Would never happen as the Government are guilty of doing exactly this.
Do lots of young people not work these days ?
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Would never happen as the Government are guilty of doing exactly this.
Because these ads are pretty much always written up by HR, after a brief from an IT manager banding terms around - literally the blind leading the blind. Doesn't change the fact that this type of role really is entry level into the world of Corporate IT these days; times have moved on and people are tech savvy at a younger age, so their grasp of computing/tech/etc is pretty much a given nowadays - the advert also reads like stuff I would have applied for over 20 years ago; so it's probably just a copy and paste used in generic IT adverts
Umm..... ACAS?
hey I bought a brand new motorbike. What's not to love about that?
I know nothing about Motorbikes, but even I know that isn't a Motorbike
Sym do sell 125 motorcycles, but they're nothing special.
As with his posts in another section, he's bragging about things that the average person could easily afford if they wanted to.
What concerns me more is how he's going to fit a subwoofer onto it.
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I believe it's a SymJeetJet X that he has though
Or in his case, the Sym NEET
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Back to the topic at hand...
If no matter where you go; your face doesn't fit in or you don't get the training that is required to do your job... not the training that you want for the job that you think you should have. Then maybe it's actually yourself that's the issue.
I'll say this quite simply, I hate working... I discovered this a long time ago.. heck not many of my former bosses or collegues even like me, but as long as I knuckle down and I'm actually good at my job, they have no legal reason to get rid of me nor hold my charming personality against me when it comes to progression, training and pay.
I would rather work at a place that pays me well and hate it than work at somewhere that I hate and get paid a rubbblish amount...
if the work was fun, someone would do it for free or offer to do it less than I'm doing it for.
If no matter where you go; your face doesn't fit in or you don't get the training that is required to do your job... not the training that you want for the job that you think you should have. Then maybe it's actually yourself that's the issue.
I'll say this quite simply, I hate working... I discovered this a long time ago.. heck not many of my former bosses or collegues even like me, but as long as I knuckle down and I'm actually good at my job, they have no legal reason to get rid of me nor hold my charming personality against me when it comes to progression, training and pay.
I would rather work at a place that pays me well and hate it than work at somewhere that I hate and get paid a rubbblish amount...
if the work was fun, someone would do it for free or offer to do it less than I'm doing it for.
He's also posted (although deleted iirc) that he's gleefully bought it with his benefit payments.
Also, it's a girls scooter, not a real motorcycle.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist.
That subwoofer is too small looks like a 8" sealed box with passive radiator.
Even when they know that it'll make the staff more efficient.
A friend was talking about his job the other day, he was in a discussion with his boss who was complaining about how some of the equipment was run, and that they were not reaching the production targets like they used to, my friend pointed out to his boss that since John (not real name) had left they had no one whose job was actually to train new staff, and that it means the existing staff were having to try and train people whilst doing their jobs on heavy industrial equipment, apparently he got the response "we're not talking about John here, everyone is expendable".
This is a company using equipment that can easily cripple you if you're not careful (they average a very serious accident about every 4 years), that won't pay enough to get new permanent staff in, is losing experienced staff and relying on an increasing small number of those experienced staff, with virtually nothing written down in regards to day to day operation of the equipment.
In our modern, supposedly health & safety obsessed world, it's easy to forget that bad stuff can happen and people do still get crushed or fall to their death whilst at work. Guy I knew lost his arm (and nearly his life) due to his arm getting pulled into a machine.
Place I worked at back in the 80's/early 90's was pretty lethal if you weren't careful. People would actually take the guards off to get their figures in (piecework) and new people who were supposed to have a weeks training before being let loose on some of the bigger machines were lucky to get a mornings training.
The good old days.
The good old days.
Yup.
Any heavy machinery is by default dangerous, and yet a lot of companies (like the one I mentioned) will let basically untrained people on them under "supervision" of an "experienced" staffer, which may be ok if that experienced guy is only concerned with training the newbie, but if they're in a production environment and there is no allowance for the fact it's a new guy on the machine it's an accident waiting to happen.
Yet companies don't grasp that, they'll make sure someone has an official training session before they can use a forklift calling in an outside contractor to do it whilst paying the staff to attend it, but they won't pay for staff to get properly trained on equipment that can maim them. My sneaking suspicion is that there may be an actual law or case law about forklifts, and a forklift accident is likely to hurt someone other than the driver and damage a lot of expensive equipment/stock as well (not just cost some poor guy his arm, or life whilst just needing the machine cleaned up).
Forklifts are most definitely dangerous and the HSE would be on the case where an employee was driving, using forks without training and certification to use one.
Having seen a case of decapitation by a person leaning forward to adjust a load through the forklift mechanism in the late eighties, having heard of numerous toppling incidents of all terrain forklifts on uneven ground or through lifting too high, they are an extremely dangerous piece of plant in the wrong hands.
Yet in the seventies as a farm hand I was using a tractor mounted bale lifter of similar proportions.
All mobile plant in factories and on building sites require certification for use, both management and unions will insist on it otherwise days in court will happen to them. Similarly all operations must be risk assessed if lifting is part of the process.
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There's nothing in that job advert that says "skilled"/"experienced" to me - basically anyone fresh out of school/college with more than a passing interest in computing ticks all the boxes.
The other problem is that regardless of how skilled/experience the job requirements, if the job isn't in high demand (and/or there are too many people with those skills/experience), then it isn't going to pay well; there are thousands of "kids" with BTECs in computing looking for jobs like that - even 15-20 years ago when I was studying and then teaching computing, it was seen as an easy ride, since "you just mess around with computers the whole time", and if you had 2 brain cells to rub together you could pass.
Being a full time/professional gambler would be the dream so would never have to 'work' again.
The football tipster I follow makes about £30k a month from subscriptions... He deserves it though as he's made me soo much money it allowed me to quit doing overtime at work about a year ago.
The football tipster I follow makes about £30k a month from subscriptions... He deserves it though as he's made me soo much money it allowed me to quit doing overtime at work about a year ago.