1970’s Toryboy should stfu and get a real job himself
No, I just don’t want to have to travel to an inaccessible office multiple times a week when it suits THEM after 3 years of proving that I could do the job better from home. Which followed years of them saying ‘no you can never, ever even dream of WFH’.
Or maybe, just maybe, those of us who actually worked through the pandemic, unlike him, would rather save several hours of our day for a better work/life balance than sit in the office over lunch and commute.
All for the sake of being seen to be in there. If you don’t trust your staff to do the job without staring over their shoulder constantly then you should hire better staff.
After lockdown my company immediately realized that staff were happier and productive at home. They downsized the office and now there’s about 4 people in at any given day, when it used to be 150.
They even set out expenses for desks, chairs etc. so people could create a decent space at home.
People like Boris and little William here are constantly casting suspicion on the quality of my work because they think of staff as little people. It’s so snobbish.
It’s pretty obvious that most people would rather work from home or at least be giving a choice to work hybrid.
Not only would this free up so much space but could also provide housing that’s sorely needed. It’s a bloody win win… or is that just me who sees this?
> Hague was born on 26 March 1961 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England.[1] He initially boarded at Ripon Grammar School and then attended Wath-upon-Dearne Comprehensive School,[2] a state secondary school near Rotherham. His parents, Nigel and Stella Hague, ran a soft drinks manufacturing business where he worked during school holidays.[3]
> He first made the national news at the age of 16 by addressing the Conservatives at their 1977 Annual National Conference. In his speech he told the delegates: “half of you won’t be here in 30 or 40 years’ time…, but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour Government if it stayed in power”.[4]
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> He also served as President of the Oxford Union, an established route into politics. After Oxford, Hague went on to study for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at INSEAD. He then worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where Archie Norman was his mentor.[8]
Yeah, why don’t these lazy dolites consider working at their parents manufacturing business or getting an internship from someone they met through their membership of a political party?
Honestly, he’s damn right I don’t. I worked for the NHS as a lab tech for 6 years and I was burning out hard *before* COVID. When the pandemic hit it wasn’t too bad at first, but after the intial reduction in workload came all the backlog like a hammer blow and it was just too much for so little pay. Add in my commute (1-2 hours depending on traffic) and personal issues I just couldn’t handle it any more so left work to take a year out living off some money I was very fortunate to come in to. Not the most sensible decision, but I needed it.
Then, the crowning turd of my experiences; my partner just finished a masters and has entered a brand new job in insurance and she’s already earning over double what I did after 6 years and 3 promotions in the NHS. Not trying to belittle her job at all, it takes skill and study – but so did mine. I loved working for the NHS, but something has to change – and I don’t mean dismantling it.
TLDR before I rant on for another 4 paragraphs:
Fuck this entitled arsehole, fuck shit wages, and honestly fuck work too.
….Then also there does seem to have been a changed attitude to work after Covid.”
I somewhat agree. I’ll never willingly work like I did before the pandemic. Bollocks to 2hr daily commutes or hideously long hours or in the office 5 days a week. I now work to live.
OK, I’m privileged in that I still earn a good income in comparison to the average but my quality of family life is loads better even though I now earn less overall.
*Toff who never worked a day in his life complains that the proles are too lazy*
Yet at the same time, disabled and sick people should work from home because there’s soooooo much opportunity now to do so and it’s widely accepted as normal.
They can’t even get their story straight.
>The peer also believes that some people in the UK are not working because they are obese.
“Lord Hague thinks fat fucks should do something”
It’s almost like we were lied to about needing to get out and work before the pandemic.
If you think your staff aren’t working from home, that sounds like a company ethos problem to me.
Another out of touch Tory.
It’s almost as if the people who own all the big offices blocks in the country, are getting pissed off at the fact companies realize it’s cheaper to not pay rent on office space.
Our leaders don’t appear to be working much so why should we?
Just because he got fired as Bruce Willis’ economy stunt double, doesn’t mean he gets to take it out on everyone else
he’ll be speaking on behalf of his mates who own commercial property and are unhappy at the drop in demand and therefore rental income
Maybe because so many people are disenfranchised at the state of everything these days, architected by these self serving assholes?
