We are the laziest in Europe...Britain, the jobless capital. Wonderful

WingZero30 said:
Employers are to blame for the usual 'Experience Required'. Many of the jobless people have lot of potential but they are overlooked as the usual cv and cover letter is required which is too narow for listing all the skills:mad:.

I am an unemployed engineering graduate myself and given the chance of good mentorship (which is never gonna happen) I am sure I can use a lot of my potential but since being constantly turned down; now I have a big unemployment gap on my CV. When I send my CV it goes in the bin. What am I supposed to do?:mad:.
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Volunteer work?, say you have been travelling? or some other load of BS.
 
mglover070588 said:
The working class British are lazy, have a week off with 'flu' or 'stress' when they have a cold, have one working speed and that is **** off. They also look to seek 'compo' when they have a work accident through their own stupidity. They also won't work overtime because then they won't get their 'tax credits'.

I am British and (if I had a business) if I required low skill work then I'd employ a Polish worker over a British worker. Simple.

On topic - There are many people in the UK who are so lazy that they have no intention of retaining a job.
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I could not agree with this more. I have 2 people work with/for me who wont do overtime for that exact reason. grrr....
 
ah i love going out in rochdale, im not surprised it gets the stats it does. it probably deserves a worse reputation than it gets and is overshadowed by Oldham (i live on the border between oldham and rochdale).

The working class British are lazy, have a week off with 'flu' or 'stress' when they have a cold,
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so you'd rather one person came in with a cold and passed it on to everyone at work instead of havign a day or two off?

ive seen it happen its not pretty.
 
Sharlaw said:
Has it occurred to you that they don't???

But by so many people higher up the social ladder writing them off and telling them that they are scum and will never amount to anything they've learned just to live with it.

So your solution is simply to damn them and create a situation where we can fence them off and forget about them without even trying to help.

It's opionions like that that cause this type of social stigma and makes the situation worse. If people took some time and actuall gave people a chance then they might surprise you.
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Their own people frown on doing anything useful. It's a stigma to do well in school and want a fancy job. It's their own fault nobody else's and they have tons of opportunities extended to them. It's more fun to drink vodka and slash people with stanley knives though.

If the US can spend billions on social program after social program for 30+ years, with no positive results, why would the UK do any better?

Here's the latest crap they are trying lol:

http://www.flocabulary.com/
 
mglover070588 said:
I am British and (if I had a business) if I required low skill work then I'd employ a Polish worker over a British worker. Simple.
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Enjoy being taken to tribunal for discrimination.
Also, isn't this one of the problems anyway? Unskilled Immigrants (with few or no rights) being abused by businesses, rather than hiring a British worker who knows their hard-won rights?

Seems like this country is extremely schizophrenic about who it is and what it wants.
 
Castiel said:
They began the reassessment today in Edinburgh iirc.


But as per the OP. I am a Lazy sod, but I have never claimed benefit (although at one time I could have) and I have a full-time Job. I have a friend who doesn't work, (doesn't want to either, no matter how often I rib him for it) yet he is always doing stuff around the house and for his mates etc...so it doesn't necessarily correlate that Benefits=Lazy.
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Remember that the reassessment will directly affect the claimant count and the not the more widely used (and internationally comparable) measure of unemployment. It might have an affect on the latter though over time. Will be interesting to see.
 
Their own people??

I love how people try to distance themselves from others who just had some bad breaks. They're the same as you, but just in a bad situation.

There are projects that work, take fifteen for example. Kids from bad backrounds that no-one had any faith in, they were given a chance and it's made a difference to many lives.
 
ghost101 said:
Remember that the reassessment will directly affect the claimant count and the not the more widely used (and internationally comparable) measure of unemployment. It might have an affect on the latter though over time. Will be interesting to see.
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It 'hopefully' will force a significant number to actually get work. I know a couple of people who have never worked, are both in their thirties and live quite comfortable lives on incapacity benefit and other benefits connected to it.

Neither of them are incapacitated, one had a bad knee (doesn't stop him coming to the Gym a few times a week though and the other suffers from various things such as 'Stress', 'Depression' and 'Bad Back'. I have know this person for 30 years and never has she showed any symptoms of these things, with the exception of times she goes for assessments and Dr's appointments though.
 
Oi! stop it up there! Lets not make a serious debate out of a DM article*.

Only comments with "loldailymail" in or "broken britin!" should be allowed :mad:.



*I use the word 'article' in loosest way possible.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
What figures went down?
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The unemployed households figures there in the article.

They went down because they rebranded colleges to 'universities', consisting of crap courses.
The purpose? A student doesn't count as 'unemployed'.
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I agree statistic manipulation is a problem, but I think that's sensible. I wouldn't count anybody in training in as unemployed, no matter what they're studying.
 
We should have never let those Saxons in when it was just us Byrthons it was a lot better, and those Jutes blooming foreigners and the less said about those sausage munching Angles the better. If i had my way everyone who isn't a Byrthon would get chucked out this country.
 
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