Ok, now i’m all up for making a few quid… but this is very sad. A cheshire based company (The Rubber Tree Ant Company) has set a website up woolworthsstaff.co.uk offering to help ex woolworths staff to find jobs.. Sounds great yeah? well not quite.. the website in question is asking for £25.00 registration fee from ex woolworths employees just to list themselves…
The website claims;
“Press releases will be produced to promote the site across the UK. These will highlight the advantages of employing you because of your loyalty, training, proven experience , transferable skills and the fact that you are redundant through no fault of your own.
It I hoped that employers will be keen to snap up such workers . You can choose what to say and highlight your strong points. It may save you time and expense and disheartening rebuffs from taking CV’s to employers and ‘knocking on doors’ .
Also if more than one employer wants you then you may be able to negotiate a better deal . There may be other employers out there besides retail ones who would welcome you because of your transferable skills but you may not necessarily know who to approach…here they may come to you.
By acting as an identifiable group, exposure to the job market and potential employers will be higher….an employment co-operative!”
The shopworkers union USDAW is urging former Woolworths employees to avoid a website set up by a Cheshire company which is offering to help them find work. (source: crainsmanchester)
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If their blurb was a bit clearer on what they’re actually going to do for these ex-employees, it might not be so bad. But there are some very wishy washy promises in there.
‘It may save you time…”
“It is hoped that…”
The only thing they actually commit to doing is writing a few press releases about their own website. Yippee.
USDAW put some pressure on them.. so looks like they have pulled the plug now anyway.. which is good..