An Intern Walks Into A Bar

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To whom it concerns…

As a 20 year career hospitality professional, in an advanced management position I find it difficult to correctly and astutely express my disgust at this kind of listing.

But I’ll give it a go, because I feel it’s justified. You should also know that it takes an awful lot for me to do this, I’m not an internet troll or a “keyboard warrior”. You’ve just annoyed me enough to write this email.

First of all, I understand that staff costs are among the major financial concerns for any business, in particular hospitality. They fluctuate from week to week, month to month and year to year and make it near impossible to project exactly how much will need to be spent without completely compromising on quality of service delivered to paying customers.

That said, there are ways to combat this – all of which you and your management will know. Hiring “interns” is the laziest way of doing so, and in doing so you insult career professionals such as myself and others who wish to make it a career by offering insulting stipends for an honest week’s work.

By offering to mentor bar staff (something in itself I admire, if it’s done in an appropriate way and not to exploit a loophole that is yet to be fixed), all you are doing is adding to the culture of belittling a profession that recently has been reduced to nothing more than bodies in uniforms.

If you truly wish to mentor staff and train them to your standards, then it must involve continued training with the same rates of pay, benefits and work conditions that full time staff are entitled to and enjoy. Failure to do this only teaches the “intern” that this is a business that will exploit you at every turn to save a buck.

Therein lies the problem with the attitude towards hospitality as a whole, but that’s a whole different email.

If you are on the hunt for cheap staff to fill a spot on the roster because summer time is coming up, you will be disappointed in anyone you hire.

I, as probably you did, worked my way through college. My current workforce also consists of students, all studying various fields. They are treated with respect and mentored and trained properly. They are also paid a fair wage, and are offered the same promotional opportunities as anyone else, coupled with the wage increases that come with promotions.

Not only do I keep the same staff for the duration of their studies, because they know they have a good thing going, but I end up with a loyal and hard working team who strive to exceed the expectations I bestow on them.

I will put pound to penny to bet that a Job Bridge intern would not respond the same way, and why would they? Because their welfare payments will be stopped if they refuse to apply for your “opportunity”?

The level of respect that you are showing not only to your own bar(s) but to bars in general is so shockingly absent, it makes me physically angry. Bar work is some of the hardest work that someone can choose to do. I do, and always have ranked it as some of the most physically, mentally and emotionally draining work a person can do. It is also some of the most rewarding, when given the correct respect especially by and from employers.

Hiring bar staff (or any staff for that matter) through the Job Bridge scheme in this way shows no respect for anyone who works for you now, or will do in the future. It showcases your complete and utter contempt for your current workforce. How would you feel if you thought you could be replaced by a €50 a week “intern”?

I am fully aware that you are not the only employer to exploit this scheme for financial gain, but that doesn’t make it ok.

Your management should be earning their salaries, instead of saving them, by finding alternative ways to save money and increase profits.

Or perhaps you could advertise for a HR Management Intern for €50 a week and see what ideas they come up with.

Alternatively, place your HR Manager/General Manager in the bar for 30 hours in any week, (ideally when there is a wedding for 200+ guests, or similar) and then ask them if they’d work those same hours next week for €50.

I’m guessing they wouldn’t work them for 10 times the amount, lest it remove them from their desks.

Which brings us around to my final point – whomever it was that placed that ad, or whatever meeting was held that resulted in the decision to hire through this scheme should have their own positions questioned.

You have failed the purpose and ethos set out in the original ideals of the Job Bridge scheme.

You have failed to instil any sort of faith in potential (and existing) employees.

You have failed in maintaining a respectable brand, being one who regards its employees in such a low regard.

You have failed in keeping my opinion of your business as a reputable and respectable place to frequent. (Being a local in Navan, that’s a sad out come)

You have failed to have me return as a paying customer, in any form. (Which is going to involve an awkward conversation with a summer bride you have this summer, whose wedding I’m a guest at)

You have failed to see the vicious circle you are placing yourselves in.

By that I mean that you will inevitably ask yourselves why the staff you’ve hired to mentor are continuously disgruntled, have no inclination for your standards of service, grunt at customers and (hopefully not) possibly begin finding ways to steal from you, to make up for what they feel are all injustices. You’ll sack them and hire someone else at €50 a week.

Regardless of level of skill, experience or even desire to be there, happy employees who feel valued will repay you with more than hard work – they will be loyal in the face of challenges big and small.

