Lazy locals can’t have it both ways.
…there’s little appetite for taking one of those vegetable-picking jobs of up to £7-an-hour. One group of lads:
“No mate I’d prefer to sign-on than do that.”
“I don’t want to work in like no cornfield.”
“I don’t want to work with a load of foreigners.”
This is the PlayStation generation at work. Or not as the case may be.
In the same breath, the government is trying to set up “Enterprise Academy” sites where 16-19 year olds can learn about entrepreneurship. And then we have all this talk of Paddy’s Valley and bringing entrepreneurship to these Isles.
It wasn’t until I employed someone myself that I discovered what a real slacker was.
(and the blogosphere has been warbling recently about workaholics – which I’ll respond to later)