[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by the truth

I employ over 40 people, I get all my opinions from the real world , never from media. thank you. The sheer volume of dishonest, lazy , unambitious, workshy , selfish , vain idiots Ive had applying for jobs is mindboggling. the majority of them drink heavily, the majority let me down most of the time and the vast majority refuse to work weekends due to drink.. I have to go through about 20 workers, to get 1 decent honest worker. this is the UK I know Ive been in business 20 years.

Dont you run a taxi company? Or at least something to do with driving...

(I may have picked up on this wrong somewhere along the line though)

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I have been on the dole myself in the past and I honestly cannot see how any jobseeker can afford to drink, smoke, or even eat proper meals tbh on the pittance they are given. I seriously hate the attitude that the majority are lazy scroungers who manage to buy plasma tvs, sit in the pub all day and have 4x expensive holidays a year...etc etc. I know a lot of people who are out of work at the moment actually and not one of them can afford to do any of those things...they tend to struggle to even keep a roof over their heads with all the **** ups that come with housing benefit, and it will be worse once the new changes come in too.

I could understand the attacks on the unemployed IF there were loads of unfilled jobs...enough to take even half of the unemployed population off benefits, but people just werent applying for them. This is not the case though. My father in law quite recently advertised for a new staff member (rather stupidly through the jobcentre...although we advised him against it as we know they force ANYONE to apply for the jobs, even if they dont have the relevant experience) and received over 150 applications. This is for a job of only 8 hours a week too, not even a fulltime position. So its clearly not just lazy people not wanting to work...the problem is the lack of jobs out there for the amount of people who are currently unemployed.

Before long too, a lot of people who already have jobs will be treat the same as these 'dole scroungers'. if you work part time you may be forced to apply for jobs with as little as 1 hour extra a week or face being sanctioned. No matter what your reasons for working part time in the first place...which is quite worrying as a lot of single mothers do part time work while their kids are at school, some people with disabilities push themselves to do a few hours a week etc etc.

Went on a bit of a rant there, but in short I totally understand why people are pissed off, and while I know marches and protests wont make a blind bit of difference, I admire them for standing up for themselves/those less fortunate.