Slave labour jobs available

Crazy Horse 6 · 05-01-2012 11:04PM #1

Dixons are now seeking full-time general operatives and driver assistants to work shift work for zero pay

Yes the taxpayer will pay and think of the valuable experience you'll get lumping fridges and TV's into the back of a van.

Surely someone on boards will avail of this wonderful job opening to further their career. :rolleyes:

Dixons won't be getting any of my hard earned cash with this kind of BS

Jobs in Dublin West, Work Placement in Customer Service Distribution Centre Dixons Retail PLC - IrishJobs.ie

ThePower11 · 05-01-2012 11:05PM

Bastards!

El Weirdo · 05-01-2012 11:06PM

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

Dixons are now seeking Full-Time General Operatives and Driver Assistants to work shift work for zero pay

Yes the taxpayer will pay and think of the valuable experience you'll get lumping fridges and TV's into the back of a van.

Surely someone on boards will avail of this wonderful job opening to further their career. :rolleyes:

Jobs in Dublin West, Work Placement in Customer Service Distribution Centre Dixons Retail PLC - IrishJobs.ie

If it's for "zero pay" what exactly will the taxpayer be paying for?

Micky Dolenz · 05-01-2012 11:06PM

I'm a Shifter

patwicklow · 05-01-2012 11:07PM

Well come to new age slave labour

ThePower11 · 05-01-2012 11:07PM

El Weirdo wrote: »

If it's for "zero pay" what exactly will the taxpayer be paying for?

Their dole and the €50 extra per week.

starbelgrade · 05-01-2012 11:07PM

If government schemes are blatantly open to companies taking advantage of them, then you can hardly blame the companies for doing so.

TheZohanS · 05-01-2012 11:07PM

We've turned the corner, Is feidir linn!

kowloon · 05-01-2012 11:08PM

El Weirdo wrote: »

If it's for "zero pay" what exactly will the taxpayer be paying for?

Presumably the worker will claim social welfare. Perhaps Dixons should be putting at least something towards it instead of reaping the benefits of free labour.

El Weirdo · 05-01-2012 11:08PM

ThePower11 wrote: »

Their dole and the €50 extra per week.

Fifty sheets?! Where do I sign?!

stovelid · 05-01-2012 11:09PM

If they're on fas courses, they are getting dole.

Dixons are c+nts.

kowloon · 05-01-2012 11:10PM

ThePower11 wrote: »

Their dole and the €50 extra per week.

Are Dixons paying in the €50 extra?

mkdon05 · 05-01-2012 11:10PM

I'll boycott any company taking advantage of people like this. Manual labour does not require experience and therefore these jobs are of no benefit to anyone bar the company receiving free labour.

Micky Dolenz · 05-01-2012 11:10PM

Some people would rather go out and do that then sit at home. To be honest, I'd consider anything if I didn't have work and was doing nothing.

ThePower11 · 05-01-2012 11:11PM

kowloon wrote: »

Are Dixons paying in the €50 extra?

I don't think so, I think it's from the SW to cover travel and meal expenses.

kowloon · 05-01-2012 11:12PM

I understand people would prefer to do something over being idle but why not spend the time in education rather than doing work for no benefit?

starbelgrade · 05-01-2012 11:13PM

kowloon wrote: »

I understand people would prefer to do something over being idle but why not spend the time in education rather than doing work for no benefit?

Because education costs money & even if you can afford it, it's not for everyone.

ThePower11 · 05-01-2012 11:14PM

kowloon wrote: »

I understand people would prefer to do something over being idle but why not spend the time in education rather than doing work for no benefit?

Exactly, why the fuck would anyone want to work in Currys and the like for no money in the hope of getting similar employment for minimum wage.

Micky Dolenz · 05-01-2012 11:14PM

kowloon wrote: »

I understand people would prefer to do something over being idle but why not spend the time in education rather than doing work for no benefit?

Because some people would rather work while others would rather study.

stovelid · 05-01-2012 11:15PM

Funny how AH goes into convulsions about our tax sponds going on social welfare but when It transpires that your taxes are basically paying the wages on behalf of a presumably profitable company (and undercutting other people looking for paid work),there is hardly a whisper yet.

Would you walk down to Dunnes and hand them a few hundred quid to pay their workers' wages?

Bruthal · 05-01-2012 11:16PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

How is this slave labour exactly?

Oh no, people won't be able to 'further their career'. The poor things.. Will they be furthering their career by sitting on their arse on the dole?

Watching forensic detectives at home would be more useful than lifting a fridge into a truck for nothing.

starbelgrade · 05-01-2012 11:16PM

stovelid wrote: »

Funny how AH goes into convulsions about our tax sponds going on social welfare but when It transpires that your taxes are basically paying the wages on behalf of a presumably profitable company (and undercutting other people looking for paid work),there is hardly a whisper yet.

There's a whole thread on the Internship Scheme already. It's massive and it's full of people giving out.

twinQuins · 05-01-2012 11:17PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

How is this slave labour exactly?

Oh no, people won't be able to 'further their career'. The poor things. Will they be furthering their career by sitting on their arse on the dole? There's nothing wrong with working to put food on the table. Not every job has to be about making it to the top.

This is nothing but entitled bull****.

Next.

Except the taxpayer is basically funding the manual labour for private companies. You don't see the problem with that?

ThePower11 · 05-01-2012 11:17PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Because it's a fúcking job.

Well go to college and study in a field that suits you and that has jobs available rather than work for nothing for cunts like Curry's.

stovelid · 05-01-2012 11:18PM

Work isn't a moral state of mind. It's labour for money.

As if any of the pontificators here with professional careers would lump fridges around for less than minimum wage.

Sonics2k · 05-01-2012 11:18PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Because it's a fúcking job.

A job which the state pays you for.

Dixons basically get free work from this, don't have to spend a penny, meanwhile the State and the tax-payer will be paying the extra money a person is due to get from the "work".

the groutch · 05-01-2012 11:18PM

Thread title = Daily Mail Headline

El Guapo! · 05-01-2012 11:18PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Because it's a fúcking job.

Why would you want to work for free in a job such as a general operative??
This is Dixons blatantly taking advantage.
If I was out of work and on the dole and was desperate to get out of the house and do something it definately wouldnt be to work for free in Dixons.
If someone was that desperate to do something then why not something worthwhile like volunteer charity work or something?

05-01-2012 11:19PM

In fairness there are plenty of folk on the dole who have no experience of working at all, if this is aimed at such folk and Dixon's intend using it with a view to offering the decent the decent performers an actual job in the future it may not be a bad use of taxpayers money.

If I was an 18 or 19 with no aspirations to go onto 3rd level, do a trade etc and had no work experience whatsoever I'd be happy to throw my hat in the ring and take my chances

Crazy Horse 6 · 05-01-2012 11:19PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Except it's not for nothing. It's for money. And I for one would rather work for money than have it handed to me for nothing. And before anyone starts, I'm currently unemployed.

Why don't you apply then?

TerrorFirmer · 05-01-2012 11:19PM

Let's also not forget that some guy very well might now come in on a 40 hour week, at no cost to Dixons, and suddenly another worker, usually in receipt of same hours at paid rate, finds himself cut down in hours and subsequently less pay.

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