Council moves chavs into £200k new builds

MissMoneypenny

Benefits_Blagger wrote: »

Anyway role on the recession/depression and the media studies students who are manning our call centres will soon return to their natural place in society, i.e. serving me my coffee.

My daughter did a PG in media after getting a degree in Physics and you will probably be having your coffee while you watch her on your television. So not all those who do media end up in call centres. She became a presenter through hard work, long hours and many days she worked for no money, just to learn the job and push her career forward.

BB, get a job and work your way up. You will feel better for having a job. Feeling sorry for yourself will get you nowhere.

MissMoneypenny

SingleSue wrote: »

Phew it's official.... I am not a chav!

I do not own a tracksuit, white trainers...

I own white trainers (well running shoes) and I use them to walk in when I walk the dog, because I walk miles every day. Only one of my trainers is slightly green now due to the fact that I trod in horses poop while walking on a bridleway:D

thriftybabe

Peter101 wrote: »

I am not a snob init.

Glad you kept all yo homies from when you ad noting respec! proper bo!

Boyakasha!

Well done Peter! :T Are you a secret chav in the making? :eek: You know the lingo a little too well me thinks! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Respect to you!!

sloughflint

Benefits_Blagger wrote: »

I went to a top uni (imperial college), i cant get a dead-end job because if i apply for one i am not even looked at as employers see my qualifications and think i wont last in the job.

I apply for the "good" jobs and dont get interviews either, because there is so many graduates about, most of whom have gone to joke universities and done joke degrees that they make degree look worthless (i attained a 3rd).

I was brought up in a one parent family who lived off benefits, i worked hard to get to get to a good uni. the result ? here I am in my 30's living off the state which i have been doing for the past decade.

going to uni was a waste of time for me, all i have to show for it was a worthless piece of paper (which i set fire to many years ago) and a debt which grows faster than wages do and i have no realistic hope of ever paying off.

I get this far in the thread to finally realise that I'm reading a thread created by a wind-up merchant.
Good thread though. I'll keep going....
...Got there. What a superbly diverse and educational thread you've created here BB. Shame I didn't see it sooner.

margaretclare

I went to a top uni (imperial college), i cant get a dead-end job because if i apply for one i am not even looked at as employers see my qualifications and think i wont last in the job.

I apply for the "good" jobs and dont get interviews either, because there is so many graduates about, most of whom have gone to joke universities and done joke degrees that they make degree look worthless (i attained a 3rd).

I was brought up in a one parent family who lived off benefits, i worked hard to get to get to a good uni. the result ? here I am in my 30's living off the state which i have been doing for the past decade.

going to uni was a waste of time for me, all i have to show for it was a worthless piece of paper (which i set fire to many years ago) and a debt which grows faster than wages do and i have no realistic hope of ever paying off.

Sloughflint, you're probably right. But I can tell why this wind-up merchant doesn't succeed at job interviews and why he got a third-class degree in spite of going to what he calls a 'top uni'. It's because he's illiterate! Any employer, looking at the c.v. of someone who claims to have spent 3 years at a 'top uni' and yet comes out at the other end unable to write his own native language, would bin his c.v. straight away.

I have no patience with people who use the excuse of being 'brought up in a one-parent family'. Few could have had a less promising start in life than I had, and worse, nothing at all was expected of me by anyone outside my own home! I took intense pleasure in proving them all wrong.

As I recounted above, DH didn't think that working in a call-centre was beneath him even after a career in engineering sales and management. A job is a job is a job - it pays the bills and gives a feeling of self-respect.

sloughflint

LOL. There were a few other clues along the way too.
Literacy as you pointed out.
Got 3 A's and got offered a place at Oxford.....Why not go there then?
But I don't begrudge this WUM. The thread was very interesting.Thanks to all who contributed.Loved the CHAV test.

