Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

My unemployed story

1235789

Comments

  • #122
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    I’m in quite a good situation. It doesn’t help my taxes for helping people in worse situations goes towards private companies who don’t help them.

    That’s good to hear. Hope you’ve leaned your lesson and have a “rainy day” fund.


  • #123
    koumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭koumi


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    That’s good to hear. Hope you’ve leaned your lesson and have a “rainy day” fund.

    what was the lesson?


  • #124
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Berserker wrote: »
    Is this the same England that has to provide Irish people with jobs every time the economy here falls apart?


    Outsiders!
    Are these the same outsiders who took the corn from our mouths when the potatoes went rotten in the ditches?

    Are these the same outsiders who took the meat from the tables while we lay in the ditches with the grass juice running green from our mouths?

    Are these the same outsiders who drove us to the coffin ships and scattered us to the four corners of the earth?

    Are these the same outsiders who watched while the valley went silent except of the cries of the last starving child?

    The English are gone Bull

    Gone! Because I drove them out. Me and my kind


  • #125
    Clickbait
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Clickbait


    Ireland is meant to get a new internship program similar to jobbridge. Read that a couple of months ago. The difference between jobbridge and the new one is jobbridge was for graduates who couldn't get experience and the new one is open to everyone. So it's the same because jobbridge was open to anyone, not just graduates.

    Took up a jobbridge myself, employer kept me on , was happy to be off the dole but i have put up with people treating me like dirt, as if I'm stupid which is still continuing. I keep sending my CV and applying new jobs but not getting anywhere. How is another scheme going to help when people are being treated like dirt and so easily replaced with another slave to treat like dirt.


  • #126
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    koumi wrote: »
    what was the lesson?

    That just because you are making lots of money now, it doesn’t mean this will go on for the rest of your days, so put a bit aside.

    If that’s too difficult for you to understand ask someone to explain the fable of the squirrel that collected nuts for winter vs the squirrel that didn’t.


  • Advertisement
  • #127
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    That just because you are making lots of money now, it doesn’t mean this will go on for the rest of your days, so put a bit aside.

    If that’s too difficult for you to understand ask someone to explain the fable of the squirrel that collected nuts for winter vs the squirrel that didn’t.
    So now jobbridge is a private company set up to bash the person with no savings?


  • #128
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,963 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    So now jobbridge is a private company set up to bash the person with no savings?

    Deflection with feigned ignorance, interesting tactic


  • #129
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Deflection with feigned ignorance, interesting tactic

    So again are you happy with private companies taking tens of millions out of your prsi to do sweet f a except kick people when they are down?


  • #130
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    So now jobbridge is a private company set up to bash the person with no savings?

    Deflect, deflect, deflect. Job-bridge is to get people out working. You were on job bridge, now you are working. Job done.


  • #131
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    Ajsoprano wrote: »

    I was a plumber in my early 30s making more money than doctors and accountants. All the overtime I wanted. Then things got bad and I was getting a few weeks on a few weeks off a few weeks up north then pretty much nothing.
    Employers started only offering into the hand work where you had to get social welfare to make up your wage. I refused to avail of this.

    Sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


  • Advertisement
  • #132
    koumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭koumi


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    That just because you are making lots of money now, it doesn’t mean this will go on for the rest of your days, so put a bit aside.

    If that’s too difficult for you to understand ask someone to explain the fable of the squirrel that collected nuts for winter vs the squirrel that didn’t.
    no worries, I'm collecting nuts :)


  • #133
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #134
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    There is no doubt that there are a certain amount of people who feel disengaged from the world of work and feel oppressed and exploited by any attempt to support them into work. They look for an explanation.

    They may have mental health issues and are externalizing them on to issues around welfare and work.

    They may well have been exploited and or genuinely struggle with work or they feel they never fit in properly.

    It becomes politicised to them blaming capitalism etc.

    The point is it feels real to them even if there is no evidence to support their thinking.


  • #135
    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    I'm with the OP. He calls it JobBridge. Not JobsBridge. I'd employ him on that alone. Shows he's not lazy.


  • #136
    Grateful Dread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Grateful Dread


    koumi wrote: »
    what was the lesson?

    To stop acting like Billy-big-boll0x like he did during the boom by throwing cash around he didn't have, keeping up with the Joneses and not securing his family's financial future.


  • #137
    Rory28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rory28


    Grateful Dread wrote: »
    To stop acting like Billy-big-boll0x like he did during the boom by throwing cash around he didn't have, keeping up with the Joneses and not securing his family's financial future.

