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Originally Posted by Russ B
Work differs from company to company. Some security work is easy, sitting in a cabin watching CCTV screen, others risk their lives in retail with violent shoplifters. Your perameters earlier were "low pay and long hours".
And yet they still do them?
Why are you automatically assuming I believe racism is involved? All I'm doing is asking why something happens the way it does. You should know I won't mince words, if I thought racism was the key then I'd come right out and say it.
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Yes there are white English people who do cleaning and chambermaiding, but in every single comapny I have worked in (in the last 12 years of my employment working across over a dozen blue chip companies) I have yet to see even 10 percent of white english people doing the cleaning at any of the premises I have worked in.
In Tooting, Balham, even Croydon, in the restaurants I go in (indian, also Pizza Hut, Pizza Express, Nandoes, Thai restaurants, etc etc) the majority of staff are not white English.
Most security men at the buildings that I work in in the Strand and Farringdon are either south African or black Africans.
So thats my basis of when I say that in my opinion a high percentage of White english people do not want to do those jobs. The blacks, asianss, foreigners, eastern europens etc etc that do, probably have no choic but to do so. Maybe they wont be entitled to benefits by sitting at home, maybe they are here illegally and will work for anything etc etc, but I cant see companies like Prudential and BP and SHell employing illegal immigrants, even through third parties.
I was not saying that you Russ B, feel that racism or discrimination is involved. This thread is titled racism and there are posters implying that restauranteers or asian business are only employing pakistanis because they are discriminating. My question was open to the participants of the thread, maybe it didnt look that way. It was not targetted at you personally.
So anyway, since you dont think racism is involved, why do you think that this is the case Russ?.