Work For Dole

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Is it my imagination
Or have I finally found something worth living for?
I was looking for some action
But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol

You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
Cos when it comes on top . . .

You gotta make it happen!

Is it worth the aggravation
To find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
It's a crazy situation
But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol!

You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
Cos when it comes on top . . .

You gotta make it happen!

 

[pee dubya]

My work programme company gave me a computerised questionnaire on discrimination and a 1 hour workshop on job interviews. I was given a list of a few job sites and then a year later another list with more job websites suited to people with higher education qualifications.
That is the complete list of effort that this company has put into finding me work in the last 2 years, it's a disgrace. (In the meantime I've applied for over 550 jobs and had about a dozen interviews, it's rather demoralising).

I echo the experiences of others not receiving replies, can't be arsed attitude off recruitment agencies after they've put you forward a couple of times and not been successful. The worst thing is not even getting a reply after you've been for interview and when you do get feedback the standard reply is that everybody was of a similar standard but they just decided to select someone else. No I'm not blaming everybody else but it's tough when you are kicked in the bollocks every day.

Have you considered voluntary work? Just as a way back onto the working path, i'm not really talking about looking good to prospective employers (although it wouldn't hurt) more about improving your own mental state and getting a bit of sense of worth back. I've been unemployed for 6 months before and that length of time was demoralising, actually getting a rejection was a cause for feeling a bit better, just to hear anything back from all the applications.

There's loads of other potential benefits as well, learning skills, networking etc, it might even lead to a paying job for whoever you're volunteering with.

I do plenty of voluntary work for friends and family, I'd rather do odd stuff for them like relay patios, mend kids bikes, re-roof sheds, fix drains. I can do pretty much anything apart from draw/ paint artistically, I don't need to learn any new skills, my problem is convincing people that I'll have a go at anything because I'm either over qualified or haven't got a piece of paper to say that I can do something that I learned to do 25 years ago when you didn't need a certificate to do half the things that you do now.

Doing odd jobs isn't the same as having something regular though, official voluntary work from a potential employer's point of view is much more worthwhile. Telling them you do stuff for your friends and family, anyone could claim that, whereas if you do regular work for an official organisation you'll have a new and up to date referee and basically have more proof that you'd be a valuable and reliable employee.

No offence, but it's been 2 years, so whatever you're trying now clearly isn't working. I know how difficult it is because i've been in a similar situation, this is just from my own experience something that really genuinely helped me get into (totally unrelated) work.

 

[kinkysleftfoot]

Me too, We are parody thread enabling scroungers

You could try.....

I could but I'm busy working two jobs that barely cover my childcare costs ;)

I remember those days well.......two young children and a single dad running my own business, I could very easily just given up and claimed for many years but that was never an option!

 

[Bovril]

Another idea is to make the jobless go to the job centre every day in their search for work. Where i live that would cost each person either £2 or £3.50 a day. JSA is about £52 a week so it's a big chunk out of their money.

FFS people used to walk miles just to queue outside factory gates for the chance of a shift, just shows that people are not motivated enough these days to work. I would get on my bike and cycle to the job centre!

This all day long, not enough people are motivated work will motivate them !! why should hard workers pay tax just to squander Billions on Welfare, I agree certain people will always require welfare and rightly so but each and everyone of you here slating this initiative knows someone who can work but won't !!!

 

[rick773]

I don't understand how this will work. The companies that benefit from these cheap workers, are they forced to employ them full time after a period ?
Surely some unscrupulous companies will be sacking their entire workforce and then re-employing them through this wonderously cheap government employment programme.

From what has been said so far i would imagine its local government and social services who would benefit. Litter picking and cooking meals for old folk.

So they want to give out community service for being unemployed? Hopefully work camps soon after.

 

[bobmcfc]

You could try.....

I could but I'm busy working two jobs that barely cover my childcare costs ;)

I remember those days well.......two young children and a single dad running my own business, I could very easily just given up and claimed for many years but that was never an option!

I would rather eat shit and work three jobs than suffer the indignity of claiming dole. Child killers and rapists are treated better than new dole claimants are

 

[rick773]

Another idea is to make the jobless go to the job centre every day in their search for work. Where i live that would cost each person either £2 or £3.50 a day. JSA is about £52 a week so it's a big chunk out of their money.

FFS people used to walk miles just to queue outside factory gates for the chance of a shift, just shows that people are not motivated enough these days to work. I would get on my bike and cycle to the job centre!

This all day long, not enough people are motivated work will motivate them !! why should hard workers pay tax just to squander Billions on Welfare, I agree certain people will always require welfare and rightly so but each and everyone of you here slating this initiative knows someone who can work but won't !!!

Where were the people standing in line for the factory shift supposed to go when the factory closed down? Imagine if all the money Starbucks and google gets away with not paying , and all the other money "squandered" not helping people actually went towards bringing new jobs into the country(real jobs that is , not the service industry careers everyone dreams of), then these lazy fucks would have no excuse.

And even if I do know people who can and don't work who cares? It doesn't effect my life. If everyone gets off welfare tomorrow i guarantee no one is getting a refund check for what they paid in. If you guys think it's that unfair you work and someone else doesn't then quit your job , and go apply for the free big tv , new car, holiday every few months benefit package they must hand out to everyone who wants it.

 

[BlakeTheBlue]

Another idea is to make the jobless go to the job centre every day in their search for work. Where i live that would cost each person either £2 or £3.50 a day. JSA is about £52 a week so it's a big chunk out of their money.

FFS people used to walk miles just to queue outside factory gates for the chance of a shift, just shows that people are not motivated enough these days to work. I would get on my bike and cycle to the job centre!

This all day long, not enough people are motivated work will motivate them !! why should hard workers pay tax just to squander Billions on Welfare, I agree certain people will always require welfare and rightly so but each and everyone of you here slating this initiative knows someone who can work but won't !!!

You appear to have missed the point. (apologies in advance. This guys a bit "shouty" for my taste, but by god he's spot on)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liw1W7Rr8vc[/youtube]

 

[stonerblue]

FFS people used to walk miles just to queue outside factory gates for the chance of a shift, just shows that people are not motivated enough these days to work. I would get on my bike and cycle to the job centre!

What's a 'factory'?

LMAO

i'm here all week..

 

[Josh Blue]

Anyone who agrees with this is a fucking moron.