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Jobs for the work-shy.
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this is already working up here in lancashire, there as been a free labour pool made available to local businesses all year, but they tend to be for people returning to work after long term incapacity. we have a guy at work who is doing 6 weeks full time unpaid work after 3 years incapacity due to stress. Yet the whole organisation is under threat of closure due to cutbacks.
These long term 'work shy' are at the moment, sitting around doing nothing, while at the same time enjoying a life style they are happy with, all at the hard working tax payer's expense.
They will not be working for 'peanuts' nor working like slaves as some have said. They will be doing a little work for the community in return for the life style they have chose, what is wrong with that?
And to all those that say they will be depriving other workers of a job, I say of course they wont, the councils will not be employing anyone to do these jobs, just as they don't now.
It just mean that all those jobs that need doing, but are at present not done because of the cost involved, will now be done by these benefit recipients.
They will not be working for 'peanuts' nor working like slaves as some have said. They will be doing a little work for the community in return for the life style they have chose, what is wrong with that?
And to all those that say they will be depriving other workers of a job, I say of course they wont, the councils will not be employing anyone to do these jobs, just as they don't now.
It just mean that all those jobs that need doing, but are at present not done because of the cost involved, will now be done by these benefit recipients.
the way i read it , it'll be like short term "work experience" in already established workplaces. I work in an office. Since the recession, we have had to cut down on staff, so for example, there is now nobody whose "job" it is to order the stationery and various othe rtasks that are now "everybody's" job (ie they don't get done) having a "work experience" person would be useful for us
NoMercy
/// I've never understood the work-shy mentality. I would rather do (almost) any job than be unemployed.///
Do you mean that on a cold, wet Monday morning when the alarm clock is jumping up and down on the bedside table, you have not dreamed of shutting it off and drawing that duvet around your shoulders and snuggled off back to sleep?
Then when you arise around 11am all you have to do for the rest of the day is sit and watch telly, or take a trip down to the local to meet up with others like you, or perhaps end up in the bookies, to see if you can win enough to improved your idle life style still further?
Nice work if you can get it.
/// I've never understood the work-shy mentality. I would rather do (almost) any job than be unemployed.///
Do you mean that on a cold, wet Monday morning when the alarm clock is jumping up and down on the bedside table, you have not dreamed of shutting it off and drawing that duvet around your shoulders and snuggled off back to sleep?
Then when you arise around 11am all you have to do for the rest of the day is sit and watch telly, or take a trip down to the local to meet up with others like you, or perhaps end up in the bookies, to see if you can win enough to improved your idle life style still further?
Nice work if you can get it.
Hear, hear anotheoldgit!
There's too much of the 'it's my right' mentality and not enough of 'it's my responsibility'. Benefits exist in order to stop people 'falling through the net' through no fault of their own.
It won't work though; people can't even be bothered to take their own litter home so they'll squeal like stuck pigs at the thought of doing something for others.
There's too much of the 'it's my right' mentality and not enough of 'it's my responsibility'. Benefits exist in order to stop people 'falling through the net' through no fault of their own.
It won't work though; people can't even be bothered to take their own litter home so they'll squeal like stuck pigs at the thought of doing something for others.
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AOG, in response to your question... NO.
I dream of being able to buy anything I want without having to check my bank balance first, or calculate how much money is due to come out of my account to meet standing orders, DDs., etc.
I am the sort of person who is loathe to lie in bed doing sod all, so I would infinitely prefer to be up doing things. If I can earn good money whilst doing said things, so much the better. To reiterate: I will never understand the workshy mentality.
I dream of being able to buy anything I want without having to check my bank balance first, or calculate how much money is due to come out of my account to meet standing orders, DDs., etc.
I am the sort of person who is loathe to lie in bed doing sod all, so I would infinitely prefer to be up doing things. If I can earn good money whilst doing said things, so much the better. To reiterate: I will never understand the workshy mentality.
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