as someone who has been signing on recently,
the job centre is no help to anyone. The bloke i see didn't even know minimum wage had gone up.
He didn't look at my sheet to see what i'd done to look for work, so i stopped filling it in, a huge amount of the jobs on the government website are out of date or badly organised and impossible to find.
Maybe the fact that there was actually a decent chance of me finding work he didn't spend much time with me, but still, the whole thing felt a little slap dash and bizarre.

Some sort of incentive to work is whats needed, but if everytime we try and cut benefit a whole heap of people start shouting bollocks about human rights then it'll never change. Or it will, I dunno, i'm not a politician.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 6 Nov 2013, 10:44, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

Fair days pay for a fairs day work
The mentality of people has changed
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 6 Nov 2013, 10:49, Reply)

It's the "not worth going to work for an extra 10 quid a week" mentality,
yes, it may seem fruitless, but if you go and work hard in a year or so you might have thousands more than you did on benefit.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 6 Nov 2013, 10:55, Reply)

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( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 6 Nov 2013, 10:57, Reply)

THAT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 6 Nov 2013, 10:58, Reply)

what he said ^^^^^^^^^^^^
etc
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 6 Nov 2013, 11:00, Reply)