Everyone knows that jobs are getting scarce – well you'd of thought so wouldn't you? It seems some people don't actually want to get a job, regardless of their claims to the contrary.

I have a view of the reception area from my office and can hear the conversations. I see all who come in the door of the factory, including many people enquiring about job vacancies – I'm looking at some of ‘job-seekers' as I write this. The ones I'm looking at right now are sadly typical of most of the applicants: One is wearing gumboots, one has no shoes on and one is listening to an ipod type thing which makes her head bob up and down as if she's watching vertical ping-pong - ALL ARE CHEWING GUM! The spokeswoman of this group goes to the counter and in barely audible tones grunts, 'ewes gud iny jobs”? The dutiful receptionist then issues these idiots' application forms, two are sitting in the chairs provided and proceed to fill the applications out. The third (the shoeless one) is knelling on the floor in a Muslim prayer position and is filling hers out on the lino. All I can think of when seeing this sort of thing is: my old man kicking my arse all the way home if he found out I went to look for a job looking like a tramp peering out a hayloft. Jobless? – No wonder!