Can't read, can't write, & think world owes them a living

[Alecto]

That's Britain's school leavers, according to Tesco director as reported in the Mail

Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the firm’s director of corporate and legal affairs, said that many have basic literacy and numeracy problems as well as an ‘attitude problem’.

She will say that many school leavers ‘don't seem to understand the importance of a tidy appearance and have problems with timekeeping ...

'Some seem to think that the world owes them a living.’

[Ray-Von]

Its called 'Broken Britain' (although Gordon says its not)

They don't have much trouble looking at the pictures in the Argos catalogue,deciding what they are getting to go in their corpy house house once they are in the club

[cakei3]

well she has a point don't you think, i know i wouldn't employ half of them

[Alecto]

well she has a point don't you think, i know i wouldn't employ half of them

Na, you're not allowed to discriminate now.

Choosing people who turn up for the interview discriminates against those who couldn't be bothered to get out of bed, which is against their human rights.

[cakei3]

sod that human rights crap i'd choose who was right for the job

[Inactive]

Well if the existing staff at my local Tesco are representative of the successful candidates, then the rejects must have been dire.

[fudgie]

Quote from the article

The institute's chief executive, Simon Culhane, said subjects like Business, Maths or Law were among the few job-related courses that would help students make progress

I agree, if you can't make it in the above professions then complete a trade.

[puuma2]

Our company have the same issues with ex uni brigade, the come out with a degree and expect 30k plus but still can't spell etc ..

[fudgie]

You guy's are all kidding.......... Right?

[Roco]

Wha was the Fu**is the Prob , my grandad shifted his ar** to give me this F88ing world ,
now some crap bird is getting her knickers in a twist , I guess she loves kissing ar** on her £80,000 pa ,
as a graqduate engineer I got turned down for being trolly dolly at tesco's , thankfully ,
I go with todays kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSWSrA5A2Q ,
I did a 5 year aprenticeship for nothing , my grandson is a session musician and earns more in a day than I ever earned in a week , anyone knocking checkout staff try a week in their poorly paid shoes ,

[steve195527]

Its called 'Broken Britain' (although Gordon says its not)

They don't have much trouble looking at the pictures in the Argos catalogue,deciding what they are getting to go in their corpy house house once they are in the club

Tell the people something over and over again and they start to believe it:-David Cameron's Tory party policy!(that's how Hitler got to power)Hands up those who remember the 80's when it was really broken,riots in all parts of the country,not quite as bad nowadays is it??
Lets have a think:-have we got really high interest rates?----no!,have we got homeowners loosing their houses hand over fist?----no!,have we got nightly riots in town centres?---no!,could things be better?---yes!but so could they be in every country.The UK is bound to take longer to come out of this worldwide recession because most of the wealth this country generated was around finance and that was the sector tat collapsed the first and the furthest dragging other things down with it,problem is it will be last to pick up as well and as we have no manufacturing industry compared to ,say,Germany our economy will lag behind as things do pick up worldwide

[fudgie]

You wouldn't be the first to get knocked back by Tesco Roco and you were better for it for it trust me.
I worked for those guy's for three years plus before I woke up, but saying that I was paid well and I did like working there but middle management were thick as two short planks.

So I guess this bird does have a point to some degree, trouble is they really don't want intelligent people working under them.

[Roco]

Very true , Fudgie , but I think she may have got there by the horisontal promotion system
( yeah, I can't spell either ), it's easy to knock todays kids , end of the day they are our spawn ,
so who is to blame , yeah school today is crap ,but it's our generation that made it that way ,
we are their key to the future , maybe my grandad was right after all ?

Tesco I bypassed them , and took the plunge to work in France , then on to Germany , where engineering skills where apreciated ,

and got to retire early , that never seemed an option in the UK ,

my school days taught me to quote Shakespear , funny enough no interviewer ever asked about that ,

[fudgie]

I the complete works of Shakespear, it's an old edition handed to us by my wife's grandmother.
I found it really hard to understand but I enjoyed reading it. It was so relaxing and I felt a real calmness about me while reading it. But please don't ask me to quote anything, I wouldn't have a clue

[puuma2]

More people are losing homes now than in the 80's, more people are going bankrupt than in the 80's lets see

Who said it was wrong that people lost homes in recession times and when they get voted in they would pass laws to stop it, was it :

1) David Cameron
2) Gordon Brown as Chancellor

Your right !! it was Labour who promised the laws but when in power failed to deliver, I am not complaining just pointing out the facts.

Do we have riots in the streets ? hmmm We seem to have right wing groups trying to reclaim Britain, they gently unscrew signs and place them on others heads very gently, and when the police pass they do not snort before spitting....

Britain is not broken it's just on the verge of being a laughing stock of the world. When we are importing at the moment some countries are refusing to take sterling, and will most definitely quote costs based on sterling more than 24hours, but I suppose Labour die hards do not see the trouble companies are in to keep things moving, they just want wage rises.