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[Politics] The Labour Government
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LamieRobertson
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I’ve just sat through a presentation from a company in South Africa on how to grow my business again without any of the hassle and the cost of doing it in the UK with the new Employment Rights Bill. Have to say it was very compelling.
We have traditionally hired young people with no real qualifications and given them a chance to really make something of their lives in an industry where you can make a lot of money with hard work and dedication, without needing to go to Uni etc. A large proportion of these Gen-Zers that we gave a chance to in the last few years were utter entitled dickheads who were completely ill-equipped to cope in the real world in a competitive industry. They’d grown up in incredibly sheltered worlds with a ‘medal for everyone’ environment and if the job didn’t work out then (due to the property ladder being so hard to get on in the UK) it didn’t really matter because they were still living with their parents anyway and could just blame somebody else (usually me) for their failures. They absolutely could not handle working in a competitive market where if you don’t swim, you sink very quickly.
I have to admit that the thought of hiring people who are more experienced and are a few years older and come with the life experience that growing up somewhere like South Africa brings, who have dependants relying on them and who absolutely need their job to succeed for less than a third of the cost of an entitled Brighton Gen-Zer is incredibly attractive.
I wonder if the Government have considered how in some industries these workers they are trying to protect are just going to be substituted by workers in foreign countries instead? It is going to have the opposite effect that they were aiming for in some industries.
We have traditionally hired young people with no real qualifications and given them a chance to really make something of their lives in an industry where you can make a lot of money with hard work and dedication, without needing to go to Uni etc. A large proportion of these Gen-Zers that we gave a chance to in the last few years were utter entitled dickheads who were completely ill-equipped to cope in the real world in a competitive industry. They’d grown up in incredibly sheltered worlds with a ‘medal for everyone’ environment and if the job didn’t work out then (due to the property ladder being so hard to get on in the UK) it didn’t really matter because they were still living with their parents anyway and could just blame somebody else (usually me) for their failures. They absolutely could not handle working in a competitive market where if you don’t swim, you sink very quickly.
I have to admit that the thought of hiring people who are more experienced and are a few years older and come with the life experience that growing up somewhere like South Africa brings, who have dependants relying on them and who absolutely need their job to succeed for less than a third of the cost of an entitled Brighton Gen-Zer is incredibly attractive.
I wonder if the Government have considered how in some industries these workers they are trying to protect are just going to be substituted by workers in foreign countries instead? It is going to have the opposite effect that they were aiming for in some industries.
Isn’t Western Samoa the place where the biggest, fattest man in the village is seen as the most attractive and the most powerful? I’ve thought about moving there many times.