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Originally Posted by MTVN
Not really
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yes really.
As I said: 6 people for every job. Equates to one job for every 6 job hunts - and then you can minus the amount of people who simply have no desire to work.
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Originally Posted by kizzy
No, it is not what I am trying to say at all. I was referring to the use of online sales via amazon and argos that has forced the closure of many retail outlets in ALL major cities.
By the 'high street' I meant in our towns and cities not in a literal sense 'on the doorstep'.
I commented that some have to re-train, I am aware that option is not 'rocket science' but to retrain in other vocations costs time and money...Where would this come from with a vastly reduced income?
Are you suggesting it is only those in social housing without a car that do not have the motivation to work?
As I said lucky old you... there are 1000's that do pyramid.
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The way you put it across Kizzy, you'd think that there was no retail trade in existence anymore. I do wonder where you live that there appears to be no retailers or shops in our towns and cities.
Where do you buy your food, your groceries, your clothing, where do you pay your utlity bills, birthday gifts, christmas presents, your alcohol, your toiletries, personal items?
You appear to have some misplaced notion that online retailing means resourced without humans.... who do you think processes online orders, who receives stock in, bays in and out, does audits, picks, packs, uplifts, delivers, deals with queries, deals with damages and faulty goods, processes payments, refunds etc? Online machinery doesn't do that... humans do.
Perhaps your idea of working in the retail sector is limited to being in a customer facing role only? Very limiting I'd say.
Retraining costs time and money and you ask how that is viable? . How much time do the unemployed have on their hands .... plenty ... so that's not exactly a hardship to spend time retraining when they are not working 9 or so hours a day. thus very viable.
who says courses have to cost money - that's very much dependant on what people want to retrain in. Courses are available free of charge, even foc online.
And of course: the unemployed can be smart and 'retrain' by taking agency work in areas that they don't previously have experience in.... and they can learn new work whilst being paid for it at the same time.
It's all to do with the will to want - rather than 'expecting' it to arrive on doorsteps.
I do wonder how many temping jobs or agencies people actually signn up with - not in an attempt to pretend to be looking - but with real gusto and being prepared to take on temporary work.