Can you beleive it - some people's work ethic

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I'm absolutely astounded. I'm in the process of recruiting at my yard and the past three people have had a work ethic that beggars belief. First girl worked a weekend, then when she was phoned as she didn't turn up the follwoing weekend informed us that she had 'flu - the last we saw of her.
Second girl was knackered by 7:30 and handed her notice at the end of her first day as it was too much like hard work. third girl had a thorough interview, and a trial day to make sure she knew what she would be doing, and then lo and behol, does not turn up on her first day at work and has subsequently vanished into thin air!!
I can't understand the work ethic of these people. I would never just not turn up to a job, and would always give things a decent go.
I have, however realised that my head girl is worth her weight in gold.

Anyway, pointless rant over.................
 
My mum would agree so much with you, she is trying to recruit a mechanic and has had the same problems as you, I'm sure people don't want to work...........
 
Isn't it awful, I work in a library and have had this problem a couple of times and it drives me insane it is just so disrespectful, especially when there are brilliant people out there that would love a job.
 
People just have it too easy now. They do not want to do any hardwork now. Iused to work Full time at a dealing yard 7.30 - 5pm and then 4 nights a week at the pub. Plus do a horse as well. Think I have just always been an active person and I hate boredom
 
Had a similar problem myself this week. Thankfully we have used an agency to recruit and the position is temp with view to a permenant job.
The young lady (term used loosely) had been with us for 8 days when, on Thursday last week, took it upon herself to leave early when both my boss and I were out of the office. She simply waltzed out whilst our Sales Manager was on the phone, waving as she went. Needless to say she didn't turn up Tuesday morning either. Have another young girl starting tomorrow.
 
I set on a weekend girl a few years back. I knew there was a problem when she was sweeping the yard one-handed, with her mobile glued to her ear
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I think it all went t!ts up when they took children out of the mines
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No way could I leave someone in the lurch like that, just not in my make-up. It is horrible to think that so many people CAN do this and not feel bad about it. I do hope they are a manager/boss/business owner one day and have it happen to them
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We had a sim temp once at an office where I worked. Arrived late, long lunches then disappeared at lunch time one day with someone's wallet & was never seen again. Dreadful.

But on the other hand, I've got a ton of quals & have been 10 years without a sick day & am never late (and seldom lazy!!) & I'm really having to work extremely hard just to get interviews.
 
then people get all shirty when polish workers take over the jobs no one else wants to do, at least they're willing to do some work.
My hubby works in a big factory and most of the night shift is made up of eastern european workers - he says they're the most productive out of all 3 shifts!
 
This is why we employ a lot of Eastern Europeans.
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They want to work as many hours as you can provide.
They work ever so hard.
They are loyal
They are friendly
They are polite.
They don't do sickies.
They are the good type that want to improve life for their family back at home so they are naturally the get up a go type.

We also have a fabulous workforce of "British workers" but we do have fun filtering through the crud to get the good uns.
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You have just got to keep filtering through the "I want money but don't want to earn it just yet" brigade.
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I have to say I have walked out of a stable job before but only due to the YO wanting me to muck out 10 stables within an hour and only paying me £3.50ph at the time. If it had been somewhere nice and the people had been more positive and friendly I would have stayed on, but in the end it just got to me too much.

Unfortunately people love horses and think yard jobs are just standing brushing horses all day. I am really hard working and I know I would have done the best I could so it is shame when people abuse that.

I am a careers advisor and yes it is much easier for people to claim benefits sometimes then to be paid to work really hard.
I think it is more that the person wants to work with horses and it determined rather then just finding a job to pay the bills...
 
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then people get all shirty when polish workers take over the jobs no one else wants to do, at least they're willing to do some work.
My hubby works in a big factory and most of the night shift is made up of eastern european workers - he says they're the most productive out of all 3 shifts!

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Yep! I agree, and is one reason I get cross when people start ranting about "immigrants"!! Just because you're born here, doesn't mean the UK owes you a living! Grrr

(sorry will take a chill pill!!
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I have to say I have walked out of a stable job before but only due to the YO wanting me to muck out 10 stables within an hour and only paying me £3.50ph at the time. If it had been somewhere nice and the people had been more positive and friendly I would have stayed on, but in the end it just got to me too much.


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Would agree that we all know certain people in the horse industry have cashed in for years on the back of young girls love of horses. (I'm not implying that's the case here though)
 
Our yard has had the same problem lately. Luckly there main full time member of staff is very loyal as she learnt to ride at the yard aged 7 and now works there aged 20. We had one go complaining to her college (she was a working pupil) saying the YO wasnt helping her enough do her work, she wanted to be spoon fed and they wouldnt do that!
 
nope - not pointless - shape of things in this country where the natives are too lazy and then sit on their backside and moan about the Polish migrants - who bloody well WORK
 
Agree with the comments about the polish workers. A SJ yard I went to got two Polish workers last year and they were really impressed with their work ethic. They were getting paid the same rate but never whinged about the workload, totally reliable, not stopping for fag breaks/texting on moby every 5 mins + got everything done without having to be asked twice.

