General News Chat

[donsdaft]

If they have trouble getting staff, they are obviously not offering enough money. They should stop being so stingy instead of hiring cheap foreigners.

Typical b'ollocks

It's Peterheid and the Broch min.
They like their money fair enough but if the locals wanted to go fishing instead of sitting in their hooses spaced oot o' their heids then I'm sure there would have always been a job for them.

When the glorious day comes and we get out of the stinking union we are currently in, I sincerely hope we send the English home, or at least make it difficult and bloody expensive for these English immigrants to stay.

[sheepcrooky]

You do have a point but from what I've heard there is some decent money to be made there. It's not the only industry that is going to be up sh*t creek when these new immigration rules kick in either.

Sort of agree with this. Plenty money in fish. Plenty rich fvckwits up there giving it large whilst relying on cheaper labour whether on the boats or in the processing factories. The owners just need to spend less on white powder (allegedly) and more on their workers.

This is what the policy is actually trying to create. The problem is that Eastern Europeans (apologise for the generalisation) are damn hard workers and pretty much get stuck in to the jobs us pampered folks don’t want to do.

I feel no pain at all for the fishermen and farmers. They have been creaming off EU grants whilst employing cheaper labour for a long time and getting ridiculously rich whilst at it.

[Jupiter]

Fishing managed fine before all these eastern Europeans came over, so they'll manage fine now.

[57vintage]

Whoever guts the haddocks or shells the prawns is an issue, but Jimmy Buchan’s constant boasting anent the demands of Spanish, Italian and French markets might have made the sea-stripping ****s consider how leaving the EU, with delays at points of export might cause unacceptable delivery delays and cause the prices to drop. Thick as ****.

You reap what you sow (or is that the fairmers?)

Sunlit uplands, complimentary unicorns, £350m/week for the NHS etc etc etc

[donsdaft]

Certainly the crews don’t seem to be from Eastern Europe so I presume we’re talking about filleters etc.

Whatever it is, replacing a hard working, conscientious Pole with a home grown minker who is going to be off nae weel every five minutes is going to destroy many an industry.

[InversneckieDob]

Anything that results in better paid jobs, less zero hour contract jobs and less minimum wage jobs is surely a good thing is it not?

It is, but do you really see profit margins being voluntarily eaten into to re-distribute in this fashion?

[InversneckieDob]

That is letting the market decide

No it isn't, it's Goddamn Commie talk.

[Red Zone]

It is, but do you really see profit margins being voluntarily eaten into to re-distribute in this fashion?

Actually I do.

I have spent my entire career in business where the only thing that mattered pretty much was maximising shareholder value, which generally meant maximising long term profits. I may end up looking silly but there is a start of a trend that I think will snowball during this decade, which means that companies will be much more focussed on their impact on communities and society and less so on maximising profit. I'm not sure how quickly this will snowball (and Peterhead fishermen will be amongst the last to "get it"), but over time companies will focus more on suppliers/customers/employees and treating them much more "fairly" and less on maximising profits. This super-trend will be driven by the millennials/snowflake generation and will accelerate as that generation takes over the running of companies from my generation.

Sh1t - that's heavy stuff for a Friday night!!

[mondo_notion]

Anyone heard about an injunction taken out by Nicola Sturgeon?

She's ****** * ***** in Edinburgh with her ******* apparently. Not sure if her ******* is also moving in with them.

Next!

[Jupiter]

She's ****** * ***** in Edinburgh with her ******* apparently. Not sure if her ******* is also moving in with them.

Next!

According to internet conspiracy theories, she has a French girlfriend. Allegedly.

[mondo_notion]

According to internet conspiracy theories, she has a French girlfriend. Allegedly.

Oooh lah lah!

[donsdaft]

I heard from a very reliable source a couple of weeks ago that she wad on a sticky wicket.

Being in Herds the butchers at the time, I didn’t press him for details.

[Jupiter]

Salmond's trial starts on Monday. Get the popcorn out.

[Red Zone]

According to internet conspiracy theories, she has a French girlfriend. Allegedly.

That would explain why she is so much in favour of freedom movement with Europe

[Red Zone]

Salmond's trial starts on Monday. Get the popcorn out.

What are the odds on a mis-trial after one of the jurors gets the virus