For the past couple of months,the place where Mrs Heed works has been advertising for staff.A number of applications have been recieved,but not one person has turned up for an interview.
This begs the question: Do people really want to work these days?

This is not a back street company,it is a nationally recognised company,who you would think people would be glad to work for.Why are people not trying to find a job in a climate where money is king?

What was the Homer Simpson quote:

"No one will give me money, I can't print my own money, I have to work for money!"

Or words to that effect.

Depends what type of work it involves,coul'd you elaborate?

Perhaps people think they can afford to be picky?

I would say it extremely bad manners tho not to at least call and cancel the appointment.

Would like to know more abou tthe job tho - it may help put things into perspective?

Moon

If the job was for a decent wage, the environment and specifics involved of the potential employee fair and the boss plainly no ogre, then it might have been more polite to call and tell them that they didn't want the job.

I've turned down jobs and handed in my notice before due to the prospect of working for and with people who demanded the ridiculous for a pitance of a wage and treated me with no respect while demanding it in spades for themselves.

Under those circumstances I see it as my right to leave their employ and seek new work as I have contributed to the system during my time working there and will continue to do so once I have found a new place of work.

Employers are sometimes under the delusion that when they pay you a wage they buy you as a person. A wage deserves a small degree of loyalty, but true respect and employee loyalty has to be earned.

The jobs,(yes there is more than 1),is at Greggs the bakers at Firth Park.
The boss is no ogre,and the shop is a very happy one.All the girls there have a really good laugh together,and all the customers comment on how much they are made to feel welcome in the shop.
The pay is above minimum wage,(£4.95ph),plus a 50% discount on all the goodies.
If anyone wants to know more,send me a PM.

I think the lesson to learn here is that if the prospective employee can't be bothered to turn up, then do you really want them working under you anyway?

Could it be that the applications recieved were sent in by people on Job Seekers Allowance who wanted to look like they were applying for jobs to keep the dole office happy, whilst having no intention of taking the job?

You can tell how lazy or not the population of a city is by looking at it's city centre. It shows what the people of that city over generations have produced. If it's vibrant, architecturally stimulating and clean then you can tell that people care. If it has the Moor running down the main thoroughfare then that also gives a strong indication. Visit any other Western European city of comparable size and you wont see such rampant self neglect as you do in Sheffield. Acres of people hideously disfigured by obesity, shops selling tack.

Is this the image people of Sheffield want to give to the world?

The people of Sheffield have been so incapable of running their own economy that the European Union has had to pay to rebuild the city.

The population continually vote for a party who discourage private investment through tax barriers, then watch with dismay as the private sector decides to locate in Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds.

Sheffield doesn't produce enough wealth to sustain it's self. We have to rely on hand outs from taxpayers in the South East and other more successful European economies.

At least Sheffield is no longer in a position to continually blame the Tories and has to fend for it's self.


RANT OVER

Know what you mean about the obesity Dylan. There seems to be more and more properly big boys and girls about at t'minute.

I don't just mean a stone or two overweight either. I mean like 18-20 stone.

Is Sheffield lazy? On the strength of this it seems to be getting lazier. It takes me half an hour to walk to work in t'morning and some people in my building look at me like I'm mad when I tell em that ("what an hour a day- walking?????).

Sad state of affairs.

Dylan 110% OTM with your last post. I've been living here for four years and have been trying to understand how the city centre affects my general attitude towards living here. Compare it to any of the other major Northern cities, especially for a town which has so much else going for it, and it's like going back to the darkest days of the 1970s, filled with bile and self-loathing.

I get the same thing!

I can't drive and so I either take public transport or walk, but still people keep on wondering why I don't learn and buy a car.

Why when I can cope perfectly well as I am and get a little exercise at the same time, should I even consider putting another car on the road and becoming just another inactive slob?

Originally posted by uncleheed

The pay is above minimum wage,(£4.95ph),plus a 50% discount on all the goodies.



How to live on £4.95/hour ?
After tax and NI this will be about £140/week take home pay.
Rent, Water Rates and Council Tax will eat at least half of that.
Leaving £70/week for food, heating, lighting and clothes etc.
Anything left for leisure and pleasure...doesn't seem likely :(

Why waste time slagging the city off?...why not just f*** off and live somewhere else.
This way you wont have to look at it.......problem solved

Originally posted by Carmine
I get the same thing!

I can't drive and so I either take public transport or walk, but still people keep on wondering why I don't learn and buy a car.

Why when I can cope perfectly well as I am and get a little exercise at the same time, should I even consider putting another car on the road and becoming just another inactive slob?

I do the same. I ditched my car a few years ago, and now cycle, walk and use buses and trains. Organic exercise I have heard it called! Or fitness without the exercise"!

As you say, the added bonus is less traffic, less noise and air pollution, less accidents and fatalities, and less road building. If only!

Originally posted by tango2
Why waste time slagging the city off?...why not just f*** off and live somewhere else.
This way you wont have to look at it.......problem solved
Totally agree with you. I love Sheffield and I would gladly move back there. Maybe it's the people who complain about the state of the city who are the lazy ones. If you think it's so bad then do something to improve it rather than moaning about it.