Christmas bonus for welfare recipients not only restored but increased

Hitman3000

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

Foweva Awone

Do employees on CE schemes get this payment?

Hitman3000

Foweva Awone wrote:

Do employees on CE schemes get this payment?

Yes.

eagle eye

Hitman3000 wrote:

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

Because they prefer to work for their money.
They are honest, hard working citizens.

PlaneSpeeking

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

Already covered if you bothered reading - self respect, character, work ethic.

Ace2007

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Education is free up to tertiary level, but the number of jobs requiring tertiary education is increasing. A Bachelor's degree is becoming more and more the equivalent of having a leaving cert in the past.

So what's your point? there are many scholarships out there for people who cannot afford to go to college, if that fails, there is nothing stopping someone from getting a part time job and saving up and deferring college for a year or two.

Equally there is no reason why someone has to go to college - do a trade, trade men in Ireland make a fortune.

If you want to know what it is like to be poor in Ireland - go talk to someone over 80 - ask them what their conditions were like growing up - some will probably tell you that they have 5/6 siblings in a 2 bedroom house with no electricity for a few years, and little or no money for food. A xmas present was probably an small toy and they were delighted, nowadays despite being "poor", children get Xboxes etc. People of today in Ireland don't know what the hard times where.

Just to add, these people over 80's and indeed any pensioner, deserve their bonus as they built Ireland to be what it is today, and most of them did it without the high paying jobs. Unfortunately a few of them also raised people to think that they can live off the government, and expect hand outs for everything.

turbbo

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

That's not what people are whinging about! They know working is a better option but they don't want to supplement a xmas bonus - simples!

Hitman3000

PlaneSpeeking wrote:

Already covered if you bothered reading - self respect, character, work ethic.

None of which pays the bills. So I take you're not quitting for the super awesome dole life where everything is so much better. Thought so.

turbbo

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

I read so many posts here whinging about not having a job but yet noone has admitted quitting the dole because the work life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

Hitman3000

turbbo wrote:

That's not what people are whinging about! They know working is a better option but they don't want to supplement a xmas bonus - simples!

The thread is about the bonus, the majority of the whinging is about the bonus. Saying it isn't is crap.

Doctors room ghost

Samsgirl wrote: »

Or days off having worked the previous weekend

Or worked the previous night when the doleys were home scratching their ballbags wondering what time jeremy Kyle is on.

turbbo

Hitman3000 wrote: »

The thread is about the bonus, the majority of the whinging is about the bonus. Saying it isn't is crap.

Errr ok???

Ace2007

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Plenty of people went into trades before the recession, then ended up unemployed - another example of people who worked hard, but still ended up on hard times due to nothing other than bad luck.

Was it bad luck that they didn't save for a rainy day, or they bought loads on credit? or just stupid?

It's like today, anybody that thinks for a minute about this, knows a crash will come again, it could be 5 years time or 15 years, so be smart and don't go wild with money. Of course that's not going to happen.

Yer Da sells Avon

ELM327 wrote: »

If I lose my job because the company goes bust, or made redundant, I'll get another job. Same as I got this one when I was made redundant before. Except you gain more skills and experience with each job you have. Each job relevant to your skillset anyway.

Do you accept that you might be unlucky, and that it might take some time - perhaps due to economic factors beyond your control - to find another job?

If the company I work for goes bust or pulls out of Ireland after Brexit, I've acquired some skills and qualifications while working for them, so I should be ok as far as finding a similar job is concerned - certainly in a vastly better situation than a few months ago, when I lacked those particular qualifications anyway. Maybe I'm just really paranoid, having been in a desperate situation so recently, but I find it very difficult to assume that I'll just 'get another job' immediately, without luck playing a part.

turbbo

Just sticking this here again - proud of what i did here - and it got snipped onto the previous page

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

I read so many posts here whinging about not having a job but yet noone has admitted quitting the dole because the work life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

Gimme A Pound

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

That is so amazingly original.

A person can criticise freeloading, self entitled scum while not wanting to live their life. And of course plenty of people actually need state supports - they're not the ones being criticised, it's the said freeloaders who are causing revenue to be directed away from those who need it.

There are deserving people on benefits who criticise the freeloaders too you know.

dartboardio

bassy wrote: »

who gives a fook,talking about it aint gonna change nothing.................................

sure what about politicians on thousands for doing nothing and ex ones on a big pension...................................

