Open To Abuse?

[Caran]

Timpsons are offering free dry cleaning for the unemployed for interview outfits.
No vouchers or proof needed, just go in and ask for the deal.
How many do you reckon will take the mickey and abuse it.
I'm unemployed (pensioner) would I be entitled to it?

[PankySmooch]

Just a gimmick for free advertising

[Buenchico]

^^^and the Cynic of the Year Award goes to . . .

Timpson's already have a good record of altruism, such as seeking to employ ex-offenders in their shops. (Or is that just a way of getting free advertising too, PankySmooch?)

I suppose, Caran, that you'd qualify if you genuinely wanted to wear the clothing for an employment interview.

[askyourgran]

I'd go for the job as greeter at the funeral parlour. Or being asked to model the latest range of spanx.

[Mamyalynne]

Free advertising it may be,but it's a good offer. Anything is open to some abuse,let's hope not too much on this.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30724198

[Caran]

I really thought they would have to show proof though.

[Buenchico]

Now I think I think about it, I might have missed out on the deal myself.

Just before Christmas I had a suit dry-cleaned by Timpson's. I had no immediate intention of wearing it but just wanted to have it ready in case I ever needed it at short notice (e.g. if I was to see some interesting part-time work offered and needed to attend an interview). Perhaps I should have waited until the new year and then had it done for free?

[anneasquith]

chris. get it cleaned again just for the hell of it :)

[nailit]

A girl takes a dress into the dry cleaners and asks for it to be cleaned.

The man, who is a little deaf, says, "Come again?"

The girl blushes and replies, "No, it's yoghurt this time."

[andres]

Do you remember the tv programme not long ago showing the unemployed in the 1950s? Back then they gave out vouchers to buy new clothes so that the people going for an interview would look presentable. One of the claimants got a new suit , had the interview and got a job.

[Buenchico]

>>>I really thought they would have to show proof though

It's actually quite difficult to prove that you're unemployed, Caran. You get a letter (which can be used as such proof) when you first sign on but there's no clear limit to its validity. So someone who gets a job a week after signing on could use the letter many months (or years) later. Whereas someone who remains unemployed for a decade might then find people not accepting the letter as proof of their unemployed status, as it appears to be out of date.

Further, employed people could simply borrow a letter from an unemployed friend.

[Old_Geezer]

Are you attending an interview ?

[BlackadderV]

Could come in handy for when I'm next due up in court.

[Buenchico]

Andres:
Unemployed people can, in certain circumstances, still be paid a grant to enable them to buy new clothes for a job interview.

[DaisyNonna]

A stay at home mother looking after her family is technically unemployed and is probably more in need of free dry cleaning than an idle layabout.

[gness]

I'd be useless at fiddling something like that, Caran.....

When MrG took our curtains to the dry cleaners he was chuffed because, without realising, he'd gone on half price for pensioners day.....I felt guilty because although he qualified I didn't......
He rejected my suggestion that we pay half price for one curtain and full price for the other........☺

[SirOracle]

Blackadder.......Not sure if the offer extends to wigs though. ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

I doubt any idle layabouts would bother getting their smart clothes dry cleaned Daisy,but the jobseekers may.

[DaisyNonna]

If they were planning a con?

[Mamyalynne]

A dressed up one?