|
|
Post by ewan_kerr on Oct 6, 2013 21:42:20 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by george on Oct 6, 2013 21:49:09 GMT
Lets go and break the internet. Woop woop
|
|
kramz
New Member
Posts: 13 
|
Post by kramz on Oct 6, 2013 23:03:28 GMT
It doesn't make me feel that bad for the unemployed guy for some reason. It just seems like he needs to do the interviews better, and not walk around slouched over. I'm pretty sure someone would give him a job if he actually wanted one. Also, he doesn't even run, and in real life, the time between the interviews etcetera is probably at least a day or two. Game just seems to support whiny behaviour.
|
|
|
|
Post by roguetrooper on Oct 7, 2013 1:03:02 GMT
Ha ha! I was just going to post this and you got there first. The whole sanctions system in the UK is ridiculous and pointlessly cruel. I've heard of DWP staff having parties and getting easter eggs because they've hit their sanctions targets, which according to IDS and Mark Hoban don't officially exist. I heard of one guy being sanctioned because he actually got a job and didn't bother signing on  |
|
|
|
Post by ewan_kerr on Oct 7, 2013 10:31:07 GMT
It doesn't make me feel that bad for the unemployed guy for some reason. It just seems like he needs to do the interviews better, and not walk around slouched over. I'm pretty sure someone would give him a job if he actually wanted one. Also, he doesn't even run, and in real life, the time between the interviews etcetera is probably at least a day or two. Game just seems to support whiny behaviour. m8 being unemployed isn't quite as simple to get out of as that, some of these guys are told they have to go round companies handing in cv's and stuff, costs money, food, obviously costs money, travelling to these work placements and feeding/watering yourself, costs money, if you live on your own, electricity, gas etc etc...now i can see the incentive to get back into work at this point and thats great but in reality when i was unemployed i regularly went to my job centre job points and searched for local jobs, i was given more results in places like birmingham and london that i was in places like glasgow, thats crazy, most local jobs were 4 hour cleaning jobs, call centers with zero hours contracts, commission only....the jobcentre is basically crap, people are not advertising jobs anymore there, i have a degree so when i was job searching i was looking at places like monster and other job centers, now the trouble with that is that if you apply for a job in the job center they record that you've applied for such and such a job on their system but when you apply for jobs on places like monster and you then put down on your job diary ( yes they ask you to fill in what you have done to look for work in a diary that needs to be handed in before you sign on... if you don't they won't sign you on ) that you have applied for such and such a job they just look at you and think "do you think i,m stupid", a job center is a horrible place to be, if you smoke and are on the dole basically 20 smokes a day will take 80% of your daily allowance, some people are trying to live on £70 or less a week and are being asked to go on work placements 5 days a week, you'll find that most people in their just want to work but there is nothing for them |
|
|
|
Post by cuhlmeestahcrauk on Oct 7, 2013 12:10:21 GMT
not sure how much sympathy ive got, jsa is supposed to be temporary whilst youre looking for a job.
although i would much rather raise the allowance and stop benefit to anyone who has been unemployed longer than 6 months. no excuse if youre able bodied.
|
|
|
|
Post by moses on Oct 7, 2013 12:19:33 GMT
Actually it's easier to find a job if you already got a job... I've struggled 8 month to find a job (15 interviews with no success) then I went back to uni, did an internship then get hired where i did my internship 2 month ago. Since then i've been contacted by 3 companies for the same kind of job.
It's not all about doing a great interview etc, it's also having a good profile, and being unemployed is not a good profile to hire these days.
|
|
|
|
Post by roguetrooper on Oct 7, 2013 13:08:46 GMT
If employers won't hire the unemployed, then they are at blame for unemployment. I find a lot of employment practices these days to be utterly stupid, because employers are far too risk-averse to take a gamble. In some ways, I'm glad I'm on the sick, because I don't have to go through all the bullshit. I'd rather be working, but all the crap and hoop-jumping that they make jobseekers go through these days would make me more ill. The Tory government seem to want to punish people for being unemployed rather than come up with an effective strategy to create jobs or create an environment in which employers feel confident enough to employ people. Workfare schemes aren't the answer because it means that employers have fewer incentives to take on paid staff if they can get free labour laid on by the state.
|
|
