Reply to: Unemployed graduate sues ministers for being 'forced' to stack shelves in Poundland

[The Spartan]

At the moment I think it's £15k, but it's going up to sommat like £22k.

Dear me that's going to a while before the money is repaid

[MarillionFan]

I wish! Every night I lie there wishing you would leave that computer and satisfy my womanly needs.

Even wearing my new keyboard knickers and moaning, 'Google me, Google me!' doesn't stir your desire any more.

[d000hg]

Yes - good points. I wonder why she cannot get a job then?

Well she only graduated in the summer and things aren't exactly great right now...

[Spacecadet]

I wish! Every night I lie there wishing you would leave that computer and satisfy my womanly needs.

Even wearing my new keyboard knickers and moaning, 'Google me, Google me!' doesn't stir your desire any more.

Try shouting "Just Bing It"

[northernladyuk]

And it is still costing me everything I have and am not getting any 30 years later!!

Now the shut gob woman and putwoodint'ole

I wish! Every night I lie there wishing you would leave that computer and satisfy my womanly needs.

Even wearing my new keyboard knickers and moaning, 'Google me, Google me!' doesn't stir your desire any more.

[BrilloPad]

Geology is one of the more genuinely useful courses you can study. It's used in conjunction with architecture as well as mining, oil/gas,disaster planning, and waste disposal.

Yes - good points. I wonder why she cannot get a job then?

[northernladuk]

It's not an easy life you know. I gave it up 30 years ago and have only gone back to it because the old man is back on the old rock 'n' roll, and the kiddies need feeding.

And it is still costing me everything I have and am not getting any 30 years later!!

Now the shut gob woman and putwoodint'ole

[northernladyuk]

If she wasn't a complete moose, she could turn tricks and/or be a high class hooker for hundreds a night. Life just isn't fair.

It's not an easy life you know. I gave it up 30 years ago and have only gone back to it because the old man is back on the old rock 'n' roll, and the kiddies need feeding.

[d000hg]

Why Poundland gets away with not paying anything for this work as it seems suggested?

Because the whole point is those on the dole have to take unpaid work placements if they can't get a job, to prevent people claiming benefits for years without working. Which is great, as long as you use it on those people - for some a work placement in £land would be useful - and not simply fit any job-seeker into any placement scheme.

[d000hg]

If you study geology then what do you expect? Should have studied something useful.

Geology is one of the more genuinely useful courses you can study. It's used in conjunction with architecture as well as mining, oil/gas,disaster planning, and waste disposal.

[doomage]

She should move to Australia, the mining companies out there are always looking for geologists.

And the mines are in the kind of backwater where men haven't seen a "Sheila" for months and are probably desperate enough that they, you know, "would".

[The Spartan]

How much do graduates have to earn before they have to start paying their student loan back?

[Mich the Tester]

If you study geology then what do you expect? Should have studied something useful.

Yep, she should have done Meedjah Studies.

[BrilloPad]

Yes, if it pays. I agree a graduate should not turn down a crap job if they can't find something suitable after a shortish period, but being made to work for free stacking shelves, under the pretence of "work experience" is daft.

If you study geology then what do you expect? Should have studied something useful.

[MarillionFan]

And who's paying for the legal challenge??

We already know the answer to that, the rug munching freeloader.