Once upon a time I was one of the staff members charged with employing workers.

We had very strict criteria: They needed to have two legs (we had stairs), preferably two arms (help in carrying things), at least one working eye, the ability to write with a pencil (things like “#43 rare”) and be slim enough to fit through the kitchen doors.

Age, sex, experience only came into the equation when remuneration was considered but I suspect there is today’s problem.

The link is to a NewstalkZB column I neither agree nor disagree with.

It highlights the fact that young people are having trouble finding jobs not just because they are lazy and picky but because employers don’t want to train them.

Before fools from the left stuck their grossly incompetent noses in an employer, no matter the industry, could employ a young person on far more money than he was worth and train him, knowing he (the employer) would lose little if the young fellow proved useless and could be fired.

Then came the halfwits.

Now, not just can you not get rid of someone for incompetence or inability but from day one they must be paid a king’s ransom.

I’m certain that this bloody stupid rule is now coming back to bite the country on its arse.

Communism NEVER works! Socialism is communism without the intestinal fortitude.