A man receiving jobseeker’s
allowance and housing benefit turned down a job because he didn’t want to wear
a hat.
The man, who was only referred to
as Paul, from Clerkenwell, spoke to the London radio station LBC and revealed
that he turned down the job in a high-street bakery because the hat would ‘kill
his long hair’. He was also unwilling to call customers sir or madam.
There are several bits of this
story that are surprising, culminating in how this guy nonchalantly said, on the radio, that’s right I turned down a
job at a bakery because they wanted me to wear something that would stop my
hair falling on the food, and they
wanted me to be polite to customers.
Paul, as he is referred to, has
been unemployed for seven and a half years and had the audacity to claim that
he wasn’t lazy, actually to be fair he’s right he’s not just lazy he’s an
incredibly lazy scrounger who clearly doens’t want to work and so should forgo
any benefits he is receiving.
But it sounds like he won’t be
doing that as ‘Paul’ is going on holiday to Greece this year, alright for some,
and maintains that he will continue job hunting, I’m sure he will but without ever
actually trying to get one.
Of course there's no actual proof that this story is true. Given that the regulations governing JSA wouldn't allow him to behave like this without losing benefit, I suspect it isn't. Then again, truth is less important than finding another stick to beat the unemployed and disabled with.
ReplyDeleteI see that last week, the Daily Mail ran another mendacious story about large numbers of sickness benefit claimants suffering from bad backs. The last time they splashed this claim across their front page, it turned out that the report they selized on actually actually categorised back complaints under the category of muscular-skeketal disorders. So effectively the Daily Mail is implying that people claiming for complaints like spina bifida are malingerers and croungers.
Glad to see you're not gullible and don't take everything you read and hear at face value.