The REAL dole bludgers aren't who you think

[@Stikibits]

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.” -ADAM SMITH, SCOTTISH POLITICAL ECONOMIST (1723-1790)

[@bambam3245]

Breaks my heart. The despair is so real. Keep on keeping on, man 🤙

[@creeib]

8 years jumping through every hoop Centrelink threw at me. I never felt at all supported to change a job description.

[@MarkReedman]

Yes Unfortunately I found the same thing you did when I had to get help with some money to live on for a while. The system has gone backwards from the CES days. It is dreadful now. It has created a conflict of interest between the public private partnership of Centrelink and private fob agencies. It has made a mockery of person centred care or support and safety net. The most disturbing of which that I found was the Salvation Army participates in Mutual Obligations. As a volunteer for a while at a community centre I know first hand the tragic consequences of it's enforcement by job agencies and Cenrelink causing harm. It breaks people. How did it go from bad to worse? We need a change for better. I was one of the lucky ones after many years of battling the ndis in a support capacity for family members I have managed to resurrect my business. Thank you Greg. I feel your pain all the best. We must get rid of the parasitic private companies and put people first.

[@CC-lq3ie]

Interesting...I recall many many years ago found my own job and they called to asked me to go in and sign a paper the job seek place and I said no as found my own job ...later found out if I signed they would have got subsidised...nope!

[@kungfutzu3779]

another commenter replying to UNIKO below says they'll sometimes just forge your signature

[@CC-lq3ie]

@@kungfutzu3779 hope they get caught!!! I believe u

[@MarkReedman]

Yes my partner found the same thing they are fraudsters.

[@DrSiB0T]

The same happened to me. Then they turned up to the new place of employment and got the signiture for the subsidy. It was only a casual job with limited hours. But, then they signed up somebody else and then my hours were reduced. The employer disputed that they were only paying me $5.00 an hour ( $20 was subsidised ) But, I had the document. This allowed the Owner's wife to not bother coming into work anymore.

[@CC-lq3ie]

@@DrSiB0T criminals are they not !

[@chrisbuschmann850]

Thank you for sharing your story, Greg and I loved your poem, well done.

[@michaelandrews4783]

Job providers are owned by large multinational multinational corporations, Max employment is owned by Mamimus corp an American multinational with work in Saudi Arabia. a lot of people are not aware of this. The system is gamed to scapegoat the poor while big corps like Maximus get their hands on taxpayer money and in turn give donations to the LNP.

[@MarkReedman]

The same company that operates the detention centres and Gaols Serco was also contracted to run some of the Centrelink services for a period of time. The Australian government could do the right thing and do it themselves

[@elephantintheroom5678]

@@MarkReedman What?! I can hardly believe this! What a travesty!

[@elephantintheroom5678]

This is a travesty of what Australia is meant to be!

[@DrSiB0T]

Some cloak themselves as Not for Profit.

[@lukiluvssuga]

based on the video title I was expecting that this would talk about the funding models and the rort that these job network providers rake in for doing very little.

[@patfarnell517]

this video really didnt tell me much

[@milan0vich]

Privatisation of essential services should end now. The service is degraded, the employees suffer, the clients suffer, and the "real profits" (i.e. Public's funds) go to a small number of individuals. Are Qantas, Commonwealth bank, Telstra, etc, truly any better than Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, India's State Bank, etc??

[@contact_lost_]

I have seen a little of the welfare system from the inside, and the workers are treated almost as badly as they treat the 'clients'. It is an industry desperately in need of change, and we as a society need to do better.

[@damienwalton383]

Totally agree. I have been thinking this for years

[@letsseeif]

Thank you for telling us your story. 🙂

[@AussieTVMusic]

The CES was great. It was less stressful than these leeches.

[@zoekenny3619]

The government and RBA require a certain level of unemployment in order to drive down wages and control inflation, so why are those who are unemployed being demonised and marginalised? According to the logic of capitalism they are actually carrying out an indispensable service.

[@ozidanni]

This is such an important campaign.

[@iandaniel2153]

... and they are not even Australian companies.

[@tneil7075]

...who owns these companies...China or the Vatican...Blackrock...

