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Lazy People

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    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

    What do you care if people sit back and are lazy just get on with your life and dont be worring you will give yourself a heart attack sure it's not worth the worry:eek::eek::eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭The_Joker.



    lets celebrate the dole with this song


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Why are you singling out me?:(

    No, no, your great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭Skinfull


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

    yeah because *you* have the monopoly on the recession and lack of jobs! :rolleyes:

    There is a difference between being unemployed and being a bum on the dole. Dont reckon the OP is "fretting" over his flat mates not looking for work unless its impacting on him which is must be, financially or other ways. There are vacancies out there (PM me, we get bonus's for referrals! :cool:) but it seems to me OP is pissed at the people who arent interested in vacancies until Bill Gates rings round and askes if there are any people free with computer degrees to work in MS next month!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    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?

    You want them to walk to the dole office!!!?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    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.

    What bothers me more is looking at the FAS website for jobs and getting back all these "WPP"-designated vacancies. A lot of the time they're looking for people with specific degrees and experience to work a full time job for no pay. That kind of carry on makes me close the FAS website and go back to watching Jeremy Kyle.

    Pure chancers, cashing in on the high level of unemployment. If it becomes standard in this country that you have to work for nothing for a year just to get your foot in the door onto the bottom rung of the ladder, then it's a complete farce.

    I hope no-one ever takes up these vacancies.

    I completely agree with the sentiment that you should sit at home all day playing video games rather than taking any job you can. And no, you aren't missing out on life by choosing to not be in a miserable job that pays crap wages if that's your only option. I've done both and have much fonder memories of the unemployed times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    What bothers me more is looking at the FAS website for jobs and getting back all these "WPP"-designated vacancies. A lot of the time they're looking for people with specific degrees and experience to work a full time job for no pay. That kind of carry on makes me close the FAS website and go back to watching Jeremy Kyle.

    Pure chancers, cashing in on the high level of unemployment. If it becomes standard in this country that you have to work for nothing for a year just to get your foot in the door onto the bottom rung of the ladder, then it's a complete farce.

    I hope no-one ever takes up these vacancies.

    I completely agree with the sentiment that you should sit at home all day playing video games rather than taking any job you can. And no, you aren't missing out on life by choosing to not be in a miserable job that pays crap wages if that's your only option. I've done both and have much fonder memories of the unemployed times.

    For the love of god, Mods, please don't let Bill Cullen see this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Darren_


    3 out of 3. Get in there. If only I could get 6 out of the 6 lotto numbers then I wouldn't be on the Dole.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    It's none of your business how your neighbours spend their time. Stop being so nosy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    they probably apply for jobs online, lazy people dont make it all the way thru college


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    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 depressed. Try sending a few hundred cvs without getting a reply and see how that motivates you.

    Has anyone any soap i am after hand feeding the troll and i feel dirty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    "if i didn't work, i would would be bored out of my mind"

    I'd hate to be one of those people ^
    If you are one of those people, you pretty much have no life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Maybe they are depressed. Try sending a few hundred cvs without getting a reply and see how that motivates you.

    Has anyone any soap i am after hand feeding the troll and i feel dirty.

    They don't send out cv's they don't leave the house, They wake up go down to the living room turn on the console/internet and from 11am to 2am just stay in those positions all week, bar bathroom and feeding times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    hmmm, OP, shouldn't you be working rather than be posting on boards? do they pay you to make dole-bashing threads instead of whatever it is you do?
    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    In my nine months on the dole I took up organic gardening, knitting/sewing, worked on a voluntary basis almost full time with a local sports club, spent a large amount of time working on my health and fitness, improved my cookery skills and cycled down the west coast of Ireland. Jesus, I hadn't a pot to p*ss in but it was probably one of the most happiest and fufilling times of my life.

    And yes, I had the opportunity to take up a low pay, sh*tty job in a night club cleaning up vomit and spilt drink but I held out for a job that I was actually happy to do, and it worked out in the end. I now have a wonderful job that uses my college experiences and benefits from the skill I have to bring to the work.

    If you are happy to take up any old job for the sake of being employed, or to work for FAS for free then fair play to you. But I don't know why people choose to slave away in a completely pointless job just to avoid a (completely unfounded) stigma that they are otherwise taking away from the collective wealth and wellbeing of the rest of the population. I was more of an asset to the Irish economy when I was unemployed than I ever was working.

