Well, finally got a bread and butter minimum wage job in Swanage after 2+ years in temporary casual work and on the dole. Can crack on now with my photojournalism course

Not to put to fine a word on it minimum wage work be it temporary or permanent is bollocks. The minimum wage is not a living wage and despite getting tax credits and all the so-called in-work support am no better of than when I was on the dole.

What I am happy to report is that, as usual, with these type of jobs the boss is a bullying asshole. Thank god I’m in a union (in my case the IWW). By standing up to the asshole and telling her that I will defend myself at all times and use my union to do it I have got her off my back. The trouble is she’s now gone off in search of softer targets and there’s plenty of those at work. I have tried to spread the word about organising and joining as union but I might as well try and pull my foreskin over my head and play ‘land of hope and glory’ down the fucking hole I piss (and occasionally come) through.

Sadly it’s going to take a massive uphill struggle for the idiot workers to stop just going to the pub and moaning about the boss and getting them of their arses and defending themselves. The working class in 2012 are their own worst enemies