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^ count yourself lucky A1 was not your m8
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canaryboy Joined: 11 Feb 04
Replies: 14605 21 Oct 10 16:50 ok I've had a total of 9 months out of work since the recession. I'd put aside a small amount of time each week to contacting the agents about what work was out there, anything coming up etc etc, and 9 times out of 10 it was nothing, sorry. Now and then I'd get a sniff of something but they were always long shots, in the end something came up and I had to relocate to do it but its ok. I was on totaljobs and I signed on and everything and I did get a few days here a few days there working in local factories (12 hour night shift on minimum wage) and the job centre said that it wouldn't effect my benefit but it did. The job centre did actually get me a job at the council but I hated it and the travel was sh1thouse. so I quit and in the end got this job on the south coast. Hunky dory. Most days I'd get up about 8ish breakfast, betfair then I'd walk sometimes 15 miles a day round the area stopping in pubs reading the paper etc. Get home for a dinner with my olds and betfair/telly all night. It would've been quite pleasant except I was basically a ponce and my money reserves were dwindling ((I always spent loads more than the jsa). I've never been able to enjoy the free time you get when out of work because I've always been too stressed about not working. I've always wanted to work but the ar se totally fell out of my game the last couple of years. When I got laid off in 2008 I moved back in with my parents because I couldn't afford the rent. I never even considered that the council might've paid my rent for me, I'd've stayed in St John's Wood if they'd've paid the rent, what a donut. |
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Hearts, if your wife's working, you probably won't qualify for benefits. But go and see them, anyway. You need to be on the unemployed register, to get you NI paid, if nothing else.
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hello all ,my first post .im getting made redundant today from a major roadwork company in central london .i havent signed on for over 20 years .apparently from monday i become a lazy b and i dont want a job in selkirks eyes .hearts you should sign on .i for one will if i dont get a job for monday ,fingers crossed .i have paid over seventy pound a week stamp for the last few years so i will be claiming whats rightfully mine.
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JELLIEDEEL, YOU CAN CLAIM FOR SIX MONTHS EVEN IF YOUR WIFE IS WORKING, AFTER THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO SIGN OFF THOUGH, SIX MONTHS MONEY THATS ABOUT £1500 QUID OF FREE MONEY FOR YOU TO PLAY ABOUT WITH ON BETFAIR.
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This thread has got me thinking. When you get a mortgage can you pay a bit more each month as insurance so that your mortgage is paid even if you get laid off? I'd always not wanted to bother with this because it is a con, but it would actually be quite a weight off my mind. If the payments aren't too much I might try this out, it would certainly make unemployment that much better.
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UTI, I DON'T KNOW HOW PEOPLE CAN SURVIVE BEING UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON, BECAUSE IT'S SO EXPENSIVE.
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thnx bal for info .hopefully i will get a start for monday if im extremely lucky .anyone know if there are any grants to going on a training course after being made redundant please
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I'm a time served Millwright,I was made redundant 18yrs ago at the age of 46.
I could not get an interview for anything,couldn't get retraining & the dole stopped after a year.Fortunately thw wife worked so we got by,I haven't worked since except for my small business which I've been able to build up. I feel genuinely sorry for those out of work & appreciate their feelings Especially if they are living in an area of high unemployment & are over 35. Those of you who are employed & live in an area where there is work think yourselves lucky,don't knock the unemployed,who knows it could be you next. |
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JELLIEDEEL, IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED FOR MORE THAN 12 MONTHS THEY WILL SEND YOU TO A PLACE CALLED WORKING LINKS OR A SIMILAR SERVICE PROVIDER WHO OFFER TRAINING AND COURSES.
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I FEEL SORRY FOR THESE KIDS JUST STARTING OUT 16-18 WHO HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING OR BEEN ANYWHERE THE BANKERS HAVE REALLY CRAPPED ON THEM.
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The 16-18 year olds are starting out they can, to a point, choose a career and go for it. I feel sorry for the older gents who only know one career and feel they are too old to train in something else. If their industry has been fked it is much harder for them to change career.
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YES I NO WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE HAD EMPLOYMENT OVER THE YEARS AND HAVE HAD MONEY IN THERE POCKET, WHEREAS SOME OF THESE YOUNGSTERS DON'T EVEN GET A START.
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When I was out for 7 months, and my resources dwindling, I was getting to the stage where I would have to rethink it all and change career/just do something different. I'd largely resisted just going and doing a minimum wage job (I'd done all that when I was younger, working in factories etc and I hated it - I'd rather spend all my savings than do that again) and put all my hopes in contacting all the agents in London regularly and try getting back into the CAD Draughting game. It paid off in the end, but I was very close to having to change career, something I really didn't want to do. I could've probably got work of some sort in that 7 months, so technically I was a dole scrounger, but I was holding out for a job I wanted. Don't feel particuarly guilty about it - I took the £60/week, but probably spend more like £150/week over that period. I've paid the taxes so I'm entitled to it. Yet, some may say hypocritically, I'm anti all this benefits culture, and excessive handouts. As much as anything I don't think its good for people themselves to be living on handouts.
