UNSATISFACTORY WORKERS
Sir, —Can any of your readers explain this? Men will come after a job and arrange to come a certain day, then not turn up at all. This sort of thing. has been going on for some years now. Men will come and look at a job, the price is agreed on at their own rate of pay, and that is the end. Other men will come, start a job, loaf around it, make a mess, and one wonders when they will finish it. They expect and get morning tea, tea again midday, and afternoon tea, a quarterhour each time, and we are lucky if it’s not longer. They get £1 or £1 2s 6d for that day’s work. How can a country go on? Others are experiencing the same sort of thing. As one person, said to me, “You can’t get anybody to do anything, even by paying them.”—Yours, etc., DISGUSTED. May 8, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25179, 9 May 1947, Page 3
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