As it happens, I’m looking to change my career for reasons I’ve outlined above. Shouldn’t be a problem with my qualifications in HR. All of which I’d use (at €50 per week) to show you how it should be done, and also to devalue your profession the same way you’re doing to so many others.

No doubt I won’t receive a response, so I don’t expect one. What I do expect is for this to be emailed around all the heads of department to be snorted at while said heads do all they can to retain performance bonuses. All they can, except any actual out of the box thinking and/or hard work.

Yours in frustration,

Matt

Bar person – Jobridge (IndeedJobs)

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115 thoughts on “An Intern Walks Into A Bar

  1. TheMightyOne

    I’m not against Job bridge as a concept at all but where the feck is the quality control?

    1. Mr. T.

      There is very deliberately NO quality control. This is about lowering wages and cheapening the labour force. It’s an international ideology led by business owners and investment banks and championed in Ireland by politicians to the wealthy, Fine Gael and believe or not, Labour.

      1. martco

        Labour…my arse!
        will the real Labour Party please stand up???
        (ohno wait ye can’t can ye? Eaten so much fat off the land at this stage can’t even stand on yer own legs anymore)

      2. DD

        This so called internship is a very good example of how jobridge causes unemployment by displacing actual jobs.

      3. realPolithicks

        Totally correct Mr T, I would also say it’s about artificially reducing the unemployment figures so that this government can trumpet all the “new jobs” it has created.

    2. Spaghetti Hoop

      It’s as if they set it up with the clear intention for it to be manipulated by public and private sector alike, and borne out of sheer contempt for jobseekers. Surely there must be some suited individual charged with its upkeep and monitoring, no?

  2. Starina

    bar work is unbelievably demanding work. Barmen get paid relatively crappy wages as it is without employers taking the piss with job bridge. This is so insulting.

    1. Drogg

      I worked in bars for 7 years and it is an insanely demanding job but being payed a decent wage while in my late teens and while studying made it all worth while but this job bridge advertisement is just disgusting. I feel a full boycott of Trim Castle Hotel is called for.

        1. Mr. T.

          It’s exploitative. A functioning society is on which considers all and works for the betterment and welfare of all. One which doesn’t function is where one sector of people exploit another with no consideration for the wider consequences which ultimately affect all of society.

          Basically greedy c**ts need to be put in their places and manners branded into their hides.

          1. Bluebeard

            Why is it exploiting? Someone voluntarily takes the opportunity to learn a trade, while getting paid for it. Where’s the harm? Except maybe to your trot sensibilities which dont really count in the real world.

          2. Drogg

            Pretty much what Mr T said, also you do realise your taxes pay for this companies underpaid interns? This company puts €50 towards the weekly wages of this person thats how little they value them, now that is disgusting.

          3. ivan

            actually Drogg, this company DOESN’T put 50 quid towards the wages – that comes from the State as well.

            And Bluebeard, the fact is that the hotel here is basically deciding *not* to pay somebody a full wage to do this work, instead deciding that they’ll take the labour the state provides and pays for.

          4. Bluebeard

            Two people enter a deal that is legal, transparent and voluntary. They both feel they are being treated fairly. One gets experience and a fair wage, the other gets help at a decent price. Im glad my taxes are helping people get back to or into work. The company will mentor, teach and guide the intern, thats worth more than 50€. Priceless in fact.

          5. Drogg

            Ivan i did not know that i thought it was the employer that added the €50. Bluebeard what you seem to be missing is this company needs the help so they are abusing the system by not paying someone and letting the state pay for their employees job bridge is essentially taking away a job and thrust me it doesn’t take 6 months to train someone to be a bar person.

          6. Joe the Lion

            LOL here we go again

            Marx’s life work was a complete waste of time was it Bluebeard? ;)

            Wasn’t he kind of anti-religion too? Funny that.

          7. Bluebeard

            Its a days internship. If you don’t want to learn, don’t apply. If its a job you want, go to a jobs website. Its trotskyite to presume all employers are exploitative, in fact its a cliche of too many leftists, not just trots.

          8. ahjayzis

            Are you honestly so naïve you think this is a pure act of kindness from the hotel? The intern won’t be contributing toward the work that needs to be done at all? That in 30 hours of work for 6 months this intern won’t be displacing even 20 minutes of paid work in the hotel?

