Monday, Apr 27, 2009
Did anyone see the sunday times? 22,000 applicants for 130 jobs at Aldi!!! Depression levels
Daily Mail: The binman job advert that attracted 238 applications
Unemployed workers are applying in droves for even the most menial positions amid astonishing levels of competition in the job market.
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1. tyrellcorporation said...
Binmen who work on my street always seem very very happy. You're outside, you're fit through the physical nature of the work and they're always laughing and joking. Maybe it's not a bad job at all.
2. general congreve said...
A friend of mine is currently temping as a bin man. He tells me that according to his colleagues he's a posh b@stard, because he rents his property, rather than getting one on the social like them.
3. mr g said...
I might sound to be heartless but having been shafted by a number of recruitment "consultants" when I was out of work, I am looking forward to seeing these parasites having to apply for whatever jobs are available.
4. matt_the_hat said...
It always makes me laugh when I read articles and comments like this. To judge this as not a worthy profession take this idea into account - everyone always notices when bin men don't do their job who would notice if YOU didn't turn up today!! Let the snobbery continue
5. happy mondays said...
@ tyrellcorporation
Live the dream.. It's a shite job! picking up other peoples waste for a pittance wage..
6. icarus said...
It seems strange that they're still called binmen in 2009 rather than Waste Collection and Recycling Operatives - or maybe something with 'consultant' in the title.
7. icarus said...
@ happy mondays....and a dangerous one too
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/97412/Binman-dies-after-burying-himself-under-his-own-rubbish
8. happy mondays said...
@ icarus
like a lot of these manual low paid jobs, factories, construction, drivers, there is always an element of danger for a crappy wage! And i say this with all respect to these people, as when i travelled, i met plenty and worked along side them, some were immigrants, who were highly educated, having to work in these places for not a lot of money..
9. icarus said...
@ happy mondays - it's probably even worse for immigrants in picking, packing and processing food, where gangmasters can pocket 'emergency tax' and have total control over their semi-legal charges.
10. mrr19121970 said...
"icarus said...
It seems strange that they're still called binmen in 2009 rather than Waste Collection and Recycling Operatives - or maybe something with 'consultant' in the title."
Actually more appropriate for the UK would be 'recycling engineers'
11. dj2000 said...
Waste Disposal People in America can get in excess of £25k+ which is a lot more than a lot of local jobs around
12. seanb303 said...
dj2000
here it's £9.50 an hour which is about £18000-£19000 a year
i would be happy to work for that
13. tyrellcorporation said...
@Happy Mondays.
...maybe, but they always seem very chirpy. Maybe that's life as a binman in Devon, I could imagine it being slightly less attractive in Grimsby or Peckham.
14. general congreve said...
Matt the Hat @4 - Hope you don't think my comment was snobbery, was just an observation that it's a different world in Binman land. I know, cos I also did it myself for a couple of days temping a few years back. Interesting to see how the other half live, although I didn't gain the insight I could have done because the two colleagues on my truck (I was the driver) only seemed to be able to communicate in grunts. That's not snobbery, it's the bl00dy truth!
One of them told me at some length about a film he watched on the weekend. The only thing I could establish from his story was that he had obviously found it very funny, as for the title, content or genre of film, I was at a complete loss, it was a nod and smile lots job. Nice blokes mind.
15. crunchy said...
3. mr g Right on bro! The sooner these all go bust the better. We may even get back to the British employed having rights again.
I will leave it at that for now.