Holy hell

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neonazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html

Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers.

Germany’s ARD television channel made the allegations in a documentary about Amazon’s treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from across Europe to work at its German packing and distribution centres.
The film showed omnipresent guards from a company named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots and with military haircuts. They were employed to keep order at hostels and budget hotels where foreign workers stayed. “Many of the workers are afraid,” the programme-makers said.

Nothing to Hide.. yet its been deleted

1. 1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      Did @JontyOC delete the first comment he made about teaching people to wash and use loo paper I cant find it But luckily others have copies

      
      
   2. 8mJonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      Yes I deleted it @greenwoods4727

      
      
   3. 5mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC If you have nothing to hide as quoted by many others Do a4e still do these courses? How many people feel worse due to it

      
      
   1mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

   @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC These courses could be seen as being bullying and insulting to people perhaps you can see how many other site do it

I am not a spokesman, so says the spokesman

1. 1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC My views, not A4e's or any of my former employers'. except when you are talking about a4e. or do those count as well?

      
      
   28mJonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

   It is a tricky balance @greenwoods4727 as obv I work for the firm, so have thoughts about my job. But I am not an official spokesperson

   
   

   1. 26mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC If you are not an official spokesman, then you shouldnt be speaking about them at all You are publicising a4e therefore you are one

More from JontyOC

1. 1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC so what have they been doing with toilet paper.. and that will help them get a job? How

      
      
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      8 FebJonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      Some of the customers had not been using loo paper at all @greenwoods4727. Obviously they need to if they want to get through interviews

      
      
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      4hPosie Parker‏@ThePosieParker

      @JontyOC @greenwoods4727 Wow. Surely people that don't know how to use toilet paper are likely to have MH issues?

      
      
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      8mJonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      Some customers do have MH needs yes @ThePosieParker @greenwoods4727, and we have NHS and in house support available for them.

      greenwoods4727
   5. @JontyOC @ThePosieParker So you will send everyone for MH checking then. what qualifications do they have, can they determine MH in minutes?

      
      
   
   

   2mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

   @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC @ThePosieParker MH is complex and takes months or years to be diagnosed yet a4e will do it in 10 mins once a month?

   
   

   1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC @ThePosieParker So you will send everyone for MH checking then. what qualifications do they have, can they determine MH in minutes?
      
      
      

      1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

         @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC @ThePosieParker what will this have done to the confidence people had, that "thing" was pure bullying and insulting

WTF the Mind Boggles

1. Jonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

   Fascinating day with DWP staff in our Doncaster office. Sat in on class teaching people to wash and use loo paper.
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   1. Eric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      @JontyOC so what have they been doing with toilet paper.. and that will help them get a job? How

   
   
   His reply hours later
   
   
   
   

   1. Jonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      Some of the customers had not been using loo paper at all @greenwoods4727. Obviously they need to if they want to get through interviews
      
      
      

      1. Jonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

         Some customers do have MH needs yes @ThePosieParker @greenwoods4727, and we have NHS and in house support available for them.

         
         

         1. Jonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

            I certainly did not mean to cause offence @Hossylass.I apologise. I only meant was eyeopening to me that this might be an issue for some ppl

Work Programme 2?

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      Jonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      
      

      Getting stuck into creating our policy proposal for #WorkProgramme2 this week.

      
      

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      8mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      
      

      @JontyOC How come i have a feeling of dread when i hear that. I wonder how much money they will get to provide nothing

      
      

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      6mJonty Olliff-Cooper‏@JontyOC

      
      

      I will be arguing for zero @greenwoods4727, as I would suggest it should be fully paid by results

      
      

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      5mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      
      

      @JontyOC PBR doesnt work, It makes these organisations do the minimum to get the maximum profits in PBR all a person is a wallet.

      
      

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      3mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      
      

      @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC this is the problem when private for profit providers run a PBR system It isnt about helping its about Money

      
      

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      1mEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      
      

      @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC This also opens the door into forcing people to be self employed, people with no real plans just so they can claim

      
      

      
      

      34sEric Greenwood‏@greenwoods4727

      
      

      @greenwoods4727 @JontyOC I suggest you read this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/feb/01/payment-results-staff-fictions … this shows the perils that PBR has

      
      

Radio 5 live

Today on radio 5 live they did a story about the work providers pushing self employment.    Kirsty McHugh of the ERSA (the industry's trade body) said to complain to the provider you have problems with.

ARGH ARGH it is the standard if you have a problem with your provider go to your provider excuse. They may do a review and find everything is golden and rainbows fill the air. The providers have a reason to ignore any complaints, We cant complain to the job centre as they are not involved we dare not complain to the provider, we cant complain to the ICE because we have to complain to the provider first. Add to that the threats you feel if you dare speak out who can we really speak too No one seems to want to listen to the unemployed. 

Your mp's must get hundreds of complaints every week, the only people we can talk to is people on boards like this, on forums on twitter and spread what we know. This feels like an uphill struggle and i have come close a few times to giving up becoming the mindless drone so many people want me to become but then i remember my dad and brother who taught me to think, my great aunt for when to stand up and say ENOUGH and fight to the very last.