He sounded like a tool makers son. Did you know his Dad was a tool maker?
No I never knew that. He managed to keep that under his hat. 
BBC News - No excuses to not build 1.5m new homes, Rayner says - BBC News
More chance of getting a wank off the Pope, than hitting this target. For a atart they dont build houses. They have no idea how to change planning processes and even if they did, all the suppliers have reduced capacity over the last 12 months because of the downturn, which will mean any sudden demand extends lead times, increases costs and fuels inflation. Fucking clueless. But i spose thats only to be expected from a cabinet that has no business experience.
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The HYS comments on there are a joy to read. Load of comments by racists who have no idea about the difference between legal and illegal immigrants.
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Not as unlikely as you might think, from the choirboys perspective.
Two jobs surveys have been released - permanent vacancies are way down, like Covid level bad
Over the last couple of weeks we have heard about big recruitment firms laying off staff mainly to plug the incoming hole that the NI rise are going to create as well as getting them in before Rayner enacts her day 1 rights stuff.
And this is a relatively well paid sector - gods knows what its like for those businesses that use low pay employees - the minimum wages increase and the NI combined will mean that someone at the low end of the pay scales will cost 11% more in April - that is going to fuck retail and hospitality.
Could be partly down to companies binning recruiters and going it alone - saving cash and all that.
Our HR team have started doing that adding a note to job posts for recruitment firms to not send in speculative CVs - can’t see that working for long judging by how shite the job descriptions are thst they’re putting out there.
Over here we are seeing in house recruiters getting slaughtered and everyone thinking out sourcing is the way to go.
Mrs P_F caught their outsourcer sending in C Level applicants that had been interviewed by interns then discovered the company had only a board and then interns. Not one Applicant had any software experience let alone C Level
Possibly - although that might be to stop the non PSL ones hassling them.
AI is going to make this worse - The candidate matching to JDs is really getting shit hot and throw in a bit of automation (which is already out there) I will be able to scrape the interent looking for your jobs, match that to 5 candidates on our DB (or even Linked In), tailor their CVs to your JD and company profile, send with a nice precis on each candidate, all without lifting a finger
Hopefully my job will distill down to a couple of us sat round a laptop (preferably in a pub) waiting for the cash to roll in - no more sales people - bliss
I absolutely subscribe to this train of thought - it should be everyone’s personal mission.
The other thing you are going to love is being interviewed by AI - there is some software we are looking at that will interview you using a deep fake profile and can adapt the questions to the answers given - early stages but its bloody good, particularly if you have 1000s of applicants and there are looks of basic hygiene questions you want to ask
Lots of PFIs are coming to the end of there 25 years lifecycle - (where the fuck did that time go) So I wondder what will replace them and hopefully we can avoid debacles such as this
£400 per year to maintain a plug socket??? - what incompetent twat negotiated that deal??
A Tory cunt is who
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Blair was responsible for the initial wave of PFI contracts.
So yes, you’re correct.
We need Elon!
Is there anyone left in Liverpool thy didn’t charge?
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All as dodgy as fuck. The Flanagans were the ones who were given a £7m contract to build a new HQ and conference centre for the Unite union, then under the leadership of McClusky. The eventual cost was way over £100m quid for a facility valued at £27m. Contracts were awarded to family members of Anderson and over £14m was left unaccounted for in the project final account. IIRC, the flanagans company had a turnover of less than £3m when they got the contract. Snouts, trough, etc. If I was a unite member, i’d be fooking livid.
Labour are cracking down on the welfare state and going to et loads more people into work. - great news, except…
their taxation policy means employers are holding fire on recruitment and in many cases reducing head count
Could do with a bit of joined up thinking here