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The_Kindness_of_Trees
The weird thing is that having fairly recently been in a position of looking for low-paid work, despite applying for 100's of jobs no-one seemed to want to give me one as a 'native' person.
Either:
I'm shit
I'm Not shit but I'm clearly over-qualified and don't aspire to work there
They've had lots of native employees that are shit, don't aspire to be there and are sick of wasting time and money on them
Have a glut of desperate forrins to pick from who might not aspire to be there but have no choice and wilm tolerate even the worst abuse of employment standards in the way that native workers will not.
Or, all or none of the above.
My experience when I finally found a job was that the employer was acting illegally in relation to pay, working conditions and deliberately kept people insecure and unable to get stable hours as a means to better manipulate them. 90% of non public facing workers were foreign, 75% of public facing ones were British and of these there was far higher absence no show rates simply because the work was terrible and the manager/owner a nasty bitch who fired people on a whim.
All in all, it's a far more savage indictment on UK business practices than it is immigration so perhaps that should be addressed before simply chucking out all forrins...