Signing on day ( people skippin the queue )

The Jammy dodger · 04-10-2011 01:47PM #1

Every month I sign on at the dole office and every month I arrive early to get first in the queue standing there for like half hour, and every month there are guys in front of me and when the doors open at half nine the queue is MASSIVE and then their ''mates'' ( about five of them ) come and stand beside them at the queue and sign on with them. They dont go to the back of the queue and they just skip it. Security guards do damn all because they are rough lads taken advantage and they is scared of them.

does queue skipping happen at your local social welfare office? and if so, whats done about it?

cherryghost · 04-10-2011 01:48PM

If you have a problem with that, tell them. If nobody does anything about it, they'll keep doing it.

chin_grin · 04-10-2011 01:49PM

Happens everywhere. Get used to it or be ruder than them.

wolf moon · 04-10-2011 01:49PM

In fairness it wouldn't bother me if I was getting money for doing f... all.

FetchTheGin · 04-10-2011 01:49PM

Having a job, I don't have this problem.

*Adjusts monocle*

ScumLord · 04-10-2011 01:50PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

does queue skipping happen at your local social welfare office? and if so, whats done about it?

Well if no body says anything they'll continue to do it. If you want to get through to them you have to put it in a way they'll understand which means beating them around the head with a metal bar.

bijapos · 04-10-2011 01:50PM

Relax, unlike yourself they have a job to go to after signing on, you wouldn't want them to be late, would you?

The Jammy dodger · 04-10-2011 01:51PM

wolf moon wrote: »

In fairness it wouldn't bother me if I was getting money for doing f... all.

Looking for a job isnt doin nothing.

TheZohanS · 04-10-2011 01:51PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

Every month I sign on at the dole office and every month I arrive early to get first in the queue standing there for like half hour, and every month there are guys in front of me and when the doors open at half nine the queue is MASSIVE and then their ''mates'' ( about five of them ) come and stand beside them at the queue and sign on with them. They dont go to the back of the queue and they just skip it. Security guards do damn all because they are rough lads taken advantage and they is scared of them.

does queue skipping happen at your local social welfare office? and if so, whats done about it?

FML.

Triangla · 04-10-2011 01:51PM

Maybe they need to be back at work quickly?

Lord TSC · 04-10-2011 01:52PM

Why do people queue before the door opens :S The twice I've signed on in Drogheda, I've gone at about 11 o clock and been there 10 minutes with only a small handful in front of me.

Granted, Drogheda only askes you to sign on once every three months so maybe they spread the love out :P

The Jammy dodger · 04-10-2011 01:53PM

TheZohan wrote: »

FML.

What does FML stand for?

Mazeire · 04-10-2011 01:53PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

Every month I sign on at the dole office and every month I arrive early to get first in the queue standing there for like half hour, and every month there are guys in front of me and when the doors open at half nine the queue is MASSIVE and then their ''mates'' ( about five of them ) come and stand beside them at the queue and sign on with them. They dont go to the back of the queue and they just skip it. Security guards do damn all because they are rough lads taken advantage and they is scared of them.

does queue skipping happen at your local social welfare office? and if so, whats done about it?

I've seen it happen, but to be honest, it's once a month(or every three months depending on your office), it's not the end of the world and no one dies, so i don't let it worry me.

wolf moon · 04-10-2011 01:53PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

Looking for a job isnt doin nothing.

So isn't fishing or playing PS3 games...

TheZohanS · 04-10-2011 01:54PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

What does FML stand for?

This.

wolfpawnat · 04-10-2011 01:54PM

OP, on AH you are not going to get too many serious answers.

Yes it happens in the one I am unfortunate enough to go to. And the reason no one says anything is it is usually the scourge of the earth that are doing it and they all have at one stage or another more than likely been up for some sort of assault!

They are scumbags and no one says anything to them because of this, they are the ones that hit 18 and go on the dole as their birthday present. They go to the Dept of SW and demand everything under the sun and they don't care whether or not you are an upstanding citizen looking for work and have an interview in half an hour that you have to rush to!

The Jammy dodger · 04-10-2011 01:55PM

wolf moon wrote: »

So isn't fishing or playing PS3 games...

Yeah but they dont generate future possible income now do they?

ejmaztec · 04-10-2011 01:57PM

Because there wasn't much of a queue when they first signed on during the boom-years, they don't see why thousands of newbies should hold them up from their routine at the pub and the bookies.

Dotrel · 04-10-2011 02:00PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Because there wasn't much of a queue when they first signed on during the boom-years, they don't see why thousands of newbies should hold them up from their routine at the pub and the bookies.

Exactly. The recession has been just one big inconvenience for them. You'd have to admire their tolerance of the situation.

Aggers · 04-10-2011 02:02PM

In my local office sometimes they take the people from the top fo the queue and bring them to an interview room to see what the big rush is (ie are they going to work after) and then tell them they aernt allowed sign until later on in the day next time.

Micky Dolenz · 04-10-2011 02:02PM

Simples. Become friends with them and then join them when you arrive.

Do we have to think of everything?

Nhead · 04-10-2011 02:05PM

wolf moon wrote: »

So isn't fishing or playing PS3 games...

Only 'foreigners'(we all know the ones) get free fishing gear and PS3s...let us be clear here political correctness is gone mad/the media is stoking the fire/secularism is rising/Catholicism had a grip on on the country etc etc is the real reason for the state of the country at the moment.

Dotrel · 04-10-2011 02:05PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Simples. Become friends with them and then join them when you arrive.

Do we have to think of everything?

Or why not just arrive before the guy who invites the skippers?

ballsymchugh · 04-10-2011 02:06PM

chat and cut. just go larry on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz-fOtKBU8

Keith186 · 04-10-2011 02:07PM

So these are the 'Dole scum' that are commonly referred to on AH.

Gunmonkey · 04-10-2011 02:08PM

Dotrel wrote: »

Exactly. The recession has been just one big inconvenience for them. You'd have to admire their tolerance of the situation.

I think we should organise a charity group to raise awareness for their plight. How longer must they suffer in silence?

Cupcake_Crisis · 04-10-2011 02:09PM

I used to see it all the time before I went back to college. It was worse at counters where you had to take a number, People would just pretend they were whatever number had been called (if whoever had that number didn't jump up) when they'd only been there 5 minutes. Did my head in!

Dotrel · 04-10-2011 02:11PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

chat and cut. just go larry on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz-fOtKBU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubEJp7RXyA

Of course if you tried to use reason and peer pressure against a bunch of knackers you'd not likely get that sort of result.

You : "Excuse me, is everyone in this queue an asshole?"
Him : "What you say about my mah?"

maygitchell · 04-10-2011 02:12PM

OP have some sympathy for them, Ryanair flights back to Poland dont wait for anyone

The Jammy dodger · 04-10-2011 02:12PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

chat and cut. just go larry on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz-fOtKBU8

:DVERY FUNNY

ejmaztec · 04-10-2011 02:14PM

** Xenophobia alert **

Signing on day ( people skippin the queue )

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