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Politics => Local Issues and Matters => Topic started by: testing times on November 11, 2017, 02: PM

Title: Has it Come to This?
Post by: testing times on November 11, 2017, 02: PM
any news jobs are to be welcomed but have we now reached the stage when 7 retail jobs now constitute a 'jobs boost' for the town? It shows how low the bar has been set.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/jobs-boost-as-fashion-retailer-opens-new-store-in-middleton-grange-shopping-centre-1-8851142
Title: Re: Has it Come to This?
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on November 11, 2017, 03: PM
Quote from: testing times on November 11, 2017, 02: PM
any news jobs are to be welcomed but have we now reached the stage when 7 retail jobs now constitute a 'jobs boost' for the town? It shows how low the bar has been set.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/jobs-boost-as-fashion-retailer-opens-new-store-in-middleton-grange-shopping-centre-1-8851142

Once again, likely to be mainly part time/minimum wage.
Title: Re: Has it Come to This?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on November 11, 2017, 05: PM
See it for what it is, another tiresome Good News story to promote the image that everything is hunky dory.
It's not.