Originally Posted by
mowgli
and i bet you hated telesales the most......
there is a strange phenomenon caused by the introduction of the welfare state (what got churchill voted out after ww2)
people now sit at home unemployed, when there are jobs elsewhere.
before ww2, people would routinely travel where the work was, and if, for example, there was no work in glasgow, people moved to leicestershire to work in the coal mines, in the 20's & 30's welsh people moved to oxford to make cars.
but now, people can be unemployed in their home town, when as little as 10 miles away, there are hundreds of jobs. we have a huge warehouse place called magna park, 10 miles down the road, and it is almost completely staffed by recent eu immigrants. they do big hours to earn the money, but the local long term unemployed don't want to travel to do the work.
over the centuries, massive populations have migrated to where the work is, yet in the last 50 years, the uk, which i believe invented the dole, seems to have forgotten how to do it.
i have all the respect in the world for anyone who will do whatever it takes to find a job, but none for someone who expects the job to find them