One girl, 20 years old, had never had a job since school.

The paid for her to do a rental management course. They bought her some suitable clothes.

They found her a job in a real estate firm 15 kilometers from home. As their was no suitable public transport, they established that she could use her mother's car, or her mother would drop her off & pick her up. Incidentally, the mother was also on the public payroll, on welfare of some sort.

After three weeks the mother was in wanting them to buy the daughter a car. She no longer wanted to loan the daughter the car, & getting up every morning to drive the daughter was too onerous for her.

The daughter stopped turning up a couple of days later. Mother & daughter were in the office a couple of days later when they found the daughter on a 6 week waiting time to re-qualify for benefits. They became so abusive & threatening that the police had to be called to remove them.

A different example was a bloke who, after a mirage breakup, had just given up. He was living in a small delivery type van in a caravan park, making no effort for a couple of years.

Not the sharpest tack, he was a nice bloke, with some sort of horticultural qualification. My wife got him a day a week gardening at the local high school. He was a good worker, & a days janitorial work was added by the headmaster.

As a good worker he was offered the same at another school about 35 kilometers away. His vans gearbox was not up the running, so the agency paid to repair it, & he lapped up the extra work.

He was soon working 7 days a week, then employing help.

He is not good with money, so they arranged a bookkeeper for him, & he is even talking about building a house IN HIS SPARE TIME.

It is a pity that the experience with the girl is more common than this bloke.

hasbeen

‘You seem to forget they are being paid over $1500 a month by me & my tax payer mates …’

Oh, get over yourself! And you accuse ME of ideological claptrap!

For the record … ME and MY taxpayer mates are funding unnecessary tax cuts for the rich in order to finance in turn one of the lowest taxpaying systems in the world. We’re also funding a superannuation scheme out of which 37% of the annual budget finances the super contributions of the top 6% salary earners.

Added to that, a few US wars, an utterly useless and inept spy organisation and a new $1 billion building to house it, tens of billions of dollars in corporate and middle class welfare (aka tax incentives), plus billions of dollars to punish the few miserably desperate, half-drowned people who try to make it to our shores.

And the list goes on … But keep all those horror stories coming about useless layabout Centrelink social misfits robbing you and your taxpayer mates blind. It’s such a warm fuzzy feeling to beat up on the vulnerable.

In the meantime, Qantas has just laid off 5,000 people. I guess they can all set up horticultural businesses.

Killarney just what did your last post have to do with recruitment.

Do the left/green organisations have a school training their mouthpieces in how to avoid answering on the subject, when they have been proven wrong.

Nice rant though, I must study it for future use.

Begorrah & pog ma hon, it'll be a grand ole day when the Irish back-packers working in recruitment agencies aren't there giving their Irish back-packer mates all the cream jobs!

Malcolm, must be a very slow day in the office. What a load of rubbish. The fact that you're a 'writer' and have many spelling mistakes in this article says more about you, bitter old man.

What a surprise Kevin, an Irishman working in recruitment in Australia, who has not only failed to refute the argument (we like to do that over here mate) but has decided to get personal. I dedicate this article to you.