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What is the point of taking on a trainee and investing in her career if [unless she's useless - in which case why didn't you spot it before she started?] you then let your investment go elsewhere?

Are trainees regarded as cheap labour? Shortsighted if so, but the number of disappointed applicants for training contracts seems to suggest the opposite.

David, sad indeed. It started to go wrong in the early-mid eighties, I think.

Let's go back to 5 year articles - or apprenticeships - as this I think develops a collegiate atmosphere.

"For the avoidance of doubt" the female as used above includes the male.

Just to show how things change. In the early 60's articled clerks in my town - all male - were allowed to go to The Black Tulip - a newly fangled coffee bar - at 11 am each day. Actually quite a lot was sorted out over an espresso. When two women were articled, they were surprised when 8 blokes turned up and insisted that they join in. It was, in a sense, a club and if you were in then you were in. Bad thing?



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