The Government talks about getting people off incapacity benefit back into work. Who is going to employ them? Forty per cent claim it because of mental illness.
I regularly look round Shrewsbury town centre for work and all I see is shop work, which is either part-time or temporary and previous experience is desired/ essential.
Also most cafes employ young girls/women in Shrewsbury. They say you cannot be discriminated against because of your gender, this is not true.
If a cafe owner or manager does not want to employ you because you are male you cannot force them to take you on.
The constant influx of immigrants only makes it more difficult for job hunters. I see a bleak future in this country, which I think will not improve with time. I would be surprisedÊto be proved wrong.
People may call me a pessimist, I prefer to think myself to be a realist.
Name and address supplied
See Also:
16 Comments
load of old rubbish plenty of work out there should try harder is my opinion
Report abuse
“1. andrew finch said: Mar 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
load of old rubbish plenty of work out there should try harder is my opinion.”
………………………
What a smug and arrogant thing to write, Andrew! I know a number of Shrewsbury people who find themselves facing the same problems as the letter writer.
I only hope that you never end up in this situation too.
Report abuse
i bet i could find him a job in 2008 ok if it was 1981/6 may have been difficult , nothing smug about it im just aware as to what my taxes are used for sir.
Report abuse
Yuo regulalrly look around Shrewsbury town centre for a job do you…perhaps you need to look alittle farther afield, or look for at a different job market altogether. Try using your time as a job searcher to do something that wil ladd to your skills to make you more employable. As for the immigrants, well they clearly looked farther afield for work than their local centre and they are usually doing jobs that you would never dream of doing. You got to ask yourself (honestly) why you aren’t getting jobs and then deal with it to make yourself a more attractive prospect. Blaming others (immigrants, biased employers)wont change your situation, doing something constructive and taking ownership might just do the trick.
Report abuse
A agree with Andrew, There are hundreds of Jobs available in Shrewsbury as advertised on the Job Centre Plus website. I’m sure if ‘name and address supplied’ has time to write a letter, he/she probably has the time to pop to the job centre.
Report abuse
I agree with TC.
I wonder precisely which jobs the writer believes are being denied to him by the influx of immigrants?
We see many eastern Europeans coming here (perfectly legally) to take on skilled building work. Whatever people think of this, it seems to be generally acknowledged that their skills are good and they have a good work ethic. If our writer has such skills can he not compete with these people? It’s got to be better than being on the dole.
If he has no such skills, then he needs to a) look at schemes which might help him to acquire some, and/or b) compete for some of the low skills jobs that the immigrants seem to find no trouble in getting.
A recent documentary on Poles in Peterborough showed that whilst they were willing to take on agricultural work at £7 per hour, the reaction of some of the local indigenous unemployed was ‘I’d sooner be on the dole mate!’
At the start of my working life I was doing low-wage jobs, and over a number of years I’ve acquired skills which have put me in a better position – I’ve never been out of work.
Report abuse
deiving through shrewsbury today mcdonalds have an large sign saying staff wanted apply within there you go i have found the letter writer a job or interview at least get on down there .same goes for any one else who has been unemployed for a few months anything will do for now????.
Report abuse
Im not from Shrewsbury but I agree with the writer of the article. You all need to get a grip.
Look around yourselves, think of all the firms shuting down, COD Donnington in Telford, Capgemini lay-offs, Rover in the midlands, HP moving to Holland, Cadburys cutting jobs. How often do you here of this amount of jobs being created? Shrewsbury is a little “micro-bubble”, try coming here to Walsall. Ask yourself how many immigrants are coming to the UK, are we really creating that many jobs? of course not! we’d be talking about a boom if we were, not a recession. Take a simple shop like Sidolis in Telford town which is now mainly staffed by east europeans, are you honestly saying there are no students or teenagers who could take these jobs?
Everyone like to pat immigrants on the back, “the backbone of the NHS”, really? so how come there are thousands of trained English nurses who cannt find work? In the Walsall Manor Hospital there are agency nurses from overseas who speak little or no English filling these slots and who cannt fulfill basic orders. Before you go jumping down peoples throats take alittle trip to an area where these problems do exist, then count your belssings you live in Shrewsbury.
Report abuse
steve this comment by you is false and inacurate,
Everyone like to pat immigrants on the back, “the backbone of the NHS”, really? so how come there are thousands of trained English nurses who cannt find work? In the Walsall Manor Hospital there are agency nurses from overseas who speak little or no English, no nurses are used who cant speak good english absolute garbage spouted by you .
As i have stated there is plenty of work factorys are full of migrant workers becouse brits get more on benefits the pay for these factory jobs would be the same if it were full of brits as it used to be they havent dropped the pay sickness leave may be the only thing dropped .companys have moved abroad so why whinge about it they will not come back move on get a job and do the best you can instead of scrounging of the state if you are saying employers are employing migrants instead of brits ask why???? and address it nad become competative all i see is loads of complaints there nicking our jobs why ? becouse some brits forgot something major they were the employeenot the employer so in turn forgot how to do what they were paid and told to do.
