I was laughing to be fair - but yeah. 
And I should have said the £850 relates to the max cost of FOI requests - so some journalist made a FOI request, got knocked back and still tried to make a story. Hence the lol
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Do I detect the scent of frantic backpedalling? 
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Nope - I still think the Tories are a bunch of cunts. Journalists are pretty much the same & apologies for any @sotonians working in the media (@SO5-4BW I think, right?)
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And so am I and so is my wife (© Life of Brian)
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Furlough ends today and the press is full of business owners complaining that they need more support
Apparently 1.6m people are still on furlough waiting for a time when their company’s market might (if at all) rematerialise. Given the vacancy levels elsewhere in the economy it makes sense to end this now.
I don’t disagree about furlough needing to end but a quote from this article
“…There is likely to be a big mismatch of skills and experience between those leaving the furlough scheme and the jobs on offer…”
I suspect that if I were on furlough and lost my job I wouldn’t be looking to up-sticks and go veg picking in East Anglia; go working in the hospitality trade or a meat packing factory.
With your skills would you?
Maybe not - but then I am in the fortunate position that I could sit tight and wait for the right opportunity to turn up.
That said, after a while I would get bored stupid and have do something, anything to add some structure and purpose back in my week - so I probably would be driving, or working in a wine shop or similar. It would depend on what was going on in the area I live
If I was living hand to mouth, I would take the first job I could find to tide me over whilst I tried to sort shit out - some cash coming in is better than no cash
But thats just me
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As for the skills mismatch - employers are struggling to find staff so are more inclined to train them.
Ironically we cannot find experienced recruiters for love nor money so we are takings in grads / college leavers and career changers and training them.
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In my line of business that’s a problem when looking for a specific skill set and type of candidate that’ll fit into my organisation ( unless the career changer knows my industry)
We have to advertise vacancies and generally get bombarded with candidates with little or no experience and invariably end up placing business with the one or two agencies (people at them) who really know what we do and understand the roles.
The rest generally seem to be made up of hopeful punts to earn as much commission as poss.
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They are probably all in jail.
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corrected
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No fucking chance - you spend all day on here
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I was going to do an ad for recruitment.
Become a recruiter!
Because the jails are full enough!
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If it’s extra bodies you need…
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I won awards for my recruitment skills in a previous big firm.
Ironically it took me three years of applications / interviews before I got an offer though 
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From a local group on FB.
I’ve heard ‘furlough payments” end today. Can anyone confirm what time Chris’s chippy opens?
#kerching