Man Walks 11 Miles To Job Interview - Ed Miliband Offers Hope

DecentLivingWage

British citizens/nationals/ aka voters!

PS Yes, here is the link about Job hunters/interviewees becoming suicidal over having nowhere else to turn and no hope and jobcentre staff getting suicide discussion training

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/08/jobcentre-staff-guidelines-suicide-threats?CMP=twt_gu

chucknorris

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

British citizens/nationals/ aka voters!

I take it you haven't seen Monty Python's Holy Grail then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE

grizzly1911

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Yes I agree! There is another thread about it - Suicide training for job centre staff, on the Employment jobseeking thread.

I would think the staff need counseling themselves grim unrewarding role.

PaulF81

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

British citizens/nationals/ aka voters!

PS Yes, here is the link about Job hunters/interviewees becoming suicidal over having nowhere else to turn and no hope and jobcentre staff getting suicide discussion training

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/08/jobcentre-staff-guidelines-suicide-threats?CMP=twt_gu

Guardian= whinging bouigoise socialists, therefore irrelevant.

CLAPTON

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

British citizens/nationals/ aka voters!

PS Yes, here is the link about Job hunters/interviewees becoming suicidal over having nowhere else to turn and no hope and jobcentre staff getting suicide discussion training

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/08/jobcentre-staff-guidelines-suicide-threats?CMP=twt_gu

There article didn't actually say that did it?

Sadly I have known several people who have committed suicide and known several others who self harm. The reasons have been very complex and not reduced to a single event.

So I do find it unpleasant to trivialise people who truely self harm or are suicidal, simply to make some irrelevant political point.

Given the seriousness of the implied situation, the sarcasm is distastful too.

IveSeenTheLight

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

How's he going to get into work if he gets the job?

I'm sure someone of intelligence can think of many options, such as: -

• Bus (he would be earning so may be able to afford now)
• Bike (good for health and 11 miles would only take about 30-40 minutes)
• Car share (maybe another employee lives nearby and can offer a lift)
• Walk (ok, would take about 2 1/2 hours each way, but again good for health and by being employed, they will likely feel better within themselves
• Move closer. (Now employment has been found, they could consider moving to a closer commutable distance)

It's highly unlikely that employment is going to be on ones doorstep.

Jennifer_Jane

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

British citizens/nationals/ aka voters!

PS Yes, here is the link about Job hunters/interviewees becoming suicidal over having nowhere else to turn and no hope and jobcentre staff getting suicide discussion training

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/08/jobcentre-staff-guidelines-suicide-threats?CMP=twt_gu

This links to a story about a pamphlet being sent to DWP staff about people threatening to either commit suicide or self-harm.

So, no facts about how many jobseekers are suicidal, just a little pamphlet on how to handle people who "blackmail" DWP staff by saying they will commit suicide if they don't get benefits. Surely it's a good thing for DWP workers to be trained in this?

It reminds me of my father who used to wake us children up in the night to say he was going out to drown himself in the river. At first we took him seriously. Eventually, he had to add in that he was taking the dog. I well remember begging him "Daddy, please don't take the dog".

He did die eventually, but not by suicide. So personally, I am hardened to this kind of blackmail.

When I - a British national, and British Citizen - returned to the UK after a couple of decades of working in Europe and Africa, I went to ask for employment benefit whilst I looked for a job, and was told that I would not qualify for it until I had been resident for 3 years.

What are the other reasons that people are not qualifying for benefits in our society?

brit1234

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Makes a very good point about the real reason peoples curtains are closed all the time... ps in some areas round here I'd have Cameron know... it's to keep the heat in! Ignorance of real peoples lives.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmmKE9-1dg

Typical Labour propaganda. As usual no comment section, no substance. Highlights what is wrong with politics. Labour caused this mess, they launch attacks on people fixing it and give no solutions.

DecentLivingWage you seem to come here politesse this forum rather than debate economics. What is your agenda?

out_of_cash

CLAPTON wrote: »

I regularly walk 11 miles just because I like it: it shows what a super rich nation we are, that doing something like that is considered remarkable; or it may show how out of touch Ed is.

Maybe, if the cost of employing people were lower and there was a lot less red tape and costs about employing new people then there would be more jobs.

Maybe stinking rich businesses would like to share some of their profit with their employees via the wage packet, instead of paying them rice grains.

Walking cos you like it is totally different than having to walk to work on a daily basis.The Tories would see this as perfectly acceptable with their out of touch mentality as they think we are all in the same boat! posh boys in cruise liner and jsa claimants in a rowing boat.

PaulF81

Want more pay? Work harder at school or take the risk to start your own business. Even better, get promoted in your current job by putting the hours in. Elsewise, shut up moaning. The world owes you squat.