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Originally posted by langster:
Ermmmmmm no you are not you silly bint. You have to have actually have a job, or want to have a job, or have actually ever had a job. Roll Eyes

Didn't she say in her VT that she was unemployed and had been for years?

BTW I couldn't fail to notice that her house was immaculate and fitted with all the mod cons, including a nice 42" LCD telly and surround sound stereo.


That's more than l've got and I work Eeker
Liverpoollass
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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
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Originally posted by Getthekettleon:
Im a single parent of two and have always worked. I havent had a proper holiday in years,i would be better off if i didnt work Mad

Probably not better off in your head, though. I'd go out of my mind if I didn't work. That's not that I'm better than someone who can't or won't work, just that I'm defined in part by working as I do. It must be very hard for someone who has worked for most of their lives to then fall out of the jobs market.


My job is more the social aspect for me, not just the money. Im ÂĢ67.00 a week worse off because i work, doesnt sound a lot,but monthly its a lot of dosh. I know there are some people who are crying out to work and cant.Its the lazy feckers who should be working and dont that infuriate me.
G
I don't know how long she has been unemployed, but do know she has spent most of her life in factories. Having worked in that enviroment myself untill being made redundant, I know that many have been slowly laying people off for years and replacing them with cheap, powerless agency workers. The current economic crisis has'nt helped either. This may well be what has happened to Lisa. Once you get to her age, if you lose your job it is very difficult to find another. I'm slightly older and find I don't even get interviews!

(Wow, never thought I would be defending Lisa in a thread Big Grin!)
kimota
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Originally posted by Darthhoob:


thats exactly what it was like for my OH, the job centre went as far to say he was too old to be trained...at 35. they did send him eventually for a forklift license and some basic IT training. but they took away the cert at the end for it cos of the recession Shake Head also they said those quals were worth shit anyway...but if he didn't go...9-5 for 13 weeks. he would have benefits stopped


yip, as he says it seems that IF you are over 35 they give up on you and they want to remove your right to control your own life,
WHY, in a "free" country should anyone be FORCED to work in a low paid job they hate?,
I have been throught this "system" myself many many times, (been made redundant over 10 times in my life)
it seems training (good training) is only availiable for "certain" people or "certain types" of people,
I will give ya a CLASSIC example,

I was signing on myself only a year ago, I had been on the dole for over a year (except for one or two crap temp jobs)
one day I am in the que in the jobcentre for my fortnightly humiliation session, and in walks my sister...
SHE had just been made redundant from a managerial job she had held at woolies for 30 years,...a woman came over to HER "oh hello can I help"?
(my sister was wearing her suit I was in my jeans hoodie n baseball cap)
she explained her situation, and was taken off into a room for an interview,
later that day I spoke to her, and she was full of praise for the wonderfull people at the jobcentre,
and yet (I have to say it), my sister is so dim its unreal, she goes on holliday to exotic places every year yet couldnt point to ONE of em on a map when I asked her, she has NEVER read a book in her life,(votes BNP) but SHE gets the red carpet treatment I get shown the minimum wage jobs, and when you ask for help and advice they just look bored,
sickening it is,...but hey...everybody on the dole is a scrounger ya know,? Shake Head
old hippy guy
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Originally posted by langster:
Can I just say that when I started this thread last night it was just aimed at Lisa and some of her comments regarding work and what she has. She said something like she didn't care if she didn't work again as she had everything she wants and needs and will be ok after this (which is fair enough) And obviously her class statements.

I was just being flippant and taking an easy pot shot at her. No way was I meaning to start a fight or upset anyone, I also was in no way, shape or form knocking anyone here or anyone without a job. It was in poor taste and I apologise if I upset anyone.

As you were Laugh Big Grin


It was'nt your post so much as some that followed it! Thumbs Up
kimota

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