Does annoy me when I hear people complain about immigrants taking 'our jobs' when there seem to be hundreds of pregnant teenagers/ dole scroungers quite happy to let the taxpayer fund their days hanging around shopping malls!
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Sadly, it's one of those things that is getting all the more common these days. It's the same all over, not just yards, and it happens in schools too - half the kids teach can't be bothered to even attempt to complete work they find in the slightest bit challenging. They are afraid of hard work as everything is spoon-fed to them or handed to them on a plate everywhere else in their lives. On the matter of finding someone to work on your yard, I assume most applicants will think it is "glamorous" to be "working with horses" and not actually realise the work they have to put in. Good luck in your search.....!!
 
I don't know about everyone else but I am totally mystified by people who don't want to work in any shape or form and would rather claim state benefits instead. I hate people who pretend to be ill so that they can claim incapacity benefits when there are other people who are genuinely ill/disabled but who still work hard for a living despite their problems. I want my tax to go to people who need really help, not lazy, g*ts who must be laughing their heads off at the way they are playing the system.
 
As a certain BHS chappie says 'If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys'.....
I used to work on yards but decided I'd had enough when I came out of my flat about an hour early (as I usually helped muck out tho' I wasn't supposed to, no OT, trust me!) to start the feeds, cheerily greeted my boss with a 'Good Morning!' only to be answered with a 'Clean the f***ng drains NOW!'
Told her I quit....and all my WP's legged it too....cos I wasn't there to protect them....my boss called me a 'Pied Piper'!!!
So my point is there are some truly appalling employers too.
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Well I've known people to join the Police and say they don't work nights or weekends and one who didn't like crowd situations and another who couldn't deal with dead folk, sort of cancels that job out then!!
So they are every where!!!!!!!!
 
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I too have had these types of problems, but then a lot of horse people are paid extremely badly, while their employers splash their money around all the time then expect people to work hard for £4 an hour.

I think if you are very choosy who you interview and offer a reasonable package you wont have problems.

I don't agree with what you say about some Eastern Europeans though, I don't like the way England is going/has gone, we have had people who someone named but I don't want to name their nationality when I worked at a top class hotel near here and they were all found to have stolen a lot of goods both from the hotel and other staff. Life is cheap in some of these countries too.

In Winchester I got spat at (yes, really) right in the face by an immigrant who either wanted my bag or something, the police said we was a wanted criminal who has recently thought to have come over from eastern europe purely to steal and things, now where do my rights go then? It was revolting, I didn't want to go out for ages after that and I had to have jabs to make sure I didn't catch anything, now you tell me to give them jobs etc- no way.

I worked extremely hard as a groom but there was no way I could survive on those wages for long, and anyway, I had gained a degree during my time as a full time groom-it was knackering but then ofcourse I wanted to get the rewards that a good education can bring.
 
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No way could I leave someone in the lurch like that, just not in my make-up.

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I'm with you on this one Weezy; if I've said I'll do something, I do it and that's that.

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Well yes, I agree with you, there is no time for sick days with horses, that said some people who employ staff to look after horses really do take the piss. I used to work very, very hard and I was able to compete, the lady always bought me a lunch at a show which was very nice of her. But it wasn't like I was paid much! Whereas she skied, bought new cars, the lot so it wasn't a lot to her but it certainly helped me.

She also taught me a lot until Nicola took over my training about 6 months later
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We have similar problems in farming. Today's youngsters don't realise how much manual work is involved. They think they're going to spend a few hours a day on a tractor and then sit in the field's making daisy chains (not that we have fields full of daisies) or fishing!
 
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We have similar problems in farming. Today's youngsters don't realise how much manual work is involved. They think they're going to spend a few hours a day on a tractor and then sit in the field's making daisy chains (not that we have fields full of daisies) or fishing!

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I completely agree with the farming issue, we stay on a Jersey dairy farm in Cornwall, it is such a lovely place and produces wonderful milk, my boyfriend and I can't drink straight milk normally but we can from there!

Anyway, we asked the farmer when he last had a day off and he said, about 6 weeks ago, we said, did you go anywhere nice? I had to take my wife to Havant (about 4 hours journey or so) so that she could have a hip operation at the Bupa hospital, for a few days. Hardly time off!

We really took our hats off to him, he farmed those cows with passion for their well being and yet we all know how little the farmers actually get for their produce which is sad.
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I'm agree with the polish worker front i have to say. I've worked in hotels for many years and the hardest workforce i've ever had were polish and slovakian!
the english were rude, lazy, constantly needing supervision and dragging (sometimes quite literally) back to work from the canteen every ten minutes!
The 'slovak mafia' as they were known were always early, smart in appearance, took pride in their job and were willing to work as many hours as you could give them.

one of the 'mafia' worked seven days a week - his own choosing - just so he could send 90% of his income home to his wife, son and (soon to be born) twins.

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I wasn't having a go at you personally
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I've had some pretty sh:tty jobs in my time and worked for some pretty sh:tty people. I would certainly pack in a job that didn't pay enough or was tantamount to slave labour, but not on my second day.
I was once sacked after 5 days... is that a record?
 
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