    OP some people are just lazy employed or not. I don't begrudge people who want to take dole and waste away in front of a TV because it's not how I wan't to live my life. If it was then I would be doing it now. And if you really think that the dole money is good, that you would like the freedom to be as lazy as you want. Then by all means go for it. Social welfare expenditure is not what is making this country poor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭j1974


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    chill maaaan don't be such a slave to the wage maaaan


    :D classic, you sound like dennis hopper or matthew mcConbaughey in daved and confused. the "wage maaaan"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 electrofrog


    shoegirl wrote: »
    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.

    Lets just say we may have exaggerated (just a little) on our rent allowance forms :rolleyes: were pretty much living rent free and got our dole on different days so funded each others lifestyles plus half the people in my hometown my age are unemployed at them moment too so if you had a place (our gaff) to go and brought the session with you (supplied the drink) you were welcome anytime :D Still glad to be working again though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    You get up at 5:30 and get home 1h 30mins later.
    WTF are you moaning about??

    You people make me sick.

    Give him a break, he puts milk on your doorstep every morning pal!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    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. I will fully agree that the system is wrong but dont hate the playa, hate the game.

    When you get some experience, say about 6 months to a year, then you can comment on the situation, until then, enjoy being unemployed while it lasts.

    A whole week on the dole and she's an expert, lol...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭Raekwon


    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. I will fully agree that the system is wrong but dont hate the playa, hate the game.

    Pauleta in a few months


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    When you get some experience, say about 6 months to a year, then you can comment on the situation, until then, enjoy being unemployed while it lasts.

    A whole week on the dole and she's an expert, lol...


    I was on the dole for 7 months last year and had a great time :P



    Also im not a she im a he. Pauleta is Portugals record goal scorer. I think i may need a name change.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,193 ✭✭✭Eircom_Sucks


    if their on the dole and not interested or looking then rat them in

    i know a guy whos on the dole 15 years , no lie and theres nothing wrong with him , just a lazy pot smoking twat

    its these sort of people that have the dole situation fooked

    in australia if u worked there and lost your job , you have a month to leave , maybe we should do this to foreigners on the dole god knows theirs loads

    and its not a racist remark , its just were a small country and can't sustain the extra 200'000 of them on the dole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 Johnny_Trotter


    Darren_ wrote: »
    3 out of 3. Get in there. If only I could get 6 out of the 6 lotto numbers then I wouldn't be on the Dole.

    If you win the lotto, you'll go and get a job?

    Fair play! I suppose it'll give you a bit of spending money for when your lotto millions are sitting in the bank earning interest...

    And OP - generalise much? Are all the 400,000 on the Live Register in exactly the same situation, bumming around etc.?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    I'm on the dole, do i feel ashamed or embarrassed about it? .....nope not in the slightest.

    Havin it cushty if you must know, get up when i like, hang out with people that i like, do what i like when i like > no worries no stresses.

    Now lets see, when i was working i would have to get up in the early hours in the cold, battle my way through the traffic, work for 8 hrs + in a ****hole dump with people that i don't like and then once that was finished battle my way through traffic again to get home, and once i was home i'd be too exhausted to do anything else other than make dinner and watch TV.
    Then off to bed and in the morning repeat the same routine again.

    nah, i'm in no hurry to return to that life:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    and its not a racist remark , its just were a small country and can't sustain the extra 200'000 of them on the dole

    But we could tolerate their cheap labour and taxes yeah?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    philstar wrote: »
    Now lets see, when i was working i would have to get up in the early hours in the cold, battle my way through the traffic, work for 8 hrs + in a ****hole dump with people that i don't like and then once that was finished battle my way through traffic again to get home, and once i was home i'd be too exhausted to do anything else other than make dinner and watch TV.
    Then off to bed and in the morning repeat the same routine again.

    You know you have a good point there. I think I'm more bored and have less of a life because of work :)
    It's the only time I can surf and play games because when I come home I'm wrecked! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    philstar wrote: »
    I'm on the dole, do i feel ashamed or embarrassed about it? .....nope not in the slightest.

