ANOTHER ONE GOING DOWN

Just read on my Sky news page that they have thrown in the towel and are no longer 'thinking about it', administrators have been called in.....!!

 

Apart from yet more, well-known, retailers going down the tubes, I think there are two issues being mentioned here ... jobs and people looking for work and the two do not necessairly cancel one another out.

As I understand it, Britain's unemployment rate currently stands at over 2m. In the last few months the retail sector - in my area alone - has lost T.J. Hughes, Comet, Barratts, JJB Sports, Peacocks, Jessops and now HMV. I've no idea how many thousand employees that equates to country-wide but it's really no good saying that those affected should '... make themselves as employable as possible ...' and expecting them to just walk into another job. The sad truth is, no matter how good a sales person may be, if there are no retail jobs, then there are no retail jobs and any there may have been will probably already have been filled by those who lost their jobs in 2011 or early 2012.

There may be 2+m out of work, there may even be 2+m job vacancies, it doesn't automatically follow that the jobs are where the people are, or that the two are suited - even the best retail assistant isn't going to be walking into a job as an IT Analyst; a Social Worker or an HGV driver.

 

Yet again, these people (HMV) Are not accepting GIFT VOUCHERS, you know the thousands they sold three weeks ago for Christmas presents
Despicable scum

Jack McH

 

I can remember gramophones

 

Mrs Scrungee has just informed me that her parents have a working 'Radiogramme' and a suitcase full of full of 78's going back to the 30's.

 

Figure manipulation, having recently retired from a certain place
If for any reason, say you have not paid enough stamps (self employed/ill) or after an interview you decided not to seek payment you do not get JOB SEEKERS allowance
Thus you are not seeking work, therefore Not on the UNEMPLOYED LIST, The same if you are receiving incapacity benefit as you are sick and not actively seeking work VOILA

The same with the current spouting off about for every public sector job redundancy two are created privately, not quite, but the two that are on less than 16hrs pw

They must think we are pretty thick, not to see, that, Comet, Jessops, HMV Peacocks,Clinton cards, JBSports, Halls of Broxburn meat factory, two chicken processing factories, and 50% public sector jobs, everyone has walked straight into
employment that was just begging for staff, that the previous 2 million unemployed did not apply for DUH

As for Dough Boy, he has firmly placed before us what his intentions are with the EU
speech and our Referendum, he has already decided what he is telling us to do

Jack McH

 

Got one for my big sis for Christmas. I'm tempted to buy her something else, but I will fight HMV. They have stolen my money, even if that means I have to walk out of the store with something she wants without paying for it.

 

Here's what really infuriates me.

Senior management always know well in advance what's happening. They know this because quite apart from the fact that they are surrounded by a network of people who know various relevant things, they also have cash flow forecasts etc for months in advance.

Yet they still do things like selling paper vouchers, knowing perfectly well that they wont be honoured.

 

You are crediting them with the sense of "knowing" the facts; you have not given any credence to egotism, short sightedness, number blindness or self-efficacy

Hands up all those who believe "senior management" are in touch with "the real world"

 

They do know. Their arrogance is in that they believe that nobody else knows anything.