    Its not like he was the only one who didn't see the crash coming. Its all well and good in hindsight saying this but its about as useful as a coq flavoured lolly.


  • #138
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Rory28 wrote: »
    Its not like he was the only one who didn't see the crash coming. Its all well and good in hindsight saying this but its about as useful as a coq flavoured lolly.

    We are saying it in foresight. :rolleyes:


  • #139
    NinetyTwoTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭NinetyTwoTeam


    AJ Soprano was always a bit of a moaner.

    Try being a young person who never had any good job or money to throw about, never had anything to do with the crash whatsoever but was made pay for it, no more free college fees, grants slashed, no jobs for college grads, dole cut to 100.00.


  • #140
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »
    AJ Soprano was always a bit of a moaner.

    Try being a young person who never had any good job or money to throw about, never had anything to do with the crash whatsoever but was made pay for it, no more free college fees, grants slashed, no jobs for college grads, dole cut to 100.00.

    That’s exactly why it’s important to get rid of these schemes and this government for that matter. It’s a recovery in name alone.


  • #141
    koumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭koumi


    Grateful Dread wrote: »
    To stop acting like Billy-big-boll0x like he did during the boom by throwing cash around he didn't have, keeping up with the Joneses and not securing his family's financial future.

    I blew it all on hookers and coke.


  • Advertisement
  • #142
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    It’s a recovery in name alone.
    :rolleyes:



  • #143
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    koumi wrote: »
    I blew it all on hookers and coke.

    So, supporting the economy.


  • #144
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    :rolleyes:


    Compare it to a time when rent was half the price, families weren’t living on pot noodles cooked in hotel kettles, gaurds weren’t getting accused of being peados for doing their job. Murders weren’t being downgraded on a basis of how the figures looked. People weren’t standing in car parks to adjust job numbers. Private companies weren’t getting paid to stand people in car parks to adjust job numbers.


  • #145
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    Compare it to a time when rent was half the price, families weren’t living on pot noodles cooked in hotel kettles, gaurds weren’t getting accused of being peados for doing their job. Murders weren’t being downgraded on a basis of how the figures looked. People weren’t standing in car parks to adjust job numbers. Private companies weren’t getting paid to stand people in car parks to adjust job numbers.


    The bold has nothing to do with economics.

    Underlined - there were always people on such schemes, the private element is semantics.

    Rent being half the price is a factor of a recovering economy.

    Families living in hotel rooms. That's a factor of the increasing rents.


  • #146
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The live register

    The live register is, in short, a measure of those unemployed, looking for work, and registering for some kind of unemployment assistance.

    It does not include anyone on a job activation scheme.#

    http://www.thejournal.ie/ge16-election-2016-ireland-fact-check-job-activation-unemployment-2601799-Feb2016/


  • #147
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    Compare it to a time when rent was half the price, families weren’t living on pot noodles cooked in hotel kettles, gaurds weren’t getting accused of being peados for doing their job. Murders weren’t being downgraded on a basis of how the figures looked. People weren’t standing in car parks to adjust job numbers. Private companies weren’t getting paid to stand people in car parks to adjust job numbers.

    I take it you have a gripe with unnamed private companies doing the job that they are paid to do?


  • #148
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ajsoprano wrote: »
    That’s exactly why it’s important to get rid of these schemes and this government for that matter. It’s a recovery in name alone.

    I don't know how many recessions and recoveries you have seen but it is certainly a recovery in real terms. And achieved much quicker than had been anticipated.

    The schemes obviously weren't for you and didn't work for you (as you state ad infinitum) but they worked for many others.


  • #149
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Either the OP truly believes or more likely it is what they want to believe or they could be trolling, either way, they are not going to be convinced by facts or evidence.


  • #150
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I take it you have a gripe with unnamed private companies doing the job that they are paid to do?

    They are being paid to kick unemployed while they are refusing old people a bit of extra coal during the next few days.

    Surely that money could be spent on a bit of coal.


  • Advertisement
  • #151
    Ajsoprano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Ajsoprano


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    [/U]

    The bold has nothing to do with economics.

    Underlined - there were always people on such schemes, the private element is semantics.

    Rent being half the price is a factor of a recovering economy.

    Families living in hotel rooms. That's a factor of the increasing rents.

    So when we had high rents it was a factor of the recession then when we had even higher rents it’s a factor of a recovering economy and yet when we had a fully recovered economy the rents were half the price they are now.
    You have a few buddies talking through your hat. Nobody else is even reading the thread anymore. Why don’t you sign off and head home for the day.


Advertisement