CheeseCat

brit1234 wrote: »

It seems due to the Credit Crunch Persimmon is to double Chav social housing. Each flat will come with a free kitchen ie kettle and microwave and a low heat tumble dryer as not to melt shell suits.

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=30&storycode=3114135&c=0

I've seen that picture before, but the quote was:
"Carlsberg don't make shooting ranges, but if they did..."

Oh, and good on your DH Margaretclare - I have much more respect for someone with a job than those on benefits just because they think the jobs they COULD get are beneath them. It doesn't matter what the job is, I've worked in a bakery, sorted mail (as I said elsewhere in this thread I'm sure..) worked in various retail jobs - benefits are for those who actually need it because they CAN'T work not because they think they should be served coffee rather than serving it.

scorpio_princess

margaretclare wrote: »

So what's wrong with working in a call-centre - it's a job, isn't it?

I have to smile when I think of what happened 10 years ago this November. DH arrived - at my invitation - on my doorstep, having walked out on a disastrous marriage. He stood there in the rain and made a little speech about how he was 62, had no money, no job, debts, had a cronk knee and diabetes (among other things) - was I sure I really wanted him?' The answer was obvious. I told him not to be a silly devil and get in out of the rain. The interesting part of this story is that he had the work ethic - in spades - although with numerous redundancies behind him and the difficulties he listed, he thought that realistically he had no prospect of ever getting another job. But he applied.....

By March the following year he was working in a call-centre for an ISP although he was already above their retirement age, 63. He worked there for 4 years, made some money by working all the unpopular shifts and all over Millennium weekend (that paid really well!!!) and eventually was 'let go' after the ISP had been taken over (it's now called Thus plc) and they discovered that it was going to be his 67th birthday.

Subsequently he did some agency office work. We both worked until we were 67 although by then we were working in completely different fields to those of our original careers - he'd been an apprentice-trained mechanical engineer. I went to one of those 'former Polys' when it actually was a Poly - it's now Huddersfield University. Parts of that university actually have a very good reputation, it depends what your choice of course is. From my time there, it was the mature students like myself who got the best degrees and why? Because of the work ethic. The ones who got thirds or 'unclassified' were the ones who couldn't get out of bed in the mornings in time for morning lectures starting at 9.15 am. Those who'd been used to getting to work on time were the ones who got to lectures and who turned in their assignments on time rather than hanging round the course tutor's door asking for another extension.

I'm still proud of my BSc(Hons) even though it was no help to me in my career. It had other effects on my character and personality that I value to this day.

Incidentally, about the work ethic - when DH worked in that call-centre he would turn up for work at 8 am, be at his desk and logged-in ready to start, long before any of his colleagues staggered in from a night on the p*ss, which especially happened at weekends. Once he was asked by a manager where they all were. 'How do I know?' he responded. 'Probably still in bed'.

What a great story mc. You and your hubby certainly seem to have the right attitude

This post illustrates why pretty much all the people who work for my parents (bar me and my aunt) are over 50. I can't tell you how many 20-30 year old, strong, strapping young men have lasted little more than a week - most of them wouldn't have known hard work if it had slapped them across the chops. It's only courier driving, not rocket science! In fact, i'm a right wuss when it comes to even getting my hands dirty, but even I go out there and lug boxes around central London (and I don't even get paid extra for leaving my cosy office!). But I do it because it's better than being idle - nothing like doing a job well and being appreciated for it :j

simcla

I was trying to quote part of one of BB's earlier post re the media studies degree, serving of coffee and call centres. I have nothing against any of the above - but Missmoneypennys quote of my post regarding BB's earlier post makes it look like I said that, eek! I have no degree, have friends that work or have worked in call centres, and I like coffee but have no preference as to whom it is served by. I do think that not having a job, any job, for ten years after getting a bachelor degree (and a subsequent masters) and having a user-name that celebrates fleecing society is extracting the urine just a little bit!

MissMoneypenny

Apologies simcla. I have edited it now. The quote button showed it as you saying what BB said.