How Was Your Day?

[Merging Cultures]

Just casually filled my car with petrol at the station, looking around to see that the ex-boss was filling his right next to me.

Somewhat awkward...

I hope you have a better car than him.

[cambridgefox]

Back on herein ten minutes then?

Just say no,no!

[The Doctor]

I think you should have to earn your benifits, after a prolonged period on job seekers. Litter picking, street washing, community projects and such. Nobody should be left to rot away and it would get some value back for the taxpayer. In return for the work they could get the benefits and enrolment onto a college course of their choice. If they needed to brush up on basic skills that could be made available, but you can't give them the option to do nothing, that helps nobody.

 

That already exists does it not with the workfare schemes? 

 

It's never to late to address and make sure people know what went wrong in the first place, I remember you being one of the people obsessed with claiming that a lot of these people were figments of the imagination when people knew they weren't, instead of sorting the problem you preferred to bury your head in the sand choosing to blame the Daily Mail for scaremongering rather than tackling the people who were cheating the system.

 

It's not about how many are doing it, not a numbers game, it's about making sure everyone now grows up wanting to make the best of themselves, the problem of a kid being born into a family where they have never ever seen the old man do a day's work simply had to stop and these policies will help that.

 

Clearly more needs to be done to actually help them into work (you have to wonder what's going on in the schools as well in a developed country if kids are in them for 10-12 years and leave without having an idea how to compile a CV) but this is going to be a very long process.

 

Simply put, schools are geared towards teaching dates, formula and facts ahead of life skills and employability skills. I still remember my "careers education" at GCSEs - 13 week module, hour a week, one week on CVs, but the vast majority of it on the different types of work sectors, why the secondary sector in the UK has been in decline over the past half century etc; you come out of it knowing why manufacturing was a dying trade in the UK and with an overview of the three-sector theory; but with a CV that has been rushed and not really shown care to, and without really ever practising interview techniques or with an idea of how to construct an effective job search. While the idea of a careers education isn't a bad one, it needs to be geared towards job hunting and employability, not more definitions.

[RonnieTodger]

Getting the bus into town each day to sign on, is surely better than sat at home with all them distractions like xboxes, daytime TV, catch up on demand, porn, weed, etc. You can still apply for jobs on your phone whilst on the bus, stop off at the library print some CVs and hand them in at potential suitors along the way. I think its a great idea.

 

That was the best bit about being unemployed to be honest

[oakman]

Off camping to Wing (Rutland) tonight.

 

Be sure to check out the world's cr*ppiest maze. It's past The King's Arms on the right hand side. (Or just go to the pub, it's pretty decent).

[Facecloth]

Be sure to check out the world's cr*ppiest maze. It's past The King's Arms on the right hand side. (Or just go to the pub, it's pretty decent).

 

You mean you didn't love this???

 

[Strokes]

That was the best bit about being unemployed to be honest

Exactly

[MiniFox]

I think you know full well that we're absolutely nowhere near 19th century poverty and there is no indication whatsoever that we're going to get anywhere close to it. We still spend a higher proportion of public money on out of work benefits than every single other country in the world. People on benefits are still better off than some people who work. People who can work still don't because they'd simply rather not. We could chop the current benefits bill in half and still have a more generous welfare system than most countries in the world have at any point in history.

 

I don't anyone has ever suggested they are, let alone you think that. People don't like the attitude of we're aren't going to do anything about these people just because they aren't a huge problem though, they are a huge problem as like a disease if nothing is done about it it spreads.

I personally haven't seen anyone suggest this, however, as seen above, it's made into a bigger problem than it actually is.

 

The article below is 2 years old, however, the stat's shouldn't have changed too drastically, only 3% of the the actual welfare budget goes on benefits to the unemployed, on average, people think the figure is 41%, similar story with fraudulent claims, on average people think around 27% is fraudulently claimed, the real figure is 0.7%, we may spend more than other countries, but the amounts aren't as high as people may think, to just slash the welfare bill doesn't help working people as many of them have to rely on some form of benefits.

 

The point is you can take some benefits away from the unemployed, which if they're long term unemployed, seems fair, those are the minority, but this doesn't really solve the problem, as most of the welfare bill isn't taken up by them.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/voters-brainwashed-by-tory-welfare-myths-shows-new-poll-8437872.html

[StanSP]

Day off work.

 

All MOTDs recorded from start of the season where we've got a good result are being watched . 

 

This was a good day.

Still get shivers down the spine when Vardy scores against Utd and WBA. And any time Cambiasso scored.

[Fox92]

Delayed trains, never seen anything like it... Got to Sheffield (only live outside Sheffield anyway so that journey's only half an hour) and got on the train to Manchester Piccadilly like usual. Train in front broke down. Had to wait on the train/platform twenty minutes for them to make a decision, they then turned around and said get the train to Leeds. That took an hour and it was packed because they had all the people from the Manchester train on. Sat outside Leeds station on a red signal so by the time I got onto the platform there, the train was literally just leaving. Had to wait at Leeds to get on the Liverpool Lime Street train. Packed, stood all the way for an hour. Got to Manchester fine, got on the bus and by the time I walked through the front door it was 4pm (having set off at 11am ). Think I touched the whole of West Yorkshire.

Edited 29 May 2015 by Fox92

[Rincewind]

You what? Rincey don't do it man!

the time i want a space it does't happen.

using a new tesco hudl taking a while to get used to it.

Edited 29 May 2015 by Rincewind

[Unabomber]

;P) the time i want a space it doesn.t happen.

using a new tesco hudl. taking a while to get used to it.

t!h\is(

[ScouseFox]

;P)

[Carl the Llama]

Why stop at ;P)?

 

;P)-{--^==   

 

nice.

[ScouseFox]

;P) is actually an improvement on mtwg's ;p imo

[StanSP]

;P) is actually an improvement on mtwg's ;p imo

 

don;t forget the doesn.t

[Rincewind]

;P)

=

[Wymsey]

B-)

[BoneDog]

You what? Rincey don't do it man!

 

Only signed in to say the same to him. My heart sank for a second, thought he was back on the scag.

 

That maze on the other page is ridiculous!

Edited 29 May 2015 by BoneDog

[Rincewind]

You will be back on here in ten minutes then?

 

edited to clarify.

[SystonFox]

;P)

[Rincewind]

the time i want a space it does't happen.

using a new tesco hudl taking a while to get used to it.

[Turtles Head]

I touched the whole of West Yorkshire.

[Fox92]

lol Oh yeah I forgot about him. Should have reworded that one.

[lavrentis]