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Modern Day Slavery
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Sonia Sparse Ink wrote: »Or, maybe, he could get off his hole and work for himself.
Problem solved.
Maybe he could set up as a freelance Rent-a-whinger, certainly has the skills.
That's what I'm doing now and averaging a grand a week for less than 1 hour a day. And I regularly work drunk/in my underwear/puffing away on e cigarettes/unwashed/unshaven/farting like mad/etc,etc.
It was 10 years ago that I was in that situation.
I like to think of it as Limbo though. Office work is a nothing life. Spent wasting time.
Your surviving not living.0 -
That's what I'm doing now and averaging a grand a week for less than 1 hour a day. And I regularly work drunk/in my underwear/puffing away on e cigarettes/unwashed/unshaven/farting like mad/etc,etc. It was 10 years ago that I was in that situation.
OK if it was 10 years ago and you're now living this dream lifestyle why is it you're still going on about it? Move on with your life.0 -
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Sonia Sparse Ink wrote: »OK if it was 10 years ago and you're now living this dream lifestyle why is it you're still going on about it? Move on with your life.
Well, I only got out of office work a year ago, so it's all still quite raw and it's only the last few months that I'm making easy money but thanks for your kind words. If things keep going the way they are now, I'll definitely be moving on with my life with a two year round the world trip starting from early 2014. 0 -
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Now, instead of Corporation put Tommy Connors and instead of employees put these unfortunates. These despicable fuckers, that treated the unfortunate people that fell in their path for sheer greed and cruelty should be horse whipped. A blight on any nation. The piclinks will open. Now this is slavery:
Slave Trader's Missing Millions
Sunday 15th July 2012By Donal MacIntyre
Traveller has £3m stashed in off-shore accounts
NOTORIOUS rogue builder Tommy Connors, convicted of slavery this week, has a staggering stg£3million stashed in offshore bank accounts. The millionaire's claims that his brutal reign of forced labour was part of the Irish traveller tradition failed to convince a jury at Luton Crown Court.
Cops investigating the sordid racket found Connors senior (52), had £1million in various bank accounts, while another £2m was spread around family members. The Sunday World previously exposed the traveller as Britain's worst rogue builder, who was banned by one council authority from touting for work.
Trial judge Justice Michael Kay rejected the Connors family claim that they were the victims of racism.
"The way these defendants brutalised, manipulated and exploited men who had already plumbed the depths of despair as homeless beggars is pure evil," he added.
Homeless
Investigators are now focused on bank accounts held by family members in the Isle of Man. The Connors family held such sway over the men they recruited off the streets and from homeless shelters that several refused to testify against their captors. One slave, who is still working for the family, broke down in tears when he heard that his gang boss, James John Connors (34) and his wife Josie (31), were convicted of "exploiting and brutally manipulating" men in forced servitude.
Just hours after the couple brought to four the number of Connors family members convicted of involvement in the slave trade, one worker, believed to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, continued work on the family plot at the now notorious Greenacres site in Leighton Buzzard.
Speaking to the Sunday World David Radcliffe (57), said: "I was in tears at the news. It's disgusting. They should never have been convicted. They are my family and it's all a load of b****x."
Police believe that he is too institutionalised to understand his predicament and all efforts to explain it to him have failed. Radcliffe has been working with the Connors for 15 years and has seen many others come and go, including many of those who testified against the family.
The Court heard that homeless foreigners, drug addicts and alcoholics were harvested off the streets, had their benefits taken off
them and were forced to work in the Connors' tarmac business and engage in various building scams. Some said that they were forced to clean the family toilets, had to sleep on faeces-encrusted beds and had access to a shower only once every three months
at a nearby public toilet.
Despite the Judge describing the family as pure evil and sentencing James John Connors to 11 years and his wife Josie to four years, Radcliffe is still loyal to his brutal masters. He said that when the police raided the site with 200 officers last September he refused to go and had to be dragged away.
Social workers and police tried to explain what Stockholm Syndrome does to people, but Radcliffe does not accept their interpretation.
"This is my life. I know what it is and I am not suffering from that. They have done nothing wrong. It is a Police vendetta," Radcliffe said on Friday evening.
Police admitted that nine of the 21 slaves picked up refused to testify and give evidence, in what is often a common scenario in people trafficking and domestic violence cases. The Judge in the case said that the Connors' "disdain for the dignity of others is shocking, they were not good Samaritans but violent, cold, hard exploiters".
The accused look unmoved as the court heard how they effectively ran a modern-day slave racket, threatening to kill and break the bones of anyone who thought of leaving. Prosecutors and victims painted a horrific picture in the worst servitude case heard since slavery was banned just over 200 years ago in these islands.
Horrific
Washing facilities amounted to a cold water tap for the slaves and there was also no light or heating. The horrific ordeal ended and the investigation began when one of the victims ran from a canvassing operation in Dunstable and hid in the garage of a vacant house to avoid the family last July. The following September, over 200 police officers raided the Connors caravan site and seven of the family were arrested.
Four members of the traveller family were convicted, including family boss Tommy Connors snr. The jury convicted him on one count of holding a person in servitude, one of forced labour and one of assault. Tommy snr's son, Patrick (20), was convicted of conspiracy, forced labour and assault charges.
His daughter Josie and her husband James John Connors were convicted of servitude and forced labour. James John was also convicted of assault. It is understood that a number of the slaves are considering civil actions for damages.
The jury failed to reach verdicts on several counts regarding three other sons,Tommy (27), Johnny (28), and James (24), and the prosecution have said that they will go for a retrial on some of the charges.0 -
Working for a Multinational (office); Being told when you'll start and when you'll finish, as in "we're here till 10 tonight". Being told what to wear. Being told when you can take a break. Being told how to speak. Being timed going to the toilet. People constantly looking over your shoulder. The company expected to be your number 1 priority over everything else. :eek: And it goes on and on. And they didn't even pay well. I threw off the shackles a few years ago but still bare the scars.
Our government had given allowed employers rights over and above the any rights of employees
Don't like the sh*te conditions under which you have to work? - then get yourself a anotherr job
Want some job security - ditto
Want Health and safety conditions as per national regulations - unless you a have a squilan an in a bank account - you can't prove nothing
Want to report unsafe and illegal work practices - forget it the HSA have all the relevance of a minnow in a shark tank
Want to report bullying by management - you don't have a chance in hell
Want to get screwed and taken for a ride .. Sign on the dotted line and believe that your employer are actually doing you a favour employing you ..
The government are so interested. In maintaining the live register they don't give a dam what conditions employees work under
Want to work for a profit making companies for just €50 - then sign here
Company don't have to give u feck all in return
Why do you think the Chinese are starting to put in call centres in Ireland?
Because work conditions and wages are actually lower than mainland China
Go Figure....0 -
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