Lazy People

Trashbat · 29-06-2010 01:29PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

what do you need 2 cars for when your on the dole?

Be fair, If your also collecting under your maiden name, you can hardly turn up in the same car when pretending to be someone else, they might cop on and cut you off. :pac:

gingerGiant · 29-06-2010 03:12PM

allanb49 wrote: »

I have vancancys in my place and they won't give me a CV for it.
So AH, What advise could you give for me in this situation

Tell us the approximate location of you workplace and the duties involved in these vacancies, then if the job suits them people who are seeking work and see this thread can send you a C.V.

fonecrusher1 · 29-06-2010 03:19PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You're complaining because, basically, in the middle of a recession, with a 14% unemployment rate, that you actually HAVE a job?

I've heard it all now.

+1,000,000

You have a job OP. Try to see how silly your whinge is.

Pauleta · 29-06-2010 03:19PM

Ive been on the dole since last Monday and have drank everyday bar 1. When somebody tells you its horrible being on the dole, they are just bull****ting you. I will fully agree that the system is wrong but dont hate the playa, hate the game.

InkSlinger67 · 29-06-2010 03:23PM

Use all your annual leave to stand in front of the TV all day so they can't see it. They'll soon get bored and look for jobs.

Problem solved!

Red Hand · 29-06-2010 04:12PM

raah! wrote: »

If everyone just worked less and shared the jobs out there'd be jobs for everyone. No point in pretending that it takes so much skill to do your job, or that there aren't equally skilled people. Some people can make these claims, but not you, average person.

Why are you singling out me?:(

Ridley · 29-06-2010 04:31PM

Pauleta wrote: »

Ive been on the dole since last Monday and have drank everyday bar 1. When somebody tells you its horrible being on the dole, they are just bull****ting you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4da5IptaZE4

ElaElaElano · 29-06-2010 04:34PM

Try experiencing the mind numbing monotony of being unemployed- being unable to see a future for yourself, worrying yourself sick about how you and your family will survive, and all the while listening to a vocal minority telling you you're this, that and the other when maybe/most probably none of it's true.

You can't possibly know what someone's mentality is unless you've been somewhere close to where they are. There may well have been justification for looking down at people on the social three, four, five years ago- different times, different circumstances. It's gone from a lifestyle choice to a fúcking necessity for thousands of people. If they're not cutting the grass, watering the plants, decking the garden, building a shed and washing the car perhaps it's stemming from the hopelessness of their situation, particularly if they're only recently unemployed. It's very easy to say- 'oh, they should motivate themselves, up at the crack of dawn and make something of their miserable lives', however when that shock hits you, at least for a while, motivation and positive thinking are amongst the hardest things in the world to achieve.

aDeener · 29-06-2010 04:35PM

allanb49 wrote: »

I'm getting sick of lazy pricks who do nothing but play video games, eat junk food and claim on the dole,

I know two people who have been to college have computer degrees and just sit on their hole all day playing games or on the internet.

It's depressing that i'm in work all day up at 5.30 and home at 7.

And they won't have moved all day. I have gone out and cut the grass done the back garden cleaned my room on the weekends and they haven't budged an inch.

The thing is i wouldn't have a problem with this if they had looked for work but they haven't.

I have vancancys in my place and they won't give me a CV for it. But yeah I know i'm ranting but is there any one else like this please say i'm not alone.

So AH, What advise could you give for me in this situation

you come to the wrong place to be giving out my friend!!

allanb49 · 29-06-2010 04:38PM

I'd like to point out im not complaining i have a job,

I'm complaining that they have no motivation to get a job. I know people are stuck at this time but some of you would be people looking for work.

It's the ones who are happy to sit back and take it and lazily put the blame on there being nothing out there when they have no drive to look

Funky Kingston · 29-06-2010 04:40PM

allanb49 wrote: »

I have vancancys in my place and they won't give me a CV for it. But yeah I know i'm ranting but is there any one else like this please say i'm not alone.

So AH, What advise could you give for me

I advise you to forward me the details of who i should send my CV too.

Alsooo what if one of these unemployed folk are way better than you at your job and could replace you ?? THAT WOULD SUCK OP:D

starbelgrade · 29-06-2010 04:42PM

allanb49 wrote: »

I'd like to point out im not complaining i have a job,

I'm complaining that they have no motivation to get a job. I know people are stuck at this time but some of you would be people looking for work.

