Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:37 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

You can start with explaining away the hours you choose to spend on here as oppose to living that life outside the internet that you claim to have.

I don't have to explain anything to you or anyone else.

Damo-Leeds wrote:

Once you've done that we can move on to the more juicy details about your working life.

And that isn't going to happen either, just because you choose to share everything with all and sundry doesn't mean I have to.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:44 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I don't have to explain anything to you or anyone else.

And that isn't going to happen either, just because you choose to share everything with all and sundry doesn't mean I have to.

That’s the thing - I never said you did have to. You asked me what you had to defend and what you have to go into detail about. So I told you what you could go into detail about. Whenever you want to go into detail is your choice. It is clear here that you don’t and that’s fair enough.

All your doing here is going in circles because your incapable of taking this debate with me anywhere further than your attempts to provoke me. It’s not happening

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:54 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

All your doing here is going in circles because your incapable of taking this debate with me anywhere further than your attempts to provoke me. It’s not happening

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:00 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I've interviewed timewasters such as yourself many, many times, most couldn't be arsed to get out of bed to come to work never mind do anything when they got there. They wanted to run the place before they knew the first thing about the business.

The time wasting there is who does the shortlisting in your HR department that in a climate of high unemployment where there are lots of high calibre and experienced candidates around, that timewasters get through to your interview stage.

Have you used a recruitment consultancy to do the initial shortlisting? Some of the big ones are just rip off merchants but there are smaller local based recruitment consultancies that can get you credible candidates even if you do the interviewing yourself and the smaller ones usually have decent fees.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:08 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

The time wasting there is who does the shortlisting in your HR department that in a climate of high unemployment where there are lots of high calibre and experienced candidates around, that timewasters get through to your interview stage.

Sadly when you run a pub you are the HR department when it comes to staff recruitment.

sally cinnamon wrote:

Have you used a recruitment consultancy to do the initial shortlisting? Some of the big ones are just rip off merchants but there are smaller local based recruitment consultancies that can get you credible candidates even if you do the interviewing yourself and the smaller ones usually have decent fees.

Very few companies use consultants to recruit basic entry level staff, the figures just don't stack up.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:09 pm  

I just want to take some time to write my appreciation for those who’ve shown they support in this thread. It’s a very brave thing of you to do and I’m grateful for that.

I’ve took BG’s advice of reporting his conduct to the admins and it’s up to them what they do with him. If he thinks I deserve bullying then lets see what the admin team (who have a good reputation for dealing with things like this) think about that.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:23 pm  

If the admins have any sense they'll tell you to crawl back under the rock you came from.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:28 pm  

World of Redboy wrote:

If the admins have any sense they'll tell you to crawl back under the rock you came from.

If the admins have sense you will be banned for bullying. Shame on you all.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:36 pm  

There's a report here from the British Legion: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/media/3 ... 001.06.pdf that was in 2006, so before the recession and the increase in unemployment hit, which had the shocking revelation that unemployment amongst ex members of the armed forces aged 18-49 was twice the rate of the national average for that age range. Is it time to start looking at cutting their benefits to make them take work? At least they should be getting some entry level work, while they are looking for other jobs.

There's a report here from the British Legion: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/media/3 ... 001.06.pdf that was in 2006, so before the recession and the increase in unemployment hit, which had the shocking revelation that unemployment amongst ex members of the armed forces aged 18-49 was twice the rate of the national average for that age range. Is it time to start looking at cutting their benefits to make them take work? At least they should be getting some entry level work, while they are looking for other jobs.

Re: UK unemployment rises to 2.68m : Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:39 pm  

World of Redboy wrote:

If the admins have any sense they'll tell you to crawl back under the rock you came from.

Well you really don’t know the admins very well.

They will try to find a resolution on what action is needed to be taken for the betterment of all those involved.