Let me know when wages rise to record levels then I’ll care..
Indeed remove: pay below 10 pounds an hour, temp contracts, 0 hour contracts, night work.
1,000 jobs found.
Edit: You must have 1 degree, be fully flexible, able to drive, work nights and if you have all these we may interview you.
It would be genuinely interesting to know how many of them pay less than £10 an hour.
The job listings around me at the moment are just advert after advert of “lets advertise a job in a call centre without making it sound like a call centre” including weekend work. 40 hour week for ~£19k tops.
Edit: and tbf I don’t even think call centre stuff is as bad as its perceived to be as a job, and I was sat on the phones in my early 20s for a year or so, but its definitely a hard working 40 hours you are putting in to be earning a pittance. People underrate how much actual *work* people in the lower wage brackets do. Same goes for supermarkets, retail, catering etc
Considering Job Centres can now force people into jobs they don’t want or cut off their benefits after 3 weeks it seems like there aren’t enough people in the country to do all the work. Its not like you can sit on the dole for months waiting for pay to rise anymore.
This was what was predicted before Brexit, and while I am not saying that it is the only cause of the issue, it is a factor.
So we see what will happen. Will wages rise and outpace inflation, will services and work get outsource, some will suffer reduction of service, etc
We all have to wait and see..
Absolutely. Anyone who wants a job can walk down any town centre and probably get one by the end of the day… so long as they’re willing to accept minimum wage, unreliable hours such that you won’t earn enough to live but your work-life balance will also go down the toilet, limited work rights…
Breaking news… 1,299,990 slave labour jobs not filled. Employers are unable to attract anyone for £8/hr temp shift work with 0 hour contracts.
Sounds like some businesses can’t pay market rate and need to go bust.
They seem to always be care assistants though. Minimum wage and awful hours
It talks about people who aren’t working and aren’t seeking work – but there’s little reward in looking for work. I’m self-employed doing what I like, and I make very little. If I was to start signing on again, I’d be obliging myself to spend all the time I’m currently spending doing the work I enjoy doing job searches and writing to employers, knowing that none of them will come to fruition. I’d be made to do courses in this and that, even though I have a masters degree that’s not yet a year old.
So why would I “seek work” in the way they count as seeking work? I’d rather struggle and slog away at what I actually enjoy in the hopes that it makes a return.
That’s not to say I’m not interested in working. If there was a job I could do in the afternoon/evening that would bring money in, however little, that wouldn’t impede me continuing with what I consider my “real” work, I’d do that happily. But the only such work I’ve found has been shop work – and when I went for a job at a well-known supermarket chain, they refused to employ me because I’m autistic.
Unfortunately going to a place and saying “I just want to do the work you need doing in exchange for money” indicates a lack of drive, which isn’t necessarily true. I have bags of drive, it’s just not to be working through the ranks at my local Aldi.
Where have all the workers gone, now we are crying..
Where have all the workers gone, who we told to go….
Where have all the workers gone, back to Europe every one.
When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn.
Most jobs are poorly paid, shit hours, shit working conditions, 0 hour contracts, overworked ect.
No wonder people don’t want to do them, unions needs more power again.
People aren’t lazy they just want to be proud of what they do and to be looked after and cared for by their employers.
This was the problem of shifting to a service based economy.
I keep hearing people in the employment space saying
>”It’s a employees market because of the surplus of jobs to people looking for them”
Problem is the reason that there are so many vacancies is literally because so many companies fucked over their employees over covid and brexit sent anyone home who would be willing to work for less.
People have a greater sense of their own personal worth and unless wages increase these job vacancies will and companies will collapse because of lack of staff to run these businesses.
I don’t understand why if vacancies are so high that wages are stagene?
This is basic supply and demand 101 you have high demand and low supply then cost to supply increases.
so
1. lots of people have long covid and cant work now contributing to this
2. wages are shit so people think fuck that
3. covid showed people what the important stuff in life was and its not working in a dead ass job for a boss you hate
4. in the background is a global recession
5. edit from what someone else said: Brexit saw a loss in labourers
6. edit from what someone else said: we have an ageing population
In total fuck 2020s+ haha. We got to laugh though or we would cry
It’s not surprising, they aren’t real jobs. “We’ll ring you if we need you” is not a proper job and they shouldn’t be able to count it as one in the statistics.