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to be honest i am glad sumtimes i dont have a job bcus i am dringing more and more and if i had a job i wud lose it. Again
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UTI 22 Oct 10 10:26
This thread has got me thinking. When you get a mortgage can you pay a bit more each month as insurance so that your mortgage is paid even if you get laid off? I'd always not wanted to bother with this because it is a con, but it would actually be quite a weight off my mind. If the payments aren't too much I might try this out, it would certainly make unemployment that much better. Take out mortgage insurance. We had ours with the Halfifax, and they give you the mortgage plus 10% (iirc - have to check with mrs winkle) and when I was made redundant they paid it for 3 months while I had no work. Saved me all the aggro and cost them over £3,000.  |
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How many of these are in jail now
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You haven't got the hang of this chaser, you're 3 days too early
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what you mean?
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Nice to see wur back.
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Aha an unemployment thread.
I can empathise with Hearts No 1. When i got made redundant following 20 years of continuous employment, i dragged my sorry ass to the dole centre. The dole not only patronises and demonises you, it destroys your soul. I couldn't stand the guilt and shame of being out of work so stopped going. Instead i jumped on a plane (nice redundancy pay off) and went travelling for many months. Feck the dole, i signed up with local agencies and was back in work in no time. That was 10 years ago. I posted an update on one of the IDS threads... |
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not bad for the jet setters who can just jet off whenever they feel , no need usalt in wounds in all that
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to rub salt in the wounds*
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...Re: the OP.
My time is spent staring at walls with a blank expression asking "why me?" Now listening to Harry [Redknapp] on the radio ranting about an unfit player on 60k per week.  |
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scandanavian_haven
19 Oct 14 17:24 Joined: 27 May 11 | Topic/replies: 1,277 | Blogger: scandanavian_haven's blog You haven't got the hang of this chaser, you're 3 days too earlyCry why 3 days too early scanda , tell me or i cut you |
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whos on 60 per week and unfit
so you still in agency work now or unemployed dartsnbooze? i done agency work last month in a factory lasted 7 days it was fking brutal |
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"no work in the townw i even say "i will work for free trail period" but still they say no "we don't like your kind"
Did they really say that? What is the kind to which they are referring? I mean are you a nudist or an anywhere W@nk**, or have you got "Tourettes" or Ebola etc? If they really said those words to you I would speak to the CAB for starters, and go from there. I mean, if you are a dwarf and want a job as a shelf stacker that could go against you (joking)but whatever else they mean is clearly discrimination! |
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there is many kinds in this world but no kind such as your kind thats what ive had said to me
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Unemployed chit chatters
Over2.5 21 Oct 10 16:08 4 years ago ffs How do you spend your day ?? watching tv ? hanging about your local bookmakers ? betfair all day ?? loose women ? deal or no deal ? I would like some insight into how the unemployed pass the day... enlighten me please Being Unemployed, and having a medical condition (job restrictions are endless) are not entirely the same thing, yet both are now pigeon holed together. The Chaser, no agency work for me, i'm another hopeless parasite feeding off benefits. Cameron would have the likes of me put down, as would Farage. Had no problem being taken on as a volunteer in a charity shop, but paid work - forget it! Applied for 100's of jobs, had 1 interview...Ageism reigns supreme  I'm long passed caring what society thinks. |
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I'm long passed caring what society thinks.
 best wayI wont be back to the agency fook that got lobbed in a factory with albanians / poles / romanians / spanish / argies you name it they said they where from there.I dont know thugh as none of us had to show any form of id or proof of NI as the printers where down a guy had been there longer and said they just say that to everyone |
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they said printers where down so they couldnt scan copies i , they could have still made sure who was who.might whistleblow on the factory could earn more than £5.31 an hour
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£6.31
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Most of the names on here seem to have vanished.
JSA gone, credit card maxed out - skint and departed. |
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if you're out of work then the budgeting might be even more of a problem than before which would make anyone depressed ,but as for getting bored ? please
no one in this day and age should get bored learn something ,watch something - not everything costs money |
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if you're really that bored then try voluntary work
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Shouldn't be ashamed to sign on either. In addition to the free monies, you leave a stamp/trail to cover your gap in employment. When I found a new job mid recession they wanted 5 years history to cover me....the benefits office sent them the dates that I was getting JSA.
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plus oyu get free lawyers when you get court appearances and free dental work thrown in
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legal aid aint as easy to get now i tell you
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You can be skint, but if you live in a house with more than £100k of equity, you can't get Legal Aid.
And if you're on JSA, you obviously can't remortgage. You're facked. |
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as long as you can show proof your on jsa , just dont mention the house if you own one
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