Why are our CUK expatriates of such low quality?

[sasguru]

Patently lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills, generally poorly educated, certainly not in the top 20%, I can see why they they need to seek work abroad.
But it seems that if people of such poor quality need to be employed by the host country, that host country must be doomed in the long run.
Maybe the best companies in any country will hire the best talent and the mediocrites will work for the second and third tiers?

[chef]

shuttit. u don No wot ur onna bowt innit....

[oracleslave]

They're caught in the intellectual wasteland between unemployment and the middle class employee that has limited ability, spending his life running on a career treadmill as fast as they can but never really going anywhere. By becoming expats, it at least gives them the delusion of some sort of achievement because they are now somehow different to their intellectual compatriots back home.

[Spacecadet]

Patently lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills, generally poorly educated, certainly not in the top 20%, I can see why they they need to seek work abroad.
But it seems that if people of such poor quality need to be employed by the host country, that host country must be doomed in the long run.
Maybe the best companies in any country will hire the best talent and the mediocrites will work for the second and third tiers?

Are you taking about the expats from other countries who come and work here or the UK expats elsewhere?

[Pondlife]

Yay! Another one of these threads. How exciting as we haven't had one of these for absolutely ages.

[Spacecadet]

Yay! Another one of these threads. How exciting as we haven't had one of these for absolutely ages.

are you an expat today or WFH?

[Arturo Bassick]

Patently lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills, generally poorly educated, certainly not in the top 20%, I can see why they they need to seek work abroad.
But it seems that if people of such poor quality need to be employed by the host country, that host country must be doomed in the long run.
Maybe the best companies in any country will hire the best talent and the mediocrites will work for the second and third tiers?

Oi! There is no call for that.
Let me give you a choice, the choice I had. All similar job specs.
34 quid an hour in Portsmouth.
35 quid an hour in Derby.
37 quid an hour in Warwick.
47 quid an hour on Lake Constance.

I live in Cumbria and have to travel.


** You might want to run a spell checker over that before you have a pop at literacy!

[oracleslave]

Yay! Another one of these threads. How exciting as we haven't had one of these for absolutely ages.

It makes you long for a lovers spat between AtW and Sas or SB and Sas. Or some more global warming links.

[sasguru]

** You might want to run a spell checker over that before you have a pop at literacy!

I think people of intelligence can distinguish between typos and literacy

[Pondlife]

are you an expat today or WFH?

Expat til Thurs. Although this is nowhere near as common as it used to be. (thank feck)