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The dole

  • 26-02-2009 5:16pm
    #1
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭


    http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00285/que2_independent_285165t.jpg


    Saw this pic in the paper of a queue outside a welfare office in Dun Laoghaire (thought that was a fairly well off place! but anway..) but it's really small in comparison to many others ive seen and they are getting longer and longer every single week and stretching around blocks in town. Everytime I see the queues I remind myself how lucky I still am to have a job. However im at risk of having to join the dole like so many others if things keep going the way they are.

    I remember, not as long ago as this time last year even, there was so much snobbery surrounding the dole on boards and probrably rightly so. If you could not get a job then you were just too lazy. Today it's likely that many freinds you know and probrably family members have to go through queuing every week. Of course most people have no choice but to sign on - is it as degrading and humiliating as it was? Or is it alright now that everyone else is on the dole?:pac:

    Are they still scroungers, bums etc etc?:pac:

    As an aside I wonder how many of those queuing are Public Servants? - You know the people taking the real pain ;)
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Comments

  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I wouldn't go near the dole office, full of knackers


  • #3
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    darkman2 wrote: »

    is it as degrading and humiliating as it was? Or is it alright now that everyone else is on the dole?:pac:



    No it's not .It's just sign of the times .You dont suddenly become a nobody or useless person just because you have to go on the dole .Life is not that simple.


  • #4
    UnderpantsGnome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭UnderpantsGnome


    Phase 1: Sign on

    Phase 2: ???

    Phase 3: Profit!


  • #5
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    The rock and role.


  • #6
    boredatwork82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭boredatwork82


    Ah the dole, I'll be signing on on Wednesday, The Indians stole my job!


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  • #7
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    latchyco wrote: »
    Life is not that simple.

    I know. Im referring to the snobbery that seems to have suddenly disappeared. Life was pretty simple for many for the last decade in fairness!


  • #8
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    boredatwork82 wrote: »
    Ah the dole, I'll be signing on on Wednesday, The Indians stole my job!

    boredathome82 82 now is it?


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    UnderpantsGnome wrote: »
    Phase 1: Sign on

    Phase 2: ???

    Phase 3: Profit!

    The great thing about the dole is.... there is no Phase 2!!!!

    It's a guaranteed winner.

    You've probably lost money on those 'get rich quick' schemes before but with this plan you know you'll get wealthy and fast!


  • #10
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    darkman2 wrote: »

    a welfare office in Dun Laoghaire (thought that was a fairly well off place!

    you obviously dont know dun laoghaire too well


  • #11
    boredatwork82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭boredatwork82


    haha thats gas Jack, I'll have to get a new login name!!!


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  • #12
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    you obviously dont know dun laoghaire too well

    Im from the Northside, I rarely cross the river. Sorry for over estimating the area;)


    Here is D4's reaction.



    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2007/0901/frontpageimage.jpg


  • #13
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    darkman2 wrote: »
    I know. Im referring to the snobbery that seems to have suddenly disappeared. Life was pretty simple for many for the last decade in fairness!
    It was indeed and people should not forget , if you have had it good in last 10 years and now find it hard going, just remember that many many thousends of others have being there before, pre celtic tiger days .


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