M18CTID
Well-Known Member
I think people are missing stony's point - while I totally disagree with the idea of Next advertising positions in Poland two weeks in advance of advertising the same positions over here, when it comes to his other point I'm guessing that he's referring solely to the absolute wasters that are worse than useless at their jobs rather than tarring a whole workforce with the "shit work ethic" brush.
A classic case in point is the labourer's job on the shop floor of the place I work at - granted, it requires a fair bit of elbow grease but I've lost count of the amount of local agency workers we've had down the years that have barely lasted a single morning, let alone a full day before chucking the towel in and complaining that the job is too hard. This despite the fact that they're signed up with an agency that specialises in manual labour so I don't know what the hell they were expecting. Anyway, several years ago we took on a Polish bloke to do the job through the same agency and some 7 years later he's still with us having long since been given a permanent job with us. Another Polish guy was given a similar job through the same agency a short while after the first bloke and again he is now permanently employed by us, having progressed from the original unskilled manual job to a skilled position.
A classic case in point is the labourer's job on the shop floor of the place I work at - granted, it requires a fair bit of elbow grease but I've lost count of the amount of local agency workers we've had down the years that have barely lasted a single morning, let alone a full day before chucking the towel in and complaining that the job is too hard. This despite the fact that they're signed up with an agency that specialises in manual labour so I don't know what the hell they were expecting. Anyway, several years ago we took on a Polish bloke to do the job through the same agency and some 7 years later he's still with us having long since been given a permanent job with us. Another Polish guy was given a similar job through the same agency a short while after the first bloke and again he is now permanently employed by us, having progressed from the original unskilled manual job to a skilled position.