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Discuss Cameron proposes to end welfare culture in Current Affairs, News and Analysis on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by slick Today I dropped my job search diary into the jobcentre and was pulled up by an advisor, apparently I`m not sending off enough CV`s on spec anymore, and the voluntary work ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by slick View Post
    Today I dropped my job search diary into the jobcentre and was pulled up by an advisor, apparently I`m not sending off enough CV`s on spec anymore, and the voluntary work isn`t appropriate to put down on the diary even though it keeps my skill set reasonably current, allows me to make contact in associated areas and offers the opportunity of paid employment in the near future. I could`ve filled the diary up with shit like "went shopping, checked the vacancy board at Tesco" which they`d be more than happy with.

    It`s all just a big fucking "tick the right boxes " exercise for the jobcentre.
    I'm sorry to hear about your predicament & hope it works out. Your last line says it all, I'm afraid. The Job Centre people are not all that interested in getting people into work, they are interested in checking your paperwork.

    If it's any consolation to you a lot of them are now Agency Staff and/or on short fixed-term contracts & could be on the receiving end of their own kind of attitudes sooner rather than later.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuits_Brown View Post
    You can amend it any way you like, there's zero chance of it becoming a reality.

    It will be an uphill struggle, and one which will not be resolved during this Government's tenure, but a position where only your first three children are paid for by the State is one which is achievable. Much beyond that and you're pissing in the wind.
    Right, let's work with your plan. My plan will come in when in the glorious year zero Comrade No 1 Plume, Captain Pol Potbelly, siezes power on behalf of Her/His Majesty
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunnoficarus View Post
    Dream on sunshine. Next door neighbours professionally non employed daughter and her Husband have two weeks in Las Vegas each year. The brood of 5 kids, two classified as 'speshul' natch, so mega benefits for them and a Motability car, stay behind and are looked after by the eldest daughter.
    Next year? Something a bit different, Safari in Kenya.
    If they were next door to me I'd have phoned in and challenged their entitlements by now. I've done it before and seen success.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikal View Post
    If they were next door to me I'd have phoned in and challenged their entitlements by now. I've done it before and seen success.
    Always worth a go but it seems about par for the course to me. With two youngsters classed as special needs the parents will (probably) qualify for annual "respite" so them buggering off isn't an indication that anything's necessarily wrong there/
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    An example of the type of attitudes these people have:

    As I've said before, my mrs works at DWP. Every winter they are bombarded with chavs producing pictures on their mobiles of their kid in a cot with a thermometer showing close to zero. I shit you not - they will happily sit in their house with all the doors and windows open in order to try and claim some form of benefit for it!

    Children are just an additional source of income for these sort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by supermatelot View Post
    An example of the type of attitudes these people have:

    As I've said before, my mrs works at DWP. Every winter they are bombarded with chavs producing pictures on their mobiles of their kid in a cot with a thermometer showing close to zero. I shit you not - they will happily sit in their house with all the doors and windows open in order to try and claim some form of benefit for it!

    Children are just an additional source of income for these sort.
    They will happily pay for mobiles too it seems. Begging women used to nip their babies to make them cry so the gentry would throw them a coin. Nowt's new in the world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by supermatelot View Post
    Children are just an additional source of income for these sort.
    Feeding the nippers a litre of Powerade & a box of Krispy Kreme imediately before the assessment for ADHD is another good one. Bet the poor little sods love going to the Doctor, it's the only time they're fed...
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    The bloke and his wife who rented the house next door to us are scamming it. He doesn't work, she's 'left' him and is living down the road. The kids are shared between them so that they can both claim. It was only a matter of time before they became complacent and how he's round her gaff every other night. They've told her neighbours that he's an accountant working in London and as such he only gets home every other night. I'm not shopping them as they (or he as it is now) are pretty good neighbours. If they were to get turfed out the old cunt who owns the house would just move any old shite in as she's only interested in the money. We've had a family of utter cunts living there before and it was a fucking nightmare, so as far as I'm concerned, matey boy next door can cream the Governmnet all he fucking likes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le_addeur_noir View Post
    ........and are predominantly taken by Eastern Europeans.

    These people work hard,turn up on time and do not go sick.
    And are cheaper, lets not forget that!


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    Quote Originally Posted by supermatelot View Post
    An example of the type of attitudes these people have:

    As I've said before, my mrs works at DWP. Every winter they are bombarded with chavs producing pictures on their mobiles of their kid in a cot with a thermometer showing close to zero. I shit you not - they will happily sit in their house with all the doors and windows open in order to try and claim some form of benefit for it!

    Children are just an additional source of income for these sort.
    Got an appointment at the social init? I need some extra money for the baybee innit?

    Don't feed baybee from night before, don't change it's nappy. Baybee will be screaming like a deranged banshee…

    I ain't got no money to feed da baybee innit? I ain't got no nappies innit! My boyfriend nicked all me money innit!

    Here, take this emergency payment and go get what you need.

    Slapper nips outside to can swigging waiting baybeefather, gets bottle off him and puts it in brats gob, both head off to get more beer.

    Wash, rinse, repeat…
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