At last! A real Brexit bonus...

And this is why Gransnet is so worth being a member of! Thank you for the laughs!

Nannies wanting some weekends off! Never heard the like.

you pipped me to the post Katie9

shortage of drivers, so costs up, and no deliveries, therefore shortages. take heed, not just the so called rich.

but there, I still believe in Brexit, free from the yoke of foreigners.. see I`m not scared to use that word!

you can`t edit posts here... cos I also want to add..

now if we can get ourselves from under the yoke of the Chinese, yes, I agree before someone comes at me,, self imposed,, we thought we were so clever sending all our dirty manufacturing overseas.. now.....

and then read about plastic,, we send our plastic refuse to Italy , etc. and now they are refusing to take it!

good grief... the so called rich are not the only ones spoilt...

we English/British.. are...

sorry to burst the happy bubble gals..

Really humorous thread.

Well! I wondered why I have failed to get a gardener/landscaper to do some work in my tiny garden over the last 2years! I just wanted an old buried stump dug/grinded out, some membrane then gravel laying (approx 5sq.yards area) and about 4flags set in gravel. .....quotes? £4550-no thanks shut gate on yer way out/£800and didn't turn up then Said had bad back/£2k and said would dispose of spoil In. Back of his van(!)hmm. All in all-NOBODY wants to do these "no job too small" small jobs! In my youth I would have eaten the jobs myself but arthritis and other issues prevent me! What is WRONG with everyone nowadays? All want to be millionaires without doing a lick of decent hard work!

Reminds me of an hilarious episode in Downton Abby when a maid running off with a footman prompted a horrified “ Then how shall Lady Mary get dressed?” ?

And another thing, which eejit thought it was a good idea to limit immigration to salary levels above £35.8k (now £20.5k- £25.6k)??? Eh??eh?? Jesus Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey! In any area except the overpaid south east, those salaries are reserved for upper management and professionals....who , last time I checked don't "do" driving ,veg packing, hospitality roles, catering, domestic services etc. It just illustrated how utterly out of touch this lot in power are with the realities of life! Do they thing there are fairies to clean toilets, deliver stuff, etc ? Yep they probably do.......in the la-la land they inhabit.i always remember in early 80s Geoffrey Howe saying he spent£30 week on his meat bill....and £15 week on wine... My take home pay as junior civil servant was £32.75 my husband at time was trainee book keeper he had £40 with 13% mortgage ..and as chancellor he was deciding what we should all be able to live on and what we could afford to pay for all our essentials...nice

Oh I agree Gabriella56, my DD, a recently qualified teacher was incensed by Ms Patel's comments about lower earnings and low qualified people earning less than £25k, as a NQT in the SE she was earning £22k.

I am quite happy to be a temporary Nanny AS LONG AS THE PARENTS STAY OUT OF THE NURSERY in the good old-fashioned way.

Children may be seen, but not heard in the drawing-room between the hours of five and six p.m. daily. I will gladly pop them in through the door and go off for my well earned rest before bedtime!

Goodness Brexit has caused an upheaval.
I must say that our household hasn’t noticed any change, the house is still being cleaned, the garden is being tended and the chauffeur is always kind and considerate.
As has been said, if you treat staff fairly they will stay.
Happy days.

Shortage of labour usually increases wages. As you said, bonus from Brexit. Of course knock on effect could be increased prices for the consumer to cover costs and maintain profits. So really nobody wins.

4allweKnow
Or maybe, just maybe the CEO’s of some companies could take home a little less.
The CEO of Tesco earned £4.9 million in 2018. ?

Thank you gransnetters for cheering me up

Yes, and, accordingly to the press, we also have shortages of hospitality staff, builders, care staff, NHS staff of all grades, and farm pickers (fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in the fields due to shortage of staff). Wonder where all those people who voted Brexit to stop those foreigners stealing our jobs are now - certainly not working in those areas?

Love this thread. So many very amusing comments. Cheered me up so much ?

One's housekeeper was unable to buy lamb of any kind in either M&S or Waitrose last weekend. What was one to do for Sunday lunch? Cook was most put out. Has anyone else noticed a lamb shortage?

All wrong though it seems, it is evidently no longer advisable to sack one’s cook because she sent up the wrong sauce with the asparagus. One does have to wonder what the world is coming to!

Just goes to show how much the middle classes were exploiting EU workers.
That’s why they didn’t want Brexit.
They couldn’t take the p**s anymore.

One keeps finding one's cleaner sitting down, munching strawberries one's Head Gardener has brought in for Cook instead of getting on with her duties.
I found her watching tennis this afternoon too, instead of being on her hands and knees scrubbing.
No wonder the stately pile is such a tip!

Parsley3

One's housekeeper was unable to buy lamb of any kind in either M&S or Waitrose last weekend. What was one to do for Sunday lunch? Cook was most put out. Has anyone else noticed a lamb shortage?

Oh dear, poor you, Parsley, we have our own herd.

CarlyD7

Yes, and, accordingly to the press, we also have shortages of hospitality staff, builders, care staff, NHS staff of all grades, and farm pickers (fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in the fields due to shortage of staff). Wonder where all those people who voted Brexit to stop those foreigners stealing our jobs are now - certainly not working in those areas?

This one has been working her little old socks off trying to keep her business going so that her employees can pay their bills and feed their children during a worldwide pandemic!

What have you been doing…

Well said GrannyGravy13.

Just when I was about to employ a cleaner! Probably won't be able to get one now. I'll be doing my own chores for evermore!

Well we still have 1.6million unemployed. It seems odd that they can’t do some of the work?