Doing nothing.. right. The famous ‘bastards in the government getting paid huge wages for sitting on their arse’ yep right cause the big boys in the government got to where they are by sitting on their arses..... I don’t understand the envy people have of others getting high salaries. They don’t come from nowhere. You work your arse off too and you’ll get the rewards.

Ace2007

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Do you accept that you might be unlucky, and that it might take some time - perhaps due to economic factors beyond your control - to find another job?

But we all know the next crash is coming, so should we save money now for when we are out of a job, and so we don't rely on the government - do you not think that is reasonable?

RocketRaccoon

Hitman3000 wrote: »

I read so many posts here whinging about the bonus but yet noone has admitted that they will be quitting their job because dole life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

If the dole paid what my job does I would quit in the morning and stay at home to be with my kids.

As someone who was on the dole for a while a few years ago, most people have my sympathy because I know what a struggle it is for genuine jobseekers and if this bonus helps a bit at Christmas then I have no problem with it. But the wasters who have no intention of even looking for work shouldn't be getting this.

Yer Da sells Avon

turbbo wrote: »

Just sticking this here again - proud of what i did here - and it got snipped onto the previous page

Jesus wept. It's like watching a small child being proud for taking a shit with his trousers on...

turbbo wrote:

I read so many posts here whinging about not having a job but yet noone has admitted quitting the dole because the work life is so attractive. Wonder why? ;-)

A couple of things I've posted in this very thread:

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Take it from someone who was on the dole and now isn't: I am infinitely more fortunate now than I was then.

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Tbh, I'm still at the stage where I'm enjoying not being unemployed so much that it almost doesn't feel like 'work'. I hope that lasts, and I don't turn into the sort of miserable prick who feels the need to sneer at those less fortunate.

turbbo

dartboardio wrote: »

Doing nothing.. right. The famous ‘bastards in the government getting paid huge wages for sitting on their arse’ yep right cause the big boys in the government got to where they are by sitting on their arses..... I don’t understand the envy people have of others getting high salaries. They don’t come from nowhere. You work your arse off too and you’ll get the rewards.

It's all jealousy always the root of all of that $hite. They convince themselves it's not. It's not as if Ireland couldn't do with a lot more people earning more. It's not a finite pool in case people think it is. We can have more people earning more if they are smart and work hard - in many cases smart hard working people are penalised here instead of celebrated - famine mentality.

Hitman3000

Dario Silly Bugle wrote:

That is so amazingly original.

Thanks. ;-)

Hitman3000

Yer Da sells Avon wrote:

Jesus wept. It's like watching a small child being proud for taking a **** with his trousers on...

lol. Good one.

turbbo

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Jesus wept. It's like watching a small child being proud for taking a shit with his trousers on...



A couple of things I've posted in this very thread:

Betcha miss the aul lie-ins! Will you be getting a xmas bonus in that job of yours?

Shout outs to all the self quoting peeps on boards!

weldoninhio

Why is the government paying out a “Christmas” bonus anyway??

Should unemployed Muslims get a Ramadan bonus??

turbbo

weldoninhio wrote: »

Why is the government paying out a “Christmas” bonus anyway??

Should unemployed Muslims get a Ramadan bonus??

Bless yerself will ya before heading into paddy powers.

Lollipops23

My OH has been on social welfare for 6 weeks, he'll be coming off it next week when he starts a new job.

I have no issue with people like him receiving SW; I was on it myself for a few months back in 08.

We both got back on the job market the first chance we got; we like working, we like being able to buy stuff.

I don't understand folks who can choose to live years on end on handouts. It's not astronomical amounts, don't they want nice things in life? To be able to treat themselves to a holiday or even a nice dinner out? How do they live their lives?

van_beano

weldoninhio wrote: »

Why is the government paying out a “Christmas” bonus anyway??

Should unemployed Muslims get a Ramadan bonus??

Touché

turbbo

Lollipops23 wrote: »

My OH has been on social welfare for 6 weeks, he'll be coming off it next week when he starts a new job.

I have no issue with people like him receiving SW; I was on it myself for a few months back in 08.

We both got back on the job market the first chance we got; we like working, we like being able to buy stuff.

I don't understand folks who can choose to live years on end on handouts. It's not astronomical amounts, don't they want nice things in life? To be able to treat themselves to a holiday or even a nice dinner out? How do they live their lives?

Answer: black market - painters/handymen etc.

Cutie 3.14

Hector Savage wrote: »

Brilliant username!!!!

Tanx hun xoxox