It's the ones who are happy to sit back and take it and lazily put the blame on there being nothing out there when they have no drive to look

Maybe they are looking at you for inspiration, for the motivation to go out & find a job, then look at you, whinging about the long hours & other people sitting on their holes, etc., and think, "Nah."

electrofrog · 29-06-2010 05:30PM

Was unemployed myself for 9 months last year living in a house with 2 other unemployed people all getting rent allowance etc and admittedly we drank nearly everyday and it was fun for a few months but towards the end it got very depressing and we all felt the same only cure was more drink

then I got a job and even though I was in the same situation as the op's housemates before I have to sympathise just a little with the op as initially it didn't bother me that the others in my house weren't working (its not their fault really) but after a while when your coming home from work tired and all ye wanna do is put your feet up after a hard days work with a cuppa n some tv or something and ye arrive home to drunken unemployed people in a gaff that smells and they haven't lifted a finger all day not even bothered to take out bins etc or clean up after themselves it starts to bug ye I eventually snapped and had to move out cos I was being kept up late at night with the sessions they were having still mates but wouldn't be if I had stayed there ironically would probably move back in if I was to lose my job again

:D:D miss it sometimes :rolleyes:

geeky · 29-06-2010 05:40PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The easy way to think of it Op is that yes, part of our our wages go into a big pot for all to take but what we are surrounded by; infrastructure, police, education etc. is a still a pretty good deal for what we pay in taxes each month.

I'd have to disagree with that, but that's probably for another thread...

JONJO THE MISER · 29-06-2010 06:34PM

Awwwww Just woke up from my nap, whats this all about?

Misty Chaos · 29-06-2010 06:37PM

OK, try living in a small town where everytime you hand out a CV, you'd be very lucky to even get an acknowledgment that they got your application.

In fact, the only reason I got the last job I had was because my brother knew the managers of the place!

I get given out for not bothering to look for a job but I already know that its f***ing pointless, I can't even get a step in.

Its soul numbing and depressing, I can't do anything and my life has being dull and I'm jealous of my peers who seem to have gone everywhere because they could get jobs! :mad:

Also, don't tell me that I have to do a job I hate just for the sake of it and its there. I know this situation is numbing but waking up, dreading the day of work because its make you miserable is a LOT worse!

shoegirl · 29-06-2010 06:38PM

allanb49 wrote: »

The thing is i wouldn't have a problem with this if they had looked for work but they haven't.

I have vancancys in my place and they won't give me a CV for it. But yeah I know i'm ranting but is there any one else like this please say i'm not alone.

So AH, What advise could you give for me in this situation

What I have to ask here is where the problem is framed. You frame it as if it is your personal problem to "fix." Reality is, if they are on the dole and have a degree, welfare will be on their back pretty soon. Friend of mine got let go, doesn't have a leaving cert even, is in her 50s and they are HOUNDING her. So they won't pass by the welfare radar for long.

My question to you is why this means so much to you personally?

I mean, if you were working in a job (and I have been here, so I know from personal experience) and had a slacker for a co-worker who came in when they felt like it and set things up to evade work, so that more work came your way, I'd get it, but I am wondering why you have such a degree of personal anger over something that doesn't directly impact you? Or does it?

I wouldn't deny that there are lots of people out there who simply sit on their holes all day, but at the end of the day they are going to miss out on life. Don't see why that should be your concern.

shoegirl · 29-06-2010 06:43PM

Misty Choas wrote: »

I get given out for not bothering to look for a job but I already know that its f***ing pointless, I can't even get a step in.

I disagree. I got laid off last week and I've had an interview almost every day since. Why? Because I sent off about 50 job applications over the previous 3 months when I knew it waas coming. In 3 months all I got was one interview with a company which has a bad repuation for mistreating its employees. That was soul destroying bad it didn't stop me trying.

What happened at the end was that agencies who I'd passed on my CV to months ago remembered my proactivity, and came back to me, most of the jobs I am now interviewing for are jobs I never even applied for. Don't underestimate the effort, eventually it will start to pay off. Just think about the money you are losing every day by not working, to me, that keeps me motivated. The phone is now hopping because the work I put in over time took a while to start to pay off, but it is now.

Gunsfortoys · 29-06-2010 06:53PM

shoegirl wrote: »

I disagree. I got laid off last week and I've had an interview almost every day since. Why? Because I sent off about 50 job applications over the previous 3 months when I knew it waas coming. In 3 months all I got was one interview with a company which has a bad repuation for mistreating its employees. That was soul destroying bad it didn't stop me trying.

What happened at the end was that agencies who I'd passed on my CV to months ago remembered my proactivity, and came back to me, most of the jobs I am now interviewing for are jobs I never even applied for. Don't underestimate the effort, eventually it will start to pay off. Just think about the money you are losing every day by not working, to me, that keeps me motivated. The phone is now hopping because the work I put in over time took a while to start to pay off, but it is now.

Got told meself that I may be laid off in September so I have started doing this, the amount of recruitment agencies hiring for **** wages are a joke. Most of them are for highly qualified accountants and/or trainee jobs. Depressing that I may have to go back to education at 24.

shoegirl · 29-06-2010 06:57PM

electrofrog wrote: »

Was unemployed myself for 9 months last year living in a house with 2 other unemployed people all getting rent allowance etc and admittedly we drank nearly everyday and it was fun for a few months but towards the end it got very depressing and we all felt the same only cure was more drink then I got a job and even though I was in the same situation as the op's housemates before I have to sympathise just a little with the op as initially it didn't bother me that the others in my house weren't working (its not their fault really) but after a while when your coming home from work tired and all ye wanna do is put your feet up after a hard days work with a cuppa n some tv or something and ye arrive home to drunken unemployed people in a gaff that smells and they haven't lifted a finger all day not even bothered to take out bins etc or clean up after themselves it starts to bug ye I eventually snapped and had to move out cos I was being kept up late at night with the sessions they were having still mates but wouldn't be if I had stayed there ironically would probably move back in if I was to lose my job again :D:D miss it sometimes :rolleyes:

Now that makes far more sense to me that the original post.

