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| Thread ID: 114816 | 2010-12-18 18:43:00 | WINZ and $15 an Hour | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1163063 | 2010-12-18 23:50:00 | If you can't live on what you earn then you need to seriously look at your budgeting skills and maybe not have kids . I don't know many families with zero debt unlike us we owe nobody anything, we operate on the old type of schedule if you can't afford it wait until you can . We saved like crazy to pay off the mortgage even down to me biking everywhere and even now the car only leaves the garage if there are more than 2 things to do that need the car . You could call us tight we prefer frugal You know I dont disagree with what you said about budgeting skills! When my Daughter came along unexpectadly it really through things into chaos mode for us . Trying to settle in a new country where the saving were being eaten away at a rapid rate to the point you have to get assistance before you slide into the unescapable pit of debt! We did it the only debt we have is a mortgage which is better than paying someone else rent! If there is a way to save money I will attempt to find it but living beyond your means is not in the calculation ever! Our budget is constrained to the worse case scenario of what the social will assist with . Trying to live below that level is asking to a life of debt! Unfortuanately we have those in society that think having kids when you have no life plan is a plan! I think though at 35 I was allowed to have at least one child? Even though since then the budget has been on a knife edge . |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1163064 | 2010-12-19 01:23:00 | Jesus what sons of you know what . . . . lazy, incompetent morons . Come on . That's a bit harsh . If you had loads of expenses and you had a choice of minimal money versus better money which would you choose? It's not incompetent, or moronic really, it's simple economics . Pity there has to be such situations . . . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1163065 | 2010-12-19 01:27:00 | Here we go: Food on a budget 101: www.nzherald.co.nz |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1163066 | 2010-12-19 01:52:00 | I can't even find a job that'll pay $15 where i am, currently have a casual part-time, xmas temp job paying just over $13 of about 10 hours a week, applied for dozens and dozens of jobs got 2 interviews and got the one job, my theory is any future employer will look more favourably on someone who is working, even in a crap job as opposed to someone sitting on their ass. I am definitely heading in to get the dole after reading that though, as from a very fast read you appear to still get a benefit even if you are working minimal hours like i am, swallow my pride, as we are going backwards very fast financially (in 7 months we haven't paid a cent on the mortgage, only reason we aren't completely broke) |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1163067 | 2010-12-19 02:17:00 | my theory is any future employer will look more favourably on someone who is working, even in a crap job as opposed to someone sitting on their ass . I could not agree more! In any application for employment you are selling yourself . You are far more likely to be accepted if you can demonstrate at the very least the ability to turn up on time and do an honest days work . There is no way I would employ anyone who, by choice, spent their time sitting on the dole rather than doing a low paid job . A lot of people seem to forget that your personal reputation is all important no matter what field of employment you are after in the long term . The benefit system is there to support people in need and I fully agree with that . However I have no time for those who are too stupid or too lazy to help themselves when they can . |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1163068 | 2010-12-19 02:59:00 | There is two ways of looking at this and being in work is the best of the two only the problem is the hassle associated with doing casual work and being on a benefit. Having experianced that situation and not complete unemployment I can tell you that casual work and WINZ is you might as well be on the dole. Not being on a benefit means you are not on their radar! Better the hourly rate less hours needed to escape the economic need of winz! |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1163069 | 2010-12-19 03:04:00 | Come on. That's a bit harsh. If you had loads of expenses and you had a choice of minimal money versus better money which would you choose? It's not incompetent, or moronic really, it's simple economics. Pity there has to be such situations........ Maybe a bit harsh....but they're expecting us taxpayers to feed them when they are fully able to work. That I find disgusting. The benefit should only be reserved for those disadvantaged by physical and/or mental debilitation or to get someone 'back up his/her feet' so to say. Not to lazy bludgers who think it's alright not to work when you can. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1163070 | 2010-12-19 07:56:00 | All it says to me is the benefit pays far too much. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1163071 | 2010-12-19 08:11:00 | If you don't know how to play the system, it is hard to live on the unemployment benefit | Greven (91) | ||
| 1163072 | 2010-12-19 08:12:00 | All it says to me is the benefit pays far too much. All it says to me is that our minimum wage is to low and our employers (that Agency) is unwilling to pay another dollar or two to make it economical not to fall to the benefit to survive. I know for one thing if the level of our income goes below a certain level I wont hesitate to go to winz to get some help to avoid financial disaster. Especially if we have cut back so much on our cost of living to be no alternative. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
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