1 Oct
2003
1 Oct
'03
6:31 p.m.
How cynical. I used to work for a company here (the UK) that did IT
training for places like the Manchester Housing Authority (or whatever it's
called...) and I asked this guy, why did you build all those horrible tower
blocks (anyone who hasn't seen it, it looks like they hired a Soviet
apartment architect.
He said, "the more people we got in the least space... the more funding we
got."
Take Care,
Mark (expat American in Oswaldtwistle)
At 00:06 02/10/2003 +0100, Tony wrote:
The reason _I_ say that is that in the UK,
'unemployed' is used to mean
'unemployed and claiming benefit'. The government fiddle the unemployment
figures by preventing people from claiming benefits for more than 6
months or so. Thus they can claim few people are unemployed, even if a
rather larger number don't actually have jobs.
In any case, I am not unemployed. I do plenty of jobs (fixing old
computers, old cameras, building hackish toys, etc). Pity I don't get
paid for doing them, but...
-tony
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