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[NEWKID 27,048]

I've ran my own business for Over 16 years , and finding the right labour gets harder and harder... We employ either on the books or sub contract around 20 people... But I always employ British labour, I have worked on huge sites around the country with every nationality under the sun, and there is no doubt the Eastern Europeans are some of the hardest working on them, they do long hours, a ground worker who was on the same site had worked every day for 8 months he was making enough to pay for his house in Poland and go back, you can't knock his work ethic to support his family........... But as it stands I employ only British, it just sits well with me, not all young British lads are lay abouts etc, they've got to have the opportunity to work or we won't get back working.....

but your just a kid lol,...........do i see a little discrimination in your post ,..........why do you only employe british i mean you cant say to people who apply for jobs ...sorry only british,.............or advertise for just british.........lol..

 

Shit user name I agree lol......

I have had Poles ringing me for work but I rather use the labour I know, I have worked with all of the gangs I have on and I've recently taken my nephew on as an apprentice training towards an NVQ in roofing and cladding ( he's already more qualified than me lol)...... I don't feel I'm discriminating, we're a small firm and I don't have to interview or ask for cvs for my site labour.... I would never get embroiled in race discrimination, equal opportunities blah blah... I employ who I want to employ, I would like to take another young lad on as an apprentice fabricator, if the small firms don't give the young lads an opportunity to learn a trade what chance have we got......

thats a fair post i know the bigger companies couldnt do it.............cheers....

i was only saying ,............i dont blame your attitude of employment ,its agood one,...........

i think i would struggle to trust some of the robbing mothers,...............they got nothing to loose

 

I struggle to trust anyone lol... I've had gangs turn up mate and they've been awful lasted a 2 days and had to ask them to leave, supposed to be fixers and I reckon my lad could do better.... The business is growing and I won't be able to just use the gangs I know in the minute, plus me and my brother have come off the tools, I would like to bring on a couple more young lads in the future and train them, I think that's the way forward for us..... You've got your core gangs you can rely on then you jump into the unknown, but I would rather bring British gangs in, if there shit and you let them go at least you don't get the race card thrown at you........

[bobcullen79 1,495]

My god you talk some shite. Have you ever employed

Yes I have.

I really get pissed off when folk slag off the e europeans. Yes there are obviously exceptions which will always be highlighted in the Mailand other racist papers but in general they are capitilising on right of any european to migrate for work.

I've had to interview people for work who normally I wouldn't let through the gates.

18yo lads who have never worked in their lives and have no intention of doing so. The only reason they have turned up is because the job centre insists they do

Comments include."I wont work weekends" (Apparently he was a season ticket holder for Liverpool) "Do I get travel expenses to get to work?" "Do you pay for lunch?"

They turn up in my yard wearing track suit bottoms and trainers, late and then insist that I sign their bit of paper to say that they've attended before they've even had the interview. One who turned up late left after waiting 10mins in the foyer because I was interviewing the other candidates.

I am as patriotic as they come, but I was running a business which had to pay my mortgage. Am I supposed to take on a bloke(or girl) purely on the basis that he's English? Of course not. I will employ the person that I believe will bring value to my company. Any employer will say the same.

The E european has to be paid the same amount as the next guy/girl. He also pays the same in tax.

I had one Lithuanian lad, who lived in rented accomodation with four othersshared one bedroom. He could hardly speak english. After 6 months he was conversing with customers on the phone because he paid for himself to go to evening classes to learn. He is now doing an HNC in mechanical engineeringagain paying for it himself al be it working for a different company now because he was poached).

I now work for a company as I got pissed off with all the red tape, beaurocracy, H&S etc. At one point I was tied up in a tribunal because one guy was off sick for so long with stress supposedly caused by me and the hours that he needed to work. Still managed to drag his ass to the race track/pub and then found out he was taxi driving aswell.

Yes there are many good, hard working British folk out there. My argument is; That in general e europeans are hard working educated efficient workers and not the scrounging work dodging layabouts that many on here purport they are.

Contraversial as it may be. It doesn't make it wrong.

 

Pragmatic ning

You must be on about the small percentage of EE`s that do work then, because I know more than a few in Portsmouth that are pure out and out scammers and scumbags, most are druggies or drunks scamming the social. They have no intention of getting a job, they have found they can milk it, and milk it they do. Then theres the clean living, penny scrimping hard worker you mention, the only reason they`re tight with money, is because they are sending as much of it as they can afford back home, and out of our economy for good, maybe even paying for the next wave of friends and family to come and take the piss too. Lock the doors and start shipping them back is what I say. Charity starts at home..