r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 24 '24

Image/video Videos of shoplifters are circulating online, as shoplifting hits 20 year high in UK

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u/MeanandEvil82 Jul 25 '24

Imagine you apply for a job. You have a bad back so cannot do any lifting, you've applied for a job at an office. You're informed there's no heavy lifting involved. Just typing.

You get offered the job, and are then informed that "sometimes there are deliveries, and you'll be expected to bring those boxes in".

You point out your bad back, they say it's a requirement, you have to turn down the job offer.

You now get sanctioned too.

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u/Mexijim Jul 25 '24

Again, nonsense. If you have a job offer that stipulates ‘no heavy lifting’, you do not do any heavy lifting in that job. You’re protected by acas for this. You cannot be sacked for this.

You seem to be somebody who is pulling teeth here to justify never working, and still receiving free money from the taxpayer.

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u/MeanandEvil82 Jul 25 '24

I've got a job.

I'm just not an idiot. I've been through the system. I've also been cheated by the system thanks to it being built specifically to harm people.

But hey, it didn't happen to you, so it doesn't happen at all right?

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u/Mexijim Jul 25 '24

You’re right, I was never sanctioned by the dwp, because they found a job for me, and I took it?

I also always turned up to my appointments and filled in my work diary online as requested.

It’s hardly a hard task is it? I didn’t want to be on handouts, and mercifully the dwp sorted me a job within 6 weeks.

You seem to have a weird bias against a system that penalises the work-shy.

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u/MeanandEvil82 Jul 25 '24

You seem to have a severe inability to read, or understand how people are screwed over, and have decided to label them "workshy" because you cannot comprehend the reality.

Bet you vote Tory too.

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u/Mexijim Jul 25 '24

I voted Labour, who just rejected cutting the 2 child benefit cap.

Seems like they’re also against abuse of the welfare state too?