Lost my JSA

redstararnie76

Sadly, however, this is life at the moment, there are many people, graduates and non-graduates, working in jobs which they hate because they can't afford to give them up without having another job lined up.
And I'm afraid it is fairly risky, in this current climate with climbing unemployment, to give up a job without first checking out your position. Unfortunately this will be a lesson hard learnt.
Yes, of course there are worse crimes than quitting a job, but the truth is that being picky over jobs is something that only those who are financially well-cushioned can do.

red_devil

They shouldnt be allowed to stop benefit everyone needs money for food etc by law!

They do have some funny rules at times and its hard to understand them all.

-BA-

wishface wrote: »

Isn't it nice to judge people's actions without their experience from afar. Isn't it easy to tell people what they should have done.

What a sad judgemental message board this is.

So this guy deserves to be treated worse than a criminal then? He should starve to death in the gutter then?

!!!!!! there's worse crimes than quitting a job. Is the economy so important that people should make themselves miserable and unhappy in menial jobs then?

What's any of this got to do with daily mail stereotypes of the unemployed or the working class?

Pathetic.

You are defending and criticising the OP in the same post......classic. The OP raised the Wayne/Waynetta analogy, not the follow up posters.

If one is unhappy in a job, search and get another. JSA is not there to be a god given right to someone who just "didn't like the job". Encouraging that approach results in people not taking ownership of their lives and simply jumping ship because they feel like it.

There is nothing judgemental about any of the responses. They were quite appropriate considering the OPs attitude towards his/her version of the great unwashed.

If you are going to defend someone/something....know what it is you are actually defending. :rolleyes:

Ninja_Seb

The argument he/she gave to the Jobcentre was dumb and naive. It would have been better to have lied. You might have been found out and had JSA stopped, but knowing what the Jobcentre is like they probably would'nt have bothered checking up.

It's a cruel, harsh world. You have to play the game to survive.

Oldernotwiser

wishface wrote: »

Is the economy so important that people should make themselves miserable and unhappy in menial jobs then?

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So everybody else who's working in these sorts of jobs has to pay because some else thinks he's above it?

Anyway, it's strange that you're jumping to the defence of someone who stereotypes the unemployed as Wayne and Waynetta, isn't it? Just who is the Daily Mail reader here?

Horace

It has been the case since jobcentres were invented that you never gave up your job and expected to receive dole money because you would have a very long wait.

Unfortunately, you have come out of University with a head full of big ideas (not that there is anything wrong with big ideas) and seem to think that everything should be handed to you on a plate. Real life isnt like that - that's just the way of the world. If you live close to the countryside why not go and work on a farm picking crops? Its hard and often backbreaking work and I think it is still piece-work (you get paid for what you pick - the more you pick the more you earn). Perhaps registering with a temp agency will be useful as they may have work.

Its not nice but there is often a degree of bullying in most workplaces, you just need to toughen up a bit, if it goes beyond more than a bit of banter then you take action.

I don't think that with such high unemployment that you can afford to be picky.

Meepster

I'd love a job that I hated, infact I'd love any job right now. I have no sympathy for ANYONE who gives up a job and then complains that they can't get any help.

Hmmm 30 hours per week (even at minimum wage) sounds a lot more attractive than £60 per week, sat at home, applying for any and every job and getting depressed...

-BA-

With an attitude like that you shouldn't be unemployed too long. Just hang in there......times are tough but there are jobs to be had.

catenorfolk

wishface wrote: »

how is he supposed to learn with no income to feed himself?

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like the rest of us with commitments, ie., work and study the rest of the time!!

catenorfolk

dan_essex wrote: »

I have sympathy for the guy to a degree, because there is nothing worse than being stuck in a job you don’t like. /QUOTE]

Like many millions of us in the world