Olympics

[Tiberius]

People working as stewards at lords are normally employed by lords and work there. true or false.

True.

Was lords a provider of stewards for the Olympics? No evidence provided but I suppose I could look it up do you insist, or can we take that a read?

No, Lords was not a provider of stewards, but that doesn't mean the people who already work there as stewards lost their jobs. This just reiterates my point about you using terrible logic. You can't just make these assumptions without providing evidence.

If the stewards at Lords had lost their jobs for the Olympics, you'd have thought at least one of them would have complained online, and a fuss would have been made.

I know for a fact that there were volunteers working at train stations across London to handle the increased number of passengers, but do you think that everyone who normally worked at the station lost their jobs for that duration? Well, I can't say for sure, but whenever I was at one of those stations, there were Olympic volunteers standing right next to the National Rail staff, so I'm leaning more towards "no".

The fact is, stewards were needed mainly for the stadium that was built to host the Games. In places like Lords, where staff already exist, extra stewards were probably there to support the larger numbers of crowds (and also deal with security). Even if this wasn't the case, it doesn't mean that the staff at Lords were fired; for all we know, they were given holiday time at that period. A lot of people at our company took holiday for the duration of the Olympics; I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true at other places.

The companies providing staff for the Olympics stet up their own criteria, for who would qualify to work at the events.

Therefore for the people working at lords, would not be able to work in the place they normally worked at unless they worked for free to qualify to be a steward at the games. In short where they would normally be employed for the period of the Olympics they did not work at that time at that venue, their normal employment was removed from them.

Firstly, as we've already discussed, Lords wasn't a company that hired extra stewards for the events, so they couldn't just create new contracts for stewards based on this one event. It would be against contract law in the UK, and once again, there is no evidence to support the accusation.

Secondly, why are you still barking on about stewards being required to work for free at the Olympics? I thought we'd sorted that out several posts ago. The Olympics was paid work; the Jubilee was unpaid work experience, which was required for the paid work at the Olympics.

In any case, all of this is made completely irrelevant by the fact that I asked for evidence, and you presented a number of arguments based on assumptions alone. I've done a few Google searches for various claims you've made here, and there are no results that support what you say.

If you don't start actually posting evidence rather than your delusions about how the world works, I'm going to start ignoring all the irrelevant stuff until you do.