Work hard or not?

DCFC79

Depends how badly you want a job/get back into work. Give the job 110%, learn different things but dont worry about asking questions if your not sure.

Big_Alf

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

A wind up, surely?

That's exactly what I thought :rotfl:

I'll always remember one guy saying to me as I was stacking hundreds of flora margarine tubs onto a printing machine around 3am one Sunday morning during holiday work as a student....

'If this doesn't get your !!!! motivated to do well at Uni then nothing will'

That job presented a pretty big juicy carrot to me.

Hammyman

Martynb_ wrote: »

How will it increase self-worth? Surely, exploitation decreases self-worth.

There, people, is the mindset of someone who is just fit for nothing than a life on the dole scrounging off the rest of us.

Badger_Lady

1. Working hard, or at least doing everything you're asked to in an efficient and competent way, makes the day goes faster.

2. Being praised for doing your job well makes you feel accomplished and satisfied.

3. Being noticed for your work ethic gets you further in life. Like many others, I'm vastly underqualified and worked in every minimum-wage job you can imagine (Tesco, cinema, shoe shop, Burger King etc)... but a few years later I was earning £60k a year with company car and flexible hours

pink_princess

Well done Badger Lady :T

We reap what we sow.

an9i77

To the OP who is worried about being exploited - if you look at it like that, MOST people at work are exploited in one form or another. Unless you're the guy at the top driving a jag, you're probably going to be selling your labour so someone else can profit. So what makes you so different to anyone else?

saintjammyswine

You will be doing something to get something else, nothing more.

The something I do is work in return for wages.

The something you will be doing is working, getting training, gaining experience, getting a reference, potentially building up personal skills, networking for future jobs and filling a gap in your CV in return for JSA and whatever else you can claim.

You will be limited to 30 hours per week and for up to 8 weeks on the Work Programme.

How is this exploitation or slavery?

Wellery82

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

A wind up, surely?

My thoughts as well!

If it isn't a wind up then it is a bit embarrassing you are already looking at ways of not working hard before you even get the job - if you ran a business would you want someone with that attitude?

Work to the best of your ability and efforts i would say to anyone, if you feel unappreciated then look to take your skills and efforts elsewhere. If you don't apply yourself to the best of your ability then unless you pull the wool over the eyes of an employer they will always see you as workshy and you will be first in the firing line at all times

LadyMissA

liggins wrote: »

How is working for benefit money one step away from slavery??!?!?!?!?!

When you factor in that people on benefits get 48 quid a week plus housing benefit plus no council tax plus free prescriptions etc etc etc they very quickly end up on more money than an actual NMW worker!

Sorry to hijack the OP question but feel i need to point out the obvious to KevInChester..

People on benefits complain that they will be worse of if they accept a NMW job but at the same time you complain that making them work for benefits is modern day slavery...? Well it can't be both can it

If you live with family you get no housing benefit as they are expected to let you live there for free and not everyone gets free prescriptions as you have to be out of work 6 mths to get if if you are on contribution based first and JSA is not £48 a week.

I am guessing the OP is talking about a 4 week work trial set up by the Work Programme which has NO guarantee at the end of it no matter how hard you work

LadyMissA

liggins wrote: »

hmmmm, without you explaining your whole personal situation at that time (which i really do not care about) I am unable to give a suitable answer to your vague statement

the poster is probably

Aged 16 - 24 £53.45 and lives with family to which then you are entitled to nothing else but this if you have contribution JSA