good post drags but deduction made for spelling "plus" wrongly.
Just tried Jman's link. Got 72 WPM with 100% accuracy. Pretty average, I guess.
You're really a girl aren't you! Does your boss get you to sit on his knee.
On the subject of benefits. While I'm very much right wing on some things, such as punishing criminals (though I don't think many of the right wing would go as far as me), I'm fairly liberal on some things.
The benefits issue is a strange one. There are those who deserve and need help, the trouble is, the system by and large punishes those and castigates them, while the real shirkers keep knocking out kids and claiming oodles in benefits.
It's also the case that the Government are very quick to criticise the British claimants, many of whom for no fault of their own are out of work (and in many cases the fault is down to the government itself), they never criticise the amount of bogus asylum seekers/economic migrants, who because of EU laws and the human rights act, take the piss out of this country having never contributed.
I'm not against the idea of getting people to work for benefits either, but not a 30 or 35 hour week just for their jobseekers allowance. If you're doing a weeks work, you should be paid the national minimum wage at least and the employers should be contributing.
Absolutely no way should the tax payer be paying for people to work for private companies, such as those being forced to stack shelves in supermarkets, helping those private companies increase their profits and see rich shareholders get richer. They aren't going to create real jobs all the while they have a steady stream of free labour.
I'm also against using them as cheap labour to replace people who have been laid off of local government jobs. It's just wrong and is not helping the unemployment issue.
THe first thing they need to sort out is the job centre system itself. No government mentions it, none of them reform it, but it is the first thing they should be doing in trying to get people back to work. At present the system actually works against those seeking work and the job centre staff target those who do want jobs with threats and forcing them to apply for completely inappropriate jobs. They have no HR experience and, as a consequence very few employers have any faith in job centres. It's why there are very few quality jobs listed on their system.
Half the problem of the "easier to find a job if you're in work" attitude is because employers see unemployed sent to them by the job centre as being there because they have to be. It's absolutely pointless sending someone to apply for a job they have no experience of, especially where they don;t have the essential criteria asked for in a vancancy notice, but the job centre do so constantly. They'd be better running like an employment agency and targeting people to suitable jobs.
That way they'd gain more faith with employers, attract more jobs (and better quality ones) to be advertised on their system and be better able to weed out the real shirkers.
