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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1092215" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61846102[/URL]</p><p></p><p>After a decade of wage stagnation and people seeing wages decrease in real terms by up to 20%, they are now advising that wages should not rise to match inflation that itself is not being driven by wage rises...</p><p></p><p>This lot are ******* unbelievable. So the people of this country are to just continue getting hit as those at the top give themselves rises? If this carries on we could see the nation descending into mass strikes as people get fed up with the haves massively taking the ****. At the first sign of your average person potentially facing the chance to simply not lose out but merely keep up with the cost of living, they are jumping in telling us peasants to know our place. This **** is unacceptable. I can say at my work I will definitely be pushing for at least inflation equalling pay rise and will be seriously considering whether I want to stay if they play silly buggers.</p><p></p><p>As a 30 year old, my entire working life has just been is lurching from crisis to crisis. 2007 collapse, brexit, COVID and now invasion of Ukraine and high inflation. None of these issues caused by my generation and yet there are more than a few condescending boomers (usually) who think it's just avocado toast, Netflix and poor work ethic that is making stuff so hard for millennials and after. It would be nice to just have a few years of genuine prosperity to enjoy, but apparently wanting that makes you "entitled".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1092215, member: 56232"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61846102[/URL] After a decade of wage stagnation and people seeing wages decrease in real terms by up to 20%, they are now advising that wages should not rise to match inflation that itself is not being driven by wage rises... This lot are ******* unbelievable. So the people of this country are to just continue getting hit as those at the top give themselves rises? If this carries on we could see the nation descending into mass strikes as people get fed up with the haves massively taking the ****. At the first sign of your average person potentially facing the chance to simply not lose out but merely keep up with the cost of living, they are jumping in telling us peasants to know our place. This **** is unacceptable. I can say at my work I will definitely be pushing for at least inflation equalling pay rise and will be seriously considering whether I want to stay if they play silly buggers. As a 30 year old, my entire working life has just been is lurching from crisis to crisis. 2007 collapse, brexit, COVID and now invasion of Ukraine and high inflation. None of these issues caused by my generation and yet there are more than a few condescending boomers (usually) who think it's just avocado toast, Netflix and poor work ethic that is making stuff so hard for millennials and after. It would be nice to just have a few years of genuine prosperity to enjoy, but apparently wanting that makes you "entitled". [/QUOTE]
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