The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

That Ibsen's "Ghosts" you went to see Caspin got a 5 star write up in the Sunday Express I noticed.

Just finished watching the latest Channel 4 "Dispatches" ("The Secret Of Your Pay Packet ") on all the fiddles employers are doing to rip employees out of money when the phone rang & my brother was on outraged asking did I know this kind of crap was going on?

I thought it best for the sake of his blood pressure not to tell him "been there, done it, worn the T-shirt!" - none of it is new. It would have been better had they mentioned the "continuous temporary" contract fiddle (where employers continually sack staff before they hit the 12 week mark making them permanent & re-recruit all over again, meaning no holiday/sick pay, no redundancy pay, zero rights, etc.

Going around the shops after popping in to see one of my agencies today, I was amazed at how everyone appears to be selling the same tat that's been doing the rounds for the past what knows how many years - & they wonder why no one's buying (apart from being skint & dreading the arrival of their next electricity/gas bills!)