The Daily Blot: Tesco – Every little (handout) helps

Imagine the scenario: you walk into a job interview at Tesco. It’s not your ideal job, but in a pretty dire economy this is the best you can do. It turns out they’re impressed with your ability to stack shelves, protect frozen goods and trip up shoplifters. They offer you a job and you think “Great! Now I can finally get off the dole!” You’re then told they’re only going to pay you the amount that the job centre would normally pay you every couple of weeks and the odd bus fare to and from work.

Now, you might be sitting there reading this thinking that a company that earns as much money as Tesco does never do such a thing in a million years. It can afford to pay all its employees, right?

Read the rest of this at The Daily Blot.

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