            I worked in hotels when I was in college, there are jobs you don’t need more than a day of training for and you’re off, 6 months for a banqueting barman is an absolute joke, he or she will be proficient within a week and the business has a free employee in lieu of hiring someone on an actual liveable wage.

          9. Bluebeard

            Someone will take this opportunity, better themselves, get ahead and get a life, and others will sit and moan and wonder why the world passes them by.

          10. ahjayzis

            Someone will take this opportunity, and a job for a barman paid usually above 10 euro an hour will disappear from the economy, and be replaced by someone earning a pittance, below minimum wage, and at a cost to the taxpayer – meaning said worker spends less in the economy.

            Working in a bar for six months isn’t bettering yourself, it’s working in a bar for six months. In this case for free, devaluing the labour of every other barman in the country. Again, do you honestly think they’re taking this intern on for six months out of altruism while fully staffed and this isn’t displacing a job?

          11. Bluebeard

            Your cynicism makes it impossible to talk to you. you have written off the employer, the job and the bar. So be it. You hate the scheme and all involved. Have you ever done one or provided one? That might change your experience. All my interns went on to fully paid jobs. thats my experience, actual experience, not some abstract theorising.

          12. ahjayzis

            And you either just don’t get it or are being dense on purpose.
            A job is something you are paid to do, a jobbridge internship is not a job. It takes the place of a job, without the associated boost to society in the form of wages to spend and ancillary things like sense of worth and self respect.

        2. Mr. T.

          Bluebeard, is anyone who cares for society more than the profit of very few, a Trotskyite?

          Cop on.

          1. Bluebeard

            I figure that what I was doing by taking on interns, training them and giving them jobs is very good for society. Don’t you agree??

          2. Bluebeard

            Well I figure they would hardly be here if they didn’t consider it fair. Duh! Anything else?

          3. ahjayzis

            “Well I figure they would hardly be here if they didn’t consider it fair. Duh!”

            Whatever about the individuals involved, it’s unfair for society. Entry level jobs tending more towards being completely unpaid means mammy and daddy have to pay. People who don’t have parents that can do that are effectively locked out of the labour market, their talent and skills ditto. That’s bad for everyone.

          4. Bluebeard

            Im not sure what level of expectation you are working off there? Do you expect people to give fully paid jobs to people with no experience? That would be bad for everyone. Imagine all the spilt coffee?

          5. ahjayzis

            I expect people to pay staff for the work they do. It wasn’t always the case that you had to work for a period FOR FREE in order to work in a bloody pub! You started as a lounge boy, collecting glasses – entry level work. In an architects office you started with doing sketchwork, presentation work – and you were paid to do it – entry level work – but it’s still WORK and work should be paid or it has no value.

            Don’t pretend this is the way it always was, it’s a new concept that people starting out are not entitled to a fair days pay for a fair days work because they’re entry-level.

            And again the main point – in no universe does it take six months to train up before you serve drinks at a wedding.

        3. ionabike

          It’s welfare. For employers. What’s so hard to understand about. You’re paying for it after all.

  3. fosull

    First things first, tl;dr, but I don’t think I needed the full thing to get the gist of the argument.

    Second things second, whilst I am often angry and annoyed at the abuses made of the Jobbridge scheme, this one actually looks good to me. They are willing to take on someone with no more to offer an employer than “Punctual and eager to learn” and will give them a set of skills they can promote on their CV when they are done.

    Nobody is putting a gun to anyone to force them into the bar and the chances are that a completely unskilled person could end up with something to offer.

    1. Clampers Outside!

      6 months? They could learn the lot of a barperson and be proficient to the level that an intern has learned all they need or can to do the job, every day after that is an abuse.

      Some of these ‘internships’ are 9 months and up to 18 months… EIGHTEEN ffs !

      Then there’s this… http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/jobbridge-scheme-needs-to-be-dissolved-report-recommends-1.2170541

      JobBridge has done untold damage to the Labour party as far as I can tell.

  4. Bluebeard

    This is a great opportunity to learn while getting paid. €8.30 an hour to learn a trade and up your cv form no experience to experienced. Id bite his hand off for that opportunity if I was starting out. Job bridge, when done well is an excellent scheme, and while some misuse it, this is not one of them. So roll up your sleeves and stop the moaning.

