11% pay rise for MP's! Tragegically and laughably out of touch but then see also my post on salaried MP's!
A minus 5% decrease would be a start to bring them a whiff of reality. But only if it came with a fresh contract ultimatum. Resign, thereby losing all rights to insurance and benefits, or accept a new, (that so popular and well supported), zero hour contract. Each weeks continuation of employment subjected to renewal by their electorate. With their role open to anyone to claim it who speaks a form of English, will toe the Party Line and is prepared to work for less. Of course as they are now self-employed consultants there is no holiday pay, no pension plan and naturally any expenses come out of their own pocket.
With this new contract there is just a chance our MP's will emerge from their protective bubble of privilege and get a taster of the conditions they are instrumental in setting up for us ordinary folks, that is everyone else that is not part of the super rich elite. When their feet are fully grounded in reality maybe our MP's might be trusted then to legislate for us again.
Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Monday, 9 December 2013
Friday, 5 July 2013
Smug to Judge
A scientific study has shown that the wealthy sic successful become desensitised to the real problems other 'unsuccessful' people face. They become harsher and more willing to be critical of failure to achieve without those benefits that their own success bestows on them. Quickly forgetting the past struggles they had to surmount those same problems that suddenly disappeared when they had the added clout of success. Success does indeed breed an attitude of success which then surmounts obstacles.
Vince Cable generally gives the impression of someone who has ideas and does test them before mouthing out. So I was taken aback when he took a neutral line with Zero Hour Contracts. How can you be neutral? This is abusive advantage taking of the vulnerable. It is disgraceful, how can any MP condone such practice.
The unemployed are pressurised and intimidated by the real possibility of benefit withdrawal unless they can weekly demonstrate they are seeking work and are willing to take work any offered. There are no middle grounds. They are subjected to weekly scrutiny by uncivil servants to see to just that. Uncivil servants that are no doubt themselves performance monitored to ensure they wrinkle out the target margins.
Potential Employers can hang out the bait of work and can then haul in a rich harvest of unemployed desperate to keep their benefits alive. All without cost or commitment from them, just hang this out on the line of hope and expectation. Zero hours means they contract nothing but the lure of a promise, yet require the applicant to to commit to making themselves available at a moments notice. To be plucked, at their leisure, if and when they have a passing moment off work increase. Outrageous. Totally an unfair terms contract.
The most evil act one person can play on another is to falsely raise hope and expectations. All the more so when that other person is vulnerable, threatened and in need of hope. A hope that is going to based on the shallow insubstantial offer of a possible something in the wind. Wake up Ed Balls there are no positives, this is an evil manifest.
Vince Cable generally gives the impression of someone who has ideas and does test them before mouthing out. So I was taken aback when he took a neutral line with Zero Hour Contracts. How can you be neutral? This is abusive advantage taking of the vulnerable. It is disgraceful, how can any MP condone such practice.
The unemployed are pressurised and intimidated by the real possibility of benefit withdrawal unless they can weekly demonstrate they are seeking work and are willing to take work any offered. There are no middle grounds. They are subjected to weekly scrutiny by uncivil servants to see to just that. Uncivil servants that are no doubt themselves performance monitored to ensure they wrinkle out the target margins.
Potential Employers can hang out the bait of work and can then haul in a rich harvest of unemployed desperate to keep their benefits alive. All without cost or commitment from them, just hang this out on the line of hope and expectation. Zero hours means they contract nothing but the lure of a promise, yet require the applicant to to commit to making themselves available at a moments notice. To be plucked, at their leisure, if and when they have a passing moment off work increase. Outrageous. Totally an unfair terms contract.
The most evil act one person can play on another is to falsely raise hope and expectations. All the more so when that other person is vulnerable, threatened and in need of hope. A hope that is going to based on the shallow insubstantial offer of a possible something in the wind. Wake up Ed Balls there are no positives, this is an evil manifest.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
An aside
I am seething underneath over two issues.
The amount of adulatory comments about that woman who destroyed so much of the fabric of our society.
The bland dismissive contempt of the government minister telling benefit claimants they should seek work.
Arhh!
So she died and so has to be buried. Please spare us all the pomp and circumstance of a feted funeral parade. I really feel like finding a large source of rotten eggs to throw at her coffin I am that incensed. She had her way not from ignorance, nor arrogance but just by contempt and manipulation of all those surrounding her, getting to do her thing, no matter how wrong, misguided and so lacking in a longer term view. Amongst her many crimes, she destroyed the unions, she politicised the, up until then, democratic quasi objective planning system, she gave full reign and encouragement to self seeking gratification, she gave away our social inheritance to profit makers and did everything to encourage greed and nothing to promote compassionate support. The limp wristed that lapped up the cream washing over her rights of passage are the self same trundled out to glorify her 'achievements'. History will condemn them and her in due course.
