There is a massive shortage of electronics staff these days in UK. (this is due to the fact that engineering in UK is in “die off”, and so nobody is coming in to the trade.
Is this the case in the rest of the world?……..i mean……I’m writing this to explain it and try and get an idea of the scale of the problem in other countries…?
Even electronics technicians who can do just the most basic electrical test and soldering and box build are rare in UK……..
.....Lets now refer to such a trade as an “ELTEC”.
My friend is an ELTEC at a company in the North of UK. But he has design skills and could do better….his employer doesn’t want to give him any further opportunity though….they just want him to stay as an ELTEC for them…because good ELTEC’s are so hard to find in UK……..he was applying for more suitably technical jobs at different companies and I guess his employer found out….
He then had a very brief affair with a secretary at his company, and this secretary then left loads of messages on his phone….then of course…his wife found out what he had done with the secretary………he has a young 4 year old son….his marriage is now in tatters.
Since he had this affair, (actually it was just 3 hours in a hotel one Saturday afternoon when he told his wife he was going to watch Man Utd play football)….his wife will now not support his desire to move to a new job elsewhere in the UK….she, quite understandably, doesn’t trust him any more. She wont have any more kids with him either….
….So he’s now stuck in his job as an ELTEC, even though he could do much better. His wife understandably won’t support him in re-locating with him to a new part of the UK to find a better job….due to his brief adultery
He confessed all this to me over a few beers one evening. Then, since the marital rigmarole is affecting his young son also, I suggested that maybe he could get the secretary to tell his wife that she never had an affair with him…..then he stunned me with his response…he told me that he had tried this, but that the secretary had told him that she had accidentally recorded their “trist” in the hotel room, and that she wouldn’t be speaking to his wife.
So he is now totally stuck working as a low payed ELTEC at his current employer….which is rather convenient for his employer………Hmmmmmmm……….i don’t know if you are thinking what I am thinking about this…???
Anyway, the UK is in a terrible mess, and it wouldn’t surprise me if “you know what” was happening in the case which i have described above..…does this stuff happen in the mainland EU , or the States , or SA/Aus/NZ etc etc?
Ive heard many other similar stories like this in UK.