The Work Ethic
Mar. 17th, 2025 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo The lead story in the Mail (I don't read the horrid thing- good God No!- but clock the headlines as I go round the Co-op) is about young people dropping out of the work force. I imagine it's a story it's been fed by government sources to justify Keir Starmer's welfare cuts. Being the Mail, it spins it as "The Death of the Work Ethic".
(I understand Elon Musk is big on the work ethic, needs very little sleep and expects the same of his underlings. I wonder if his relentless schedule allows him any time for reflection.....)
As it happens, Ailz finds herself interviewing candidates for a part time job with the Quakers. The applicants are all hugely over-qualified and boast CVs that show they've done all sorts of interesting things but none of them for very long. Most of them aren't actually unemployed but are doing little bits of this and that and looking to supplement their income. The days of the desk jockey who jockeys the same desk for fifty years are over.
But our politicIans don't seem to understand this- or are pretending they don't to their friends in the media. Jay at Project Unity calls them "dusty". I like that. It's nicely mild. And we don't want to build up bad karma through being unkind.
(I understand Elon Musk is big on the work ethic, needs very little sleep and expects the same of his underlings. I wonder if his relentless schedule allows him any time for reflection.....)
As it happens, Ailz finds herself interviewing candidates for a part time job with the Quakers. The applicants are all hugely over-qualified and boast CVs that show they've done all sorts of interesting things but none of them for very long. Most of them aren't actually unemployed but are doing little bits of this and that and looking to supplement their income. The days of the desk jockey who jockeys the same desk for fifty years are over.
But our politicIans don't seem to understand this- or are pretending they don't to their friends in the media. Jay at Project Unity calls them "dusty". I like that. It's nicely mild. And we don't want to build up bad karma through being unkind.
