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Redudancies at Argos
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tek-monkey
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How can they get 30 days notice, but not know it?
tek-monkey
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I assume all the agency workers have gone first?
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
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Perhaps they'll make the staff flick through a catalogue to find the redundancy, tap into a machine to discover whether the redundancy is "in stock" and then if it is take a ticket, queue up on a row of seats whilst you wait for the redundancy to come down a magic conveyor
I do of course mean this in a light hearted sense, redundancy is of course tragic for those concerned and my thoughts are with those effected.
As a shop Argos has always baffled me somewhat, it is as if they looked at all other shops whereby you go in, look and stuff and buy it and thoughts - nah thats rubbish
As it has set itself up to be such an impersonal shopping experience I don't see what an Argos stores offer that the internet doesn't. Perhaps that is the problem.
I do of course mean this in a light hearted sense, redundancy is of course tragic for those concerned and my thoughts are with those effected.
As a shop Argos has always baffled me somewhat, it is as if they looked at all other shops whereby you go in, look and stuff and buy it and thoughts - nah thats rubbish
As it has set itself up to be such an impersonal shopping experience I don't see what an Argos stores offer that the internet doesn't. Perhaps that is the problem.
tek-monkey
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The concept was brilliant at the time, massive stock range but a very small retail area. But like you say, then came the internet.
citricsquid
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halfmanhalfbrisket
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Very classy citricsquid. Very classy indeed
citricsquid
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I think it's your patronising views of people on low wages that stinks. You tar everyone with the same brush on hearsay of your mate, that can't be representive of the workforce at argos. I know for a fact there is a good cross section of people who work there,semi retired,students,parents working around the kids etc.citricsquid said:
You equate low pay with doing the bare minumum, in my experience there is alot of coasting in offices and well paid professions. I suppose you work a 14 hour shift and never stop for a minute.
Sorry to be in your face but your post shown no humility to people
citricsquid
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Think citricsquid should come spend a day loading at Acton Gate see if he still has the same opinion of us LOW PAYED WORKERS my guess is though hed of walked before first break
ok - lets put the record straight!!! For starters it isn't Argos that are making redundancies it is actually DHL that are making the redundancies. The 30 days notice is intent to make redundancies, yes it is 6% which equates to about 10 people, All 3 distribution sites are affected, they have already started with the toop managers. Looking at how this is going I would say that the warehouse staff itself will not be really affected, it will be the managers and the warehouse clerical staff who I think will bear the brunt of the redundancies. Oh Yeah n citricsquid fyi - where u have stated "If every person at an Argos style job -- where there is no specific skill required" how the hell do u know whether or not no specific skill is required!! Do u work there?? have u ever worked there??? I doubt it very much. I have worked there for over 10yrs now and if i didn't have specific skills i wouldn't be there now, if people weren't trained on driving counterbalances, LLops, Reach trucks, how to load vehicles correctly then people like u wouldn't get their home deliveries, it may not seem much of a skill to u but it still is a specific skill and that specific skill will get them employment in other distribution centres. Oh yeah btw - my job's at risk, so is my partners and there are several other people who are in the same boat as us at their partners work in the warehouse and also on the clerical side. We will find out at the end of February just how many exactly are affected and who, until then we still have to go into work n do a hard days work as though nothing is happening. Yes there are some people who work there who don't give a toss but u get that in any job and as for the minimun wage business - IT AINT MINIMUM WAGE!!!