Benefit Busters Ch4 9pm

ninky_2

bo_drinker wrote: »

If Hayley's not back next week I'm not watching it, she is priceless.:T

yes very disappointing. i was under the impression she was a regular feature. todays tutors were very dull. i wonder what sort of contracts they are on?

there were a lot of grey eyes and junkie looking types today. is it really like that up north?

PasturesNew

I can't see it. Loaded 4od but laptop's not dragging it across.I was watching it in 10 second chunks (10secs then wait 20 for the next 10) but it's now stuck at 3mins in - and power's running out on this. Only one power socket in this room and it seems to be broken,... so it's a right bugg4h

wageslave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't see it. Loaded 4od but laptop's not dragging it across.I was watching it in 10 second chunks (10secs then wait 20 for the next 10) but it's now stuck at 3mins in - and power's running out on this. Only one power socket in this room and it seems to be broken,... so it's a right bugg4h

I am not going to watch it. I will just end up wanting to set fire to A4Es' head office.

shakerbaby

A4e just been awarded a new £150 million contract. What a scam. Aren't they simply doing the job of the Job Centre???

ninky_2

shakerbaby wrote: »

A4e just been awarded a new £150 million contract. What a scam. Aren't they simply doing the job of the Job Centre???

well no they offer additional motivating sessions such as making useless things out of cellotape and old newspaper or felt tip pen colouring in of preschool books. these cunningly designed tasks are to show people just how low they need to sink their hopes and aspirations in order to accept the zero hour, no sick pay, no pension, no morals, totally alienating "jobs" on offer.

i thought this series was just going to be comedy value but actually it's brilliant (if totally depressing). the interactions are dickensian. can we expect a christmas special with bob crachitt asking for a day off and an A4e representative telling them if they don't accept the no guarantees job that pays the minimum wage over the christmas season their benefits will stop for "if they would rather die than go there, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population"......

the moral of this tale is that by far the majority are prepared to work if the jobs on offer have reasonable terms and conditions (such as a guaranteed weekly wage and being permanent).

norfolkshops

what a load of crap A4E,please how do they get away with it.this company are making us all a laughing stock,money you might as well give it away

bendix

ninky wrote: »

maybe the longterm unemployed should set up a business to help others back to work. .

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You're my favourite poster by far ninky. I really wish I lived in your world, a world where you think the longterm unemployed could set up a company to help others back to work, and where you believe people when they say they want to work if only the job is right simply because they say so on a BBC tv programme.

Do you actually know any longterm unemployed? Have you ever been within 200 metres of a council estate, for example?

Honestly, it's soooooo cute.

I watched it for the first time last night. I don't know who was the more depressing group - the unemployed clients of A4E, or the otherwise unemployable dregs who worked for them.

bendix

Caveat . . I quite liked the guy who got the job as a landscape gardener, despite his appalling taste in women. Shame it didnt work out for him - i suspect there's a story behind that story.

SingleSue

I must admit to not watching any of this...I would have done a few years ago and probably made the same judgements some others have made on this thread but now it would just seriously pee me off (like the thread last week).

Bendix - Should come to the ex council estate and now housing association estate where I live, most work.

Zara33

wageslave wrote: »

I am not going to watch it. I will just end up wanting to set fire to A4Es' head office.

please do! bunch of morons the A4e staff were last night.