Many people are unemployed in the UK. The smarter ones have jumped ship and gone on to sickness benefit and disability benefit in order to be on another budget and avoid the perpetual hounding of petty officials who, in general, would put the Gestapo to shame.The Civil Service has been decimated over the years and getting the unemployed into work has been privatised.
They had a scheme known as the Job club which was known as the joke club. The unemployed had to turn up and say that they had looked at newspapers and attended to look at the jobs on the walls of the department. Now each newspaper these days can be expensive and to buy two or three per day can cost a lot of money. So they got round the complaints by supplying newspapers, which people either took home or ripped out promising job possibilities to cut down competition!!!
It was a common thing to find out that staff were phoning friends and relatives as soon as a new job requirement came in. To save their own jobs, many fake job cards, appeared on the walls, as well as very old ones, staying up long after they were filled.Hence the joke club. This was all done away with for these various reasons.
So a friend of mine has been unemployed for years. He was banned from driving and the Employment people paid all the bills to get his license back. He got banned again!! So he cannot legally drive. He was actually banned while driving by car.!! He picks up a bit of casual work here and there, the extra money from which he buys hash to a get over boredom and depression. He is not academically skilled and is basically a labourer. He has no chance of a job, as he cannot drive. Some would say, it is his own fault and I see their point of view.He refuses to go the sick route although many drug users and alcohol abusers have done so. He maintains that he is fit for work but just can't get any!!! A catch 22 if ever there was one.
So they force him on to, what I call slave labour courses. He is sent to work for firms for 10 to 12 weeks and receives an extra weekly payment of £10 on top of his £65 per week allowance. He gets free rent and is supposed to pay 10% of local taxes.while on these stupid, euphemistically, called courses, he is, technically, in employment and so off the unemployed statistics. However he must provide sandwiches and any work clothing which he may need, generally working outdoors. On one of these things he learned to drive a forklift truck thing for stacking pallets and generally moving goods. Another one got him a first aid certificate, of sorts. But qualifications, none the less from firms who tried a but instead of just accepting free labour for their profits.Of course, he was never offered a full time job and the firms just got a new batch of sheeple.
So there is now a private agency, paid for by the Government, to harass the long term unemployed. They do the same job, as all of the Civil Servants did at a much higher cost, of course. He goes to an interview and they require a C.V. Why can they not just write down what he has done? so he is told to do a C.V. and the brainless twat says, 'just E mail it in, okay." How is a person on £65 per week who is not credit worthy because they have no job, possibly have a computer?? Not only that, they need a modem, which involves a monthly fee and they need a phone, which involves a quarterly bill. Without a phone line you need a huge fee to get one installed and a huge deposit in case you default. All this because they can't write!!!!!!!
So I write out a C.V, and send it in for him. It gets funnier!!!
So they offer him a forklift truck driving job which would entail 10/12 miles of travel via two buses. I look at the paperwork. The company are looking for 12 drivers. Fairly obviously this is for the Xmas rush and there sure ain't gonna be a fulltime job!! Then I note that there is no firm on the paperwork. They have actually paid an employment agency, a fee, to weed through applications and get them 12 people. That agency, in turn, has just asked this imitation joke club to get 12 people from the unemployment register!!!! Everybody is making money out of this one.!!!
So they are offering £7 per hour which for 36 hours amounts to a gross of £252 per week. From that he will have to pay full rent of about £80 and full local taxes of £1200 annually or £23 per week to get his bins emptied. He will have to pay national Insurance contributions of about 12.5% or whatever it is. say £32 He will pay Income tax of 22% on taxable earnings, say £30. incidental costs like food and so on may amount to £20 / £30. So how much does he get for getting out of bed??? £75 or £80 a week or £2.50 per hour!!!!
He may qualify for tax credits, which I have never been able to figure out, which will increase his income, paid for by the taxpayer who also pays the fees for the agency. The other agency involved, who did nothing for their client, gets a fee as well. That cost is tax deductible for the employer as an expense.
Oh and the big joke is that his forklift truck driver's license has expired and it will cost £150 to retrain. The unemployment agency folk don't pay it. They have told him to apply for funds of up to 3200 from some adult education fund or other. If they have used their quota he gets nothing.
So they have sent him for a job, which he cannot do, legally, in the first place and as he has confirmed to them, being a drug smoker, who knows what dangers that could bring. Many forklift drivers now must undergo a drug test, for that very reason, carrying pallets at 10 to 12 feet above the ground and driving at high speeds. Get the pun???? But they have sent him for a job and they get paid. The agency, paid by the initial potential employer has got them a prospect, so they get paid.what a joke!!!
