Work-Shy 3 Hour Queue

[DrFilth]

or is this just more proof that the so-called lazy work-shy want to actually work when they queue for hours for a minimum wage job ?

http://money.aol.co.uk/2014/03/24/three-hour-queue-and-1-500-people-for-40-aldi-jobs/?ncid=webmail10

[factor-fiction]

I'm sure that the majority of those registered as jobseekers are not workshy and are desperate for work.
Has someone suggested all the unemployed are workshy? I am sure some that for many a life on benefits is a life style choice but hopefully stories like this will remind us that most want to work

[pixie373]

Some people are desperate for work, certainly. However, you also have to do a certain amount of interviews to keep claiming JSA, even if you have no intention of taking the job. A Care Agency i worked at, ended up getting applicants to pay for their own CRB checks (as it was then) and refunding them after the applicant had worked for 6 months, as they were fed up paying for them for people who went for the interview and disappeared.

[Svejk]

mmm. they, probably, werent all there by choice.

[Svejk]

aldi usually pay quite good money. have they dropped their pay rates?

[Gromit]

Employers know that if they advertise a job they are likely to get 300 to 400 applicants. That is why many of them now use recruitment agencies to find employees.

Because there are so many applicants, people applying never get the courtesy of a rejection letter or email.

Becuase this queue was in public it has made the headlines, but hundreds applying for jobs is normal, everyday.

[whiskeryron]

They are labelled work shy by ex public school boys who haven't a clue what the real world is like out there.

[youngmafbog]

what nonsense whiskey.

There are those that wish to work and those that have a lifestyle on benefits.

Being out of work does not mean you are the later and no one has said so. It is not only the 'public boys' that say it either.

[Old_Geezer]

Not every unemployed person is work-shy. Doesn't mean that some aren't.

[factor-fiction]

I think that's a bit of a generalisation there, ron.

And in my experience a lot of working class grafters/labourers are far more critical of the work shy/scroungers. "Give em all a brush" is a comment I've heard a few times

[naomi24]

I believe Aldi pay rather more than the minimum wage.

[Old_Geezer]

Anyway they were probably all immigrants after our jobs.

[DrFilth]

> you also have to do a certain amount of interviews to keep claiming JSA <

if you never get offered an interview do they stop your jsa ?

[Tilly2]

Where does it say, in the article, that it's minimum wage job?

According to two adverts in our local Aldi, they pay over £7.00 an hour and that increases after a period of time.

[factor-fiction]

I think you have to show you are making reasonable efforts to get a job by applying for them. In this ALDI case the application process involved queueing up. (Maybe it was partly a publicity stunt by Aldi). I am sure that there are some who will submit their quota of applications but will make sure their application is not attractive enough for them to be interviewed, but the job cente may eventually try to intervene.
I think the requirement to apply for X jobs a week is wrong though- i think it's far better to make 3 good applications a week, with a good supporting statement tailored to the vacancy, than to fire off 30 standard applications.

[naomi24]

Apart from what you've written I can't see any mention of the lazy work-shy - but I can see possible explanations for the queue in your link. Have a look at the last three paragraphs.

[naomi24]

Another thought. Why do you assume all these people are unemployed? A number of them might be there because they want to change jobs.

[DrFilth]

naomi you need to keep pulling up the ones on here that keep saying benefit scum and work-shy

after all if you are on benefits don't you get everything for free -)

[mikey4444]

But not all unemployed gets squilions on the Dole. For instance, I am 60 years old and single. I have no children, at least none that I am aware of although a bachelor can never be 100% sure I suppose. So I would get the bare minimum of JSA, which wouldn't even go halfway to pay my monthly mortgage. JSA doesn't even come close to putting food on the table, let alone the hugely inflated utility bills that we now have no choice but to pay.

[ummmm]

Mikey - and that's why I can't understand why people would chose benefits as a lifestyle choice. It's no lifestyle, it's surviving.

[naomi24]

Dr.Filth, I'm pulling you up because you’ve grossly misrepresented the link you posted.