MSE News: 'I'm on benefits but I'm no scrounger'

iamthedoctor77

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Than you very much for posting Ross, it must be extremely difficult to manage on you have, but I think we can all see (well most of us) that you are making the most of a bad job, so to speak.

I wish you all the best of luck and hope that sometime in the future you realise your goal to return to a "normal" life.

Thankyou very much. It is certainly not an employees market, that much is certain. Drive around Southampton, and see the amount of manufacturers who have all disappeared abroad. Even the HGV market is apparently flooded. You would think with the docks down here that it would be easy for an HGV driver to get permanent employment. Apparently not at the moment. Difficult for some to budget when with an agency especially when the job market is fluctuating as it is.

Flyboy152

iamthedoctor77 wrote: »

Thankyou very much. It is certainly not an employees market, that much is certain. Drive around Southampton, and see the amount of manufacturers who have all disappeared abroad. Even the HGV market is apparently flooded. You would think with the docks down here that it would be easy for an HGV driver to get permanent employment. Apparently not at the moment. Difficult for some to budget when with an agency especially when the job market is fluctuating as it is.

When you get your hand operated on, will you be able to return to driving, do you think?

iamthedoctor77

Flyboy152 wrote: »

When you get your hand operated on, will you be able to return to driving, do you think?

One way or another I will. I was a rare bus driver, I liked the job.

techspec

It makes me laugh when people receiving child benefit, or child tax credits call others scroungers. Children are the biggest route to benefits there is - and many people only have children for that reason.

If you recieve benefits of any kind - you are all in the same boat, as far as i am concerned and are in no position to attack others - especially people with an illness or disablitly.

Originaldagi

I am a 'benefit scrounger', I have lived on £69 a week for almost a year because the DWP hasn't yet decided if I'm going to get help with my housing costs. I lost my 'job' of being a carer last year when my husband died of cancer. There is one bus a day and I'd have to walk 9 miles to get to the jobcentre if it wasn't for my mother who is 80.

Oh yes and my neighbours all want to know when I'm moving because in a little place it's impossible to keep things like being unemployed private, and they don't want these 'benefit types' in their neighbourhood

Flyboy152

iamthedoctor77 wrote: »

One way or another I will. I was a rare bus driver, I liked the job.

Well, they do say people have to like something, or they go mad.

I spent a long time looking for the work I enjoyed and now have a business that employs more than twenty people. Everyday I work, I thank the heavens for making me so lucky.

iamthedoctor77

Originaldagi wrote: »

I am a 'benefit scrounger', I have lived on £69 a week for almost a year because the DWP hasn't yet decided if I'm going to get help with my housing costs. I lost my 'job' of being a carer last year when my husband died of cancer. There is one bus a day and I'd have to walk 9 miles to get to the jobcentre if it wasn't for my mother who is 80.

Oh yes and my neighbours all want to know when I'm moving because in a little place it's impossible to keep things like being unemployed private, and they don't want these 'benefit types' in their neighbourhood

totally sympathise. Its very easy for the smug ones to sit in judgement. They need to remember 2 things:
1. Assumption is the mother of all c*ck-ups.
2. Pride comes before a fall, so does ignorance.

Hang on in there, it will change.

Flyboy152

Originaldagi wrote: »

I am a 'benefit scrounger', I have lived on £69 a week for almost a year because the DWP hasn't yet decided if I'm going to get help with my housing costs. I lost my 'job' of being a carer last year when my husband died of cancer. There is one bus a day and I'd have to walk 9 miles to get to the jobcentre if it wasn't for my mother who is 80.

Oh yes and my neighbours all want to know when I'm moving because in a little place it's impossible to keep things like being unemployed private, and they don't want these 'benefit types' in their neighbourhood

That sounds like the village I live in. There is a housing development proposal on some brownfield land, near the centre of the village. The NIMBYs have put around all sorts of stories, designed to scare people into objecting, including, "we are going to be inundated with asylum seekers, single mothers, the unemployed and benefit scroungers."

iamthedoctor77

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Well, they do say people have to like something, or they go mad.

I spent a long time looking for the work I enjoyed and now have a business that employs more than twenty people. Everyday I work, I thank the heavens for making me so lucky.

All we need is for someone to give us a chance instead of looking at the gap in my CV.

Flyboy152

iamthedoctor77 wrote: »

All we need is for someone to give us a chance instead of looking at the gap in my CV.

I honestly can't see the objection some employers have. I know it exists, I just don't understand it. It's driving a bus for flips sake, it's not exactly brain surgery (no offence ). What are they scared of?