Unemployment is a paying game for some!!!
They had a scheme known as the Job club which was known as the joke club. The unemployed had to turn up and say that they had looked at newspapers and attended to look at the jobs on the walls of the department. Now each newspaper these days can be expensive and to buy two or three per day can cost a lot of money. So they got round the complaints by supplying newspapers, which people either took home or ripped out promising job possibilities to cut down competition!!!
It was a common thing to find out that staff were phoning friends and relatives as soon as a new job requirement came in. To save their own jobs, many fake job cards, appeared on the walls, as well as very old ones, staying up long after they were filled.Hence the joke club. This was all done away with for these various reasons.
So a friend of mine has been unemployed for years. He was banned from driving and the Employment people paid all the bills to get his license back. He got banned again!! So he cannot legally drive. He was actually banned while driving by car.!! He picks up a bit of casual work here and there, the extra money from which he buys hash to a get over boredom and depression. He is not academically skilled and is basically a labourer. He has no chance of a job, as he cannot drive. Some would say, it is his own fault and I see their point of view.He refuses to go the sick route although many drug users and alcohol abusers have done so. He maintains that he is fit for work but just can't get any!!! A catch 22 if ever there was one.
So they force him on to, what I call slave labour courses. He is sent to work for firms for 10 to 12 weeks and receives an extra weekly payment of £10 on top of his £65 per week allowance. He gets free rent and is supposed to pay 10% of local taxes.while on these stupid, euphemistically, called courses, he is, technically, in employment and so off the unemployed statistics. However he must provide sandwiches and any work clothing which he may need, generally working outdoors. On one of these things he learned to drive a forklift truck thing for stacking pallets and generally moving goods. Another one got him a first aid certificate, of sorts. But qualifications, none the less from firms who tried a but instead of just accepting free labour for their profits.Of course, he was never offered a full time job and the firms just got a new batch of sheeple.
So there is now a private agency, paid for by the Government, to harass the long term unemployed. They do the same job, as all of the Civil Servants did at a much higher cost, of course. He goes to an interview and they require a C.V. Why can they not just write down what he has done? so he is told to do a C.V. and the brainless twat says, 'just E mail it in, okay." How is a person on £65 per week who is not credit worthy because they have no job, possibly have a computer?? Not only that, they need a modem, which involves a monthly fee and they need a phone, which involves a quarterly bill. Without a phone line you need a huge fee to get one installed and a huge deposit in case you default. All this because they can't write!!!!!!!
So I write out a C.V, and send it in for him. It gets funnier!!!
So they offer him a forklift truck driving job which would entail 10/12 miles of travel via two buses. I look at the paperwork. The company are looking for 12 drivers. Fairly obviously this is for the Xmas rush and there sure ain't gonna be a fulltime job!! Then I note that there is no firm on the paperwork. They have actually paid an employment agency, a fee, to weed through applications and get them 12 people. That agency, in turn, has just asked this imitation joke club to get 12 people from the unemployment register!!!! Everybody is making money out of this one.!!!
So they are offering £7 per hour which for 36 hours amounts to a gross of £252 per week. From that he will have to pay full rent of about £80 and full local taxes of £1200 annually or £23 per week to get his bins emptied. He will have to pay national Insurance contributions of about 12.5% or whatever it is. say £32 He will pay Income tax of 22% on taxable earnings, say £30. incidental costs like food and so on may amount to £20 / £30. So how much does he get for getting out of bed??? £75 or £80 a week or £2.50 per hour!!!!
He may qualify for tax credits, which I have never been able to figure out, which will increase his income, paid for by the taxpayer who also pays the fees for the agency. The other agency involved, who did nothing for their client, gets a fee as well. That cost is tax deductible for the employer as an expense.
Oh and the big joke is that his forklift truck driver's license has expired and it will cost £150 to retrain. The unemployment agency folk don't pay it. They have told him to apply for funds of up to 3200 from some adult education fund or other. If they have used their quota he gets nothing.
So they have sent him for a job, which he cannot do, legally, in the first place and as he has confirmed to them, being a drug smoker, who knows what dangers that could bring. Many forklift drivers now must undergo a drug test, for that very reason, carrying pallets at 10 to 12 feet above the ground and driving at high speeds. Get the pun???? But they have sent him for a job and they get paid. The agency, paid by the initial potential employer has got them a prospect, so they get paid.what a joke!!!
Unemployment is a paying game for some!!!
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