      1. Bluebeard

        First its not subject to minimum wage, and sorry, its 8.33 per hour on any calculator. And its cash in hand, and he’ll probably get tips… Whats to complain about??

        1. Drogg

          Ha tips you’ve obviously never worked in an Irish bar. Also full dole rate for someone 25 is €144 and under 25 is €100 so when you add the €50 the company tags on for 30hours work thats €6.46 if you are 25 and €5 if you are under 25 which id assume most people applying for this would be.

          1. Drogg

            Payed to learn what it is not a high skilled job it is a demanding and intense job but not an overtly skilled one.

          2. Clampers Outside!

            @Bluebeard, so the job takes a week to learn….. why have the internship run for another 8 months and three weeks (most are 9 months and up to 18 months)….

            I know, they’re long to take advantage, and abuse.

          3. Bluebeard

            Clamps, this is a 6 month internship. Frankly less time is no use to you on your CV. And if the employer is serious about what they are going to teach (I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt), theres enough there to keep anyone learning for that period of time. What you’d learn in a week wouldn’t be worth learning and would only toss out the kind of people you get in JoBurger or some other up themselves hipster joint where service only means something you can charge for.

    1. Mr. T.

      “Id bite his hand off for that opportunity if I was starting out”

      No you wouldn’t. You probably just call one of your old school mates and jump in ahead of someone better qualified for the position.

      Jobbridge is a workhouse scheme to make unemployment figures look lower and to push down labour costs so business owners can get that house in France a little sooner.

      1. Bluebeard

        I worked a lot of jobs for nothing just to learn my trade. Thats probably why Im in a position to create jobs for others now. What school mates are you talking about? Or are you just an ideologically trapped person who will always be weighed under by the chips on your shoulder. Better shrug yourself and cop on or you’ll end up serving them

        1. ahjayzis

          Off topic – and well done for going out on your own, but it’s your customers that create jobs for others, not your magic powers.
          JobBridge displaces paid jobs, less of your customers will have the funds to avail of your business – meaning less income, meaning less jobs. The difference between this intern and hiring a barman is the barman can pay rent, eat in restaurants, keep a car on the road – swapping a barman for an intern is a devaluation of work, and long term that is BAD for businesses, no matter how much they moan about the indignity of paying their staff.

          1. Bluebeard

            Its six months while he is learning. Stop exaggerating for effect. Our company has grown thank you and the interns are now spending loads (seeing as you think thats the main thing). More than that, they are proud, content workers who know the value of hard work and its rewards,

          2. ahjayzis

            Stop being deliberately cretinous to make a political point and sketch out the full-time course curriculum you imagine would require six months to implement in order to serve drinks.

          3. Bluebeard

            Ah jaysis, everything is crap. Ah jays is where’s me dole. Please, have some dignity, even if you are unemployed.

          4. DD

            @ Bluebeard

            So not only does disagreeing with jobridge mean you are a Trot, it automatically means you are on the dole?

            You are ludicrous.

  5. Mr. T.

    There is a company in Limerick getting Jobbridge interns to work long overtime and they are not paying them more or offering them days off in return. That’s in breach of the terms but if any one the interns complain, they’ll be fired and nobody is going to stand by them.

    Jobbridge is forced labour. It is little more than an outsourced 21st century Workhouse and Labour and Fine Gael will be remembered for this most disrespectful treatment of their fellow citizens seeking work.

      1. Mr. T.

        I can’t because the people involved would lose their positions because the scheme is not policed.

        There is no oversight worth talking about.

  6. Bluebeard

    Jeez, I read that again, even though its achingly long… Rubbish. I have graduated 3 Jobridge internees myself. 2 have stayed on with me in full time positions, and I helped another change direction into another career. Success all round. Like most things, you get from it what you put into it. Moan in, moan out.

    1. mthead

      So, because your anecdotal evidence us that it works, for you as a employer, but the anecdotal evidence provided in this example is that it is demeaning a profession, the conclusion you have reached appears to be that JB is a success, and you’d rather people shut up? Apologies if I have assumed anything incorrectly about your preference.

      1. Bluebeard

        Read my first post.. I accept it can be misused, but this one is not an example of that. And I hate lazy narratives that go unchallenged like the exploitation one.. JB has been a great success for many people, and as I said it depends what you out into it. Anything that is abused is s*itty. And it didn’t just work for me, it worked for the interns as well.