I do hybrid working and it’s great – 2 in and 3 from home. Enough in the office to see people and enough at home so I’m not having a near 3 hour round train trip every day.
He can stick it up his arse.
I totally agree with him. everyone in this country is lazy and workshy, expect for me of course, I work hard.
Lord complains that the peasants are not working hard enough
In other words, “Can the great unwashed please return to the office, so we can carry on exploiting them?”
We didn’t mind working when it was worth it.
The social contract has completely broken down. Make it so everyone can live an average and pleasant life if they commit 40 hours per week to society if you want people to work.
Who would love working 40 hours a week to not be able to afford food and heat or to be homeless?
“I have a vast portfolio of commercial lets, and more companies shrinking theirs it’s clear to me people need to go back to work because God damnit I love money”.
Oh shut the fuck up.
What is the POINT of me travelling 2 hours each way and spending a fortune on public transport to do the exact same job I can do from my livingroom?
This horrible little cunt has never done a real days work in his priviledged life.
You’re supposed to be a Tory Hague, don’t you believe in letting the market decide?
Some companies will have remote workers, some will have all office workers and some will be I’m between. People will go and work for the sort of company they want to work for. After a few more years we will see which of these companies do better and which do worse.
Technically true, but carelessly worded and a bad look during a cost-of-living crisis when so many people are struggling to find decently-paying work.
what incentive is there for brits to work ?
Ridicuously highly taxed salaries
Constant reduction in purchasing power via inflation
Long hours from increasingly demanding employers
No chance of younger generations ever being able to retire
They have created this mess they can deal with the after math
Says man whose job is to sit in a “House” and be a “Lord” lol
You’re absolutely right, Mr Hague. I would much rather stay in the house and work in comfort, not wasting 2 hours a day and £400 a month commuting to an office where I would sit at a desk and do the same work to the same standard.
Awwww, I think someone’s commercial property investments are hurting 🙁
People don’t want to work when their living standards are being downgraded. Who wants to work when they’re being asked for more but being given back less? This culture that they keep trying to impose of trying to shame people for expecting better is grating on people and wearing thin. Of course people can’t flat out say it because they need their income, so instead they quietly sit on their hands. Companies know people are doing this and are furious about it. A HR friend of mine at a different employer was telling me how frustrated their company is that employees are not “following the master/subordinate protocol anymore”. lol I almost fell off my chair when I heard it.
Lord Hague can go suck on donkey dick for all I care.
He could even bend over for it if he so wishes.
I’m one of them! Unfortunately I have a mortgage and bills to pay, god damn it.
I’ll be honest I don’t enjoy getting up 2 hours earlier than I need to do to drive 50 miles each way. Unnecessarily polluting the environment, when my entire job can and has been done from a home office I’ve fashioned and worked from for the last three years.
Nothing against my colleagues but I can live without seeing them.
The Tories have a massive sexual fetish over forcing people to work until they die.
Anything they have to say can be disregarded as bollocks. I worked during the pandemic. We had colleagues die for the privilage and even car sharing was banned. These Tory scumbags got drunk, ate cheese and fannied around on kareoke machines meanwhile, whilst outside of work we stayed at home.
I won’t take any lecture about “work” from these lying amoral lazy parasitical wankers.
Thats absolutely ridiculous. We all want to and all have to work unless your very fortunate in life to not have to work. Just makin excuses to bring in more foreign underpaid workers so big businesses can profit more. The gap between rich and poor is staggering
Edit: This guy doesnt know what a “real job” really is… should he have to go find a job and soon realise minimum wage with a 20% increment on a 3 shift rotating pattern (mornings/afternoons/nights) he would be massively shocked and absolutely guaranteed he wouldn’t want those working/life balance conditions either.
Maybe people don’t want to pay to support your £300 a day fee you baldy cunt.
Amazing how Tories can be so against WFH but also want to insist it’s mandatory for disabled n mentally ill people.