How dare anyone stand up in public and without a twinge of conscious say to the nation that those on benefits should seek work, That they, the government want to work with them, the benefit applicants, to seek employment. What utter sanctimonious bilge. Does the Minister have any sense of shame? Are their lives so far out of touch with real life exigencies that they actually believe all benefits supplicants have to do is get off their couch and just look for work? That then they will find ample work opportunities and 'it' the benefit problem will magically go away. Are these, the imbeciles we get to vote for and put in power, to make such crass, insensitive and so very out of touch pig ignorant statements to the nations media? Rise up and shout back. Tell it as it is.
Once the gilded lillies have taken off their rich cream bonuses, what we are left with is a bankrupt nation, in a double dip recession, ruled by a government that sees no merit in stimulating employment and where we scrabble and fight over the few menial jobs left. Ever fearful of being undercut and replaced by the next even more desperate person underneath us. Deal with the rampant excesses and compassionately support the underdog is not a bad replacement policy.
The amount of adulatory comments about that woman who destroyed so much of the fabric of our society.
The bland dismissive contempt of the government minister telling benefit claimants they should seek work.
Arhh!
So she died and so has to be buried. Please spare us all the pomp and circumstance of a feted funeral parade. I really feel like finding a large source of rotten eggs to throw at her coffin I am that incensed. She had her way not from ignorance, nor arrogance but just by contempt and manipulation of all those surrounding her, getting to do her thing, no matter how wrong, misguided and so lacking in a longer term view. Amongst her many crimes, she destroyed the unions, she politicised the, up until then, democratic quasi objective planning system, she gave full reign and encouragement to self seeking gratification, she gave away our social inheritance to profit makers and did everything to encourage greed and nothing to promote compassionate support. The limp wristed that lapped up the cream washing over her rights of passage are the self same trundled out to glorify her 'achievements'. History will condemn them and her in due course.
How dare anyone stand up in public and without a twinge of conscious say to the nation that those on benefits should seek work, That they, the government want to work with them, the benefit applicants, to seek employment. What utter sanctimonious bilge. Does the Minister have any sense of shame? Are their lives so far out of touch with real life exigencies that they actually believe all benefits supplicants have to do is get off their couch and just look for work? That then they will find ample work opportunities and 'it' the benefit problem will magically go away. Are these, the imbeciles we get to vote for and put in power, to make such crass, insensitive and so very out of touch pig ignorant statements to the nations media? Rise up and shout back. Tell it as it is.
Once the gilded lillies have taken off their rich cream bonuses, what we are left with is a bankrupt nation, in a double dip recession, ruled by a government that sees no merit in stimulating employment and where we scrabble and fight over the few menial jobs left. Ever fearful of being undercut and replaced by the next even more desperate person underneath us. Deal with the rampant excesses and compassionately support the underdog is not a bad replacement policy.
Friday, 8 June 2012
Know Yourself
My experience has been that employment agencies look only to find the best fit box to stuff you in that they can then promote to likely employers. Despite all the profiling and other gimmicky that they might surround themselves with, their primary objective is to find that best fit box with the highest turnover and the best commission and then move on as fast as possible. They are certainly not in the business of looking at you as a blank piece of paper to assess the skills and experience you have to offer. All too complicated and time consuming. The best fit box is a fast but dirty way of summing you up into readily recognisable sectors, be it sales, education, health or whatever.
Likewise with your employer, their primary goal is to get you productive and income generating as fast and cleanly as possible. They too are looking for nice neat boxes to put you in, best fitting your past with their operational needs. No niceties, a people person, a problem solver, a task finisher, find and stuff you into the best fit box and get you working fast. Fair enough they need to profit out of your labour. The box you are put into of course only reflects the opportunities and experience's you have been allowed in the past. They are in no way reflective of your actual skill or mind set or where your aptitude really lies, if only you were given the chance. No one has the time or even perhaps the judgement set to gauge how good you might be, but only what you have previously demonstrated. Those boxes you find yourself in you get to carry forward throughout your working life. The chance to breakfree and start with a clean slate, or that white piece of paper, just never comes. You carry your past baggage forward with you, not your choice, not your wish, not your aspiration, it just accumulates and becomes the measure yardstick for all your futures.
You of course know yourself extremely well. Right? Wrong! Imagine yourself in a totally white room, floor, walls, ceiling, no windows no doors, just white sound, white scent and white surrounds. Now who are you? Not your name, not your history, not your description. But who are you, that inner person? What we are, this inner person, is in response. In response to your surroundings, to the people you last had contact with, with the after tremors of the last physical experience. Your sub-concious and concious responses to these other stimuli are what drives your awareness of who you are. But it is more than this because we too bring baggage. We are not white pieces of paper with each fresh encounter. We bring the past along with us which shapes our reactions this time and moulds the future possibles. Worse still prior experiences limit our range of possible responses and the people we meet recognise and or have preconceptions of your reactions which limit the range of what you can or cannot do in response. We are limited by our past. Not immutable, subtly shifting and adapting, we evolve but within the constraints of what we were and did last time. Not fixed, you could wake up and start out with a clean white piece of paper, inventing a new personality for yourself. Except your physical baggage and all those people you associate with drag you back to what you were. Not you, the who you would like to be, within the constraints of your innate personality. The me that I can be and am, are but reflections of my past and peoples expectations of me.