I used to live in a house full of flats where I was the only person who had a job. They were quiet but just weird and went off the rails.
Drink isn't cheap tho, can't see how you could finance drinking several days a week on the dole unless its all just cheap cider.

shoegirl · 29-06-2010 07:02PM

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Got told meself that I may be laid off in September so I have started doing this, the amount of recruitment agencies hiring for **** wages are a joke. Most of them are for highly qualified accountants and/or trainee jobs. Depressing that I may have to go back to education at 24.

No harm in chasing now while you still have a wage. Yeah salaries have dropped a lot. I was hoping to try to push up a bit but I am managing to get interviews for places that pay the same or a little more than I was getting, so I can manage on that.

The killer I am finding is the expense of longer distance interviews. I managed to miss the earliest train from Cork to Dublin yesterday and the ticket machine was pricing the next one at an eye watering 66 euro! One way!

I dug out a few books also and starting updating my tech skills too, that seems to help also.

I will say it isn't easy, but there is work out there if you really are willing to chase it to the end. The dole is pretty small money if you are used to getting more than an average salary.

fontanalis · 29-06-2010 07:25PM

Everyone know unemployed is really funemployed!

obviously I'm joking

RachPie · 29-06-2010 07:47PM

There's nothing you can do about it really, these are just people who don't realise how good they could have it if they actually tried. Just concentrate on your own life and ignore these people. They'll come to a harsh realisation at some stage in their lives.

starbelgrade · 29-06-2010 07:51PM

shoegirl wrote: »

I disagree. I got laid off last week and I've had an interview almost every day since. Why? Because I sent off about 50 job applications over the previous 3 months when I knew it waas coming. In 3 months all I got was one interview with a company which has a bad repuation for mistreating its employees. That was soul destroying bad it didn't stop me trying.

What happened at the end was that agencies who I'd passed on my CV to months ago remembered my proactivity, and came back to me, most of the jobs I am now interviewing for are jobs I never even applied for. Don't underestimate the effort, eventually it will start to pay off. Just think about the money you are losing every day by not working, to me, that keeps me motivated. The phone is now hopping because the work I put in over time took a while to start to pay off, but it is now.

One can only presume that you don't work in the construction industry or related professions.

Duggy747 · 29-06-2010 07:57PM

Being unemployed is great for a while, sorta like a holiday when you have no worries but for me that died pretty quickly.

Finding a job or even getting a foot in the door for an interview is a tough cookie but I did find an advantage to this unemployed mullarkey! Cuz I'm on the dole I'm able to do my Comptia A+, N+ courses and exams for free

and I'm starting a voluntary job as an IT trainer in St. Vincent De Paul's soon enough so at least it'll keep me busy...............or to help me lay off the **** :pac:

Sitting around the house gets boring as fùck, plus I feel a bit guilty if I go to bed knowing I didn't do anything with my day. (Exceptions being hungover :pac:)

You gotta see ahead because when you do get an interview they'll ask you what you've been up to for the past while (They tend to frown at "fapping")

tallaghtoutlaws · 29-06-2010 08:08PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Being unemployed is great for a while, sorta like a holiday when you have no worries but for me that died pretty quickly.

Finding a job or even getting a foot in the door for an interview is a tough cookie but I did find an advantage to this unemployed mullarkey! Cuz I'm on the dole I'm able to do my Comptia A+, N+ courses and exams for free and I'm starting a voluntary job as an IT trainer in St. Vincent De Paul's soon enough so at least it'll keep me busy...............or to help me lay off the **** :pac:

Sitting around the house gets boring as fùck, plus I feel a bit guilty if I go to bed knowing I didn't do anything with my day. (Exceptions being hungover :pac:)

You gotta see ahead because when you do get an interview they'll ask you what you've been up to for the past while (They tend to frown at "fapping")

This post is made of all kinds of win.

And OP if you have vacancies where shall I send my CV.

Kormeera X · 29-06-2010 08:08PM

some people just like to do nothing once and a while. play computer games and go on the internet all day....nothing wrong with that...

Toes · 29-06-2010 09:43PM

Im currently very actively seeking work. I hate being unemployed, what really bugs me is the pissheads who drink every day while on the dole. I know its all gonna turn around for me and ill get a job soon. Tbh I have to think that way!

On a side note I am currently developing an extreme disliking towards recruitment agencies.....

vampire of kilmainham · 29-06-2010 10:28PM

:D:D:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham · 29-06-2010 10:30PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Some even go to the pub and drink and have a good time there during the day, more prefer the bookies,shopping or leisurely strolls.
Heck I met a family of dole people on holidays in Spain for a week.
And, there is a family nearby with 2 cars, yes 2 cars; what do you need 2 cars for when your on the dole?

In case one brakes down.:D:D:D

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