Many, many, jobs have been severely dumbed down over the last 2 or 3 decades in what I would describe a a race to the bottom, and what the government would probably call a transformation to improve British competitiveness, which they now believe they can extend.
Most service jobs have now moved to contracted hours or zero hours contracts for the lower tier with the same low rates paid for night and weekend working and rosters as specified by the employer. This has not IMO generally improved people's lives and this is what they want for the rail industry. Think call centres and retail for example.
Retail (shopkeeping) was once a decent occupation. Now we have the CEO of Frasers, the pride of British retailing, on for a £100m bonus on top of his £1m salary if he can get the share price above £15 for 30 consecutive days in the next 4 years while the majority of employees in its notorious Shirebrook warehouse are employed on temporary contracts through agencies, for a few pence an hour above minimum wage, even though they might have been working there for years. The shop staff are on contracted hours, and frequently rostered for 4 hour shifts so they get no paid breaks.
I'm impressed with Mick Lynch. Here he is demonstrating his superior verbal reasoning skills to Tory MP Rachel Maclean. Despite Maclean successfully proving she was completely wrong (i.e. had lied) Fiona Bruce dismissed the exchange as "going round in circles".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9FgKINklYM
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