The basic wage is supposed to be the bare minimum to live on not the base line to pay your workers,
Let me know of a job I actually have experience in within my field where I will get a decent paycheck to live.
Oh right there isn’t one.
Good time to be an employee? Oh wait no, wages are falling too lmao
Big if true, or they are so badly paid no one wants them
What kind of job? Meet and greet at an Asda on minimum wage after 40 years of heavy manufacturing?
Job vacancies still at a record high and I still get told I’m unqualified for shelf stacking.
We love you Britiain
“Number of jobs” is an utterly useless statistic.
It tells you absolutely nothing about anything.
You know the Torries will just reduce and reduce the people able to get benefits or job seekers untill they are forced into taking these low paying jobs.
Aka workhouse rules
Completely anecdotal of course, but I am an administrative professional who has no degree and no real qualifications other than experience. I’ve gone through many different jobs in my 15 years of work and pretty much hated every single one. Recently quit my job of 4+ years and am looking for jobs currently. The amount of administrative jobs that are paying 20k are insane. Again completely anecdotal, but I remember when I was 20 (I’m 33 now) most of these unskilled unqualified jobs were paying around 20k….. So in 13 years wages for someone like myself have absolutely not changed.
Oh, and now there seems to be an increase in the amount of jobs expecting you to work 8-6 and every other Saturday. What the hell is going on? Shouldn’t we be working less now that technology and productivity has increased?
I’m not really surprised. Some employers are making it more difficult.
Look at Tesco, which is where I work. Tesco doesn’t have a huge percentage of full time staff, it likes part timers and ‘flexi’ staff. So that doesn’t really give people enough guaranteed money to live on, at least not long term.
However what Tesco is doing (at least for new staff) is requiring that you are available for 1.5x your contracted hours. So if you have a 20 hour contract they require you to be available to them for 30 hours a week and they choose which 20 hours of the 30 you do. That makes fitting in a second part time job to help cover the rising cost of living much more difficult.
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Let me know when wages rise to record levels then I’ll care..
Indeed remove: pay below 10 pounds an hour, temp contracts, 0 hour contracts, night work.
1,000 jobs found.
Edit: You must have 1 degree, be fully flexible, able to drive, work nights and if you have all these we may interview you.
It would be genuinely interesting to know how many of them pay less than £10 an hour.
The job listings around me at the moment are just advert after advert of “lets advertise a job in a call centre without making it sound like a call centre” including weekend work. 40 hour week for ~£19k tops.
Edit: and tbf I don’t even think call centre stuff is as bad as its perceived to be as a job, and I was sat on the phones in my early 20s for a year or so, but its definitely a hard working 40 hours you are putting in to be earning a pittance. People underrate how much actual *work* people in the lower wage brackets do. Same goes for supermarkets, retail, catering etc
Considering Job Centres can now force people into jobs they don’t want or cut off their benefits after 3 weeks it seems like there aren’t enough people in the country to do all the work. Its not like you can sit on the dole for months waiting for pay to rise anymore.
This was what was predicted before Brexit, and while I am not saying that it is the only cause of the issue, it is a factor.
So we see what will happen. Will wages rise and outpace inflation, will services and work get outsource, some will suffer reduction of service, etc
We all have to wait and see..
Absolutely. Anyone who wants a job can walk down any town centre and probably get one by the end of the day… so long as they’re willing to accept minimum wage, unreliable hours such that you won’t earn enough to live but your work-life balance will also go down the toilet, limited work rights…
Breaking news… 1,299,990 slave labour jobs not filled. Employers are unable to attract anyone for £8/hr temp shift work with 0 hour contracts.
Sounds like some businesses can’t pay market rate and need to go bust.
They seem to always be care assistants though. Minimum wage and awful hours
It talks about people who aren’t working and aren’t seeking work – but there’s little reward in looking for work. I’m self-employed doing what I like, and I make very little. If I was to start signing on again, I’d be obliging myself to spend all the time I’m currently spending doing the work I enjoy doing job searches and writing to employers, knowing that none of them will come to fruition. I’d be made to do courses in this and that, even though I have a masters degree that’s not yet a year old.
