I know, i promissed a better post this week, but i have a valid excuse this time! I'm ill. With tonsillitis. Again... I'm not sure what i have done to deserve such a resilient bug inhabiting my throat, but seeming though it first appeared in early November, just before bonfire night, and that since then it has only caused me pain, tiredness and to sweat more than i thought possible, i've got to say, me and it, well lets just say that he aint doing his fair share of the washing up, he hasn't helped with any of the bills and when he does move out, i dont think i am going to get that deposit back!
On the plus side i've been given a paid job to do from South Kilworth Primary. (Yes Al, this must be the start of my slow realisation that i'm destined to teach all your little bastard children!-Your such a playa!) The job is to reply to the kids letters to Santa. I've already read through them, a lot of them are standard for the material obsessed children of today, but some of them want more traditional things. Anyway, i'm saving that for next weeks post, the last one before Christmas, as i am not spending Christmas day on Blogger and paint!
Ok! On to today's article about the employment sectors of britain in 2007, which is imaginatively titled:
On the plus side i've been given a paid job to do from South Kilworth Primary. (Yes Al, this must be the start of my slow realisation that i'm destined to teach all your little bastard children!-Your such a playa!) The job is to reply to the kids letters to Santa. I've already read through them, a lot of them are standard for the material obsessed children of today, but some of them want more traditional things. Anyway, i'm saving that for next weeks post, the last one before Christmas, as i am not spending Christmas day on Blogger and paint!
Ok! On to today's article about the employment sectors of britain in 2007, which is imaginatively titled:
The Employment Sectors Of Britain 2007.
There appears to be only three main areas of employment currently in this country: Sales, Engineering and Recruitment. None of these at present seem to want me, nor do I want them 
(so I say, but honestly I’d take anything at the moment, I am sure its only a temporary falling out). So as I understand it, Britain currently works by recruitment people recruiting sales people, engineering people and even more recruitment people, who in turn recruit still further sales, engineering and recruitment people. The first two make perfect sense, companies need engineers to make things (or repair them, develop them or whatever…), thus sales people are needed to go out and sell them. However specialist recruitment companies or consultancies as they like to call themselves seem to have developed what I can only call, a "self perpetuating employment paradox". Let me explain my little theory, the recruitment consultancies I have come into contact with seem to number in the thousands (I am not kidding, and that is only a portion of the “industry”, I say “industry” because in my opinion an Industry, notice the capital ‘I’, can only be called one if it actually makes something, a dated notion I know, but what the hell right!), each one lists many, many jobs on their variously well or badly designed websites. Of these jobs many are for, sorry recruitment guys, proper companies, however many more are also for other recruitment firms. Thus we come to the paradox affect that I mentioned. Recruitment agencies, firms, consultancies, all recruit for themselves and each other and thus keeping each other going on indefinitely. They have created the employment equivalent of the cold fission! It is utter genius! It is like a game of musical chairs where instead of taking chairs away, you keep adding them in so that more people can join the game and themselves adding more chairs and more people. However, at some point no doubt, some clever charismatic young stallion, an individual of extreme cleverness and wit, is going to point out the reality of the current state of affairs, that there is in fact an edge to this great infinity pool 
of employment, and the whole thing might come crashing down in a massive wave of common sense, as companies that do actually make or do things realise they don’t require the expensive services of quite so many recruitment companies after all and decide do go back to advertising in the local paper. Or it might not, and the recruitment industry will continue to grow until the only thing people are employed in is recruitment. Then we’ll all starve or freeze to death as society grinds to a halt. Or maybe not.
(so I say, but honestly I’d take anything at the moment, I am sure its only a temporary falling out). So as I understand it, Britain currently works by recruitment people recruiting sales people, engineering people and even more recruitment people, who in turn recruit still further sales, engineering and recruitment people. The first two make perfect sense, companies need engineers to make things (or repair them, develop them or whatever…), thus sales people are needed to go out and sell them. However specialist recruitment companies or consultancies as they like to call themselves seem to have developed what I can only call, a "self perpetuating employment paradox". Let me explain my little theory, the recruitment consultancies I have come into contact with seem to number in the thousands (I am not kidding, and that is only a portion of the “industry”, I say “industry” because in my opinion an Industry, notice the capital ‘I’, can only be called one if it actually makes something, a dated notion I know, but what the hell right!), each one lists many, many jobs on their variously well or badly designed websites. Of these jobs many are for, sorry recruitment guys, proper companies, however many more are also for other recruitment firms. Thus we come to the paradox affect that I mentioned. Recruitment agencies, firms, consultancies, all recruit for themselves and each other and thus keeping each other going on indefinitely. They have created the employment equivalent of the cold fission! It is utter genius! It is like a game of musical chairs where instead of taking chairs away, you keep adding them in so that more people can join the game and themselves adding more chairs and more people. However, at some point no doubt, some clever charismatic young stallion, an individual of extreme cleverness and wit, is going to point out the reality of the current state of affairs, that there is in fact an edge to this great infinity pool 
of employment, and the whole thing might come crashing down in a massive wave of common sense, as companies that do actually make or do things realise they don’t require the expensive services of quite so many recruitment companies after all and decide do go back to advertising in the local paper. Or it might not, and the recruitment industry will continue to grow until the only thing people are employed in is recruitment. Then we’ll all starve or freeze to death as society grinds to a halt. Or maybe not.............................
Oh and do you eat or drink soup?
(Desperate attempt to get the comments section going a bit....)
1 comment:
Genius!
Al
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