It is a leap, a small leap, more of just a progression really. How the government views or has expectations of its citizens, directly influences how the citizen sees themselves, how they respond and react. Treated with disdain, suspicion, regarded as flawed, with limit capacity to think rationally or behave with a modicum of decency, they get citizens just like that but pushed to extremes. Regard your citizens with respect, expect the highest standards and they will rise to that confidence in them and often exceed expectations. The we, whether employer, individual or citizen just want recognition and encouragement to do better. Not much to ask is it.
Likewise with your employer, their primary goal is to get you productive and income generating as fast and cleanly as possible. They too are looking for nice neat boxes to put you in, best fitting your past with their operational needs. No niceties, a people person, a problem solver, a task finisher, find and stuff you into the best fit box and get you working fast. Fair enough they need to profit out of your labour. The box you are put into of course only reflects the opportunities and experience's you have been allowed in the past. They are in no way reflective of your actual skill or mind set or where your aptitude really lies, if only you were given the chance. No one has the time or even perhaps the judgement set to gauge how good you might be, but only what you have previously demonstrated. Those boxes you find yourself in you get to carry forward throughout your working life. The chance to breakfree and start with a clean slate, or that white piece of paper, just never comes. You carry your past baggage forward with you, not your choice, not your wish, not your aspiration, it just accumulates and becomes the measure yardstick for all your futures.
You of course know yourself extremely well. Right? Wrong! Imagine yourself in a totally white room, floor, walls, ceiling, no windows no doors, just white sound, white scent and white surrounds. Now who are you? Not your name, not your history, not your description. But who are you, that inner person? What we are, this inner person, is in response. In response to your surroundings, to the people you last had contact with, with the after tremors of the last physical experience. Your sub-concious and concious responses to these other stimuli are what drives your awareness of who you are. But it is more than this because we too bring baggage. We are not white pieces of paper with each fresh encounter. We bring the past along with us which shapes our reactions this time and moulds the future possibles. Worse still prior experiences limit our range of possible responses and the people we meet recognise and or have preconceptions of your reactions which limit the range of what you can or cannot do in response. We are limited by our past. Not immutable, subtly shifting and adapting, we evolve but within the constraints of what we were and did last time. Not fixed, you could wake up and start out with a clean white piece of paper, inventing a new personality for yourself. Except your physical baggage and all those people you associate with drag you back to what you were. Not you, the who you would like to be, within the constraints of your innate personality. The me that I can be and am, are but reflections of my past and peoples expectations of me.
It is a leap, a small leap, more of just a progression really. How the government views or has expectations of its citizens, directly influences how the citizen sees themselves, how they respond and react. Treated with disdain, suspicion, regarded as flawed, with limit capacity to think rationally or behave with a modicum of decency, they get citizens just like that but pushed to extremes. Regard your citizens with respect, expect the highest standards and they will rise to that confidence in them and often exceed expectations. The we, whether employer, individual or citizen just want recognition and encouragement to do better. Not much to ask is it.
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Body for Sale
Jamie Oliver writing about his new series the Dream School and the pupils he wants to create opportunities for, referred to a willingness to graft. We all have to sell what we have. Some are lucky, born rich and all they have to do is sell their connection to a past wealth. Some are born intellectually endowed and they have a fertile mind to sell. Their challenge being to settle on which academic field best utilises their particular brain capabilities, juggling mathematical formula, dissecting or crafting tight sentences or creatively investigating and deducing from scant evidence. Others are just born with a well endowed body and have no qualms in selling that for as long as it lasts. We are all out to offer a unique selling point that makes our offer stand out from the crowd, to be irresistible to the employing, hiring, income generating select few.
Some have the gift of creativity to offer but the mass of us are short on such gifts. Perhaps we have a nurturing caring nature and can find a niche there. What Jamie said made sense. The most of us have no particular skill or gift but what we do have and can offer is the willingness to graft. To put in the hours of effort and determination, to learn from the tasks presented and thus makes ourselves indispensable and desirable to be employed. It takes all sorts to make this world go round, we cannot not all be at the top. The grinding mass of everyday work is just as, or as equally important, to keeping the wheels turning as some flash of inspiration.
We all need each other and are dependant on each other, so we all can succeed.
Some have the gift of creativity to offer but the mass of us are short on such gifts. Perhaps we have a nurturing caring nature and can find a niche there. What Jamie said made sense. The most of us have no particular skill or gift but what we do have and can offer is the willingness to graft. To put in the hours of effort and determination, to learn from the tasks presented and thus makes ourselves indispensable and desirable to be employed. It takes all sorts to make this world go round, we cannot not all be at the top. The grinding mass of everyday work is just as, or as equally important, to keeping the wheels turning as some flash of inspiration.
We all need each other and are dependant on each other, so we all can succeed.
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