Still pushing the Tory “work shall make you free” rhetoric.
Maybe I’m missing something given the number of comments about WFH here, but that article doesn’t actually mention WFH, it’s talking about people staying out of employment. Says there’s been a shift since covid and people don’t want to work anymore. Personally I think good for them if they don’t need to.
We just realised that loads of us can do our jobs from home without a stupid commute and then actually have a life because we don’t have to get in the car after work and do a stupid commute and we can get more sleep because we haven’t got to get up early and do a stupid commute.
Once we realised many people could “stay in the house and work” a lot of scales fell from a lot of “I’ve always commuted /bought morning Costa/ eaten a shit cheap lunch at Spoons/ commuted home/ eaten a ready meal/ gone to bed/ repeat” eyes.
Let’s see if we can figure out whose mates lost bunce from the equation changing..
People woke up during the Pandemic. They sat at home and realised they had fuck all savings and had been working for the Man all their lives with nothing to show for it. Meanwhile the Government showed it’s true colours and proved it didn’t give one shit for the people of this country, whilst they made millions in lucrative deals in PPE among other things. All the World’s Governments showed us the same thing – they are only in it for themselves as individuals in the know and in control. With insider information that can make them very rich using tax payers money to finance their deals.
In the words of Elliot – Fuck Society
Oh no not Hague. I used to think he was one of the slightly less detestable of those bastards.
Reddit is such an echo chamber. How many of you were shocked when Brexit actually happened? There’s a price to pay if you’re out of touch on these matters. All I’m saying is that the comments Hague is making resonates in many parts of the country to the voting masses. The Tories are definitely out the next election but I bet you my last pound Labour when they come in will carry on the same Tory policies like they did when tony Blair succeeded Thatcher. I know John Major was in for a bit but he is irrelevent
I went into the office for ONE DAY in nearly 2 years and I came home with a nasty virus that’s knocked me down for 5 days.
You’re goddamn right I don’t want to mix with hundreds of people to do something I can easily do at home.
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1970’s Toryboy should stfu and get a real job himself
No, I just don’t want to have to travel to an inaccessible office multiple times a week when it suits THEM after 3 years of proving that I could do the job better from home. Which followed years of them saying ‘no you can never, ever even dream of WFH’.
Or maybe, just maybe, those of us who actually worked through the pandemic, unlike him, would rather save several hours of our day for a better work/life balance than sit in the office over lunch and commute.
All for the sake of being seen to be in there. If you don’t trust your staff to do the job without staring over their shoulder constantly then you should hire better staff.
After lockdown my company immediately realized that staff were happier and productive at home. They downsized the office and now there’s about 4 people in at any given day, when it used to be 150.
They even set out expenses for desks, chairs etc. so people could create a decent space at home.
People like Boris and little William here are constantly casting suspicion on the quality of my work because they think of staff as little people. It’s so snobbish.
It’s pretty obvious that most people would rather work from home or at least be giving a choice to work hybrid.
Not only would this free up so much space but could also provide housing that’s sorely needed. It’s a bloody win win… or is that just me who sees this?
> Hague was born on 26 March 1961 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England.[1] He initially boarded at Ripon Grammar School and then attended Wath-upon-Dearne Comprehensive School,[2] a state secondary school near Rotherham. His parents, Nigel and Stella Hague, ran a soft drinks manufacturing business where he worked during school holidays.[3]
> He first made the national news at the age of 16 by addressing the Conservatives at their 1977 Annual National Conference. In his speech he told the delegates: “half of you won’t be here in 30 or 40 years’ time…, but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour Government if it stayed in power”.[4]
–
> He also served as President of the Oxford Union, an established route into politics. After Oxford, Hague went on to study for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at INSEAD. He then worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where Archie Norman was his mentor.[8]
Yeah, why don’t these lazy dolites consider working at their parents manufacturing business or getting an internship from someone they met through their membership of a political party?