Report abuse
I’m afraid to say that this is a problem for not just shrewsbury but the whole of shropshire and the bordering county of powys and it’s not going to get any better anytime soon. The problem however not only lies with the limited type of employment available but the low pay that exists in unskilled work. It’s all well and good spouting rubbish like ‘get a job at mcdonalds!’ but the problem is that the short term contracts and low pay litterally prevent many people from working in such jobs because, once in this type of employment, it’s an up hill struggle to pay rent/mortgage, council tax and other houshold bills. Where families with children are involved you’ve also got the added concern of childcare to throw into the mix.
Where people have been made redundant from skilled jobs (and this is happeneing all the more often) it is a demoralising prospect that they are starting at the bottom of the ladder again.
There ARE a great deal of people out there who genuinely want to work but are finacially unable to do so and I would agree that the problem lies with the way benefits are dished out. If the system was changed to support the job seeker, enabling them to get back into work whilst ensuring that they would not suffer for it then maybe that would be a start.
In regards to Mr Finch’s comments I’d suggest that some punctuation would go a long way to make his post legible and maybe then it would be possible to see what his point actually is.
Report abuse
forget puntuation, and get people of there backside and back in to work instaead of whinging and scrounging why is getting a job at mcdonalds spouting rubbish/??? its a job you no you get up go to work work get paid and dont scrounge of us that do, again ive been in shrewsbury today shop being refitted next to argos sign in window labourers, plumbers first fixers , electricians wanted for shop refit complete with phone number to ring it seems to me we have a large group of bone idle people who are scrounging of the state and are not prepared to get to work unless they get a wage they find suitable when is enough enough?.
So nick forget about punctuation and tell this lot enough excuses get of your backsides and get to work no ecuse for laziness .as for an up hill struggle to pay mortgage /rent etc etc same goes for all but the majority have enough pride to do that rather than scrounge , jobs can be made up with tax credit its just excuse after excuse .
Report abuse
Andy its you who needs to learn a few things, its funny how your comments come the day before the government published the report saying Immigration has a detrimental effect on the UK and that jobs are being lost. That pretty much kills your arguement off. My mortgage is 550 per month for an ex council house, even if i wanted to go and pick potatoes with the eastern europeans, even working day and night id still not be able to pay my pretty humble overheads. I have done these jobs in the past so I have first hand experience of this, have you? I worked all day in the raspberry fields and earnt £15 when I was a student. I wouldnt blame any student for not wanting to do these jobs, its people taking advantage of the situation because they know these positions can be filled. its not laziness, its about pride and not letting unscrupulous people take advantage of you, thats the difference. I suggest you read the report published today then if you still feel youre right, tell the government cos they have clearly stated that problems are now occuring with immigration and jobs are being lost.
Happy reading my friend!
Report abuse
steve, i worked in a low paid job for 16 years before getting my act together and yes for the last 2 years our family income has grown to where i cant claim tax credits etc , i struggled to pay the bills we never had much left at the end of the month but we struggled on , now people want a decent wage that pays there bills and gives them a great disposable income at the end of it , if they cant have that they stay on benefits and let everyone else pay for there lifestyles is that right??? as i have stated above jobs in shrewsbury are available low pay can be made up with tax credits, these people are working there way out of the situation they are in by working to better there lives not moaning about it pride is not allowing people to take advantage of you??? but its okay to not work and claim benefits ??? .teachers are going on strike and want a 3k pay rise its this type of rubbish that has ruined the uk this is why business has moved abroad .the sad fact is it is a minority of union paying teachers that have voted for this , as when ever there was a strike by any union in any scector.
Report abuse
Steve, I think you validly point out that unscrupulous people are exploiting cheap labour in this country – even large, supposedly responsible employers are exporting British jobs.
However, I think you then get a little confused over who is to blame – if employers are exploiting people by paying less than minimum wage, they are breaking the law and should be prosecuted – but it is the employers who are to blame, not the cheap labour they exploit. By scapegoating people we simply allow the real culprits to get away with it.
Andrew, I understand your desire to have people working rather than idle – but we mustn’t fall into the trap of becoming the sort of sweatshop low-wage economy that global capitalism seems to favour. There was a report the other day which claimed that what the powers behind major corporations really want is no middle class or skilled working class, but instead an elite (themselves principally) and a working class characterised by a series of low-paid, short-term, insecure jobs. Given such an agenda, the rights of workers to withdraw labour will become even more important.
Report abuse
when the slump comes and is about 3 months away this will sort out how many people are legally in this country. i suggest many will want to return from whence they came.
Report abuse
i love the comment above people like him are the type who say the uk is going down the drain im emmigrating (how many brits work abroad??? do we recall all of them)
Report abuse