Get an unpaid job, you scrounger!
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:58 am
Apparently Close Protection UK, a security company with contracts to provide security for the Thames Pageant, dumped a coach load of their "operatives" from the Bristol, Plymouth area at 3am near London Bridge and told them to sleep on the concrete under London Bridge. Then at about 5.30am they were then told to change into their high visibility gear, polo shirts, combat trousers etc etc in public before doing a 14 hour shift.
And the payment for this apparently unpleasant job? Well the unemployed amongst them who were on a work programmes got nothing. There were apparently a large number of "apprentices" who got ?2.80 an hour.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, managing director of the company, Close Protection, Molly Prince said it was a "logistics error" and the situation had been "exaggerated". However she confirmed there was an employee of the firm on the coach and said she did not "agree with his decision to allow the deployment of these people into the bridge area".
Quick translation of the last sentence for those who are not fluent in corporatese. "I'm pissed we have got into the news with a load of bad publicity because one of our dickheads told these losers to sleep under a bridge, when he must have known this didnt look good".
Victorian values. Can't wait til they come back in their entirety, can you?
I'll know they have arrived when Richard Branson starts up Virgin Workhouses, a chain of funky, modern, go-getting, transformational centres for getting people into the world of work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/0 ... unemployed
And the payment for this apparently unpleasant job? Well the unemployed amongst them who were on a work programmes got nothing. There were apparently a large number of "apprentices" who got ?2.80 an hour.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, managing director of the company, Close Protection, Molly Prince said it was a "logistics error" and the situation had been "exaggerated". However she confirmed there was an employee of the firm on the coach and said she did not "agree with his decision to allow the deployment of these people into the bridge area".
Quick translation of the last sentence for those who are not fluent in corporatese. "I'm pissed we have got into the news with a load of bad publicity because one of our dickheads told these losers to sleep under a bridge, when he must have known this didnt look good".
Victorian values. Can't wait til they come back in their entirety, can you?
I'll know they have arrived when Richard Branson starts up Virgin Workhouses, a chain of funky, modern, go-getting, transformational centres for getting people into the world of work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/0 ... unemployed