        1. Joe the Lion

          What about the Life of Jesus one? That’s a sort of lazy narrative too – but you don’t like that challenged? Anyone? You crack me up buddy, best laughs I’ve had on here for a while.

          1. Bluebeard

            Do you not find it a bit sad and creepy to be following me around? Have Don and Jane dumped you already?

          2. Joe the Lion

            I was wondering how Bluebeard being such a clearly important man, found the time and space to devote to posting steaming piles of dung on here on almost a continuous daily basis, in between his campaigning for a yes vote and dog knows what else. Now – the answer is revealed – he hires slave labour to do the real work!
            Who knew?!!

    2. Clampers Outside!

      We have done two, both were only on the scheme for three months and then made full time.

      Your example and my own are the good ones, but there’s a hell of a lot of abuse out there – teachers jobs posted as internships, janitor posts with 9 months of “mentoring”, shelf packing… the problem isn’t that there are good internships.

      The problem is the lack of controls and the extremely unnecessary long (ie abuse) length of internships.

    3. Mr. T.

      You don’t “graduate” jobbridge interns. You’re not a third level college so get that egotistical notion out of your head.

      I’d say you’re saving yourself plenty on not paying normal salaries for the work they put in. What are you like at paying your suppliers?

  7. Paolo

    Hey Matt,
    I went to Cathal Brugha Street, did my time there and worked in several hotels as a “trainee manager” for NOTHING. This would be about the same time as you started out (circa 20 years ago). I worked split shifts that saw me turning over 10 rooms in the morning in accommodation after closing the bar at 2am the previous night.

    This has been happening in ALL hotels for as long as I know. Don’t pretend it hasn’t and, if you are a manager, then don’t pretend that you haven’t done the same to countless people in your time.

    1. Matt

      Paolo,

      I did indeed go through that experience, and put others through the training programme myself. Any establishment I worked/trained in always paid.

      My communication with the Hotel in question was about them abusing the system.

      Some restaurants hold back tips to pay wages, that’s not right. Some places collect service charge that management use as bonuses to themselves, that’s not right. Nowadays those hours that we know as trainee managers don’t happen near as often as they used to, and in my opinion should be stopped altogether.

      Entering into an agreement with an employer about salary etc is one thing. Being forced into it under a welfare scheme that is government funded is another thing entirely and it’s being abused by cheap employers who don’t value the services they’re providing to paying customers.

      1. martco

        next up:

        FG/LAB vote thru changes to lower the minimum age of employment to 10 years of age…Richard Brutal on the radio creaming over his latest new internments…sorry I meant new Jobs announcement for a crowd called Siteselfserv who’ve just branched into the chimneypot sanitation game

        this country is fckd

  8. Diarmuid McCarthy

    Why don’t people inform the hotel of their frustrations, politely and in a mature manner may I add. I emailed the email on the jobbridge post and informed them that they will never receive any business from me or my family.

      1. David

        Fair play to you both and anyone else who did that.

        Remember folks, this JobBridge scam is just one of the warm-ups for when TTIP is forced upon us.

          1. Lorcan Nagle

            A trade agreement that’s been worked out in utter secreacy between various governments and corporate interests. Trade agreements actually supercede national law and as a result something that’s signed into an agreement that would be illegal or unconstituaitonal here can still happen.

            There’s a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding TTIP, but if it’s anything like ACTA, which was defeated a few years ago by sterling activist work around the world, it’ll be utterly horrible unless you’re a corporate high-up.

          2. David

            One of the most insidious aspects of modern trade agreements (TTIP included) is “Investor-State Dispute Settlement”.

            Essentially, if a corporation feels regulations stand in its way or they feel there’s a loss of ‘potential’ earnings, a three-corporate-lawyer tribunal sits in judgement. This is higher than any court and they are directed (hey, I am not making this up) to presume the disputer (always the corporation) is telling the truth. Quote:

            “In deciding an objection under this paragraph, the tribunal shall assume to be true the claimant’s factual allegations in support of any claim in the notice of arbitration (or any amendment thereof).”

            Or how’s this: Philip Morris moved some of its assets to Hong Kong so it could declare itself a Hong Kong company, thus eligible to sue Australia to overturn Australia’s rules limiting tobacco advertising and packaging. For an extra twist, the lawyer for Philip Morris, David A.R. Williams, is one of the judges appointed by New Zealand to the ‘arbitration’ body hearing the case.

