tinfoilhat Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Only they ARE punishing the unemployed. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27177767. Having to sign on everyday at those places is punishment. Unless things have changed massively there are hardly any jobs on the boards, some of those are made up, all held together by disinterested, and now overworked staff. If a jobcentre plus was worth it's salt it might be useful but I can't think of anyone who got a job as a result of going there. I never did when I was on the dole. Has anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Personally I think this is about Ian Duncan Smith and the DWP top brass rolling out a press release so as to convince the public that they are 'waging war on the feckless and scroungers' (as the press like to portray them). However if I were IDS I'd be more concerned that many of the jobs advertised (at least a third of a million - 350,000) are fake http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/05/government-universal-jobmatch-website-fraud Pretty disgusting when you think about it. There's been harrowing evidence of the unemployed being reduced to suicide, disabled people had benefits removed, multiple lies and deciet from DWP officials, countless 'errors' resulting in grief and hardship for the unemployed, the unemployed being conned out of their benefits by fake employers, DWP cover ups, A4E fiasco, the full works....And the government want us to know that they're going to punish the unemployed. I despair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 I think the benefits system needs reforming. There are too many choosing tossing off as a career choice. This will not stop them, this will not help them. It will clog up a broken system. If the job centre can't help someone get a job in 2 years, rocking up every day instead of doing something constructive wastes everyone's time. Epic fail ids and I suspect after the daily fail readers have finished their post-poor-beating cigarette this scheme will disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xt500 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I think the benefits system needs reforming. There are too many choosing tossing off as a career choice. This will not stop them, this will not help them. It will clog up a broken system. If the job centre can't help someone get a job in 2 years, rocking up every day instead of doing something constructive wastes everyone's time. Epic fail ids and I suspect after the daily fail readers have finished their post-poor-beating cigarette this scheme will disappear. You watch too much BBC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 You watch too much BBC! I'm sorry. Am I wrong with all this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchemist Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 You watch too much BBC! ???? Explain please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Having to sign on everyday at those places is punishment. Why is it? Is it not feasible to consider that new jobs come in daily? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 The rest of us have to get up in the morning to work for our money, why shouldn't the unemployed have to get up to get their money. We are paying for them after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 It's only for those people who have been claiming for 2 years or more. If you can't get off your ass and find a job in two years then they should be dragged down the Job Centre every morning to explain themselves. 2 years??? Lazy sods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 As part of my previous job I went to the job centre on West Street with a wheelchair user for an appointment with a disability officer about the Work Choice programme. We were in a long queue of other people outside the job centre waiting for it to open, and I couldn't help but notice the expressions on the faces of pedestrians passing by, and passengers on buses and trams - we were looked on as scum. (Pretty much how they're spoken about on here) I just don't think that punishing and marginalising those without work will get the best out of them. ---------- Post added 29-04-2014 at 10:54 ---------- The rest of us have to get up in the morning to work for our money, why shouldn't the unemployed have to get up to get their money. We are paying for them after all. And the vast majority of those unemployed will have paid into the system as well! They are not different to any one of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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