Chip Shop Unemployed

[fender62]

(frustrated with 'workshy' job hunters only applying for roles to qualify for benefits.) who says there is no work...some prefer benefits?, why not take on two jobs err i hear, i have done in the past when i was young, mates had no money, let alone a car or a bike, i was always flush then..
why.. because i pulled my thumb out and did jobs some found boring hard dirty etc etc, never bothered me...seems a lazy lot today, i want it now mindset.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409257/Chip-shop-owner-furious-workshy-job-hunters-just-trying-qualify-benefits.html#comments

[ummmm]

Shocking isn't it?

[Old_Geezer]

Should be a feedback system to the benefits office to ensure fake applications have the same effect as no applications.

[237SJ]

Is there any proof that the people who are applying for the job are only doing so to qualify for benefits or is that just Dailymail speak?

[Tilly2]

I know this is in News but I really cannot resist...

[Mamyalynne]

He is right to say that there should be a follow up or as said above some feedback.

[webbo3]

Try to see what the pay is.

[ummmm]

They were discussing it on TV today, 237, and they were speaking as though the applicants were on JSA.

[237SJ]

^How would they know though? That information would be subject to data protection laws

[ummmm]

I don't know. Maybe from the owner of the chip shop.

[237SJ]

He/she wouldn't be party to that information. The Data Protection laws are so strict these days

[ummmm]

He/she might have got the info at the interview.

I don't know how the system works

[237SJ]

Not unless the applicant told them

[andres]

It was discussed on the Jeremy Vine show. One of the panel said that maybe the wages being offered were the minimum wage and the applicant would be better off staying on benefits. I don't know what they get on JSA.but there doesn't seem to be the incentive to work with some these days.

[Togo]

Tills.... What about "we built this chippy on sausage rolls"?

[Spicerack]

Trial shifts? Free labour.
These sort of jobs aren't 'proper' jobs. They're pin money jobs and should be 'cash in hand' like they've always been in the past.
It'll cost the country less in the long run.

[Tilly2]

Togo, I'm lying low but I could just eat a sausage roll. :-)

[tonyav]

I'll have a bet that the jobs are 16 hours or less.

[tonyav]

but I could just eat a sausage roll. :-)

I had two hot ones earlier :-)

[Theland]

Where they going to get paid?

[ummmm]

What's that mean, Tony?