I start a Work Placement

paulineb_2

redcard wrote: »

Yes, you don't have to go get a job because you already have one.

You've got it easy.

How easy? Some people work and dont have it easy and certainly dont make great money. I actually love my job even though Im not well off, but if Im skint, I stay in and when I was on JSA I didnt apply for budget loans, because its a loan, it needs to be paid back.

szam_

lakes17 wrote: »

So you have retail experience? How long was you employed there?

I wouldn't imagine long. A friend works there as a call centre supervisor and I've known countless people to have been there, staff turnover is high.

gay_guy

Morning,

Day 2 on my work placement and Marybelle, I just like to point out that I am no scrounger, I do anything to look for work. like I stated in my other posts, so what if I don't want the same things on my CV? it will look even better with different work history, is that so bad?

Also I am no dole scum, I don't smoke and don't take drugs, I can't afford Sky or virgin media as to expensive, I have talktalk for they You View service to record my favorite soaps as I don't have time to watch them when soaps are broadcast as I am busy looking for work, I am so behind on my soaps.

I have also got broadband with TalkTalk which cost in all for phone, broadband and TV just for £29.00 a month which is not bad as I was with BT before just for they broadband and phone and that was £55.00 a month which was a total rip-off :mad:

The reason why I have broadband is so I can do lots of Job seeking as if I went to Library and do Job seeking if I didn't have internet then I would only have 2 hours a day at the most which is not enough to do Job seeking.

My advisor at the Job Centre is really impressed with me for applying for loads of Jobs (as I apply for jobs 4- 6 a day) if he wasn't impressed then he would have sent my Job Seekers to a decision maker by now, I always provide proof of Job ref including the company's address and also prints out from CV-Library, Fish4jobs, total Jobs and other Job sites.

Like I stated, I don't want to be on the dole for the rest of my life as I am no scrounger.

Now its time I jumped in the warm shower for my work placement and have a nice day.

marybelle01

Bad_website wrote: »

The tone and content of your post is totally uncalled for and you work for the UN crickey.

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The UN - or in this case, UNHCR - is a strategic body, not a delivery agency. Programmes are delivered by a wide range of charitable agencies from around the world. So no, I do not work for the UN and have never claimed to.


What I consider uncalled for is somebody saying that a person who works "has it easy".


And with that correction, I bow out from here - this site has become dominated by people who think that a budgeting loan is for a few beers that they richly deserve, or that they are owed a job and/or a living. It is no longer a place for those in work.

BillJones

redcard wrote: »

It's not easy just to go and get a job.

It really is, though, for just about everyone. Members of my family who've been let go from jobs in recent years have all found work within a few days. Proper work, paying well over average pay.

You've got to have worked pretty hard at avoiding qualifications and experience for a lot of years to be completely unemployable.

Affynity

BillJones wrote: »

It really is, though, for just about everyone. Members of my family who've been let go from jobs in recent years have all found work within a few days. Proper work, paying well over average pay.

You've got to have worked pretty hard at avoiding qualifications and experience for a lot of years to be completely unemployable.

500,000 / 2,300,000 = not enough jobs.

That's only 600 jobs per county.
And, naturally, the distribution of jobseekers and labour market strength isn't going to be even, so you will find highly unsuitable, polarised concentrations of these two factors in geographical hotspots.

To enhance this unfortunate statistic further, you have to remember that the recently released figures of "dramatic employment" are bloated by work experience-for benefit jobs (workfare) and an adjustment to the full-time working hours threshold. A lot of people who were classed as part-timers have suddenly found themselves as full-timers.

BillJones

Affynity wrote: »

2,300,000 / 500,000 = not enough jobs..

That makes no sense at all. None.

I hesitate to use an analogy, as people are so unwilling to take the intended meaning of of them round here, but here we go...

A town has 500 people going hungry, but just over the river, their neigbours have spare capacity, and throw out meals enough for fifty people every night. When one of the hungry people is asked why they go hungry, when there is free food only a few miles away, they look indignant and say "but there's only enough food being thrown away for fifty of us", how can we all eat.

So that night, 500 people go hungry, and enough food for fifty is thrown away again.

Basically, the ratio is menaingless, it does not stop any given individual from getting a job.

Podge52

BillJones wrote: »

That makes no sense at all. None.

I hesitate to use an analogy, as people are so unwilling to take the intended meaning of of them round here, but here we go...

A town has 500 people going hungry, but just over the river, their neigbours have spare capacity, and throw out meals enough for fifty people every night. When one of the hungry people is asked why they go hungry, when there is free food only a few miles away, they look indignant and say "but there's only enough food being thrown away for fifty of us", how can we all eat.

So that night, 500 people go hungry, and enough food for fifty is thrown away again.

Basically, the ratio is menaingless, it does not stop any given individual from getting a job.

Are you saying that all of the 2,300,000 unemployed do not want to work ?

If that is not the case why are they not working.

Affynity

BillJones wrote: »

That makes no sense at all. None.

I hesitate to use an analogy, as people are so unwilling to take the intended meaning of of them round here, but here we go...

A town has 500 people going hungry, but just over the river, their neigbours have spare capacity, and throw out meals enough for fifty people every night. When one of the hungry people is asked why they go hungry, when there is free food only a few miles away, they look indignant and say "but there's only enough food being thrown away for fifty of us", how can we all eat.

So that night, 500 people go hungry, and enough food for fifty is thrown away again.

Basically, the ratio is menaingless, it does not stop any given individual from getting a job.

So basically, you're saying it doesnt matter that 90% of people go hungry in one given time value, because there's flux in the system giving everybody a turn at some point?

Do you have any eugenics analogies you'd like to share?

BillJones

Podge52 wrote: »

Are you saying that all of the 2,300,000 unemployed do not want to work ?

If that is not the case why are they not working.

No. As I said, I hesitate to use an analogy a someone will insist on purposely taking the wrong feature of it as the pertinent one.

It was designed to point out that there being fewer jobs than unemployed people today does not in any way justify "I can't find a job", by showing that fewer resources than people who'd wish to use them does not mean that any individual is excluded.