I’ve just turned 22, and I work for a recruitment company (helping others find jobs etc). I’m sick and tired of people claiming JSA (Job seekers allowance). The majority of people claiming are more than capable for working, their just darn lazy. Maybe they should have a new thing inplace, where u can claim for 2months, and after that tuff ****!
Also while I’m letting you know my thoughts, - I also disagree with young mothers being given anything more than a flat (handouts and nice houses- while im struggling to find accommodation). My best mate has a 3year old son, and she’s been given a nice 2 bedroom house on a nice estate. She gets £X amount of money a week, and both her and her soon dress in designer clothes… she has a part time cleaning 2.
So all these handouts are unfair, and I think everyone should get off their fat lazy arses and go to work…. After-all the way things are going, with the rise of eastern Europeans coming to work in UK, you will all be “bums"
2006-12-01 00:13:45 · 27 answers · asked by geminially 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
If you are unfortunate enough for what ever reason to have to go on income support, then want to get back to work. The GOVERNMENT makes it almost impossible!
If you work 16 hours a week while on benefits you can only keep £20 of what you earn. If you work more than 16 hours a week then all the benefits get stopped straight away like housing benefit, council tax benefit etc.
So basically you need to earn at least 25 grand to have any chance of paying the rent, council tax, water, electric, gas, TV license, the list is endless!
Also another bit of information for you. For people who do want to get back to work come off benefits and pay there way, the job centre offer you what they call " A better off interview"
Where they work out for you based on a certain wage whether you will be better off coming off benefits or staying on them.
What a pathetic thing the government offer! They should make it possible that what ever you do you are better off working than on benefits.
But whether you want to or not majority of the time people are better off on benefits than off.
The government is the problem.
So get your facts straight first before talking about something you have no idea about.
2006-12-01 04:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by jules 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In normal circumstances, I think you were unjustified in your attitude, but the only people entitled to take this attitude would be people in a position to offer jobs to the unfortunate.
So you have a better reason to say this than most.
I have never actually found this in practice (I have employed people) and I find that almost everybody (except drug addicts and alcoholics) want to do something useful and earn a living. Some of them a too chaotic to be good employees though. It is hard and time consuming to train a worker. Common sense and lack of a certain arrogance are the prime things I look for in employees. Also no children (that means no single mothers: the customers do not understand that their service cannot be provided for because a kid is sick!)
But they do not want to be treated slaves by bosses paying **** wages.
I would ask for a pay rise, negotiate for better working conditions through your Union and thank your lucky stars the rain does not come through the roof.
2006-12-01 08:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by Perseus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my husband left me with a three month old daughter, no house, no job, debts I hadn't known about and physically crippled from the birth I was only kept going by government help.
Three years later I'm a director of a successful company, paying my taxes, my rent, my council tax, and contributing a damn site more to the economy than a 22 year old recruitment consultant. I think the money we all invest in people via the government can save some very talented people from sinking under their circumstances and actually create productive future tax payers.
Just thank God that you're not sick, or a single father, or burdened by debt. Yet.
2006-12-01 09:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by annebythegate 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree. The amount of money the government hands out makes it more attractive to stay at home on benefits than to go to work! I have heard it from several people saying they can't afford to go to work because they would lose their benefits.
It makes it doubly unfair on the people who genuinely can't work, and rely on benefits to survive. Mothers who chose to stay at home with their children should only do that if their partner's income is enough to support them, not because they are too lazy to get a job, and would rather get their rent paid. I stayed at home looking after my two children while my husband worked. We struggled through, but we managed to buy a nice house, and never took anything from the state. Working Family Tax Credit came into force, and we got a little from it, but not much. I have never claimed Jobseeker's Allowance in my life.
Yes, there should be a limit to how long someone can stay on the dole. There are jobs out there, and I know of too many who just go to the pub every day instead of looking. They collect their money every week and don't care. They should be forced to look for work or their money will stop, and they need to actively prove that they have applied for work, showing rejection letters, applications, etc. Too many people are on the scrounge these days with no sense of pride. Very unfair on the people who work their arses off (like my husband, and soon to be me), and end up lining these dossers' pockets!
2006-12-01 08:24:13 · answer #4 · answered by helly 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
congratulations on stereotyping and catagorising all poeple on jsa as bums... etc... its the same opld question who are you to judge people???
Yes ok people dont deserve to get it if they have no willpower to actually work but for mthers and stuff you cant say you would think it was fair to let a newborn baby live on the street with a kid. Now would you??
Now look on it on this point in spetember last year i lost feeling in my lower body and was very ill after that i have lost alot of muscle strength and i have a wheelchair but i havent been able to get a council property because of the waiting list for herione addicts etc...
So im having to rent privatley and guess what all the landlords say no dss. so because of that i find it hard to find new places to live where i can use a wheelchair if needs be and its a nightmare.
So dont go classing everyone as dole bums some people just have harder situations that others id love to work but i dont have the choice so i have to deal with what i get but i cant even get DLA because im not disabled enough apparently...
2006-12-01 08:20:57 · answer #5 · answered by nommie 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am in total agreement with you, if all those lazy b*stards had got of their a*ses, this sh*t government would not have had any excuses for bringing in all these f**king eastern blocker's here, and as for single mothers handouts, I wont even go there, job seekers allowance, that's a laugh, all they have to do is be seen to be looking for a job, I have had hundreds of them come to me supposedly looking for work, Ive offered them a job, and you never see them again, running away like scared rabbits, f**k them all.
2006-12-01 08:57:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Come to this town. On the main shopping street it is infested with young mothers who smoke, sit in MacDonalds chatting on their mobiles, a couple of brats in an expensive pushchair, God I get so irate, then in the evening the same girls are out on the town, clubbing and getting blind drunk. Go to Asda or Tesco, see the piled high trollies being emptied into the taxi. I work in their house, Sky, broadband, LCD tellies, they have the lot. Excuse me while I go and explode!!!!
2006-12-01 08:40:06 · answer #7 · answered by Dave T 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i'm a single mum of 2. I would love to go to work but its cheaper for me not too. I live in a private rented house (because council houses are NOT just handed out) i used to work but struggled to pay rent, council tax, baby food/nappies etc. I pay money towards my rent now, plus £20 a week just for school busfares! I also developed a drinkin problem when i last worked because of stress. I hope u enjoy your wages, get pissed up 1 night, have a one night stand, get pregnant THEN we'll see how you do it. 22, u aint got a clue......and b4 u all wonder how im online, simple, the kids dad pays 4 it
2006-12-01 08:27:00 · answer #8 · answered by mishnbong 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do agree. Though I myself am on Incapacity Benefit,I'd rather have some sort of job-but the doctors,etc. say no.
But I know loads of able bodied people who don't work-and don't see a reason to! They go clubbing every weekend,buy expensive clothes and the prerequisite gold chunky necklaces,have nice homes handed to them,their rent paid,and many keep having children!! (Birth control is free you know!!)
I can't respect people like that-as bad as thieves,in my opinion.
2006-12-01 08:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree, it seems to be the more you ask for the more you receive. When I finished my degree I went on the dole for 3 weeks, and the Dole office were on my back all the time to get a job, but my mate who's not got a degree had no presure to get off his lazy butt to get a job, because he told them he found taking orders difficult!!!!! OMG...I blame the government for being to soft. I've always been taught that nothing in life is free, but that's been turned on its head by this softly softly approach. bring in some tough LOVE
2006-12-01 08:18:05 · answer #10 · answered by willows 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