    Havin it cushty if you must know, get up when i like, hang out with people that i like, do what i like when i like > no worries no stresses.

    get up off your arse, you lazy bollix


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    most jobs arent necessary and are just invented to keep people in a mortgage and consumerism trap.

    everything entertainment based for out of work hours for the job people features advertising so that they get back to work asap and get some more money to buy more unnecessary sh1t.

    football stadiums, morning commute, tv, cinema, city streets, theres no escaping advertising, most people think it doesnt work but billions of euro/dollars are spent every year so it must be working

    nobody can actually save up and pay for a house, we are obliged to beg a bank for a mortgage for somewhere to sleep,watch tv and store our bought goods when we are finished work. the very same banks that screw us whenever they can and are basically gonna always run a profit collectively.

    the materials put into houses dont reflect the inflated cost. the goods in shops made in Asia by hard working people earning a dollar an hour get sold to us 1000% more than the actual cost of manufacturing.

    when people eventually get their homes they spend their entire lifetime fixing it up thru an argos catalouge,arnotts,Ikea etc when there are families in India basically living in their own **** all packed into small shacks but seemingly perfectly happy

    this planet has enough natural resources to make us all wealthy, sure there are jobs that need to be done but 40hrs a week or more is a huge con in this day and age. a very tiny minority has control over everyone with more money than they could ever spend use in a 1000000 lifetimes while we all work jobs to keep us distracted from that fact.

    dont be angry with people on the dole, some are alot smarter than they realise, tho wasting time drinking cans and seating on their arses negates that because theres a whole world out there and free time is the closest to freedom we actually have. be angry at the suits in bentleys being driven from expensive restaurant to golf clubs to palaces and private Islands.

    drugs are illegal not because they are dangerous but because they free minds from a false reality that is screwing us

    drink is legal because its easier to control and gives the working man a reason to do a weeks work, friday&saturday gets them thru the banality of it all, wear those new clothes made in Asia/South America and buy that expensive bottled fermented water&hops, bottled water&sugar&ethanol, spend all your money so you have to go back into work on monday to earn some more...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    most jobs arent necessary and are just invented to keep people in a mortgage and consumerism trap.

    everything entertainment based for out of work hours for the job people features advertising so that they get back to work asap and get some more money to buy more unnecessary sh1t.

    football stadiums, morning commute, tv, cinema, city streets, theres no escaping advertising, most people think it doesnt work but billions of euro/dollars are spent every year so it must be working

    nobody can actually save up and pay for a house, we are obliged to beg a bank for a mortgage for somewhere to sleep,watch tv and store our bought goods when we are finished work. the very same banks that screw us whenever they can and are basically gonna always run a profit collectively.

    the materials put into houses dont reflect the inflated cost. the goods in shops made in Asia by hard working people earning a dollar an hour get sold to us 1000% more than the actual cost of manufacturing.

    when people eventually get their homes they spend their entire lifetime fixing it up thru an argos catalouge,arnotts,Ikea etc when there are families in India basically living in their own **** all packed into small shacks but seemingly perfectly happy

    this planet has enough natural resources to make us all wealthy, sure there are jobs that need to be done but 40hrs a week or more is a huge con in this day and age. a very tiny minority has control over everyone with more money than they could ever spend use in a 1000000 lifetimes while we all work jobs to keep us distracted from that fact.

    dont be angry with people on the dole, some are alot smarter than they realise, tho wasting time drinking cans and seating on their arses negates that because theres a whole world out there and free time is the closest to freedom we actually have. be angry at the suits in bentleys being driven from expensive restaurant to golf clubs to palaces and private Islands.

    drugs are illegal not because they are dangerous but because they free minds from a false reality that is screwing us

    drink is legal because its easier to control and gives the working man a reason to do a weeks work, friday&saturday gets them thru the banality of it all, wear those new clothes made in Asia/South America and buy that expensive bottled fermented water&hops, bottled water&sugar&ethanol, spend all your money so you have to go back into work on monday to earn some more...
    how about healthcare,education and all other things there to help you live better? consumer capitalism for life bro


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    AntiRip wrote: »
    You know you have a good point there. I think I'm more bored and have less of a life because of work :)
    It's the only time I can surf and play games because when I come home I'm wrecked! ;)

    i take it you work in a call centre:cool:


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