On the dole during the boom

Banned Account · 15-09-2010 11:14AM

Pocketfizz wrote: »

I hate been on the dole so boring! My head does be wrecked in the day if I don't do anything, thank god it's all over now no more dole for me :cool:

I am deeply saddened to hear this. You will now have less time to devote to threesomes.:(

*crosses another possible off list, sighs deeply*

iPlop · 15-09-2010 11:19AM

It was 87,000 back in 2004

http://www.cso.ie/statistics/empandunempilo.htm

fryup · 15-09-2010 12:47PM

Denzil2222 wrote: »

They were 150,000 people on the dole during the boom why? Who are these people?

the unemployable and the permanently lazy

yes even through the good times when some companies were screaming out for staff you still had a large amount of people on the dole.

Just proves the point that alot of people out there just don't want to work.

squeakyduck · 15-09-2010 12:51PM

Somewhere in Eastern Europe it is compulsory for people to do manual labor for the dole.

Imagine if they brought that in in Ireland tomorrow. There wouldn't be so many people sitting on their arses. If you are looking for a job, well and good I pat you on the back. It's the lazy messes I have to deal with everyday that I would love to see working to the bone for the scribble!

fryup · 15-09-2010 12:58PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

Somewhere in Eastern Europe it is compulsory for people to do manual labor for the dole.

Imagine if they brought that in in Ireland tomorrow. There wouldn't be so many people sitting on their arses. If you are looking for a job, well and good I pat you on the back. It's the lazy messes I have to deal with everyday that I would love to see working to the bone for the scribble!

do you work in a dole office??

squeakyduck · 15-09-2010 12:59PM

Sadly I don't! I wouldn't give the dole out to anyone! I'd keep it for myself!

policarp · 15-09-2010 01:05PM

They were waiting for FAS courses and giving every excuse imaginable not to go on them.

GavRedKing · 15-09-2010 01:10PM

Denzil2222 wrote: »

They were 150,000 people on the dole during the boom why? Who are these people?

If only there was some sort of search fuunction to search for previous threads..............

Bjorn Bored. · 15-09-2010 01:40PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

Somewhere in Eastern Europe it is compulsory for people to do manual labor for the dole.

Imagine if they brought that in in Ireland tomorrow. There wouldn't be so many people sitting on their arses. If you are looking for a job, well and good I pat you on the back. It's the lazy messes I have to deal with everyday that I would love to see working to the bone for the scribble!

Work for dole scheme has already been announced,its happenin here too.

flyton5 · 15-09-2010 01:46PM

Indiscernible member of Boards.ie (whenever something shocking is revealed): Fúcking hell!

squeakyduck · 15-09-2010 01:52PM

Bjorn Bored. wrote: »

Work for dole scheme has already been announced,its happenin here too.

Can't wait to see all the scumbags in tracksuits actually getting off their arse and doing some work!

Paddy Samurai · 15-09-2010 01:55PM

Denzil2222 wrote: »

They were 150,000 people on the dole during the boom why? Who are these people?

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Johnny Bitte · 15-09-2010 01:57PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

Can't wait to see all the scumbags in tracksuits actually getting off their arse and doing some work!

It will only be for 10,000 people apparently and even then you can probably say you dont want to and they'll leave it at that.

Nozebleed · 15-09-2010 01:58PM

What Boom?

RockinRolla · 15-09-2010 01:59PM

Denzil2222 wrote: »

They were 150,000 people on the dole during the boom why? Who are these people?

..People that didn't want to go to work?! Duh.

It's a socialist country - people can do what they like.

_feedback_ · 15-09-2010 02:03PM

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

1) On the dole and worried.

2) On the dole and horny

3) On the dole and sleeping with my sister

4) On the dole and in love with my fridge

5) On the dole and bored

6) On the dole and working on the side

7) On the dole and on Joe Duffy

8) On the dole and power crazed Mod's

9) Not on the dole but would like to be

10) Atari Jaguar

11) Not on the dole but have a grudge against those who are and wish to shoot them or at least incite others to do it for me.

That should cover most of the AH threads until next Tuesday.

Now, back to the semi porno stuff ...

They sound like some programmes that could appear on TV3 !

Diabhal Beag · 15-09-2010 02:06PM

God I hate these recession threads. Last ever recession thread I'll ever read.

Asphyxia · 15-09-2010 03:23PM

I really hope that working for your dole comes in soon I think it's a brilliant idea, I know a load of people who just sat around doing nothing and even had of jobs offered to them and they turned them down while I was out busting myself to get some type of work >:(

I hate people who have used the recession as an excuse to sit at home all day, there is always something they could like do a PLC course.

