people on the dole

riverstick

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

Royal Seahawk

But how would they get all their nixers done then?

SV

riverstick wrote: »

go visit old people sometimes.

lol.

jumpguy

You mean they'd be working in the public sector like the street cleaners, old people nurses, and help the council maintain roads, in order to earn a wage, in this case the dole?

You do realise that that's a job?

Caveat

First off who are exactly are 'these people' ? All the unemployed?

Big difference between someone who has avoided work for 15 years and someone who has been made redundant and is now unemployed for the first time their life.

mikom

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

Much prefer if they would brush up the pot holes or fill up the old people or go visit the streets sometimes.

Power-surge

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

I know plenty of decent people who lost their jobs in the recession, and would tell you where to go with your suggestion. Would you go sweep the streets of your local town if you lost your job in order to get the dole?? would you f*ck!! Pointless thread

admiralofthefleet

business in pubs on monday's and wednesday's is already down. if they were made to clean the streets the pubs would be double fucked, and the monday club would be a thing of the past

Cadiz

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

No. They should be organised into crack vigilante squads tasked with hunting down people who post imbecilic threads and beating them to a pulp. They should be paid bonus dole for their trouble.

Noelisgod

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

What a tosser - 'they' could be you next year riverstick - happy new year;)

TheZohanS

OP have you not been paying attention lately? Did you not read the Butterfly Effect thread?

Can you tell me what do you think would happen to the people already working the jobs you mentioned?

joePC

+1 :rolleyes:

PRSI (Social Insurance)

"Sweep the streets" - meh

orourkeda

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

Are you going to come and sweep the streets too?

Agricola

Feckin people on the dole :mad:............. *shakes fist*



:rolleyes:

carey

touchy subject at the moment, the doles not just for layabouts anymore and job seekers allowance cut too

FearDark

Must resist calling the OP a trolling idiot, must resist...

jackthekipper

Whatever about being made to, do you not think there is something to be said for something like this at community levels, such as odd jobs about the place; preparation for tidy towns etc
I'm sure people who find themselves suddenly out of work would find it de-motivating waiting for the economy to pick up, at least helping the local community would be a good thing.

laugh

riverstick wrote: »

visit old people sometimes.

Them feckers have loads of cash under their beds.

RayM

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

Yes, perhaps they could be given the tricky task of teaching basic grammar, sentence structure and capitalisation to semi-literate imbeciles.

(Apologies if English isn't your first language)

djk1000

I'm on the dole, I'd love to do some volunteering, but I'm not allowed I asked in the Social Welfare office and was told that I wouldn't be available for and actively seeking work if I was volunteering.

As for sweeping streets, apart from the butterfly effect, I can see an argument for this if someone has been on jobseekers for ten years and hasn't managed to get a job, but OP, I think you lost the argument by generalising wildly. There are lots of people on the dole now that really really don't want to be there, we spend our time trying to get work and our jobseekers payment is basically claiming on the social insurance that we've been paying into for years.

I truly hope that you don't find yourself unemployed, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

donmeister

Ara sure fuck it, while where at it we might aswell gas everyone thats on the dole!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Jesus, I thought mods locked troll threads and banne trolls for this?

ebmma

My dole is 22 quid a week. Should I sweep the streets less than somebody on 100+? :D:D

PirateShampoo

Thats a great idea, lets give the people on the Dole Jobs.

riverstick for Taoiseach.

TheZohanS

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Jesus, I thought mods locked troll threads and banne trolls for this?

I thought posters reported posts that they had a problem with?

Cadiz

Please don't lock this thread I need someone posting something stupid to be angry about today

dragonbet

djk1000 wrote: »

I'm on the dole, I'd love to do some volunteering, but I'm not allowed I asked in the Social Welfare office and was told that I wouldn't be available for and actively seeking work if I was volunteering.

Why not go see your local tidy towns commitee, or the samaritans or whichever charity operates locally, using the Social Welface Offices quote is just a way of justifying your lack of effort and saying that you "would love to do some volunteering"..... I cant see the guards raiding Oxfam to drag the volunteers before the courts for benefit fraud....!! Get real

TheZohanS

Cadiz wrote: »

Please don't lock this thread I need someone stupid to be angry with today

Attack the post, not the poster.

Folks it's Friday, I would prefer not to have to ban or infract anyone so:

No back seat modding
No calling people trolls, report the posts.
No insulting posters, comment on the posts.


Thanks.

hacked

I genuinely think there's some merit to what OP is saying. I don't think it's fair to make people work for the DOLE. But i dont know, say long term social welfare claimers (depending on their situation and ability of course) could do a bit of community service to help out.

I've been on social welfare for over a year now, and if I wasn't pregnant wouldn't mind doing a bit of volunteering.

c4cat

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

Actually they should spend their time looking for work, after all thats why its called 'jobseekers' benefit/allowance not Public Service Benefit/allowance

toomuchdetail

They say you cant legislate for stupidy but if ever there was a case to at least try, riverstick has just proven it.
I have a good job in the private sector and still struggle to survive daily ,every day I thank god/superman for that job and hope I never become a smug git.
When and if things do change we are all only 3 mortgage payments/rent payments from the street . They will come after us .
Pride is obviously something Riverstick doesn't understand and knows the price of everything and value of nothing .

TheZohanS

riverstick wrote: »

should these people be made work a few hours a week in order to get the dole. i often think they should be made go out and brush up the streets or fill up the pot holes or go visit old people sometimes.

You have a very interesting idea OP, one that could do with a little bit of work but it certainly is interesting.

Folks the OP was not trolling IMHO. However due to the timing of the thread it might be best if the thread was closed for now.

Thanks.