptimist]

There's a doleite in our street.
I couldnt believe my eyes yesterday, he was walking down the road and he smiled. The cheeky fcker actually smiled.

[TimberWolf]

Wow, this initiative is enough even to get CUK questioning whether the unemployed aren't chavs and untermench, imagine how popular it must to the wider electorate. I gather a few companies have dropped out of the scheme, e.g. PoundLand.

[EternalOptimist]

I am sure that lots of people will take very low pay, maybe even pay for the priviledge of working, just for the chance of soemthing coming out of it, but the idea of putting it on your CV to 'pad it out' is crazy.

look at me, i'll work for nothing me.

[vetran]

Its a scheme for long term unemployed / unskilled.

I had some questions about some of my jobs in interviews. I pointed out it I was better working and some turned their nose up, others said if he is willing to clean loos and wait on tables through college, fix PC's on bench time etc then that means he isn't stuck up.

But they knew I turned up & did some work. Now apply that to someone who hasn't worked for 12 months? If it isn't their fault and they want to work, a good report on a recent work experience project may help.

[KimberleyChris]

And likewise, you are all IT professionals.

Just bring up your CV, and read it as though you are a Tesco Branch Manager looking for a general-duty shop worker.

Would you interview yourself?

How long do you think that you would stay at Tesco's if a job in your own field came up??

You wouldn't even say 'goodbye' would you, never mind giving notice.