[@island_rogue1687]

Salvation Army Employment Plus can get your payments suspended and then offer assistance for food and housing??? A Multinational Charity that depends on government payments through running services is a bit suspicious! My local employment service provider, Salvo"s, has no computers available for jobseekers, they do a lot of tick the boxes and useless training programs that are just keep them busy programs. Jobseekers have become a commodity and we are valuable to these employment service providers, we jobseekers are nothing but chattel to these organisations. They make more problems than helping jobseekers, they are not there to help jobseekers but to monitor jobseekers. If a jobseeker cannot find you a job within 3 months they should have their funding cut! These organisations are not there to help you get a job, they are there to keep themselves employed! I pray my fellow jobseekers get the help they need!! Time to start rattling the cages of the politicians tomake the necessary changes!!!

[@davidbwn]

Yes I got a threatening notification that my Centrelink benefit could be cut if I have applied for a job that I am under qualified for all because I actually got a job that I was qualified for and the tools I used was chat GPT to rewrite my resume and they weren’t happy with that either.

[@resourcedragon]

They are out of control.

[@creeib]

The real dole bludgers are exactly who I think.

[@DrSiB0T]

I find there's no privacy. You go in and sit down and basically the floorplan allows every JNP employee to eavesdrop on your discussion. Management will sit behind the sound protected office suites.

[@creeib]

Dole is designed to be derogatory. It's called social security.

[@maureenbeatty3046]

And social security means being secure in society

[@resourcedragon]

"The job network providers are the real dole bludgers." 💯%

[@GarryViner]

Love you, Greg.

[@evad7933]

Other things to bear in mind are that only 6% of the welfare spending is on the dole, that the dole is well below the poverty line (for someone who is not supported by others) and that the number of jobs vastly outnumbers the number of people who want jobs.

[@johnb4639]

"What I'd like to see is 5 basic things ...free basic education, health, accommodation, public transport, food... just equality and fairness built in..." Essential to achieving those 5 things is first having a guaranteed, fairly paid job for all able to work. Australia effectively had such a scheme for 33yrs - from 1942 to 1975 the unemployment rate averaged less than 2%. It can be done - MMT Prof Bill Mitchell's "Job Guarantee" can achieve effective full employment within a year or so should the political will exist. Unfortunately all our major political parties have sold out to the interests of big business profit takers - they no longer serve us common citizens- or Australia's best interest.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

CES was MUCH, MUCH better.

[@jimmyscarff9905]

Looking at that, it would seem as though he is most despondent about there being a paucity of love and care in the world, not necessarily other people becoming successful. I think if we were all a lot nicer and tried to help people instead of the relentless pursuit of cold hard cash and exploitation of people to get it, THEN the world would be a better place for people in his predicament. Sincerely, someone not struggling financially.

[@johnb4639]

Even should the old model CES be successfully restored it will not & cannot fix Australia's high unemployment problem -post c1975's LNP/ALP neoliberalist industry policies, including both parties support of RBA's NAIRU serve to actively create high unemployment. What is urgently needed is the implementation of a Job Guarantee - under a JG, all CES offices truly becomes an EMPLOYMENT facilitator. Getup should already know about the JG - Prof Bill Mitchell & others have made past representations to Getup - all apparently to no avail. Get serious Getup - you have already been given a proven plan to address the unemployment crisis - why are you still just nibbling around the edges of this pernicious problem ???

[@robthatsme9831]

Who is the camera operator? What message is being conveyed by focusing on his nail polish as through there is something to be judged.

[@mickey69p]

Maybe do an apprenticeship instead of writing poems

[@patfarnell517]

Get up I don't know what this video is trying to do. I am a get up donator and I believe job seeker is below the poverty line. Greg lives in public housing which at least in Vic is capped at 25% of income, I cant speak for NSW. There are people living in properties that exceed 55% of their job seeker income. If you wanted the video to focus on recipients there are people in much tougher financial situations than Greg. Why not show more stories. I also learnt very little from the video in terms of how the employment services rort the system. I was ready to share this but I wont because it just makes claims with little convincing. I am tired of Get up making content thats just aimed at the already initiated.

[@26dato]

could have helped in logistics while you guys where getting payouts. people in logistics where working more then they needed to because you guys where buying so much.