“I think sometimes the employers if they looked for the employees’ needs more, they’d have a lot more people coming in for those jobs. I swear to you I’m really not lazy.”
Well, no, of course not… This from a man who went to an interview for a job handling food and didn’t want to wear a hat. Well, of course he would be expected to wear a hat and of course the employer would expect him to address the clients appropriately.
I wonder sometimes about people and how they expect others to view them.
Those with long memories will remember this fuckwit…
Listen to the interview, do, it’s an eye opener into the whining entitlement mindset of a self-righteous arsehole who thinks we owe him a living.
Back in the 90’s I came back to this country from Africa having just had a really bad attack of malaria, so bad that the Dr’s thought I was about to die. This was the height of the recession and I was still suffering the after effects of the malaria yet I managed to get a job within a week. It was a shitty little job that I hated with a shitty little company. It was a job.
I eventually lost that job (not my fault) and signed on with various agencies. The money wasn’t good, the hours were crap, the prospects were bleak. It was work.
When even that started to dry up as the recession worsened I became self employed. I could have earned just as much sitting on my backside at home as I earned then.
I worked right through the 70’s when, according to conventional wisdom, there were no jobs to be found. I found jobs.
Some people are just too fussy and have unrealistic expectations.
Fuckwit is praise indeed for this specimen. He landed a job prior to this but got sacked for turning up late two days in a row. On one of those no show mornings he had been at a party, drinking till 03.00. Said he had forgotten he had a job. In the bakers he wouldn’t wear a hat to cover his hair nor would he address customers as sir or madam. So he lost the job. And this creature had the gall to discuss it on the radio! As I said, fuckwit is praise indeed for this lazy, stupid scrounger.
The worst of it is, he thinks he is hard done by…
Indeed he sounded very put out. Like it wasn’t his fault and thjat the employer should consider his needs primarily over what was required of him in the role he was going to be paid for. Frankly I’m surprised he was offered his previous job or this one. I think he’s an example of institutionalisation simply because he was living a peculiar lifestyle based on a life on long term benefits.
XX This from a man who went to an interview for a job handling food. Well, of course he would be expected to wear a hat and of course the employer would expect him to address the clients appropriately.XX
But there are some (most) bosses that ask for RIDICULOUS things.
Example. I lived in Scotland (West Lothian), and, during my uni years needed a Weekend job.
Mc Vities would not take me on, because I had no car!
(A Z650, a V-Max, two CX 500s (Most reliable bikes I have EVER had!) two Honda 500/4s, but no car!)
WHY?
I eventualy went to a job agency, who IMMEDIATELY sent me….guesss where? !!!!
Had NOTHING to do with the slave wages for an agency worker, as opposed to a “proper” worker, by any chance?
Yes, they do sometimes ask for the most ridiculous things, but if you are on JSA, you take the job offered and then look for something better.
Usually, they ask if you have transport rather than specifying what type, so that one was very odd.
Especially considerin the factory gate was five minutes (literaly) walk from my house. (Broxburn, if any one knows it).