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Screened Out: 01/07/13 - 01/08/13
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Evan Davis was shocked to hear, during a. Feature on the perils of the current heatwave, that care homes for the elderly don’t have air conditioning. He must have led a sheltered life. Or rather, an air-conditioned. But such tensions seem far away from the smoothly ventilated discourse of the BBC media-industrial complex, even when it touches on those locations where its correspondents might conceivably feel the heat. I recently watched an edition of Davis's business show The Bottom Line. The latest phas...
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Mary Tracy: July 2011
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Sunday, 31 July 2011. Buying and Not Buying - A Primer on Neoliberalism and the Free Market. You have probably heard this comeback a thousand times already. Whenever anyone dares to raise an issue about the evil practices of evil businesses, it’s only a matter or time before someone chimes in: “ If people stopped buying, it would have to close down. Ah, if only people stopped buying… Why can’t people just stop buying from those evil companies? NOTE: If you are encountering these ideas for the first time,...
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Screened Out
http://screened-out.blogspot.com/2013/10/hellowelcome-to-dispatch-room-come-on.html
Hello, welcome to the Dispatch Room, come on in, mind your step. Is this your first day? OK, let me show you what we do here, don’t worry it’s not rocket science. See these flimsy brown cardboard envelopes, filling those four big crates with another crate’s worth in a sort of mountain on top of them? But what are the products in these envelopes that skid under our feet and tip from overflowing racks onto our heads? Still, if one did harbour an interest in such matters, the range of literature is astonish...
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Screened Out: Dear recruitment agent
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Do you remember when I registered with you? That bright smiling day in your office when you admired my CV and promised that ongoing full-time warehouse work was just around the corner? As we completed the paperwork we were full of hopes about our future together. And later, after a single day's work which you assured me was only an interim measure, I even gave you my P45. How did it come to this? Was our relationship doomed from the start? Was I wrong to trust you? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Screened Out: 01/12/14 - 01/01/15
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Another job interview. The same recycled material, the same territory trodden so many times before. And as if by some far-fetched parodic device, this was literally the same job I had been interviewed for three years previously, and at the same place: assistant at an industrial laundry plant. Not an especially sought-after position - quite the opposite. After the tour I was shown into the office of the current manager, Ian; a middle-aged Scot with tattoos and a hi-viz vest. He greeted me from behind ...
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Screened Out: 01/04/15 - 01/05/15
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Platform 2, Foregate Street Railway Station, Worcester, 21-25 April. Includes new writing in the form of a free newspaper. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Calm, almost too calm. No Fear of the Future. Third Class on a One-Class Train. View my complete profile.
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Screened Out
http://screened-out.blogspot.com/2013/10/couldyou-point-me-towards-anchovies-no.html
8216;Could you point me towards the anchovies? To be stacking shelves. See these packets of organic spelt I’m holding? Following a TV chef recipe? Don't worry, you'll find them sooner or later. Whereabouts exactly, your guess is as good as mine. Or even better than mine. Because really we’re approaching this whole issue from the wrong angle, aren’t we? Where it goes. It must be near here somewhere. Could you direct me towards the right shelf? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Calm, almost too calm.
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Screened Out: Material
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Another job interview. The same recycled material, the same territory trodden so many times before. And as if by some far-fetched parodic device, this was literally the same job I had been interviewed for three years previously, and at the same place: assistant at an industrial laundry plant. Not an especially sought-after position - quite the opposite. After the tour I was shown into the office of the current manager, Ian; a middle-aged Scot with tattoos and a hi-viz vest. He greeted me from behind ...
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Screened Out
http://screened-out.blogspot.com/2014/07/according-to-this-government.html
According to this government, challenging a business on its use of unpaid labour is "unacceptable intimidation". But someone dying after having their benefits stopped is acceptable as long as the "correct procedures". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Calm, almost too calm. No Fear of the Future. Third Class on a One-Class Train. View my complete profile.
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