Brits are lazy bastards - says Daily Mail

[holy king]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...seven-jobless-people--NONE-turned-RAINED.html

What a shower! Business hires seven jobless people... but none turned up for work because it RAINED

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...seven-jobless-people--NONE-turned-RAINED.html


so, are the british born that lazy or is it something in the water over at their foreign little island?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Polish immigrants would have turned up on time.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I knew there was a good reason why I like Brits.

 

[Old Hippy]

could not be bothered reading the link ....
but it must be true if its in the paper...

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I don't think they are lazy

 

[Traitorfish]

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[Silurian]

I am not surprised they did not turn up.
3.5 hours work a day at £6.08 to earn £100.

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The Hours are given are 9.30 to 4.30 so the pay is less than the minimum wage acording to the job advert he is holding so unlawful.

No wonder he could not get anybody who was already working in telesales.

From The Mail Link in OP

All the prospective workers would have received £100 basic pay for their first week of work plus any extra money from commission-based earnings.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...people--NONE-turned-RAINED.html#ixzz1tBY2AfM1


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Link to job advert

http://jcp.jobhits.co.uk/TELE-MARKETING-EXECUTIVE-id-CAK-56971

So they think they are getting 32.5 hours a week at £6.08 equals £197.60 a week which is why they most likely said yes to the job. Then he tells them he will only give them £100.

 

[brennan]

Rofl, I live incredibly cheaply and I wouldn't be able to pay my rent or direct debits for £100 a week, let alone feed myself.

What a cheapskate scumbag. If he genuinely expected people to earn £300 or £400 a week he would've paid them that much and they'd have turned up.

I see a lot of this sort of OTE (On Target Earnings) crap in my line of work: professional salespeople say if you see a deal like this the company doesn't expect you to make any commission. IN fact I know of some youngsters in my area who did some of this telesales stuff and the small print in the contract meant that they ended up paying the company for the work! I kid you not.

Even the basic pay for fulfilling the minimum requirements of the work would be double what they could get on Job Seekers' Allowance

- true, but would it have replaced their JSA as well as the housing benefit they would likely have been receiving? Fat chance.

 

[Silurian]

And if they do not make their sales targets they could well not Job Seekers Allowance if they are sacked.

 

[ParkCungHee]

To be fair, this was in Kent. This only tells us that the English are lazy.

 

[Silurian]

From Mirror

The new sales staff are required to start work in a "self-employed" capacity and will earn a basic £100 a week - or £20 a day - as long as they hit call targets.

With a £20 commission on every sale - a "sale" being when they sign up a car dealership as a client of Car Smart - Carl reckons they should be able to earn up to £200 in the first week.

The basic salary works out at £2.85 per hour - perfectly legal for the self-employed. Even those hitting Carl's target of five sales in the first week would only earn £5.71 per hour - 38p per hour less than the minimum wage.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/04/boss-stunned-that-jobseekers-w.html

 

[Formaldehyde]

It is simply amazing how few people are willing to be mercilessly exploited anymore.

It reminds me of a friend who tried to make a living selling Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door strictly on commission. After living in his car and sleeping every night in the rest area on the interstate for nearly a year, he finally called it quits. I don't think he ever sold one set.

 

[classical_hero]

So people not turning up for a job that pays not much, hardly surprising.

Link to video.

 

[CommonKnowledge]

Trust the Daily Mail to side with businesses exploiting people desperate for work. Hardly surprising that they aren't going to turn up for a job that pays less than not working at all.

 

[Arakhor]

It's the Daily Fail, folks. What do you expect?



Link to video.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I think I can find 7 hardworking Brits. So after I have, I can nuance the Daily Mail's claim.

Brits are both lazy and hard working.

And they have beards.

And strangely enough, Scottish accents.

 

[Masada]

The basic salary works out at £2.85 per hour - perfectly legal for the self-employed. Even those hitting Carl's target of five sales in the first week would only earn £5.71 per hour - 38p per hour less than the minimum wage.

Here they'd be counted as common law employees and entitled to the minimum wage considering how prosaic their 'self-employment'.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, there are some seriously shady employment practices at work here...

When I was 18 I "got" a "job" like this, selling double glazing, but I realised that (a) I'd never hit the "on track" sales targets (I'm just not of the required temperament for telesales), and (b) even if I did it wouldn't pay as much as Lidl or Aldi. I didn't turn up to my first "day" either. (I had not signed any contracts or anything, so it still wasn't a real job).

 

[Benefactor]

The fact I've looked at the articles comments and even the Daily Mail readers have figured out what a scam these "jobs" are tells me everything I need to know.

 

[Quackers]

proud to be british