"pamela" wrote in message
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On 13:58 17 Nov 2017, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:

pamela wrote:
On 13:36 17 Nov 2017, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:

Yellow wrote:
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:45:12 +0000, Dan S. MacAbre
wrote:

Yellow wrote:
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:37:57 -0000, tim...
wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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In article ,
tim... wrote:
1) Benefits on offer to the "wont work" are far too
generous if an unemployed person can say "I wouldn't get
out of bed for 7.50 an hour" and/or "I rather spend the
time at home with my girlfriend". We need to
systematically reduce benefits for the fit and healthy
the longer they are on benefits.

I'd love to see the likes of you live on 7.50 an hour.
But it will be the usual 'don't do as I do, but do as I
say'.

1200 per month, perhaps 1000 after taxes

3-400 on a room in a shared house

6-700 for other expenses

seems perfectly adequate to me

When starting out in your career that's what you have to
do

and yes it IS what I did


It is a hell of a lot more than I earned when I was an
apprentice, where we had enough for travel, food, one
evening out with just a couple of beers and to pay at bit
of 'rent' to Mum and Dad.

And we accepted that because rather than contribute, we
initially cost the company money to train us.

Looking back, perhaps we should have got a bit more, but at
the end of it we came out trained and with skills enough to
command a decent wage in the future and was because the
company was prepared to take the hit on us initially rather
than employ folks who already had more skills.


When I started work in the stores of a factory, we were like
the lowest of the low. The company wanted to give us a
slightly bigger pay rise than everyone else. A quid a week,
something like that. The union kicked up a fuss about
'differentials', so it never happened.

And that is an issue with the so called living wage now that
politicians want to bump up to being the sort of money a
semi-skilled person would earn.

Just watching the show Tim is talking about now and one
fellow said he wanted £12 or £15 an hour for a low skilled
job or he wasn't interested.


I don't have a TV licence, so I will have to forego the
pleasure, I'm afraid.

Get a job! Just kidding.


I have a job, which I like very much :-) Computer programming,
which isn't like real work at all; and short hours so I can pick
the lad up from school. Perfect, really.

Computer programming sounds like a breeze.

Not like real work and short hours. Great!

It is if you are any good at it.

Not great if you don’t have a clue about what you are doing tho.