Do you really think those proverbial cleaners and secretaries aren't going to be able find new jobs in a city with millions of businesses?
How about the cleaners and secretaries in the companies which the City has put under over the last twenty five years? Does working outside of Canary Wharf mean they don't get a sympathy vote?
Bah.
I think this has now become a thread hi-jack ! :-)
Not really, no.
You're looking in the wrong place. The temps will move on, the cleaners will be redeployed (as the phrase goes) one way or another.
It's the PAs and IT people who will have a harder time finding new work after this.
And they're a suitable target for Schadenfreude. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
Don't knock schadenfreude: It's about the only kind of freude we get these days.
We should laugh now, while we can. We have long predicted this moment, and long known what follows: It does not end with the lay-offs of 4000 drones. The Fates are kind.
The "drones" had it coming, but the ones that won't be out of a job are these people. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
