Nolan's recruitment drive

[donutuk]

Well…not so much a drive…more of a phone conversation that was had…

One of our drivers got it into their head that working for Nolan’s would be “interesting”…so gave them a call…this is the resulting conversation…

after a few minutes chatting about the work, the driver asked about the pay…

Nolan: “We pay £380 a week”…
Driver: “And what are the nights out etc on top?”
Nolan: “No, thats £380 the lot…”
Driver: “That’s taking the ■■■■■■■ ■■■■…you’re kidding right?”
Nolan: “That’s what we are paying the Polish…”
Driver: “Yeah, but i’m not Polish am i?”
Nolan: “True, but you’re not Irish either are you?”…click.
Driver: “Hello?..Hello?”

[scotstrucker]

[mickyblue]

[ra_dar]

what do you expect from a toe rag of an employer what ■■■■■■ me off was the RSA(same as vosa) had him by the balls over infringements they only gave him a fine instead of taking his o licence.

i must phone the ■■■■ for a laugh sometime and enquire about a job and abuse the dirty strawberry flavoured knacker(knacker=■■■■■■)

[limeyphil]

what’s the phone number?

then we can all ring them.

i already know my answer to the £380 per week thing.
it’ll be “oh i see, are you on a three day week”?

[welshboyinspain]

nothing new here to see, i posted last year about how much the pay had gone down in ireland thanks to our flipflop and sock wearing friends from the east. it’s no secret on here that i used to work for nolans many years ago when all the trucks had either welsh or irish drivers and we were paid 100 pound a day after tax every day you had the truck including weekends and at home so 700 pound a week was normal but the work was not!! then one day the leaders of europe all agreed we were equal and the pay went out of the window but you can’t ask your bank manager if you can pay half the mortgage because the pay has halved

[orys]

I had the other interesting e-mail exchange.

It was writren that the potential employee has to be from Lanarkshire are due to occasional emergency call outs.

I live about here:

So i decided it can be a good idea to apply.

I wrote to them that altough I live in administrative Glasgow, about 1000 m from “Welcome to Lanarkshire” sign, I have very easy access to M74 and therefore I think I can be a good option.

They answered me in very rude manner with a sense of: “I want someone from Lanarkshire” and “May I suggest that you full read and understand adverts before you apply, moron.”

I knew after that e-mail that I don’t want to work for her, but I answered: Because I had read and understanded, I noticed that your most important factor is that your potential employee has to be able to be quick and I am able to reach most places quicker than someone who lives withing Lanarkshire borders, but for example in Kilsyth or Leadhills. I was ■■■■■■ off so added “May I suggest that you’ll learn some geography before you’ll lost potentialy good employer by rude patronising comments”.

The answer was that her e-mail wasn’t by any way patronising and that “You will certainly not gain employment by speaking in such a disrespectful manner”.

I answered that I am glad that we agreed that it was rude and that I don’t want to work for her anyway. I added “You will certainly not keep your employees for long if you first will treat them with so rude way and then expect respect”

All I get in reply was bunch of [zb]'s… There was one funny bit thought. She wrote that it’s insulting to tell women to think I knew that some womens don’t like to think, but I never thought that it might be insulting to them

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The funny thing is that I already work for two agencies from Motherwell and East Kilbride already and they have no problem with me leaving where I live… But maybe they just can read a map?

[man-tga]

hey ory’s

just looked at the video in the link on your signature…

Funny as [ZB]…

[44_tonne_ton]

Conor will think you’re all Nazis!

[ader1]

welshboyinspain:
nothing new here to see, i posted last year about how much the pay had gone down in ireland thanks to our flipflop and sock wearing friends from the east. it’s no secret on here that i used to work for nolans many years ago when all the trucks had either welsh or irish drivers and we were paid 100 pound a day after tax every day you had the truck including weekends and at home so 700 pound a week was normal but the work was not!! then one day the leaders of europe all agreed we were equal and the pay went out of the window but you can’t ask your bank manager if you can pay half the mortgage because the pay has halved

Of course, I am sure the fact that the ‘leaders of eruope all agreed we were equal’ was quite welcome regarding allowing you to settle in Spain.

[fh12guy]

[markoyl]

[44_tonne_ton]

[orys]

and: there are equal and more equal. You could go to spain few years ago. I couldn’t.

[welshboyinspain]

the difference is to those of you who may be interested is i have a mortgage in spain and pay all my taxes in spain and my daughter was born in spain.
how many flipflop and sock wearers contribute to the uk or irish economy like that? most of them live in the truck and send their money back to their family without spending much in the local comunity
as far as being “allowed” to go to spain it’s not because we are all european after all there are members on here who have gone to canada or new zealand or usa i simply chose spain because i can speak spanish
the two main reasons for leaving the uk were losing my job to a double man team of poles who earned less between them than i did and my local christian school turning into and islamic school but those of you left in the uk put up with being born christian british but being the minority in your own country

[Lucy]

those of you left in the uk put up with being born christian british but being the minority in your own country

Hate to be a pedant, but I’m not Christian. That’s what happens when people make sweeping generalisations, see. They get it wrong.