Honestly, he’s damn right I don’t. I worked for the NHS as a lab tech for 6 years and I was burning out hard *before* COVID. When the pandemic hit it wasn’t too bad at first, but after the intial reduction in workload came all the backlog like a hammer blow and it was just too much for so little pay. Add in my commute (1-2 hours depending on traffic) and personal issues I just couldn’t handle it any more so left work to take a year out living off some money I was very fortunate to come in to. Not the most sensible decision, but I needed it.
Then, the crowning turd of my experiences; my partner just finished a masters and has entered a brand new job in insurance and she’s already earning over double what I did after 6 years and 3 promotions in the NHS. Not trying to belittle her job at all, it takes skill and study – but so did mine. I loved working for the NHS, but something has to change – and I don’t mean dismantling it.
TLDR before I rant on for another 4 paragraphs:
Fuck this entitled arsehole, fuck shit wages, and honestly fuck work too.
….Then also there does seem to have been a changed attitude to work after Covid.”
I somewhat agree. I’ll never willingly work like I did before the pandemic. Bollocks to 2hr daily commutes or hideously long hours or in the office 5 days a week. I now work to live.
OK, I’m privileged in that I still earn a good income in comparison to the average but my quality of family life is loads better even though I now earn less overall.
*Toff who never worked a day in his life complains that the proles are too lazy*
Yet at the same time, disabled and sick people should work from home because there’s soooooo much opportunity now to do so and it’s widely accepted as normal.
They can’t even get their story straight.
>The peer also believes that some people in the UK are not working because they are obese.
“Lord Hague thinks fat fucks should do something”
It’s almost like we were lied to about needing to get out and work before the pandemic.
If you think your staff aren’t working from home, that sounds like a company ethos problem to me.
Another out of touch Tory.
It’s almost as if the people who own all the big offices blocks in the country, are getting pissed off at the fact companies realize it’s cheaper to not pay rent on office space.
Our leaders don’t appear to be working much so why should we?
Just because he got fired as Bruce Willis’ economy stunt double, doesn’t mean he gets to take it out on everyone else
he’ll be speaking on behalf of his mates who own commercial property and are unhappy at the drop in demand and therefore rental income
Maybe because so many people are disenfranchised at the state of everything these days, architected by these self serving assholes?
I do hybrid working and it’s great – 2 in and 3 from home. Enough in the office to see people and enough at home so I’m not having a near 3 hour round train trip every day.
He can stick it up his arse.
I totally agree with him. everyone in this country is lazy and workshy, expect for me of course, I work hard.
Lord complains that the peasants are not working hard enough
In other words, “Can the great unwashed please return to the office, so we can carry on exploiting them?”
We didn’t mind working when it was worth it.
The social contract has completely broken down. Make it so everyone can live an average and pleasant life if they commit 40 hours per week to society if you want people to work.
Who would love working 40 hours a week to not be able to afford food and heat or to be homeless?
“I have a vast portfolio of commercial lets, and more companies shrinking theirs it’s clear to me people need to go back to work because God damnit I love money”.
Oh shut the fuck up.
What is the POINT of me travelling 2 hours each way and spending a fortune on public transport to do the exact same job I can do from my livingroom?
This horrible little cunt has never done a real days work in his priviledged life.
You’re supposed to be a Tory Hague, don’t you believe in letting the market decide?
Some companies will have remote workers, some will have all office workers and some will be I’m between. People will go and work for the sort of company they want to work for. After a few more years we will see which of these companies do better and which do worse.
Technically true, but carelessly worded and a bad look during a cost-of-living crisis when so many people are struggling to find decently-paying work.
what incentive is there for brits to work ?
Ridicuously highly taxed salaries
Constant reduction in purchasing power via inflation
Long hours from increasingly demanding employers
No chance of younger generations ever being able to retire
They have created this mess they can deal with the after math
Says man whose job is to sit in a “House” and be a “Lord” lol
You’re absolutely right, Mr Hague. I would much rather stay in the house and work in comfort, not wasting 2 hours a day and £400 a month commuting to an office where I would sit at a desk and do the same work to the same standard.
