P&O sacks 800 workers, what do you think?

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

P&O Ferries have sacked 800 workers with immediate effect, with the sacking delivered via a three-minute pre-recorded Zoom message from the CEO.


Here's what people on the street think about it.

“It’s a shame, but we don’t really have much use for ferries in the sunny uplands of Brexit because everything imported and exported actually goes by lorry. I learned that today. - Dominic Raab, Former Brexit Secretary

“It feels to me like P&O did the right thing, it’s certainly how I’d like to go when my time comes, peacefully in my sleep without really knowing it was coming. Oh – they were sacked? I thought they all died? That’s actually awful!” - Diedre Matthews, Nurse

“I would tell them to look on the bright side, I hear there are plenty of fruit picking jobs that have just become available.” - Trevor Picknall, Farmer

“If I was one of the 800 people on that ship, I’d steal it and make a run for it. I think I saw a documentary once where a guy did something similar. Keanu Reeves was in it.” - Derek Matthews, Documentary film-maker

“People will no doubt criticise the CEO for firing 800 people with a 3-minute pre-recorded Zoom message, but these are very busy people, and he probably had a tee-time he had to make.” - Naomi Gielgud, Primary School Teacher

via ~ DailySeaSickness

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

P&O ‘enhanced severance package’ for sacked UK workers​

P&O have revealed details of their enhanced severance package for 800 sacked UK workers which will include a large steaming sh.it in a brown paper bag.

With news emerging yesterday that the company sacked 800 of its employees with no notice in a three-minute virtual video message, further details have now emerged of the ‘generous’ severance package to be given to the staff, including a large warm piece of sh.it for every member of staff.

A spokesman for the company confirmed, “It’s the least we can do.

“Obviously people will have been disappointed to turn up for work, and be told of our secret plan to sack them all in a short Zoom call before being escorted from the ferry by security in balaclavas.

“That’s why we have put together a very generous severance package including a freshly squeezed large steaming sh** for every single employee in a nice paper bag which we know will make up for what’s happened.

“Whilst we appreciate that completely ruining the lives of hundreds of loyal staff overnight is a bit of a pain for them, we are sure that all will be forgiven as soon as they receive their warm turd in a bag.

Asked if anything else may be offered, to workers who have been with the company all their lives we were told “Cup of pi.ss?”

via ~ DailySunnyUplands

 

[SamBally]

Apologies I didn't see this.


So I'll copy and paste it here.

As we saw with the P@O sacking yesterday when 800 people were told by Zoom they were being made redundant and replaced with cheaper labor on less secure contracts, these capitalist vultures do NOT care about workers, nor workers' rights. The company took £16 million in furlough and you can be damn sure this decision was taken months ago. Yet workers in France, on similar pay and conditions, will keep their jobs. I wonder why that is.

These anti-vaxx "freedom fighters" will be and are responsible for eroding workers' rights now and in the future because capitalism will and has taken advantage of Covid-19. This affects all of us and our children in the future. Capitalism will squash them like bugs and will not hesitate to do so and Covid is just another tool they will utilize to do it.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

'We didn’t throw them in the sea': How P&O cares for its UK workers​

+ ED

There is no greater champion of workers than P&O Ferries, which is why we have championed a new group of EU workers over our current UK workers.

And there’s more:

All former UK employees were discharged onto land
Despite the majority of P&O Ferries’s operations being at sea and the contested legal status of manslaughter in international waters, as a courtesy to our departing employees arrangements were made to disembark them to a land-based environment.

They were informed by a warm, cordial Zoom call
Given the impossibility of informing all UK staff face-to-face due to management staff cuts, we used Zoom even though the boats have a fully-functioning tannoy system on which we could have announced the news. Because we care.

They were each given an oversized Toblerone
All UK employees already have access to our duty-free shops, with alcohol, nicotine and perfume dependencies serviced at a handy discount. As a ‘thank you’ for decades of loyalty they have also been given one extra-large Toblerone of their choice: white, dark or normal.

Anti-piracy counselling has been provided
To curb against the dangers of disgruntled former UK staff turning to piracy on the high seas, all those made redundant have been directed to an online presentation titled ‘Yo ho ho: Not like the movies!’ in which Inbetweeners star Simon Bird explains the perils of buccaneering.

They are prioritised for re-employment
We value our staff, though not in line with inflation, and have promised they will be first in the queue for re-employment. Many of them have exactly the skillsets they will need for their new, non-union positions and can expect zero-hours offers from us shortly.

We never brought up Brexit
As south-eastern Conservative voters who were advised to back Brexit for the sake of their jobs by their union, it is cruelly ironic that this very Brexit has been their downfall. But, compassionately, we have not mentioned this bit of poetic justice while smirking smugly. P&O: putting people first.

via ~ DailyUpSheRises

 

[SamBally]

The captain who is refusing to leave his ship, apparently maritime law takes precedence, is a god damn hero.

Workers of the world unite!

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

The captain who is refusing to leave his ship, apparently maritime law takes precedence, is a god damn hero.

Workers of the world unite!

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Apologies I didn't see this.


So I'll copy and paste it here.

As we saw with the P@O sacking yesterday when 800 people were told by Zoom they were being made redundant and replaced with cheaper labor on less secure contracts, these capitalist vultures do NOT care about workers, nor workers' rights. The company took £16 million in furlough and you can be damn sure this decision was taken months ago. Yet workers in France, on similar pay and conditions, will keep their jobs. I wonder why that is.

These anti-vaxx "freedom fighters" will be and are responsible for eroding workers' rights now and in the future because capitalism will and has taken advantage of Covid-19. This affects all of us and our children in the future. Capitalism will squash them like bugs and will not hesitate to do so and Covid is just another tool they will utilize to do it.

No apology needed. You post as many threads/items you like. I'm very happy to read whatever you say. If it is copied all the better!!

 

[SamBally]

Oh, and 100%, if the election in 2017 had not been rigged and Corbyn was now PM, this would NOT have happened.

Even if Corbyn was still the opposition leader this would NOT have happened.

Then there is Sir Rodney...


What has the Labour party become...

Edited: Sir Rodney lets not be an opposition 'whipped' Labour MPs to abstain on the Employment Bill which reduces workers' rights. Sir Rodney has also warned Labour MPs if they vote against the whip then they risk the sack.

The same Sir Rodney who sacked 80 Labour staffers and rehired 40 on lower wages and short term insecure contracts.

Because he pissed £13 million in the party coffers up against the wall.

 

[SamBally]

If it is copied all the better!!

 

[SamBally]

Just been reading P@O (DPWorld) was actually given £150 million in furlough payments and then paid its shareholders £270 million in bonuses.

The company made over £1 billion in profit during the pandemic and previously annually.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Jeremy Corbyn was on Sky (a news channel i'm allowed to watch ) saying the government should just seize the ships. Owners like P&O are a bloody good argument for Nationalisation.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

The British wallygarchy in all its glory. 3rd rate govt. ministers hand picked by a 3rd rate PM.

The comedy of errors gets better. What a pair of useless Tory numpties.

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport, no less, and Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of United Kingdom, wrote strongly worded letters to a man who resigned as P&O chairman on 16th December 2021... (Robert Woods) - The Chairman is actually Peter Hebblethwaite.

Shapps and Kwarteng have now sent the 'strongly worded letters to the actual CEO - 'Dear Peter.'

Wrong CEO - Letter 1




Correct CEO - Revised letter