So why would I “seek work” in the way they count as seeking work? I’d rather struggle and slog away at what I actually enjoy in the hopes that it makes a return.
That’s not to say I’m not interested in working. If there was a job I could do in the afternoon/evening that would bring money in, however little, that wouldn’t impede me continuing with what I consider my “real” work, I’d do that happily. But the only such work I’ve found has been shop work – and when I went for a job at a well-known supermarket chain, they refused to employ me because I’m autistic.
Unfortunately going to a place and saying “I just want to do the work you need doing in exchange for money” indicates a lack of drive, which isn’t necessarily true. I have bags of drive, it’s just not to be working through the ranks at my local Aldi.
Where have all the workers gone, now we are crying..
Where have all the workers gone, who we told to go….
Where have all the workers gone, back to Europe every one.
When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn.
Most jobs are poorly paid, shit hours, shit working conditions, 0 hour contracts, overworked ect.
No wonder people don’t want to do them, unions needs more power again.
People aren’t lazy they just want to be proud of what they do and to be looked after and cared for by their employers.
This was the problem of shifting to a service based economy.
I keep hearing people in the employment space saying
>”It’s a employees market because of the surplus of jobs to people looking for them”
Problem is the reason that there are so many vacancies is literally because so many companies fucked over their employees over covid and brexit sent anyone home who would be willing to work for less.
People have a greater sense of their own personal worth and unless wages increase these job vacancies will and companies will collapse because of lack of staff to run these businesses.
I don’t understand why if vacancies are so high that wages are stagene?
This is basic supply and demand 101 you have high demand and low supply then cost to supply increases.
so
1. lots of people have long covid and cant work now contributing to this
2. wages are shit so people think fuck that
3. covid showed people what the important stuff in life was and its not working in a dead ass job for a boss you hate
4. in the background is a global recession
5. edit from what someone else said: Brexit saw a loss in labourers
6. edit from what someone else said: we have an ageing population
In total fuck 2020s+ haha. We got to laugh though or we would cry
It’s not surprising, they aren’t real jobs. “We’ll ring you if we need you” is not a proper job and they shouldn’t be able to count it as one in the statistics.
The basic wage is supposed to be the bare minimum to live on not the base line to pay your workers,
Let me know of a job I actually have experience in within my field where I will get a decent paycheck to live.
Oh right there isn’t one.
Good time to be an employee? Oh wait no, wages are falling too lmao
Big if true, or they are so badly paid no one wants them
What kind of job? Meet and greet at an Asda on minimum wage after 40 years of heavy manufacturing?
Job vacancies still at a record high and I still get told I’m unqualified for shelf stacking.
We love you Britiain
“Number of jobs” is an utterly useless statistic.
It tells you absolutely nothing about anything.
You know the Torries will just reduce and reduce the people able to get benefits or job seekers untill they are forced into taking these low paying jobs.
Aka workhouse rules
Completely anecdotal of course, but I am an administrative professional who has no degree and no real qualifications other than experience. I’ve gone through many different jobs in my 15 years of work and pretty much hated every single one. Recently quit my job of 4+ years and am looking for jobs currently. The amount of administrative jobs that are paying 20k are insane. Again completely anecdotal, but I remember when I was 20 (I’m 33 now) most of these unskilled unqualified jobs were paying around 20k….. So in 13 years wages for someone like myself have absolutely not changed.
Oh, and now there seems to be an increase in the amount of jobs expecting you to work 8-6 and every other Saturday. What the hell is going on? Shouldn’t we be working less now that technology and productivity has increased?
I’m not really surprised. Some employers are making it more difficult.
Look at Tesco, which is where I work. Tesco doesn’t have a huge percentage of full time staff, it likes part timers and ‘flexi’ staff. So that doesn’t really give people enough guaranteed money to live on, at least not long term.
However what Tesco is doing (at least for new staff) is requiring that you are available for 1.5x your contracted hours. So if you have a 20 hour contract they require you to be available to them for 30 hours a week and they choose which 20 hours of the 30 you do. That makes fitting in a second part time job to help cover the rising cost of living much more difficult.