Jobs

Well, all I can say is:- Bah! Humbug!

On a more sombre note my grandfather paddy, comitted suicide after eating corned beef sandwiches at work every day for over 20 years. He could take no more & to top it off he drank Bovril from his flask too. At the funeral his loyal wife made a speech. She said i cannot understand why Paddy did this he made his sandwiches & flask up himself.

Steve.

Bazyle, you forgot Celebrities, that list of unknown people that think everybody should know who they are.

Grumpy old got? Guilty as charged m'lud. By coincidence the following appeared today on the firefox page

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Recruitment consultants.

Most of them are about 22 years old. Yes, highly experienced people and very suitable to advise others on who to employ.

Come back in about 30 years.

Don't forget ambulace chasing lawyers of the "Had an accident,give us a call. No win - no fee" type.

Personal hate is call systems where to save money the caller ends up hanging ona line waiting to speak to someone. The time wasted nationally is eye watering and must cost the country more than any saving on staff.

There are some fundamental nonsenses in our modern western societies. The concept of GDP asa measure of a nations wealth - has nothing to do with productivity just a measure of spending within the nation and really only a way of creating unnecessary jobs and cycling tax from the populace. Balance of payments/trade is the only real measure of wealth.

Here we have got so decadent that we are incapable of basic food security with more than 50% imported...worse when we were subjected to agri limits and set-aside payments.

That's enough of that or I'll get into my tirade and the thing gets political and closed down. The best measure of a nations success should be raising intelligence, ability and education. To improve education we really should look at parenting classes for the so-called disadvantaged and disposing of meaningless jobs so 1 parent can stay home for a decent amount of time and be a parent. Instead we seem to measure success by the acquisition of 'stuff' and 'having it large' and binge drinking holidays most of which involve spending money in other countries.

pgk

I recall a professional colleague who started a consultancy advising on making more profit. The basis of this was that 90% of profit comes from the top 10% of clients and he would show you how to soak them for more.

2 flaws. One that if he was that good then he should be growing his own business instead of wasting my time and secondly that i'd prefer to be so good and efficient and fair on my fees that i gained 20% top customers and 180% profit (ignore the dubious math)

pgk

Bwahaha. Luvvit. "Too many jobs feel meaningless because they are." That pretty much nails it. When making a cup of coffee is regarded as a skilled trade aka "barista" there is not much meaningfulness left.

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I used to enjoy fixing cars but now I prefer to pay someone else to do it. I did wash my cars during lockdown but the modern slaves do a great job for little money, Sainsbury’s deliver our shopping which relieves us of another drudge task.

Mike

I think Bazyle got it just about right.

I might add "Counsellors" since if someone breaks wind these days, they have to go for Counselling.

I agree 100% with Bazyle regarding the army. If macho young blokes the world over refused to go killing people and getting themselves killed on behalf of some megalomaniac, who will hide somewhere in a deep hole until the killing is over, then the world would be a much better place. Sad to say that it needs to happen everywhere before wars can end.

Unless they are German automotive engineers, in which case they will do it for €2.22.

Oh how wrong can you be Magpie.

The Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are not about killing people. They are there to protect your country. your family and also your right to make such statements in public . (Try that in Hong Kong nowadays)

If some of the youth of today were conscripted for a year or two to learn a bit about cameraderie, discipline and maybe to learn about their own worth and potential then there might be a few less miscreants roaming around.

As a disclamer: I served 33 years in the ADF, Never killed anybody in all that time and only got close to being killed when an officer who could not read a map misguided my landrover to a place where 84mm mortar bombs were faling like snowdrops all around.

In an idealistic world, Vladimir Putin and Boris Trump would sorft it out in a boxing ring, winner takes all.

Unfortunately I can't see this happening. Also this leaves the Chinese referee a bit suspect

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..the only problem is that it just starts again: Liberte, egalite, fraternite... hasn't egalite'd that long - plenty of social disadvantage. We're no better despite Cromwell or look at the great marxist state and it's oligarchs. There's always those too gullible and those too greedy and those too lazy.

pgk

Anyone remember where the quote "What if they gave a war and nobody came" comes from?

Rod

In Product Cost, I was taught that the cost of an article consisted of Material, labour and overheads. So if anyone was not actually producing, they were an overhead. BUT, you do need folk to sell and service your product, so some level of overheads, other than utilities is needed for the enterprise to be viable.

But, my view is that a lot of jobs would be unneeded, if we weren't so lazy, unskilled, or disabled.

For over forty years I maintained my, and others cars. Now they are much too complicated for me to do that, (Lack of skill and facilities on my part! ) Plus, lying on cold concrete is no longer as thrilling as it used to be!

Electronics are now WAY beyond me, so another lack of skill / facilities.

Some, but not by any means all, evils are a necessity, it seems.

Howard