Blazer · 15-09-2010 03:30PM

They're probably the same cúnts who're still getting their dole money week in week out and off to the pub every night of the week (and I see it a lot where I live) while I see lots of people who only recently been signed on getting grief from the government and getting cut off while they sort shít out..
I have to watch as my old fella (who worked for 46 years straight and paid a fortune in tax at the high bracket) gets cut off after a year on the stamps and still 3 months later is still scrambling around trying to get all the stupid ass forms they want and every week it's a new form while I see the other cúnts who apparently are too sick to work but can make it to the pub and fall out of there every night get handed their weekly allowance no problem.

If I had my way I'd make every one of them earn their dole payment by doing a 20-30 hour week, even my old fella says it should be this way.

Yawns · 15-09-2010 03:36PM

That's nice. Now can this thread plz **** off and die? The new Dole bashing thread should be here any hour now...

RockinRolla · 15-09-2010 04:17PM

What I can't understand is the people that come in here thinking that the good people on the dole are nothing more than your average blood sucking leaches and nothing could be further from the truth. After I left college, there was zero work for me in Ireland and I went onto the queue. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I was offered a job that paid exactly the same money SW was giving me and at unsociable hours too!

Now, put yourself in other peoples shoes...why the f*ck would you get out of bed at 5am to work nine hours, six days a week - all to get the same amount of money you would receive on the dole?!

GTFO.

The problem is, there is no work here for qualified and intern searching college graduates as soon as they're out the front gates. That's the f*cking problem. Ireland is going down the toilet and then people have the cheek or lack of education to blame all the downfall on the foreign nationals...pfft - pure ignorance in it's rarest form, Irish. For crying out loud, we are not self sustainable. We live on handouts from the E.U. When will people realise that Ireland was never great.

ILA · 15-09-2010 04:24PM

Video, uh, Link or GTFO

Asphyxia · 15-09-2010 04:25PM

RockinRolla wrote: »

What I can't understand is the people that come in here thinking that the good people on the dole are nothing more than your average blood sucking leaches and nothing could be further from the truth.

I understand where you're coming from I was also on the dole until recently. I know there is plenty of people who are breaking there backs trying to get work. I'm just annoyed at the pure laziness of others who don't bother themselves looking for anything.

I very much agree with you though.

RockinRolla · 15-09-2010 04:31PM

Pocketfizz wrote: »

I understand where you're coming from I was also on the dole until recently. I know there is plenty of people who are breaking there backs trying to get work. I'm just annoyed at the pure laziness of others who don't bother themselves looking for anything.

I very much agree with you though.

Likewise - there are criminals on the SW but the majority are people like myself who are not prepared to take a job in McDonalds when my parents have spent several thousand euro on my education over twenty years - it's absurd. What are my choices? Stay and look for a job that doesn't exist or flee the country? I'm thinking about the latter at this point. And that's a problem at Government level.

15-09-2010 04:32PM

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

1) On the dole and worried.

2) On the dole and horny

3) On the dole and sleeping with my sister

4) On the dole and in love with my fridge

5) On the dole and bored

6) On the dole and working on the side

7) On the dole and on Joe Duffy

8) On the dole and power crazed Mod's

9) Not on the dole but would like to be

10) Atari Jaguar

11) Not on the dole but have a grudge against those who are and wish to shoot them or at least incite others to do it for me.

Jesus, that Jeremy Kyle show is going downhill. The Atari Jaguar episode might be worth a watch though.

mathie · 15-09-2010 04:35PM

recylingbin wrote: »

I blame the bankers and fianna fail and x-factor.

Ah the 'Banker Fianna-Factor' Theory.

policarp · 15-09-2010 04:50PM

A friend of a friend went to London in the 70's and the first thing he did was to sign on for the GIRO. Then he went to his mates squat. And then got a job on a building site.
He wasn't the only one doing this at that time.
He got free accommodation, tax free job and a little dole bonus.
No doubt some people were doing something similar here during the boom times.

ILA · 15-09-2010 04:58PM

policarp wrote: »

A friend of a friend went to London in the 70's and the first thing he did was to sign on for the GIRO. Then he went to his mates squat. And then got a job on a building site.
He wasn't the only one doing this at that time.
He got free accommodation, tax free job and a little dole bonus.
No doubt some people were doing something similar here during the boom times.

So what? If they're happy living that way then I suppose we should let them be. Most people CHOOSE to work in the system, generally out of fear, but they still have a choice.

JONJO THE MISER · 15-09-2010 05:05PM

Oh goody another dole bashing thread, runs off to the pub..............

RockinRolla · 15-09-2010 05:06PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Oh goody another dole bashing thread, runs off to the pub..............

Shouldn't you refrain from the drink for twenty four hours?

On the dole during the boom

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