Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:07 pm
JerryChicken
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Joined: Jul 09 2012 Posts: 3605 Location: Leeds
Kosh wrote:BT were making a profit when they were sold off for peanuts.
Were they ?
It was still a public monopoly deserving of privatisation though, prime for privatisation, probably the best argument for privatisation was the UK's telephony system in the 1980s, and they still have a monopoly albeit they now trade with a more commercial attitude.
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Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:43 pm
Sal Paradise
International Chairman
Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 18060 Location: On the road
Kosh wrote:Do neither of you pay any attention to the unemployment figures? Or do you just not understand what they mean?
While some highly skilled workers in a handful of sectors might be able to pick and choose employers, or waltz out of one company and straight into the same job at another, the situation is very different for the vast majority of ordinary workers. If they don't like the job they're in they have two options - put up with it or join the 'shirkers' on the dole. That's where the Unions come in.
The other thing you might consider is that things change over time. You might be perfectly happy with wages and conditions when you joing, only to find at some point down the line that they change for the worse.
Honestly, given the number of times those on the right exhort people to 'live in the real world' you'd expect more of them to have at least some passing familiarity with it themselves.
Most of those on the right who exhort 'live in the real world' do exactly that - they have regular jobs in regular companies or is that the preserve of lefties like you?
Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.
Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:50 pm
muttley cat
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Joined: Mar 12 2007 Posts: 13355 Location: Lost
Right Jerk Chicken sorry just read bottom of your feeble argument.
BT was sold off for a fraction of worth to money so money made more money .
Us the majority got kicked in the balls because as still is the case today whoever you get your telephone from BT provides the line,
And they may of been monopolies but you know gas, fuel , electric , BR , steel the list goes on yes they may of been monopolies but they were "OUR" monopolies , we all had a stake.
Now we dont have a pot to mickey in, all cameron is doing now is trying to tax my mickey,
Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:07 pm
Kosh
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Joined: Jul 31 2003 Posts: 36786 Location: Leafy Worcester, home of the Black Pear
Sal Paradise wrote:Most of those on the right who exhort 'live in the real world' do exactly that - they have regular jobs in regular companies or is that the preserve of lefties like you?
Did you have a point you wanted to make?
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Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:09 pm
Sal Paradise
International Chairman
Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 18060 Location: On the road
Durham Giant wrote:Boasting about being a scab makes you look like a complete w@nker.
Crossing a picket line doesn't make you a scab - hospital porters in Bradford went on strike my mother a ward sister not a member of any union crossed the picket line to ensure health care standards on her ward were maintained - that doesn't make her a scab.
Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.
Post subject: Re: Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead...
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:16 pm
Sal Paradise
International Chairman
Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 18060 Location: On the road
Kosh wrote:Did you have a point you wanted to make?
You struggle with comprehension obviously - just because your job is not on the shop floor doesn't mean you don't 'live in the real world' as you suggested - capisci?
Your job is to say to yourself on a job interview does the hiring manager likes me or not. If you aren't a particular manager's cup of tea, you haven't failed -- you've dodged a bullet.
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