tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3985324120767484634..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: What Does A Worker Look Like?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-76252590731464966352010-03-01T17:14:00.854+13:002010-03-01T17:14:00.854+13:00Successive governments since 1984 have said they w...Successive governments since 1984 have said they want to create a high wage economy. What they haven't said that they didn't mean to include the people who do the actual work.Treeleapernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42816202161801695842010-02-21T11:36:38.504+13:002010-02-21T11:36:38.504+13:00Sweatshop workers in China are treated better than...Sweatshop workers in China are treated better than those in the hospitality industry here.<br /><br />The employer-employee relationship has large aspects of it left over from the master/slave (or servant) relationship of old.<br /><br />And to those who say, 'if you dont like your job, just leave' - if you cannot find another job (which would most likely be the case), there is a 14 week stand down period for the dole if you leave your job, so a lot of people have to put up with misery so they can have food to eat and a roof over their head.<br /><br />MillsyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65087074519273784612010-02-21T09:01:02.831+13:002010-02-21T09:01:02.831+13:00And I’ll tell you something else; some of them are...<em>And I’ll tell you something else; some of them are really stupid.</em><br /><br />Not just stupid...predictably it's the older women with educated accents who will unloaded a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse if they don't get what they want.RedLogixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-15178115589724739442010-02-20T20:59:21.635+13:002010-02-20T20:59:21.635+13:00This post should not go without comment and yet th...This post should not go without comment and yet there is nothing to say that it does not say itself - it is the quietly spoken truth that stops the conversation. How far away from slavery is service work performed under these conditions?Olwynnoreply@blogger.com