Are people really finding it hard to get work?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

How do you get savings if you're living under a bridge or in a doorway because Centrelink cut off your payments?
How does cutting off a homeless person's income because they missed an appointment help the homeless person to find work when there are at least 13 unemployed people for each advertised vacancy?
It's just punishing the victims, I reckon.

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How do you get savings if you're living under a bridge or in a doorway because Centrelink cut off your payments?

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How? You think about these things early on in life & face possible reality. You don't **** it up against a wall, you put it into a Savings Account.

You give up fags & put that into your Savings account.

In other words one plans & looks cautiously ahead for the Rainy Day.

One uses their loaf instead of thinking the Government, AKA Taxpayer, will always be there to pick up the tab but with all this, one has to plan & start saving early in life if you are going to have one.

Pompous? Maybe, but that is what we did & used our loaves early in life to be where we are now & not under a bridge or in a Doorway or hungry. I suspect there are many on here that have covered their arses early in life & done likewise just as you appear to have done,Mick.

I've never been jobless, except when I chose to be a student, but I've been lucky. Life is definitely harder now then it was when I was younger.

Read this and tell me people are lazy:

'By Tuesday I'm sitting on $31.08': a week in the life of a Melbourne food delivery worker | Business | The Guardian

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I've never been jobless, except when I chose to be a student, but I've been lucky. Life is definitely harder now then it was when I was younger.

Read this and tell me people are lazy:

'By Tuesday I'm sitting on $31.08': a week in the life of a Melbourne food delivery worker | Business | The Guardian

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Life is definitely harder now then it was when I was younger.

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Probably also for your Ancestors, one by one through the ages.


It was probably more difficult (harder) making a steel rimmed wheel that knocking a couple up out of a couple of timber PMG cable reels.[bigrolf]
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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

You are supposed to have other resources to tide you over a short period of unemployment. These are called "savings".

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That’s as out out of touch as something ScoMo would say and said like someone who’s never had to worry about or has lived below the poverty line. Tell me what what a younger person - only a few years out of School is supposed to do if they are unsuccessful in securing work immediately, what “savings” are they supposed to have? If you were just trying to troll someone, that’s one thing, but if you seriously have no idea why that comment is so far from reality, then wow...

according to the govt, they have in the last couple of weeks created over 600,000 jobs so it shouldn't be hard to find a job now , should it?

Businesses and workers created those jobs, not the government.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Businesses and workers created those jobs, not the government.

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so why do you blame the govt?

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

according to the govt, they have in the last couple of weeks created over 600,000 jobs so it shouldn't be hard to find a job now , should it?

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I think it is more of a case of smoke and mirrors that the Actual creation of 600,000 jobs.

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Originally Posted by trout1105

I think it is more of a case of smoke and mirrors that the Actual creation of 600,000 jobs.

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Get out! What on earth would make you think that? :whistling:

It's a bit like the way government bangs on about the Police Service.

'Today we are proud to announce that X number of new recruits are now on the streets, fighting crime"!

What they don't tell us is, that in all probability, X+¼X have resigned, retired, been injured or perhaps sacked, in the same time.

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

according to the govt, they have in the last couple of weeks created over 600,000 jobs so it shouldn't be hard to find a job now , should it?

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They didn’t happen to mention what sort of jobs and where? Daughter lost her job just before Covid and has been unable to find work since - even unskilled work is non existent. With the local restaurants opening again here in Melbourne she thought she might be in with a chance but the first place she applied to told her not to bother as they had over 400 applications for the few positions and over 100 of those had Barista experience so it’s going to be an uphill battle for a while for a lot of people.