Re:A homeless man who turned his life around by offering boo...
by dx034 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:30AM
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Yes but that's not bad work ethics. If you don't have any money and not even a bank account, two weeks between paychecks can be too long. If any unforeseen expense turns up, most of us can just pay by credit card and push it to the next pay check. If you can't do that, you have to find another job if the one you have only pays you in 10 days.
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Re:A homeless man who turned his life around by offering boo...
by dazc on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:51AM
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In the UK payments are often made monthly. This is bad enough if you are short of cash but factor in a lot of jobs are now bogus self-employed gigs or agency work where you can also find yourself extending credit to a business that has less cash than you do. Resulting in underpayment or , sometimes, no payment at all.
A lot of folks in the UK have a view that if they lost their job they can just do 'any-job' until they find something else.
These 'any-jobs' either are not available in the way people think they are or they fall into the category outlined above.
Re:A homeless man who turned his life around by offering boo...
by Ntrails on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:07AM
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As someone who worked in Kitchens/Hotels/Restaurants from about the age of 14 to my mid 20s - I have never not been able to find people hiring KPs etc in an area. Low skill low paid work always seemed to be available.
Note, I was usually in _relatively_ affluent parts (the south) of the country. However after that I've always felt that should things go tits up I could always go back to 50+ hours a week on min wage...
Worth noting, even if I could do that I sure as hell wouldn't have the motivation to job hunt in my downtime.