Do unemployed disabled people still get called workshy slaves to the benefits?

SheffieldMan1976
SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,465 Connected
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I definitely do.

Anyone else? I wouldn't mind but it's not my fault I can't get a job due to limited availability.

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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,044 Online Community Team

    Sorry to hear people say such insulting things to you. Who is it that calls you workshy?

    There are definitely still people about who automatically assume that all people on benefits are work-shy or scrounging. It's a really damaging frame of mind. Many people don't realise what it's like to be on benefits until they or a loved one need to claim.

    I don't think parts of the media help much either. There's a lot of attention-grabbing headlines about benefits around and a lot of misinformation being spread online.

    It's a tough one!

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,568 Championing

    Nobody calls me that because I don't tell people my life story, as it's none of their business. I thought you said you had stopped telling folk what they don't need to know?

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,465 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1143488#Comment_1143488

    I did, but people still harp on about it.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,568 Championing

    I can't see why, unless we are talking about the same people? Cut them out of your life, unfriend them on social media, I cut off my own sibling for gibbering on about conspiracy rubbish.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,465 Connected
    edited August 9

    @Rosie_Scope It's also the fault of right wing newspapers, who have always painted people on benefits, particularly the disabled, in a very negative light.

    In 2015, I was declared unfit to work, despite spending most of the previous 20 years working voluntary for nigh on every registered Charity in Sheffield, I decided sod 'em and have been applying for jobs ever since but keep getting rejected due to not being able to work evenings or weekends which are pretty much legally required in shop work.

    And don't be giving me all that bourjois about reasonable adjustments, they don't exist IMHO.

    [edited by moderator]

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,503 Championing

    It’s been going on since the dole office has been open, you just have to grow another skin and ignore it and get with your life. Everyone that’s unfortunate enough to be out of work gets it I’m afraid.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,437 Championing

    You've just got to ignore it SheffieldMan1976, don't click on things where you know people will be saying negative things about benefit claimants or the disabled, and don't bring it up in conversation, it might be hard at first to resist the temptation to click on negative stuff, I've been there myself, but it should get easier over time (it has done for me, now I don't feel any temptation at all). Focus on more positive things instead.

    No matter who someone is, no matter how they live, there will always be some people out there who will hate on them for it, it's like this for all of us. You could be Superman saving lives and there'll still be some people out there against you for whatever stupid reason, it's just how some people are unfortunately.

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Community Member Posts: 1,687 Championing

    It's not just unemployed and disabled people who are misunderstood and criticised. Working people are criticised and misunderstood too. And parents. And children. And soldiers. And priests. And politicians. And gods. And writers. And artists. And musicians. And animals. And birds. And outer space......

    Misunderstanding and criticism are part and parcel of life itself. That's the real world. We're all part of that.

  • worried33
    worried33 Community Member Posts: 1,093 Championing

    As the others have said, turn your back on it, its not just benefits either, never bring it up as a discussion with people around you, keep quiet about your circumstances.

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