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I am still trying to get my head around this one. A week or so ago we had a gentleman of around 28 come into our offices to ask us to sign a form ! When asking what the form was about, he told us that he needed three signatures from three different companies. We prompted a bit more and was then told that he was claiming UIF and that they had told him that before he could claim he had to prove that he had tried at three companies for a job and only then if he could not get a job could he claim UIF. I was totally shocked. He had come into a Recruitment company !!! He did not ask us for a job, he did not ask to be put on our books, in case there might just be a job out there ! All he wanted was our sig to say that he had been there looking for a job !!! (Which he had not even done)
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The sense of entitlement and lack of ethics always amazes me.Only stress when you can change the outcome!
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I pass a particular intersection, every week day. There are usually two guys there most days, one sells fruit and one stands with a board asking for handouts. The Fruit Seller is making an effort and I will support him - the guy will have to walk on hot coals before I will give him a cent.
There are jobs out there, at one stage Cape Town employed people to sweep the steets, the Big Issue empowers vendors seeling the Magazine and of course you can always sell fruit or vegatables to motorists - why else are there so many foriegners lieveing in South Africa!Michael Vella
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One of our biggest problems in our industry is finding people that want to work, people that have the correct qualifications etc and don't BS their way thro an interview etc etc.Comment
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Today Defines Tomorrow
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It's the same mindset where many employees class their sick leave allowance as standard holiday entitlement. I even had one guy a couple of years ago wanting to get paid out for 3 days he was still 'entitled to take sick' but hadn't.
This was the same employee who handed in his resignation out of the blue one day. A week after he finished I got a call from him wanting his position back because he thought he could claim UIF for 6 months but alas it didn't pan out as planned for him._______________________________________________
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I find that a good introduction to the policies of the company can have a positive result. Example in the introduction you can explain how leave works how sick leave works as well as the conditions for UIF if they resign. The situation would have been avoided. It is very important to state clearly what the role of the employee is what your expectations are what the Procedures are. That way you can eliminate a lot of problems.
Also they can sign off on it and then you have a very nice document to back you up as an employer and the employee have guidelines that she/he can follow thus helping your company to function in an effective manner.
As for the man that wanted the signatures, yes you do get that. A lot of people want to abuse the system. That said if the responsible enitiy did a followup I am sure HR Solutions would have confirmed that the man was there but that he didn't came asking for a job or even handed in a CV. Then the abuser could have been blacklisted. Sadly most of the time they don't check up on the info on the forms.peace is a state of mind
Disclaimer: everything written by me can be considered as fictional.Comment
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The reality is that many people don't want to work, they simply want money. If they could stay at home, do nothing and get paid they would. Look at the British dole, many don't bother to find work, they simply accept the bit of money they get and do nothing more. It all goes back to how people value themselves, there are those who believe that they should receive a fair wage for a fair day's work and there are those who believe that the world owes them because their parents had the audacity to create them...Comment
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@Adrian. The UK dole system has changed somewhat as of late, but you can still live on it.
Part of the problem is that a "fair wage" is not the same from an employer or employee point of view.
I do agree, most people see work as a penance and I guess that comes from biblical avenues, the phrase "By the sweat of your brow, shall you earn your keep", doesn't do much for making people want to work. How nice it would be if we could all get up in the morning thinking of work as we do a holiday, with the same enthusiasm?Today Defines Tomorrow
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I do now. It took me 45 years to realize that I could choose to do what I like.How nice it would be if we could all get up in the morning thinking of work as we do a holiday, with the same enthusiasm?Comment
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It doesn't stop the undermining of all that effort back home, though.
"Nay - they're just telling you all that stuff so that you'll turn up to work and make them rich. Now listen, this is how you work the system....
It's your right! And there's fokal they can do about it."
I tell you, those little birdies chirping in the ear can turn a perfectly good employee into a nightmare.Participation is voluntary.
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