Awwww, I think someone’s commercial property investments are hurting 🙁
People don’t want to work when their living standards are being downgraded. Who wants to work when they’re being asked for more but being given back less? This culture that they keep trying to impose of trying to shame people for expecting better is grating on people and wearing thin. Of course people can’t flat out say it because they need their income, so instead they quietly sit on their hands. Companies know people are doing this and are furious about it. A HR friend of mine at a different employer was telling me how frustrated their company is that employees are not “following the master/subordinate protocol anymore”. lol I almost fell off my chair when I heard it.
Lord Hague can go suck on donkey dick for all I care.
He could even bend over for it if he so wishes.
I’m one of them! Unfortunately I have a mortgage and bills to pay, god damn it.
I’ll be honest I don’t enjoy getting up 2 hours earlier than I need to do to drive 50 miles each way. Unnecessarily polluting the environment, when my entire job can and has been done from a home office I’ve fashioned and worked from for the last three years.
Nothing against my colleagues but I can live without seeing them.
The Tories have a massive sexual fetish over forcing people to work until they die.
Anything they have to say can be disregarded as bollocks. I worked during the pandemic. We had colleagues die for the privilage and even car sharing was banned. These Tory scumbags got drunk, ate cheese and fannied around on kareoke machines meanwhile, whilst outside of work we stayed at home.
I won’t take any lecture about “work” from these lying amoral lazy parasitical wankers.
Thats absolutely ridiculous. We all want to and all have to work unless your very fortunate in life to not have to work. Just makin excuses to bring in more foreign underpaid workers so big businesses can profit more. The gap between rich and poor is staggering
Edit: This guy doesnt know what a “real job” really is… should he have to go find a job and soon realise minimum wage with a 20% increment on a 3 shift rotating pattern (mornings/afternoons/nights) he would be massively shocked and absolutely guaranteed he wouldn’t want those working/life balance conditions either.
Maybe people don’t want to pay to support your £300 a day fee you baldy cunt.
Amazing how Tories can be so against WFH but also want to insist it’s mandatory for disabled n mentally ill people.
Still pushing the Tory “work shall make you free” rhetoric.
Maybe I’m missing something given the number of comments about WFH here, but that article doesn’t actually mention WFH, it’s talking about people staying out of employment. Says there’s been a shift since covid and people don’t want to work anymore. Personally I think good for them if they don’t need to.
We just realised that loads of us can do our jobs from home without a stupid commute and then actually have a life because we don’t have to get in the car after work and do a stupid commute and we can get more sleep because we haven’t got to get up early and do a stupid commute.
Once we realised many people could “stay in the house and work” a lot of scales fell from a lot of “I’ve always commuted /bought morning Costa/ eaten a shit cheap lunch at Spoons/ commuted home/ eaten a ready meal/ gone to bed/ repeat” eyes.
Let’s see if we can figure out whose mates lost bunce from the equation changing..
People woke up during the Pandemic. They sat at home and realised they had fuck all savings and had been working for the Man all their lives with nothing to show for it. Meanwhile the Government showed it’s true colours and proved it didn’t give one shit for the people of this country, whilst they made millions in lucrative deals in PPE among other things. All the World’s Governments showed us the same thing – they are only in it for themselves as individuals in the know and in control. With insider information that can make them very rich using tax payers money to finance their deals.
In the words of Elliot – Fuck Society
Oh no not Hague. I used to think he was one of the slightly less detestable of those bastards.
Reddit is such an echo chamber. How many of you were shocked when Brexit actually happened? There’s a price to pay if you’re out of touch on these matters. All I’m saying is that the comments Hague is making resonates in many parts of the country to the voting masses. The Tories are definitely out the next election but I bet you my last pound Labour when they come in will carry on the same Tory policies like they did when tony Blair succeeded Thatcher. I know John Major was in for a bit but he is irrelevent
I went into the office for ONE DAY in nearly 2 years and I came home with a nasty virus that’s knocked me down for 5 days.
You’re goddamn right I don’t want to mix with hundreds of people to do something I can easily do at home.