Last Resort——But
Friends and readers. I couldn’t resist a snigger when i spotted this quote from a STRATEGIC RECRUITMENT MANAGER for Alton Towers theme park
‘Whether it’s a part-time,full time,permanent or summer job you’re after if you’re are bright,enthusiastic,customer focused and like to get on with the job in hand,it’s highly likely there’s an opportunity here’
Hmmm,Recruitment professionals such as the one’s responsible for that drivel do not live in the real world,it seems to me.They inhabit an entirely imaginary society where people are’bright enthusiastic and customer focused’
The reality in 21st century Britain is this:most people who work are very stressed and depressed by their jobs. They are also deeply,deeply bored by the daily grind and full of contempt for those whingeing customers/clients/stakeholders their employers expect them to interface with.
Sorry if that seems a trifle cynical,but i detect a profound and widespread workplace alienation that is becoming quite worrying.And i think we should be honest about what kind of a country we live in.
Britain is a nation full of crap,low paid jobs and even crapper public services. You only have to scan the job pages of the regional media to see what a travesty of dysfunctional quangos and creeping state intervention the employment market has become.
In every single town and city,the dreary,bloated local council is by far the biggest employer-complete with parking mafia and anti smoking nazis on the public payroll.
Real industry is long gone,now indeed some of our old industrial buildings are being converted into hostels for cheap labour from abroad which is being hastily recruited to work in the services industry.
Foreign workers are more likely to put up with low wages while being’bright,enthusiastic and customer focused’-in a place where the offical emphasis is on having fun and a thrilling time on white-knuckle-and-tight sphincter rides.
It’s the same story right across the country. Workers are piling in from the former Communist nations of Eastern and Central Europe. Because even pepole from cultures previously under the jackboot of sour-faced tyrants are somehow better suited to being ‘bright,enthusiastic,and customer focused’than the poor long suffering Brits.
Meanwhile the many millions in the UK who are still employed are stressed to the limit of their endurance by the long working hours culture,endless target setting,performance inspection and assessment,spiteful office politics,WORKPLACE BULLYING,boring meetings and moronic management jargon of the kind so effectively satirised by TV’s The Office.
I have come to these views not really out of personal experience but rather because i have been talking to many friends and acquaintances about the subject of work.
They all tell the same story:that they are so very bored by what they have to do for a living:that their jobs are slowly corroding their souls.
Thanks to Steve for that interesting insight in everyday employment.
S-Regan-for Pilton Sucks