Have I sold my soul to the dark side?

[Ste T.]

No .( op) The people who should hang their heads in shame are the
governments who have presided over the running down of our manufacturing sector, to the point where the only jobs left are service jobs at the likes of Tescos

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

THought you had bought a recumbent...

Working for Tesco is a conversion to the slightly off-white as opposed to Dark Side.

What would getting a job at Halfrauds be then??

 

[rich p]

Blimey, another Lazarus thread

 

[vernon]

No .( op) The people who should hang their heads in shame are the
governments who have presided over the running down of our manufacturing sector, to the point where the only jobs left are service jobs at the likes of Tescos

As patriotic as I am, I do not baulk at buying good manufactured overseas which contribute to the demise of the UK manufacturing sector.

It was the complacency of UK industry in pushing out shoddy goods at uncompetitive prices that contributed to its own demise more than any government could.

The collapse of the motor cycle industry? Try building oil tight motorcycle engines in tolerance with machinery that was used pre-war. It would of course have helped if the engines didn't have a lineage that extended backwards to the 1938 Speed Twin in the case of Triumph and the move over to unit construction only delayed the demise of the company.

Spanish practises by employees did little to help productivity in heavy industry and automation was a cheaper solution than employing humans working at a pace that was uneconomic.

According to an ex-steel worker at the Magna museum in Rotherham, the vast empty acres of industrial South Yorkshire suggests a collapse of steel making yet the tonnage has actually risen with each surviving and replacement hearth producing steel at higher production rates with a vastly reduced manning level.

A lot of the jobs that have disappeared are the manual and semi skilled jobs that have been displaced by hi-tech machines that can run 24/7.

Folk just have not moved on and cling to the notion that there is something noble in being employed in the manufacturing sector. Sadly this is no longer true and the disdain that is directed to the service sector can not be justified in this post-industrial era.

The real victims are the kids that I teach who are at the bottom of the literacy and numeracy ladder who would traditionally have been employed in the unskilled labourer sectors and face courses offering GCSE equivalent qualifications that aren't worth the paper that they are printed on. I really don't know what their long term employment prospects are - post 16 low ability courses do little more than delay the inevitable entry to the ranks of the unemployed.

 

[vernon]

Blimey, another Lazarus thread

I wonder why it was resurrected.

Going back to the OP, I don't intended teaching to be my final job. Shelf filling for a supermarket even if it's Tescos will do nicely if indeed there are any jobs left when I jump out of teaching.

 

[vernon]

What would getting a job at Halfrauds be then??

If you are half competent with bikes then a massive gain for Halfords.

 

[summerdays]

If you are half competent with bikes then a massive gain for Halfords.

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