Jobs go at well-known city store (From York Press)

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  djtswilson wrote:
  Absolutely ridiculous prices for supposed classic designs, all part of the snob culture which York can do without coupled with an atmosphere so miserable and unwelcoming by staff we were glad to leave. Maybe they are getting what they deserve.!!!

  Never been in the place but then again, apart from food and petrol, I've been buying my stuff from the internet for years because it's so much cheaper.
  
  12,000 jobs gone in the past month (Comet, Jessops, HMV). Who is to blame? Anybody? Well, much of the blame lies at the door of successive governments for being utterly crap when it comes to fiscal competency, strategy and punishment of those (bankers) who have wrecked the country. I've said it before, retail and housing are not safe reliable and bounce-backable sectors of any economy. In today's world, you're only worth something if you make something that the world demands.
  
  The UK is facing a grim few years ahead, possibly even an epoch of austerity and that's if the powers that be manage to keep control of their populations.
  
  Anyway, the data sadly suggests that more big chains and small shops will go bust so there will probably be many more Mulberry Hall stories.
  
  Thatcher and her cronies have much to answer for. The switch to a service based economy (admittedly it isn't all service based but much of it is) has been an utter disaster. The big changes started happening in her era. How many people nowadays really enjoy their 'service sector' based jobs? Asking people if 'everything is okay for them?'. Bull-sheeting a sales plater down the end of a phone. Awful. People are worth more than that. And then a snot-nosed 'Recruitment' consultant or HR muppet advertises a crummy 13k a year job as a 'fantastic opportunity' to provide 'excellent' customer service'. All I see and read is betty swallocks. I could go on about the worthlessness of Human Resources but I won't. I'll just point you in the direction of the huge amount of unfilled poorly-paid high-skilled IT jobs advertised in the York area with must-have skill checks more complex that the human genome. Recruitment people really don't understand IT do they? Hang on, recruitment/HR really don't understand people. Big irony there.
  
  Oh well."
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