I have finally got a job

[blackswan40]

I have finally got a job after seven years of false dawns and bitter disapointments.
I got a phone call thursday from reed employment their not a job agency more akin to giving you training and giving you a headsup on new jobs and talking to local employers had a factory tour on Friday and was offered the job there and then the job is full time nights monday to thursday at Permoid Fabrication Ltd making ammo boxes all shapes and sizes i start monday night at 19:30.
Due to large orders comming in from the M.O.D. they've had to put a night shift on i'm a bit chuffed makes me want to listen to this Billy Bragg number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1230&pictureid=12675

[mapuc]

Hey Congrats-I know how it feel being without work for years and then you hit jackpot.

Markus

[Platapus]

Congratulations, I hope it works out for you

[Reece]

Good on ya matey, I hope it works out well. :Kaleun_Applaud:
cheers.

[Jeff-Groves]

7 years to get a job?
:o

How BAD is employment there?

[Mork_417]

Congrats on the employment. :up:

[blackswan40]

Yes Jeff plenty of False dawns getting a job with two bit employers that treat you like cannon fodder dont need you today come back tomorrow same tuesday same wednesday same thursday $12-$15 in busfares per day.
Or you start monday and by thursday while in the canteen your told to keep your coat on finish your tea and you can go and no need to come back or thats mondayof your second week you were only making spares.
these jobs are low end pay scale jobs zero hour contracts you start at 7am your told not to clockin have another tea/coffee boss says ill know by 12 oclock if i need more pickers or the firm folds after 2-8 weeks
When your on £655 benefits per month rent £575 £8.50 per day in bus fares water rates £13 per month £50 phone / internet theres people worse off than me with no pension pot to draw from.
If you have a trade or your a HGV driver theres well paid work for you.
Permoid where ive got the job they started seven new starters monday when i had my factory tour/interview on friday theres only two of those new starters left its too hot and smells of welding fumes my hands are covered in grease millennials who live with their parents house paid for no morgage £250 pocket money per month off granny plus benefits they dont want a job.
Its the same on your side of the duck pond Jeff money talks merit walks.

[Reece]

Come on, lay your bets boys, I bet he lasts only a week!! :yep:
Any advance on that? :D









PS. Only joking Swanny!

[blackswan40]

I hope not they told me ive joined the twenty minueters then you get a break swanny no thats your life expectancy :D

[Jimbuna]

Well done Andrew, I'm sure you'll give it your best shot :yeah:

[Aktungbby]

Well done Andrew, I'm sure you'll give it your best shot :yeah::agree::sign_yeah::woot::rock::Kaleun_Party: :()1: Congrats! U R no longer a mancaving, stay-at-home :subsim:ing misanthrope...with WWIII well underway, ammo boxes will be in great demand...for purveyors of best shots!:arrgh!:

[Commander Wallace]

A big congratulations, Andrew. :Kaleun_Applaud: I hope this job works out and is everything you want it to be. I know on this side of the pond, People stay in one position until something better comes along. The job market here in the states isn't much better and for the reasons you mentioned.


Agencies tend to send people out and are treated terribly in the workplace. It's a little better since we have what the press has termed as the " great resignation." Many people have just left their jobs and walked out. I'm sure some of that is Covid related.


I hope this works out well for you. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Jeff-Groves]

Before I retired, I was in a position where I called in Temp Workers many times.
So I kind of know both sides of the Game.

To be honest? I had to wade through some really worthless workers!
I always found the good ones and did all I could to keep them on my jobs.
The rest? I'd just tell the Company I used to NOT send them back and why.

Several I offered full time employment.

The good ones I'd even slide them extra cash from my pocket knowing the temp companies are really not paying them that well.
And more then once I'd pay them to come in 'off the books' so they got the money. Not the temp company.

[Commander Wallace]

Before I retired, I was in a position where I called in Temp Workers many times.
So I kind of know both sides of the Game.

To be honest? I had to wade through some really worthless workers!
I always found the good ones and did all I could to keep them on my jobs.
The rest? I'd just tell the Company I used to NOT send them back and why.

Several I offered full time employment.

The good ones I'd even slide them extra cash from my pocket knowing the temp companies are really not paying them that well.
And more then once I'd pay them to come in 'off the books' so they got the money. Not the temp company.


I have seen a number of workers left go because " they didn't fit in. " I had objected to their firings but usually, to no avail. The workers " didn't fit in " because they had families and didn't want to go drinking after work and do drugs with the other people already there. I had said their private after work hours are theirs and their families alone. The new hires were labeled anti social.

It was worse if the new worker(s) had a college education as the people already there were afraid of the new people getting ahead of them even if they themselves had a college degree. They consistently undermined the new people coming and lied on them till the new people quit or were fired and then the people who had been there and undermined the new hires complained when they had to put in overtime every weekend.

Throw in the fact that people coming in have a cell phone addiction. They can't go two minutes without playing with their phones. We have policies regarding their phones which they were made aware of when they were hired. I told the new ones, consider that your one and only warning. I told them they were grown ups now and I expected them to act like it and do the work they were hired and being paid to do. When they were caught using their phones and it wasn't a medical emergency, they were out the door and gone.

[Jeff-Groves]

Yeah. The phone was a KILLER!

We were doing demolition work! Being on a phone could lead to serious injury or death! So I fired those people on the spot!

They got one warning the day they showed up. NO PHONES!

[Onkel Neal]

Congrats, Andy, way to go.

[August]

Several I offered full time employment


How much of a head hunter fee did you have to pay?

[Jeff-Groves]

Never had to pay anything. None of them accepted the full time job.
All didn't want to travel which was part of the job.

One I really wanted was from Cuba.
He came over on a raft. Told me some bad stories about that trip.
Coast Guard grabbed them and he spent a couple years in Gitmo before being allowed to come to the States.

He got his Citizenship and all that. I respect that! I often wonder how life went for him.

[August]

Never had to pay anything. None of them accepted the full time job.
All didn't want to travel which was part of the job.

One I really wanted was from Cuba.
He came over on a raft. Told me some bad stories about that trip.
Coast Guard grabbed them and he spent a couple years in Gitmo before being allowed to come to the States.

He got his Citizenship and all that. I respect that! I often wonder how life went for him.


In my industry hiring a technician away from a temp agency can cost a lot. Enough to be a deterrent to hiring them as opposed to someone off the street of equal experience.