The Waffling Wombat

[PR19_Kit]

Our US Headquarters were appalled at the way we had sick leave etc. in the UK and tried to impose the US system on us. I suggested to the US based Worldwide Service Manager, my boss over there, that if he REALLY wanted to enforce that system he'd have to supply all our service contracts from the US as all my guys would leave!

It took 2-3 weeks of persuasion before it got through to him that I wasn't joking!

[Old Wombat]

That's because US businesses have had either slave labour or illegal-immigrant labour as a stick to hold behind their back to hold down the wages & conditions of American workers.


Oh, & the British have done very similar things in the past - why do you think there are so many of Irish descent in the Tyne & Liverpool?

[buzzbomb]

Be coming good around not.. hope so anyway.

Plague is still out there. Did get my flu shot today though to give me the false sense of invincibility to that malady.