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You do realise the vast vast majority want to work.
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Don't you, I read so many posts going on about scroungers on the dole which are usually from people in work who do not have a frigging clue how hard it is to find work these days, when you have 150 applicants for 2 stacking jobs in tescos in my area you realise how desperate the vast majority of unemployed people are, please remember this before you tar all unemployed people with the same brush.
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great post, agreed, most people do want to wok, i know i do, hate being on benefits, wanna be able to look after myself
Probably because most people don't have the aptitude to be engineers.
Sure there are jobs out there but they require qualifications and experience. The vast majority of the unemployed are skilled manual workers who have been made redundant because of the economic downturn and now find them selves with skills and experience that no one wants.
I know when I was looking to get back in to I.T. as a programmer many years ago, even being out of the industry for a couple of years was proving to be a huge obstacle.
I remember asking what sort of training was available to get me back into the industry and I was told that I.T. wise, it was the ECDL exam and that was it, so I shudder to think what it might be now.
Rather than forcing people to take any job, i imagine if you gave them the opportunity and training to - hopefully - re-enter the field they've left then you'd certainly get more people willing to do it. And if it's not possible to get them back into the field they've left, give them better help and advice on what sort of career they could change to and then some decent training in that career.
I know now i've got zero chance of getting back in to I.T. in any capacity, let alone programming, but I would bet good money that when i'm ultimately moved back on to JSA (as I expect will happen one day) that i'll basically be left flapping in the wind.
Not quite the same as you Jason, but when I was in my forties I worked in Desktop publishing and graphic design, I then took 8yrs off to care for my father. In that time software had moved on at a phenomenal speed. I could have, at great expense perhaps taken courses to help,I could not afford to do so.
So having been out of the work place for so long I was not ever considered. I now would do anything, in fact I did. I worked the night shift in a supermarket filling shelves for over a year until an injury. I am now coming up to 62 yrs of age and cannot find work, apart from voluntary, but I need a wage, I am willing to work.
It takes four or five years to become an engineer. It's one of the most difficult degrees and now that all of the financial burden and risk of failure is placed on the individual, this situation is not likely to improve. So it's a good job we can import cheap ready-made engineers from elsewhere to keep the wheels of industry turning.
Shhhh that doesn't fit with the "things can only get worse" rhetoric that people spread on here.
How do you know the vast majority want to work?
Well its not going to get any better either
Left-wingers started using the scrounger argument only after mass immigration reached new heights.
And some of the ones we do interview make it pretty clear they do not want the job, but are only there to keep the job centre happy. Ones like that should have their benefits stopped.
Indeed, maybe the OP is clairvoayant.
In my experience the long term unemployed are quite happy doing nothing all day.
They are by nature unambitious, slothful and uncreative , so as long as they have ****, takeaways, pit bulls, and SKY, they are as happy as pigs in shit.
i didn't realise you were clairvoyant, so all long term unemployed, smoke, eat takeaeays, own pit balls and have sky do they,
i am on ESA , i am also long term unemployed, i do not smoke, i do not drink alcohol, i do not take druigs, im a law abiding citezen, the last time i had a takeaway was months ago, i don't own any pets, my parents have sky tv
i am most certainly not living the life of riley, i want to work, i am looking for work, any thing, any wage
That's funny because there are record numbers of people in part time work who can't find full time work.
Funny how they're not all running to this company you mention either.
There's clearly more to your story than you are telling.
If you have permanent, unskilled, full time, positions at your company, paying £10 an hour and you can't fill them, you're failing very badly at your job. There are swathes of minimum wage part time workers out there absolutely desperate for any full time work, let alone £10 an hour.
1. Those that want to work, and will consider anything.
2.Those that will work IF the hours are right, the wages are right, and it's quite close to home (but they can be very choosy).
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3. Those that SAY they want to work but are better off on benefits, those that just DON'Twant to work, and some who are just UNEMPLOYABLE.
Isn't that five distinct groups?
1.Those that want to work, and will consider anything.
2.Those that will work IF the hours are right, the wages are right, and it's quite close to home (but they can be very choosy).
3. Those that SAY they want to work but are better off on benefits,
4.Those that just DON'T want to work,
5.Some who are just UNEMPLOYABLE