jobs

[Melissabendy]

Whys the jobs market so dead at present?

[Barmaid]

Thanks B00. I am keeping everything crossed for tomorrow!!!!!

lol bednobs my point exactly. He eventually admitted a couple of weeks back that he lacks confidence in the kitchen. So I have instigated a softly softly catchee monkee style of letting HIM cook while I am there "chatting" to him. Since last week, he has made Prawn, chorizo and chickpea stew, lamb korma and homemade naan breads, chicken pie and also baked his own bread!!!!

To be fair though he has done most of the washing and cleaning lately.

[B00]

far nicer than i'd be BM. I'd go...

"there's the fridge, freezer over there ,food cupboard here, cooker that white thing that gets hot- get cracking"

[Barmaid]

I remember that too Bednobs, I did nearly kill him for that!!!!! He has never done it since though.

Ummmm, you are right, I do enjoy cooking, I could just do without it when I have come in from court and still have a case to prepare for the next day. We're working that one out though!

[China Doll]

Not sure I agree with you entirely there Boobies... I was out of work for a few months and would never have considered a job as cleaner; not because I've got an inflated opinion of my own abilities (I basically push paper) but because the wage I would have got as a cleaner would never have been enough for me to live on. At the time I was out of work, I had to move back to my mums from guildford and as a cleaner, I would never have been able to afford to make enough to save for a deposit on a place to rent and would probably have ended up at the bottom of an extremely long list for council housing as I don't have any dependents. Some of the cleaning jobs I saw didn't even get to £13,000 a year which I don't think is a realistic wage for a single person living in London to get by on and I wasn't about to take a job for less than £18,000 a year, fortunately I got very lucky.

[Barmaid]

lol B00, but then I'd have to eat it...........

[cazzz1975]

I think when you have a job, its easier to assume there is plenty of work out there and people are being overly choosy, the reality is that even public toilet cleaner jobs get hundreds of applications now.

people who have secure employment dont realise how lucky they are.

[B00]

And wat would have stopped you getting a cleaning job whilst still looking for a better paid job?

And I don't tihnk anyone's job is secure nowadays is it Cazzz?

[jackthehat]

As ummmm pointed out some months ago, her local paper offered a job at at nearby golf course collecting 'lost' golfballs..........it invited prospective applicants to submit their CVs for scrutiny...

[cazzz1975]

some are, like my mom's (carer in a home) for some reason they cannot keep staff, in particular, young staff. its a tough job.

[cazzz1975]

the groundskeeping staff do that along with their other jobs here jack.

[China Doll]

To what purpose? I applied for jobs everyday and like BM's other half, the minute something better came along, I'd have up sticks... I wouldn't have given me a cleaning job. Plus if any interview I had clashed with the cleaning job interview or shift, I wouldn't have turned up.

[Melissabendy]

dont cleaners need to have a licence? I am sure they do...? you cant just say "ta da! i cleaned" or am i imaging things?

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[sherrardk]

I think you are imagining things - if it's clean, then the job has been done properly.

[jackthehat]

You're imaging things...