Presumably they'll Shell out...

Have I missed something? When did driving a truck become an executive position?

Now before we start, let me make it clear that I've got nothing against lorry drivers per say. They do a good job and are vital to the movement of goods around this great land of ours. However, it's not exactly rocket science is it? Other than the HGV licence you don't need any special qualifications to my mind.

Therefore, why the hell are Shell lorry drivers demanding (that's demanding) £39k a year just to drive petrol around the country? What a bunch of greedy bastards. That's a shitload more than I get paid and I know for a fact that I work harder than this lot put together on any given day. Fair enough, their hours are unsociable, but that's their choice. They can't say "Yeah, I'll work late doing a boring, repetitive job. Forty grand should cover it". Cheeky gets.

Of course, this being England, they've gone on strike. And this being England, and despite Shell making allowances for it and telling the country there'll be enough fuel to go round, that cretinous, fuckwitted element of society was out in force today, clogging up the petrol pumps (none of them Shell stations, mind) so they can get their greedy mitts on something that's far from going out of fashion. Wankers. I hate the lot of them.

It doesn't help that Shell don't employ the drivers. They get a third party company to provide the manpower, so they can happily sit back and let the argument rumble, which isn't helping anybody.

Maybe, just maybe in the future, companies and their employees will sit around the table and thrash out these problems in one go, rather than employees demanding ridiculous figures for brainless work and companies treating their workforce like shite.

That said, the vast majority of this nation's public are thick as shit, so it makes no difference what you do. Who knows what would happen if the Government said jumping off bridges onto big metal spikes was in danger of running out...