            Richard Bruton has put his signature to a document endorsing the inclusion of ISDS in TTIP. We can do nothing as we signed away our rights with the Lisbon treaty.

            Fun.

          3. Bluebeard

            Amazing. A poor guy wants to take on an intern, and suddenly the 3rd secret of the Illuminati is being channeled by the Broadsheet Bildeberg club.

  9. Diddy

    Will people please stop saying the employers pays €50. THEY DO NOT! They pay zilch. WE the taxpayer pay these wages via social welfare.

          1. Mrtits

            I will gladly furnish my card, sirrah, once you have presented your own credentials to my footman. Until then, I bid you good day.

          2. Bluebeard

            I am Bluebeard of Broadsheet. Is he your actual footman or an intern? I dont speak to interns.

          3. Lorcan Nagle

            EXTRA, EXTRA: Anonymous internet poster demands other poster’s bona fides in an attempt to seem important.

    1. Sam

      +1

      If I’m going to be forking out to pay someone who doesn’t work directly for me, then it better be someone working on a beneficial public scheme, not a hand-out to a profitable private business.

      1. Bluebeard

        Would you rather it went to Fás/Solas?? Cos that worked didn’t it. Only profitable businesses have the wherewithal to train people to be productive workers who can one day fend for themselves.Then they will pay taxes and be contributors to society. Maybe you’d rather they just took dole for nothing? Funny how its all sideline punters screaming here. The interns are happy, the employers are happy… but for some reason you are losing sleep..

        1. Sham Bob

          The employers are definitely happy. It’s an employer’s market, why employ someone when they can get paid to take someone on for a year and a half. And if they don’t work out then wait for the next crop of graduates. Feck knows what it’s doing to the real job figures. Anyway, we’re in recovery mode now apparently, isn’t it time to ditch Jobbridge.

  10. Clo

    This kind of thing might not be entirely unexpected from the organisation that was the subject of a very interesting report by the unfortunately short-lived Centre for Public Enquiry: ‘Trim Castle: A Monument to Bad Planning’, the findings of which are summarised here http://www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org/papers-today/36-planning/7850-
    Further controversy regarding the hotel might also be noted. http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/hotel-owners-in-high-court-battle-over-477k-arbitration-award-29497078.html

  11. Bingo

    “to the culture of belittling a profession that recently has been reduced to nothing more than bodies in uniforms.”

    “Service with a sigh” I call it.
    Customer service has gone to the dogs really.
    Maybe I’m just an old moaner.
    Harrumph!

    1. Matt

      Well, when your employer isn’t actually your employer because the government is throwing you some peanuts, why would you bother?

      1. ahjayzis

        Ah now, let’s be honest. Jobbridge is a scam, but service in Ireland’s been a joke way longer than that’s been around.

  12. Joe the Lion

    Bluebird waffles on about freedom to contract etc and all that high falutin jazz but I expect that if even one employee were to take a JobsBridge contractor to task on the basis that their contract is invalid under the National Minimum Wage Act the whole thing could collapse like a burst balloon. Bluebeard has a point that a good solid internship scheme can be mutually beneficial but that’s not the way it is for the exploitation cases. As others point out the scheme is merely perpetuating and quickening up the race to the bottom now that there is not longer a lorry load of Poles, Moldovans and the divil knows what not lining up to take “our” jobs.

  13. Inopro

    This certainly deserves a fair wage. why are the employers using this scheme not expected to pay for example a €100 even top up? that is NOT unreasonable, the current system is unreasonable.

    1. Lorcan Nagle

      When I did a Jobbridge 18 months ago I had a expense account and was allowed to charge extra into it to bring my wages up to something resembling a decent IT wage.

  14. lotlessCoffee

    Another company on the ever growing list of companies to boycott for the exploitation of the working classes, great article Matt, I believe that this scheme is devaluing all employment, and it does not take a genius to understand that the less workers are earning, the less money they will spend in the real local economy.

  15. R. Kavanagh

    Well said…seems to me like another case of “MIDDLE MANAGEMENT” types,pehaps from a different industry altogether “implementing a proven strategy” to lower costs.
    Now while I agree completely with all you have said…you missed a trick…what about the poor young lad or lass who will is being plainly exploited!!!
    Makes the blood boil is right!!!

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