Royal Mail strike

[exxos]

I know exactly what you mean @exxos and quite often I echo your words, lately though my sister has been trying to make me a bit more liberal, reminding me things like "just because you had it bad doesn't mean everyone has to be treated bad" and those kinds of sentiments, which yeah, makes sense. Sometimes (often?) companies don't value their employees and get away with paying them the bare minimum. The milk industry is a good analogy - we the consumer pay pittance for milk so that cows get sucked dry, farmers get bugger all and the corporations take the most profit. We should probably re-evaluate our viewpoints sometimes, and like I say I'm usually with you on this, but my sister is 'educating' me :)

yeah people used to say farmers had it good. But I've been to a lot of farms and they work their asses off. Most only keep a few cows as if they produce to much they get fined. Not sure how that pans out now we are "supposed" to be out of the EU. Will have to ask around next time I'm on a farm.

But yeah, I've never really heard of any good companies. Always same though. Teachers moaning, police moaning, mailworkers moaning. Its a problem everyone has not just the "select few". Its always been a problem. I mean who really wants to do the job they are actually in ? Companies always screw over the staff.

Like one of the old timers I used to work with. Retired a week before we got made redundant. He been with the company like 30 years.

Or how about age discrimination. I was there for 10 years, but "because of my age" I only got 2 years redundancy pay.

Or how someone who couldn't even solder got 2k more a year wage than me who been there years."going the extra mile" counts for nothing.

Yeah it was only 1 company. People were walking out for years. Second company I worked for was worse. They screwed up my N.I. stuff where I got footed with the bill.. Which I couldn't pay. I could go on for hours.

Ironically I was made staff representative . Mostly because I was probably the most pi$$ed off person in the building I think :lol: Not like I would have 20 rants a day on various topics or anything.

Anyway. Everyone has these problems. I doubt its ever going to go away. Good on the workers for going on strike. But nothing will change. In today's world people should be lucky they have a job. They would be worse off without one.

All my own opinions and personal experiences.

[exxos]

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Think I am going to go on strike until around 2050 for more pay. Pre-covid I was basically on half of minimum wage anyway. Even worse these days now.The joys of being self-employed where nobody cares. Unless you stop paying taxes of course. We all would like more pay. I think people should be thankful they even have a job to start with these days.

So wages go up.. Products go up.. Bills go up..by the time absolutely everything in the world has gone up, all that has happened is money itself has been devalued :roll: So I get annoyed at their annual budgets and such because the government need more money so they put taxes up. This old system simply does not work. What they should be doing Is actually generating jobs for people. More jobs = more people paying taxes. Shipping people off to the job centre to "get a job" doesn't work when a jobs don't exist to start with. Been there done that.
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