Sports Direct

[Anubis]

Apparently the share price rose while he was answering questions. Clearly investing in esclavage neuveau is the way forward.

[Stickman]

I'm wondering when's he getting his knighthood? ....

 

I'd have thought the way he runs his company is classic capatalism in action?

[Section_31]

Always makes me laugh when the press take umbrage at this kind of shit because they back to the hilt a system that allows and encourages it.

[Strontium]

I'm wondering when's he getting his knighthood? ....

 

I'd have thought the way he runs his company is classic capatalism in action?

 

 

Not aware of any economists who advocate breaking the law.

[Harry Squatter]

That cunt who owns Ryanair is just as bad

[VladimirIlyich]

Not aware of any economists who advocate breaking the law.

Circumvent is a more appropriate phrase.

[Anubis]

That cunt who owns Ryanair is just as bad

 

Things have improved since JohnnyH resigned his management position....

[Moctezuma]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xjyzn

 

The performance form this Jeremy Baker, (a retail analyst and affiliate professor at Europe Business School) on that Today programme slot defending the employment practices of companies like sport direct was seriously embarrassing, to the point where Humphries and Iain Wright were almost laughing at him in the studio.

[Harry Squatter]

No wonder no one in the shop is arsed when you ask them to go and look for your size when you give them a pair of trainers off the shelf. That prepaid card stuff is a legendary minge bag penny pinching tactic.

[Paulie Dangerously]

No wonder no one in the shop is arsed when you ask them to go and look for your size when you give them a pair of trainers off the shelf. That prepaid card stuff is a legendary minge bag penny pinching tactic.

 

Retail is shit.  I remember working a summer in TK Maxx and thinking "it can't get much worse than this" they had an (obviously fake) hand print recognition log in system so you couldn't sign in your mate if they were late, they're ring you on days off to try and get you in working if someone had called in sick, they'd check your bags as you left and the managers were bellends.

 

However, I got paid for every minute I was in, actually paid into my own designated bank account and everything, the security checks were factored into the working day so if your shift ended at 6pm you'd stop work at 5:50, and although they had systems in place for people who were constantly off/late there was certainly no unjustified threats of losing your jobs.

 

Seems like a Utopia in comparison.

 

I was incidentally the worst employee they'd probably ever had.  Whenever people asked me to check in the back (It's TK Maxx mate, the back was empty they just threw everything out) I'd go and sit in the back until the customer got bored and wandered off to ask someone else.  If they didn't I'd go back out after about 10 minutes "sorry we don't have it that size"

 

I quit by stopping going in for my shifts and after about 6 weeks the manager rang me and said "do you still work here?" and I said "Obviously not"

 

So imagine how arsed the Sports Direct staff are!!!

[Oh Buoy]

Worked in mostly bars and cinemas throughout my PT life. 

 

Conclusion:

• Bars are great when you find a decent place with great music.
• Bars are great because the fanny has to come to you. 
• Bars are great because you can be a bellend and people have to accept it. 
• Bars are shit because 99% of them are fucking slave drivers and treat you like shit. 
• Bars are shit because you're usually working until 4am and dealing with drunk bellends is something I could happily do without. 
• Bars are shit because you have you clean all the fucking glasses like once a week and it's a fucking ballache. 
• Cinemas are great because you get to see films for free. 
• Cinemas are great because you get to eat the food for free (in the back, on yer bill) 
• Cinemas are great because Ben and Jerrys "waste" isn't really cared for - you could happily eat 1/3 of it throughout your shift and just blame it on the temperature or customers changing their mind. 
• Cinemas are great because you can just watch 1/2 of the films and pass it off as though you're screen checking (seeing if anyone is recording) 
• Cinemas are shit because when it's hot it's dead and therefore boring as fuck 
• Cinemas are shit because when it's a shit film like Fast and Furious, every bellend under the sun comes out 
• Cinemas are shit because they're fucking slave drivers 

 

Conclusion: 

• I'm bullet-pointing everything today

[Anubis]

Looks like wor Mickey likes a bit of voyeurism....

 

 

Scandal-struck retailer Sports Direct has been accused of attempting to secretly record a group of MPs having a private conversation during a warehouse inspection.

 

Six MPs from the business select committee arrived to carry out a spot-check of the company’s controversial Shirebrook premises – a facility previously described as a “gulag” – where they claimed management used “diversionary tactics” during a three-hour tour of the site.

 

Following the extensive tour, the six MPs retired to a private room to discuss what they’d seen, where they said they found a camera recording their conversation.

 

Anna Turley, the Labour MP for Redcar said: “At the end of the meeting, we sat down to have a private conversation in a room by ourselves.

 

“A lady came in with some sandwiches, which was very kind. I saw her take too long to do it, she put it down and I saw her put a recording device on the floor.

 

“She left the room and I went over to pick up the device and there it was: a camera and a recording device for the conversation that we were having privately.

 

“I'm very disappointed.”

 

Ms Turley added: “How can we not believe that there is something to hide when everything has been so suspicious and not done with the spirit of openness?”

 

Sports Direct chief executive Mike Ashley had been previously warned by MPs they would make an unannounced visit to inspect the warehouse after the company faced harsh criticism over working conditions for staff.

 

Mr Ashley vowed to make improvements to working practices labelled as being “Victorian”. Many employees were on zero-hours contracts, were paid below the minimum wage, and were reportedly “too frightened” to take time off work if they were ill.

 

The MPs taking part in the inspection include select committee chairman Iain Wright, along with Peter Kyle, Michelle Thomson, Anna Turley, Amanda Solloway and Craig Tracey.

 

Mr Wright said: “I'm really disappointed in the nature and spirit in which Sports Direct have conducted this visit.

 

“I'm not suggesting that they were going to welcome us with open arms - we are a select committee that has been critical of working practices turning up unannounced.

 

“The fact that the sandwich woman who came into the room when the select committee was having a private conversation about what we had discovered... to have a recording device... I mean that's absolutely disgraceful.

 

“That's not the manner in which I want to conduct relations with Sports Direct. We have been critical of Mike Ashley and his company, but we want to work with him, the trade unions, with workers and others to ensure that proper, appropriate and dignified working practices are put in place.

 

“Why does he have that lack of trust when we have offered to work with him in an open and constructive manner?“

 

Mr Wright spoke to Mr Ashley by telephone after the MPs left the warehouse, according to the Press Association.

 

“I don't think it was a particularly pleasant conversation for either of us,” he said.

 

“I would have liked Mike Ashley to have been here.

 

“We were always going to turn up unannounced. It's what he said we could do when he came before us in June and it's what we've done now.

 

“I want to work with Mike Ashley in a constructive manner. I don't think he wants to work with us at all anymore.

 

Mr Ashley, who founded the sports leisure-wear company, became chief executive in September, following the resignation of Dave Forsey. The move came days after the company bowed to pressure and pledged to undertake an independent review of working practices and corporate governance.

 

Mr Wright added: “I wanted this visit to be part of a journey of progress and improvement so that we could work together to say, 'Yep, you've really done some good stuff, well done, and this is what needs to be happening'.

 

“But in terms of the way it's been handled: the diversionary tactics, the secret recordings of private select committee deliberations, that is really disgusting and something I really can't agree with.”

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disgraceful-sports-direct-mike-ashley-secret-recording-mps-anna-turley-a7403496.html

[SammyAftershave]

A Great Bunch of Lads.

[General Dryness]

Obviously too tight to offer them a backhander.