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Mr Negativity is back in the building
2006-05-18 - 10:19 p.m.
At the risk of again getting accused of being overly negative* in this diary (or is that still?), I do find it totally ridiculous that in this country a driver of a 3-ton truck is paid the same wage as a fully qualified pastry chef. I mean, what message does that send to the youth of today (guess I'm now old enough to say that)? Yes, I want to become a pastry chef so I can do four years of school and shit work, at least for the first year or two, have to start very early in the morning and in same cases work split shifts, and all so when I'm qualified I can get paid the same as a driver of a truck who doesn't need any training, who doesn't need to hold any special licence and who doesn't have to put up with getting paid a pittance for the first three years of his apprenticeship.
It's ridiculous. And recently the federal government, in its ever-increasing "fuck you" to the workers of this country, have allowed businesses to import workers from usually worse-off countries so his employer mates can pay shit wages and supply even shittier working conditions. Apparently there's a shortage of qualified bakers in this country so now unqualified bakers are being imported from Asian countries. A shortage of bakers? I wonder why? Oh, maybe it's because they're paid about the same as a pastry chef.
I know I'm not the only one who finds it ridiculous that the federal government sets the pay of apprenticeships (so his employer friends can have cheap labour and then fuck off the apprentices during or at the end of the fourth year) and then wonders why the youth aren't interested and there's a shortfall in some trades.
Hell, even I'm interested in doing an apprenticeship but why would I when I can drive a truck for the same money?
*What I find interesting about being called negative is that I just don't see why any person should expect all people to be positive about the world. Society, in my humble opinion, needs those who look at things critically. If we all wore rose-coloured glasses the world would be even more fucked than what it is.