Did anyone else see the rather depressing programme last night on BBC?
Still available on the IPlayer here :-
http://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r3qyw/The-Day-the-Immigrants-Left/
In essence a group of long term 'job seekers' were placed in employment at present being done by a mixture of Portuguese, Bengalis and Eastern Europeans to see how they would hack it.
Three were sent to the potato packing factory (which was not unlike Tilmanstone Salads where I have worked). Only two turned up and they were half an hour late on their first day. They proceeded to bugger up the packing due to an apparent inability to count how any packs they were putting in a box.
At the restaurant only one of the four turned up for work. He started by being unable to tie his own neck tie and went downhill from there and in spite of numerous cigarette breaks when it all got 'too much' did not last the day.
The three on piece work picking asparagus picked so little that their boss was £50 out of pocket making their pay up to the minimum wage.
The only one who did reasonably well was a carpenter but even he had a hissy fit at one point as he could not take criticism of his work.
How the Hell have we produced so many useless, ignorant and unemployable oiks.
I despair.