[welshboyinspain]

Lucy:

those of you left in the uk put up with being born christian british but being the minority in your own country

Hate to be a pedant, but I’m not Christian. That’s what happens when people make sweeping generalisations, see. They get it wrong.

sorry lucy no offence meant but you get the picture should have said non muslim then would have included you

[simon_1982]

so you can speak Spanish or you know a few words? What I know about British expats is they can hardly speak a few words, usually isolated and moaning and commenting articles on the daily mail site.
If I settled in Spain I’d look for a Spanish version of the trucker’s forum .
It is exactly the same as johnny foreigner form Eastern Europe in the UK, you are johnny foreigner from the UK in Spain.
Good luck matey, pay your taxes regulary in Spain and enjoy your life there and I know it must be hard if you’re aware the Spanish have had enough of you (although you pay taxes as Poles do in the UK)

Regards,
Simon

[starfighter]

I’d like to know how the Poles are getting away without paying taxes when it’s deducted at source The majority of the ones I know are actually renting houses here, some have even GOD FORBID, set up shops and other businesses here. As for them sending money home to their families that’s nothing new, Indians and Pakistanis have sent money back to their homelands for years, they are still having to spend to live here, if they want to scrimp a bit and send some money back home that’s down to them, it’s their money. But then if they stopped sending money home and brought the family with them people would be getting up in arms about them “invading” the place. I don’t particularly like the fact that Britain has so many immigrant workers who will work for less than a native would work for, and I especially don’t like the fact that there are so many British sitting at home claiming benefits and we are importing workers, but it isn’t the fault of the people themselves. The reason they work for less than us is because it looks like a lot to them, and it’s EMPLOYERS who are taking advantage of this to pay lower wages, the same as it is the Government that allows the situation in the first place. And the owner drivers who are undercutting native hauliers are only doing what other companies have done for years, hence the crazy “backhaul” rates. I don’t get backhaul, the diesel costs the same going both ways, ok I see if you are going back home anyway you may as well make some money on the way but it’s rather shortsighted because there will always be someone else going home so you just push everyone’s rates down. But hang on we’re English it can’t be our fault, lets just blame the foreigners as usual.

[Lucy]

What I really deeply resent is the amount of generalisation that goes on without any real reference to the facts. I mean, what is “British” anyway? We’re a hybrid nation, always have been. Most of those who get irate about “foreigners” come from Viking, Norman or Breton stock. Or perhaps Roman or Saxon. I also resent people telling me how the foreigners are doing “us” out of a job. An awful lot of the work done by the Eastern Europeans used to be done by other people who were sneered down upon in times past.

Take the harvesting/agricultural labouring work. It used to be done by Travellers. I know, I was one of them, and the old Agricultural Minimum Wage back then was just £2.65 an hour - not many people know we had one of those YEARS before there was a general Minimum Wage. Anyhow, the working Travellers got run off the road, and someone had to fill the gap. It was never the trendy youngsters out there in the first place. Years before that it was how the Working Class in the cities paid for a few weeks holiday in the country, but now they’d all rather go to the Costa Del Easyjet, so they wouldn’t be doing it now either. Can you seriously imagine the I-pod generation picking Daffs in horizontal rain in the middle of Winter for 5p a bunch? No, neither can I. But someone has to. It’s just that most people think they’re above all that now. It’s just greed.

As for the low-rate driving jobs, they’ve always been there, and once upon a time provided a foot in the door for newbies with shiny new licences. I worked for every cowboy in the West while I was “serving” out my two years, but you’ve only got to read what’s being posted in the Newbies Forum on here to know that today’s new passes won’t do that, they insist on the same rates as drivers with experience from day one, or go on agency and complain when they are bottom of the list or asked to work messy hours. So again, someone’s got to do it. Someone always did. So the Poles etc. fill the gap because others won’t. It’s just greed.

Then there’s all your factory and warehousing jobs, and all those waiters and kitchen porters etc. Once upon a time that was where those kids who didn’t want to stay in school started out, or how students supplemented their grants to get through college. Now kids just sit on the Dole sneering down at those who work in menial jobs like that, spending their benefits on WKD and mobile phones, whilst poncing off Mum and Dad, or good hearted people like me and Rik who try and give them a chance. Students run up bloody great debts doing pointless degrees a lot of the time, just to avoid having to contribute. In the meantime, the work still needs doing, and there’s no-one else prepared to do it. It’s just greed.

Sure, there are exceptions to the above, of course there are, but ultimately the only point I agree with when people talk about foreign workers is that they are a symptom of what is wrong with society today. And what is wrong with society today is that everyone wants something for nothing, everyone wants ever more consumer crap, and very few young people have any idea what really MATTERS in life any more. Self-respect and pride have gone straight out the window, and a misplaced sense of entitlement had crept in instead. We seriously need to get our own house in order before we blame those who haven’t yet screwed up their values for being the cause of all our ills.

scuttles off to hide in her nuclear bunker whilst the backlash from this gets unleashed…