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Resilience – Human Resources – A poem!

20th May, 2014 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Resilience – Human Resources – A poem!

Below is a poem written by our very own Lorna reflecting on her experience devising with the Bethany group as part of our Resilience project – thanks Lorna!

 

human resources

strivers   skivers

nine-to-fivers

 

workers   shirkers

workmen   shirkmen

 

job seekers

job takers

creators   fakers

 

feats and work

cheats and crooks

 

cadgers

scrounger

loungers

spongers

 

bread winners  

bread losers 

doers   screwers

butchers   moochers

hoochy-coochers

 

a hard day’s nightshift

shiftless   workless

a hard night’s dayshift

workful   shirkful

 

toilers   spoilers

earners   swindlers

cheaters   stealers

wheeler-dealers

 

workfare   workforce

fair work

force work

warfare or welfare

 

minimum   living   wage   slaves

doers   screwers

players   failures

helpers   hinderers

makers   takers

 

banks and food banks

tanks and no tanks

think so no thanks

 

interns   out-terns

intakes   outputs

profits   handouts

 

years of tears

volunteers for fears

 

work like dogs

nose to grindstone

bring home bacon

 

manpower   powerless

labels  meaning less

 

drivers    idlers

crisis managers

risk  takers

couch potatoes

 

long term leeches

mother earth fuckers

sloths and parasites

blood suckers