Invasion of the Job Snatchers on BBC

[Glossolalias]

Has anyone been watching this?

I think the programme was wrongly named. I thought it was great though. That guy who couldn't stop swearing make my mouth drop at times, even though I am quite the potty mouth myself!

Just watched on iplayer. Some of the attitudes! Oh my!
The lad on the ferry just doesn't understand that if he speaks in that London cod Jamaican way then it's quite likely that anyone over 40 will not have a clue what the hell he's on about. And that if someone can't understand you it does not make them a prick or a dickhead!

And Benny in the party shop! He's like something off The Only Way Is Essex. What an idiot.

I felt really sorry for Danika when the salon owner took it upon herself to 'sort out' her hair. It was obviously not going to end well when you consider that she only does older peoples' hair and that living where she does, she's probably never handled Afro hair. The poor girl coped really well bless her as it would have been understandable if she'd have gone ballistic walking out looking like a 60 year old! The owner also made a very dodgy comment about how it at least felt like hair now, after she'd straightened it. So Afro hair isn't like proper hair?????!!!! Whoah. I really admired Danika's restraint!

I have just watched it. I think it is going to be a really intersesting series.

nikki I do think the ferry boy was being a bit daft BUT I always think the owner was being a bit unreasonable. I think it's rude to say to someone what he was saying.There are politer ways of saying something to someone if you don't understand them, he was still speaking English!

I see what you're saying Gloss. I think I'm being more judgey in this case, because young people speaking in this way are very often adopting an accent and style of speech that has nothing to do with where the part of the country they live in or their heritage.

Ferry boy doesn't speak with a Nottingham accent, he speaks with a Jamaican London one. If he was from London and was black, I'd be totally sympathetic if he made the same complaint about his new boss, because it would be his genuine accent.

I feel so irritated when kids from alll over the country adopt this style of speech. I'm in Yorkshire and loads of teens speak this way here. About 10 years ago there would be different 'strengths' of Yorkshire accent depending on which part of the city you live. There are also Yorkshire Caribbean accents, Yorkshire Asian accents, Yorkshire Jewish accents etc, Nobody used to speak with Cockney accents or cockney Asian accents unless they were from London.

Sorry, I'm ranting and this is off topic.

I am just catching up on it now.

I think benny should have been fired. His attitude and behaviour was very unprofessional.

What annoys me about the program is that they seem to be focusing on the same couple of people.

What i found funny was the garden centre guy who quit his last job and then when asked if he would stick out this job his reply was 'i am not a quitter'.

Nikki, and everyone else on here, could you please stop saying it is a cod Jamaican accent or anything to do with Jamaica, trust me, it is not! You are right that it is a London style of dialect that has been copied from black youths, by white youths.

I am a child of Jamaican immigrants who came over in the sixties, and I am a cockney, having been born and lived in the East London all my life. I remember when that dodgy style of speech became prevalent - in the 1980s - amongst white youths who wanted to fit in with their black friends. The accent is a mixture of West Indian, mockney (not cockney), south London and African. Your comments made me fume as much as David Starkey's claim of 'Innit' being a Jamaican word during the riots.

As for the rest of the programme, I hate the way the producers only concentrate on the dysfunctional members of the group like Danika, who is so disrespectful and rude, and Benny who just doesn't get the point that you have to make sacrifices to fit into the world of work - you cannot be yourself all the time.