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The_ICT_Engineer

marybelle01 wrote: »

I don't normally come over all "grammar police", but given your comments about how all unemployed people are demonised as being illiterate...

It is easy to make comments from the comfort of a soft chair, in a warm room with your Daily Mail next to you.

Things are a little different up here, Ever tried using a Ipad when wearing gloves. It's not easy

I only get the odd moment now and again to have a look at the forum and make a comment in my long 15 hour day in sub zero temperatures. Even then I still have to keep a look out for bears. So mistakes can be made, to error is human.

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CKhalvashi

I do about 15 hours a week of community work for £3,000-ish a year, and have to re-organise my work schedule occasionally to get to meetings.

Why shouldnt people on JSA do the same?

Sorry, I know I'm blunt, but that's how it is.

CK

marybelle01

The_ICT_Engineer wrote: »

It is easy to make comments from the comfort of a soft chair, in a warm room with your Daily Mail next to you.

Things are a little different up here, Ever tried using a Ipad when wearing gloves. It's not easy

I only get the odd moment now and again to have a look at the forum and make a comment in my long 15 hour day in sub zero temperatures. Even then I still have to keep a look out for bears. So mistakes can be made, to error is human.

Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen 78° 55′ 0″ N, 11° 56′ 0″ E

I wouldn't know. I have never read the Daily Mail in my life. And despite being in work, I find that iPads are a little too expenseive for my tastes given that I have to earn my money and pay my own bills.

Person_one

The_ICT_Engineer wrote: »

Ever tried using a Ipad when wearing gloves. It's not easy

Its actually impossible, so you weren't doing it.

dandelionclock30

The majority of unemployed people I know would not object to doing things to help the community like shopping for the elderly, helping out at lunch clubs, trimming hedges etc for a few hours per week. In fact most people I know do some form of voluntary work anyway.
What people do object to is having the p*** taken out of them by supermarkets/large buisnesses who could afford to pay them.
Also if they get unemployed people to be doing all this community work what are the existing workers going to do? Theres only so much work actually available.
I know of places that have volunteers where theres nothing for them to do.But they still recruit them because they have to in order to meet targets. Its only right that if anybody is working in either a paid or voluntary capacity that there is genuinely enough work to do.

westv

Person_one wrote: »

Its actually impossible, so you weren't doing it.

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scooby088

westv wrote: »

I'd be interested to know what percentage of the long term unemployed already take part in voluntary work but I don't suppose that information is recorded in any official statistics.

I was told that if you are long term unemployed is that voluntary work will not be taken into consideration. For me If i were to be forced so to say to do community work I would rather do something that helps do something rather than do jobs which the local authority undertake and get paid for doing it.

ILW

Seem to be a lot of opinions about what people think they should and shouldn't have to do to get their benefits money.

If you don't like it, refuse the cash.

westv

westv wrote: »

I'd be interested to know what percentage of the long term unemployed already take part in voluntary work but I don't suppose that information is recorded in any official statistics.

scooby088 wrote: »

I was told that if you are long term unemployed is that voluntary work will not be taken into consideration. For me If i were to be forced so to say to do community work I would rather do something that helps do something rather than do jobs which the local authority undertake and get paid for doing it.

I asked the question more in the response to the argument that the unemployed should be contributing their time to the community rather than if it would be taken into considertion in any official capacity
However that question is important - if someone is already volunteering several days a week how can they be expected to also do compulsory community work and also job seek too. They shouldn't be asked to give up the voluntary work for the "official" work - it's neither fair on them or the organisation they are volunteering for.

The_ICT_Engineer

Person_one wrote: »

Its actually impossible, so you weren't doing it.

Conductive gloves designed to be used with touch screens. They have been around for a number of years.

http://www.fivepointgloves.com/

http://www.macworld.com/article/1156543/touchscreen_gloves_review.html

http://www.squidoo.com/ipad-gloves


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