General Chat

Good for him Rose, our girls all worked part-time before they left school, they loved having their own money to spend on themselves or save.

xx

There are good kids, bad kids, hard working kids and bone idle kids and the same applies to adults whatever their ages

It,s all too easy to blame the kids of today for being lazy but I know from experience that a lot of the jobs that are open to them are very poorly paid and have no opportunity for advancement .When I left school we had 4 factories in our town , a lot of us didn,t have a clue at 16 about which career we wanted so did a couple of years in factories .They have all gone now.
My son has just worked for 6 months for an agency in a call centre working shifts including Sat and Sundays .He travelled 15 miles a day there and back for £6.00 an hour .The company laid him off and explained that in 12 weeks they would ring him and offer him a permenant job , the reason being that if they took him on before then they would have to pay the agency a fee .My son was then told by the agency that he wasn,t entitled to his holiday pay as he hadn,t applied for it before Xmas and they were only paying him 11 hours outstanding pay ...
I used to be a recruitment consultant and read his contract , e-mailed them and today he has recieved 14.49 hrs holiday pay and an "underpayment" of 40.49 hours total money paid £259.35 after tax !..
Makes me wonder how many people this flippin agency have ripped off in the past ....
Kim xxx

In some cases the children follow the parents, if the parents don't have a work ethic the children will usually follow suit. But where the parents work and the children don't want to, there doesn't appear to be a reason, unless it is rebellion, or following peers whose family are in the first group.

So far we have not had a problem in our family. Both our children have always had good jobs, neither went to Uni. The eldest Grandson is in work, went to uni, didn't like the course and immediately got himself a job. second eldest is still at college doing A levels, hoping to go to uni in september. meanwhile he started with two paper rounds, moved on to working in the paper shop and has just started work in a newly opened pub and restaurant. He told them he would take as many hours as they could give him, evenings and weekends and school holidays. He has also done voluntary work with the police on the 'sting', trying to get shops and pubs to serve him before he was 18. Third grandson has two paper rounds. None of them has been pushed into working. All have wanted to earn money.

Ann
Glos

Well done Kim for taking on the agency, luckily eldest Grandson was with a good agency although his mum was keeping an eye on his contract etc. he was offered a permanent job straight from being with the firm with the agency.

Ann
Glos

my son worked from the age of 14 doing a paper round , then in a fish and chip, he left school and spent 4 years as an apprentice electrian.

If children are born into hard working families and taught the value of earning the money to buy what you want, not bum off the state, they will work , some families live off the state and it breeds whole generations who do the same.

kitty

the reward for the children who behave and conform is self respect