Work To No Work
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As I have said before my Blog is for all things sacred to the mind and body. If it benefits the body, or mind in any way then its worth talking about.
Unemployment, what does it say about you? Is it a means to an end? a better future for self/family? are you disabled and would love to work? a necessary evil? something to be afraid of? or maybe to be avoided at all costs? Which ever floats your boat it will say something about you…
I was chatting to a friend about the Governments latest drive to get more individuals off of Unemployment and Sickness Benefit. He was saying that a lot of people are unemployed simply because there is no jobs to get. He went on to say that
“back in the good old days there were plenty of jobs to go round”.
Myself, I am from the back-end of those so called good old days. I’ve been in work since I left school. The first Job I had was as a Window Cleaner, why because jobs at the time were hard to find not exactly what I had envisaged for myself, but I needed to start somewhere. So I did and now some years later I ended up in Warehouse Management a far cry from window cleaning. Hopefully I have made my point unlike my mate who I am not to sure knows exactly what he is talking about.
You need to know why I told him this before you judge me. My friend, we’ll call him Dave so he becomes a person rather than a thing, has not held a job for more than 29+ years although he trained and qualified as an Arc Welder, since then his main cry has been
“I have been for many interviews but the job was not the right kind of work for me.”
So he has spent the last 29+ years going between Sickness and Unemployment Benefit.
When they send for him to undergo a Health Medical the doctor finds nothing wrong with him and takes him off of sickness benefit, he then waddles along to Social Security and registers as unemployed accepting unemployment benefit for six months. When the six months run out and before they force him into a job he waddles back to see his doctor where by clever deception he ends up back claiming sickness benefit, although after 29+ years they know him well and so the circle starts again. So you see that last question is very relevant I know by experience one or two members of my own family and others who go out of their way to avoid working for a living. They would rather sponge off of the Taxpayer than do an honest days work and add a little respect/self-esteem to their lives. To these people I would say enjoy it while you can your days are numbered, no matter which Government is in power.
Thats my little rant out of the way lets get back to the Government and Unemployment. I do not believe there will ever be a scenario where there will be no unemployment, and thats not because of the individuals who do not want to work and its not because of the particular party in Government, at the time.
If you really think about it… how many people would you say there are up and down the country working for The Department Of Unemployment my guess would be more than a few thousand if not a few hundred thousand. Well what would happen to these individual if all the unemployed workers on their books were in full time employment my guess would be the staff of these various departments would then become the unemployed paying themselves unemployment benefit while they train for some other form of work.
So to me it seems like it has gone full circle and is starting again with workers who probably think even today they will never be out of work. Unfortunately at this moment in time we have Big Ears and his lap dog Noddy in power so we may get by without having to receiving food parcels from Eastern World Countries as recession gets worse.
