First Job - people who think minimum wage is not worth it?

People who earn the minimum wage usually need to set aside a good few hours of the week to add to their tattoo collection and stuff themselves with lard, so a full-time position is not always suitable.

I got £25 a week, every payday was like christmas.

every payday was like xmas
exactly you always got something you didnt want,

who turns that down ? when benefits are £70 a week

People don't turn down a job for the dole.  They do it for housing/council tax benefit.  To earn enough from a minimum wage job to pay the rent in many parts of the country is impossible.  That's why the Govt is always banging on about making work pay.

Well with rising rents and low wage immigrants good luck with that one.

Johnny_Mustang    Joined: 18 Feb 07
Replies: 10958 10 Apr 17 11:05 
People who earn the minimum wage usually need to set aside a good few hours of the week to add to their tattoo collection and stuff themselves with lard, so a full-time position is not always suitable.

I see load of suit bores at the gym with fully tattooed upper bodies like theyre secretly a hells angel

£4 a week first year, then £5 second year, then £6 third year.

what really surprised me was how easy the jobs are today.
i felt i was playing a game, instead of working. it was
all pc typing and image manipulation/editing.

i used to take two tee shirts to work for a change, i sweated so much in my first job.

doleys generally don't live off their handouts -it wouldn't be possible  ,they simply collect them as they are available to them  and it helps them get their  housing benefits.


most of them will have a means of getting their  income  usually illegal means ..drug dealing,burglary, shoplifting,busking,scamming,begging ,bootlegging - a few still work cash in hand --- you name it

if they took a job it would curtail their activities somewhat  ,and in dead end jobs there is no  progress to be made  and in any case ,a lot of the  employers will turn down idlers with a criminal conviction .

Therein lies the problem, coach.
So many of the unemployed are unemployable.

In the past, I have taken people on who weren't working, but had to interview about 10 for each 1 decent applicant (plus the same amount who didn't turn up), who were just coming so they fulfil their signing on obligation. That said, I wouldn't have trusted nearly all of them to sweep the floor, much less do any; customer facing, money taking, paperwork or telephone work.

An underclass has been created in this country. The best thing that can happen is that some of them win the lottery, so they can spend some money and put it round the economy a bit.

a far bigger underclass has been invited in and employers have no difficulty employing them although most dont speak,write english,there again employers are willing to overlook a multitude of sins for those prepared to work unsociable hrs,zero contacts,turn a blind eye to safety ,training and off course most importantly work for a pittance

a far bigger underclass has been invited in

No it hasn't.
You just believe it has.

i no it has i see it everyday ,i fight with it every day for work,
no leftie luvie snowflake is going to convince me of anything else on this one ,i suffer the consquences of employers preferring untrained,cheap labour on a daily basis

Studyform..
No it hasn't.
You just believe it has.

Yes it has, you don't believe it has.

The Labour Party and all the lefty luvvies in general have utterly betrayed the British working class, they are vipers in the nest, traitors to the very people they are supposed to represent. Despicable.

i'm not sure the ones coming over are underclass as such -  i think it's the bad apples stand out .

i remember 20 years ago some German lady  who had lived here for donkey's years saying to me  that there will be a problem in England  because  'the wrong families are having loads of kids'

Her words not mine .

Eva ?

no, a different lady 

it was a Mrs Braun