DonaldG: "
As an ex employer, I would be furious if I found my staff wasting the time that I PAY them to WORK for me!"
I wholeheartedly agree; and I'm NOT an employer. Does my head in to see people sitting around wasting time whilst their colleagues are running around like blue-@r5ed flies. I work on the basis that I start at nine, finish at five, and the rest of the time is my own - I
never work later than five (I feel if I regularly had to, it's either because I'm rubbish at my job, or chronically overworked), but I think that means my boss is perfectly within their rights to assume I'll do what I'm paid to do in the interim.
MunkyPhil: "
What sad little lives some people lead. There's more important things in life than pretending you have friends. Isn't there?"
Nail > > > Head!
I love it when someone goes on about how many squillions of friends they have on FaceBook; saves me the trouble of having to work out whether they're a muppet or not
l_b_rex: "
In London Canada they just banned mp3 players and ipods and cell phones from high schiolls and elementry schools and kids these days are friggin winers!
Spoiled brats, just like those in this post."
Couldn't take ANYTHING like that into school when I was a kid; would have been confiscated and mailed back to your parents at their cost with a reminder on what was permitted to be brought to school and under what conditions.
Garryson01: "
ain't we just as bad as those people who waste their days on facebook and myspace by coming on here during work hours?"
Yup!
sobeit: "
at least here in the states if they refused a job, they are supposed to lose their unemployment benefits - if they are currently unemployed."
Same here in the UK (and Australia, I believe). The tough part is proving the reasons for turning a job down; some scroungers are VERY creative
