All these foreigners taking our jobs!!!
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Take a guess at the nationality;
These guys turned up at 7.30am with all their tools, worked all day, stopped half an hour for lunch and at the end of the day (4.30pm) cleaned and tidied their tools away ready for a 7.30am start the next day.
These guys turned up at 10am without all their tools, went for breakfast at 10.30am, stopped for lunch at 12.30pm, and went home at 3.30pm leaving everything strewn on site. They turned up at 9.45am the next morning.
These guys turned up at 7.30am with all their tools, worked all day, stopped half an hour for lunch and at the end of the day (4.30pm) cleaned and tidied their tools away ready for a 7.30am start the next day.
These guys turned up at 10am without all their tools, went for breakfast at 10.30am, stopped for lunch at 12.30pm, and went home at 3.30pm leaving everything strewn on site. They turned up at 9.45am the next morning.
My girlfriend and I were walking the two or three minutes to the tube station the other day - Parson's Green which is only a small station - and there were so many people walking the other direction, back towards us, that she commented that perhaps the trains were stopped (again) and we'd need to double back and get a bus to South Kensington (again).
But nope; just a steady stream of Eastern Europeans, presumably labouring for local houeseholders, extensions and the like. All arriving for 7.30am. It's actually quite a sight to behold - an influx travelling against the typical movement of 'outskirts' (well, Fulham) to the City.
That said, I did spend time living in a very EE area in London and that wasn't so pleasant, though they weren't the worst.
But nope; just a steady stream of Eastern Europeans, presumably labouring for local houeseholders, extensions and the like. All arriving for 7.30am. It's actually quite a sight to behold - an influx travelling against the typical movement of 'outskirts' (well, Fulham) to the City.
That said, I did spend time living in a very EE area in London and that wasn't so pleasant, though they weren't the worst.
Fittster said:
Got a polish bloke to do some plumping, no cheaper than UK tradesmen and did a bad job and he stunk of BO.
Well that fantastic anecdote solves the argument of immigration in one fell swoop.Do you have any more riveting tales of unpleasant foreigners you have met as we are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear them.
blindswelledrat said:
Well that fantastic anecdote solves the argument of immigration in one fell swoop.
Do you have any more riveting tales of unpleasant foreigners you have met as we are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear them.
No comment on the 'lazy English' anecdotes, no? The reductio ad absurdum is a weak effort.Do you have any more riveting tales of unpleasant foreigners you have met as we are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear them.
Edited by iphonedyou on Wednesday 16th April 12:51
iphonedyou said:
blindswelledrat said:
Well that fantastic anecdote solves the argument of immigration in one fell swoop.
Do you have any more riveting tales of unpleasant foreigners you have met as we are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear them.
No comment on the 'lazy English' anecdotes, no? The reductio ad absurdum is a weak effort.Do you have any more riveting tales of unpleasant foreigners you have met as we are all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear them.
Edited by iphonedyou on Wednesday 16th April 12:51
Good work.
As for the lazy English anecdotes, I usually leave those for you but if you want me to save you the trouble
"I don't blame them with their wages being held back by foreigners " etc etc
blindswelledrat said:
I love the way you have edited in a bit a of Latin to make yourself feel good, but that unfortunately you don't even know what it means.
Good work.
As for the lazy English anecdotes, I usually leave those for you but if you want me to save you the trouble
"I don't blame them with their wages being held back by foreigners " etc etc
I'm glad you loved the Latin, if not the philosophy.Good work.
As for the lazy English anecdotes, I usually leave those for you but if you want me to save you the trouble
"I don't blame them with their wages being held back by foreigners " etc etc
Why would you leave lazy English anecdotes to me? Can you point out where you've done so in the past? Hailing from neither England or EE, I'm decidedly unbiased in this regard. More unbiased, it would appear, than you.
Hooli said:
We've employed several tradesmen recently, out of three only one of them can do their job. The others rarely turned up, never stayed for a days work & screwed everything up.
The other two better be English, not Eastern European, or you'll have to answer to BSR's indignant claims that immigration have been solved off the back of your anecdotal evidence!Otherwise, continue as you were.
We took my daughter to an outpatient appointment at our local hospital earlier in the week.
The person on reception, the nurse who did the x-ray, and the doctor we saw we're all east european. The forms we had been sent were un-signed and incomplete. The reception kept sending us to another department to get them signed, then changed, changed again (until we refused a 4th time and asked her to ring the other department).
The xrays that were taken were not the 3D ones we were told we were being sent to the hospital to get. We could hardly understand the doctor.
This morning the hospital just happened to be on the news, and they said that 30% of staff are from overseas. Jobs in the NHS are not low grade non jobs. When we are paying people to do nothing, the state shouldn't be employing so many people from abroad.
The person on reception, the nurse who did the x-ray, and the doctor we saw we're all east european. The forms we had been sent were un-signed and incomplete. The reception kept sending us to another department to get them signed, then changed, changed again (until we refused a 4th time and asked her to ring the other department).
The xrays that were taken were not the 3D ones we were told we were being sent to the hospital to get. We could hardly understand the doctor.
This morning the hospital just happened to be on the news, and they said that 30% of staff are from overseas. Jobs in the NHS are not low grade non jobs. When we are paying people to do nothing, the state shouldn't be employing so many people from abroad.
fido said:
98elise said:
When we are paying people to do nothing, the state shouldn't be employing so many people from abroad.
Perhaps, but Chardonnay or Kyle aren't going to be much good in a hospital either! We need more skilled people but that's not the fault of immigration.98elise said:
Yet people say they are over here doing jobs that british people don't want to do? It can't be both ways.
Depends what you mean by 'don't want to do' and why can't it be both? Cleaner - this type of job is clearly within the scope of Kyle or Chardonnay. Kyle or Chardonnay would rather claim benefits. Kyle or Chardonnay didn't do the necessary NVQ required for a trainee.
Builder - skilled work that can't be done without training. IT Consultant - skilled work that can't be done without training. Kyle or Chardonnay doesn't have a degree.
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