Filling The Vacancies

[Tannedbaldhead]

Was reading of the mass of vacancies in the retail, transport, logistics, care, agriculture, food processing and certain manufacturers and service industries all generated by the Corona Virus crisis.
Problem is with the country having near full employment and most of us sitting on our arses collecting 80% of our wages under strict instruction not to work for anyone else how will all the vacancies be filled?

[GT03ROB]

Same as we've always done..... cheap labour from Italy & Spain...… or maybe not

[glazbagun]

Offer decent pay?

[Blackpuddin]

Must admit I was a bit puzzled yesterday when, out of curiosity, I went to the Tesco site. Having seen that they were looking for 20,000 new people there seemed to be nothing much on there, just a very quiet recruitment page for the usual 5-6 checkout assistants in the (quite large and reasonably populous) area around me. Cynically wondered if it was all a fake nooz/hoax thing to generate publicity for Tesco.

[vikingaero]

I suspect you're not seeing all of the physical bodies. I filled up at a Tesco late at night and saw far more bodies stacking the shelves than normal. Also instead of 1 or 2 trucks waiting to disgorge, there were 5.

Also how many are really going to be able to stay at home and claim 80%? What about workers in the grey/black economy that may not be working? If you're not on the official books you're stuffed.

[king arthur]

vikingaero said:

I suspect you're not seeing all of the physical bodies. I filled up at a Tesco late at night and saw far more bodies stacking the shelves than normal.

Bodies?!!! You mean like.......dead people? Like.....zombies??? ZOMG!!!!!!

[CzechItOut]

Blackpuddin said:

Must admit I was a bit puzzled yesterday when, out of curiosity, I went to the Tesco site. Having seen that they were looking for 20,000 new people there seemed to be nothing much on there, just a very quiet recruitment page for the usual 5-6 checkout assistants in the (quite large and reasonably populous) area around me. Cynically wondered if it was all a fake nooz/hoax thing to generate publicity for Tesco.

I thought that too. There also has to be a limit to how many people you can throw at a problem before these companies reach the capacity of what they can realistically support.

[vikingaero]

king arthur said:

vikingaero said:

I suspect you're not seeing all of the physical bodies. I filled up at a Tesco late at night and saw far more bodies stacking the shelves than normal.

Bodies?!!! You mean like.......dead people? Like.....zombies??? ZOMG!!!!!!

They're far cheaper than normal humans and can go on all night. Downside is the empty fresh meats aisle.

[Pothole]

vikingaero said:

What about workers in the grey/black economy that may not be working? If you're not on the official books you're stuffed.

I'm not sure I can muster up a lot of sympathy for this group.

[garagewidow]

vikingaero said:

They're far cheaper than normal humans and can go on all night. Downside is the empty fresh meats aisle.

..and the makeup displays.

[anonymous-user]

CzechItOut said:

Blackpuddin said:

Must admit I was a bit puzzled yesterday when, out of curiosity, I went to the Tesco site. Having seen that they were looking for 20,000 new people there seemed to be nothing much on there, just a very quiet recruitment page for the usual 5-6 checkout assistants in the (quite large and reasonably populous) area around me. Cynically wondered if it was all a fake nooz/hoax thing to generate publicity for Tesco.

I thought that too. There also has to be a limit to how many people you can throw at a problem before these companies reach the capacity of what they can realistically support.

Tesco have almost 4000 stores + warehouses in the UK. 20,000 staff is average maybe 5 per store.

[craigjm]

They are filling the vacancies without advertising. My niece worked for them over Christmas in the college break. When this all kicked off they called her and asked her if she wanted to come back. Makes sense because then they don’t need to train people. I guess they exhaust that avenue first.

[Jaybmw]

I work for a lidl.. we have to get outside agency's in for the labour side of the job. It's quite crazy at the moment. Rest period aside hours are unlimited

[moles]

They have been too generous offering 80%.

People have been given 3 months rent/mortgage holiday’s can’t go out and spend no money spent on petrol or lunch coffee should have been way less than 80%.

[anonymous-user]

Blackpuddin said:

Cynically wondered if it was all a fake nooz/hoax thing to generate publicity for Tesco.

I lost my job Monday, I was on agency so no help no support from gov.. Saw an advert for workers for Tesco on there website, the week before.

Had an 'interview' on the Tuesday start this Monday night at the distribution entre. There was about 10 other people at same time as me and more being taken on.

[vikingaero]

Thesprucegoose said:

I lost my job Monday, I was on agency so no help no support from gov.. Saw an advert for workers for Tesco on there website, the week before.

Had an 'interview' on the Tuesday start this Monday night at the distribution entre. There was about 10 other people at same time as me and more being taken on.

Well done for getting on with it. How many people would sit at home bleating woe is me rather than do something about it?

[Fatboy]

vikingaero said:

king arthur said:

vikingaero said:

I suspect you're not seeing all of the physical bodies. I filled up at a Tesco late at night and saw far more bodies stacking the shelves than normal.

Bodies?!!! You mean like.......dead people? Like.....zombies??? ZOMG!!!!!!

They're far cheaper than normal humans and can go on all night. Downside is the empty fresh meats aisle.

Get with the time people, you can't call them zombies, they're the living impaired...

[anonymous-user]

vikingaero said:

Well done for getting on with it. How many people would sit at home bleating woe is me rather than do something about it?

it has been a massive struggle i was laid off last Sept, so just been taking agency work, but even a month is better than nothing.

There are a massive amount of jobs coming up, ive seen jobs for 50 to 100 to start straight away. Aldi have been looking for people near Derby, was going to go there but it is 30 miles away so took something closer.

[Blackpuddin]

Thesprucegoose said:

Blackpuddin said:

Cynically wondered if it was all a fake nooz/hoax thing to generate publicity for Tesco.

I lost my job Monday, I was on agency so no help no support from gov.. Saw an advert for workers for Tesco on there website, the week before.

Had an 'interview' on the Tuesday start this Monday night at the distribution entre. There was about 10 other people at same time as me and more being taken on.

Great, glad to hear that.

[jakesmith]

I've just had a contractor on relatively low pay reach the end of his contract in my firm, couldn't get him extended as we're about to cut that team (unrelated to CV was happening anyway).
I fought tooth & nail internally to get him an ex-gratia payment of 3 months salary. It was very difficult as it's a huge firm with processes & busy dealing with bigger things. However we are cash rich business & industry unlike many in the likes of retail and hospitality.
I was relieved to manage to do it but wonder how many people would have bothered though.