Who Knows Best: Getting a job
Discussion
FraserLFA said:
the young guy really deserves his job. He really seems interested and keen to do it.
The other guy is useless but hopefully he'll turn it around.
Changed my mind. He's clearly not bothered and seems to have a load of excuses at the ready for when some work comes along. Waste of space...The other guy is useless but hopefully he'll turn it around.
FraserLFA said:
FraserLFA said:
the young guy really deserves his job. He really seems interested and keen to do it.
The other guy is useless but hopefully he'll turn it around.
Changed my mind. He's clearly not bothered and seems to have a load of excuses at the ready for when some work comes along. Waste of space...The other guy is useless but hopefully he'll turn it around.
Famous Graham said:
Munter said:
You take any job and work up from there...
Assuming they don't take one look at your CV and think "feck, as soon as a better job comes along, he's off", of course.Didn't see the program, but I'm guessing from this thread that that was unlikely to be the case
The old guy came across as a complete k
d - not working for less than £22K 
And had every excuse under thes sun not to do what he was asked or to take the job they got for him....wr. It seemed his kids were getting into trouble quite a bit too (or he was using that as an excuse) as during the show (which was only over 5 weeks IIRC) 2 of his kids (or the same one twice) were stabbed or beaten up 
The ytoung kid did well - with no qualifications I'd be very happy on a starting salary of £17.5K - he seemed alright and was clearly sticking it out and seeing where it could take him - fair play to him
d - not working for less than £22K And had every excuse under thes sun not to do what he was asked or to take the job they got for him....w
r. It seemed his kids were getting into trouble quite a bit too (or he was using that as an excuse) as during the show (which was only over 5 weeks IIRC) 2 of his kids (or the same one twice) were stabbed or beaten up The ytoung kid did well - with no qualifications I'd be very happy on a starting salary of £17.5K - he seemed alright and was clearly sticking it out and seeing where it could take him - fair play to him
I knew, just knew in my bones that older guy wasn't going to accept a job unless............no, retract that. He wasn't going to take anything.
An ex-con and (my spidey senses told me) racist to boot, no way on this earth he was going to accept a black mentor. As others have said his life is a mess because he made it that way, pigs will fly before he'll admit it though. Excuse after excuse but cunningly constructed excuses involving his family in a feeble attempt to make him look like a fine, upstanding family man instead of the workshy, feckless, idle work dodger that he is. The first step for people like that is seeing that they are the cause of their problems. It'll never happen though.
An ex-con and (my spidey senses told me) racist to boot, no way on this earth he was going to accept a black mentor. As others have said his life is a mess because he made it that way, pigs will fly before he'll admit it though. Excuse after excuse but cunningly constructed excuses involving his family in a feeble attempt to make him look like a fine, upstanding family man instead of the workshy, feckless, idle work dodger that he is. The first step for people like that is seeing that they are the cause of their problems. It'll never happen though.
Oakey said:
I'm somewhat surprised that no one here has commented how John only got that job because the woman phoned one of her contacts! What are the chances of that kid even getting through the door in the real world?
Quite, and that is how she won the show. The tough love character chose poorly there. While she chose with brilliant pinpoint accuracy a completely lazy tt.edit, my thgread died
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by Halb on Wednesday 11th August 18:42
Munter said:
Why do the unemployed seem to think it's just a case of looking for a well paid job? Who told them this st?
You take any job and work up from there...
Can't gas them can we?
Its no wonder when they see 2 people with very little work experience or anythign stroll into the jobs they did - especially the young guy.t?You take any job and work up from there...
Can't gas them can we?
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