Unemployed Price

[TrueBlue]

What is funny about this? He has depression, so the fact he's getting some satisfaction out of it is good in my eyes.

:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious: its gone right over your head

 

[bucket&spade.f.c]

My son is doing this, 2 days a week for as long as they need him, filing, data input and analysis, shredding, mail shots etc. He's actually enjoying feeling worthwhile doing something.

More fool him!!! not going to gain much other then being the office b itch.

I would have to say no, I know some people who never work but get more in benefits than some people do who work a 40 hour week. Why should they then get in the ground for a reduced price?

If you want to fill up the empty seats give some tickets to the local kids teams or local schools.

That would be a result if the parents are both unemployed it be like free child care :hilarious:

 

[Beefy]

We used to do this at the end of the 90s in the East Black.

 

[Jam_Man]

We used to do this at the end of the 90s in the East Black.

Never took you for a racist Beefy.:smile:

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Completely agree with this one, great shout.

 

[Shrimperforlife]

I would have to say no, I know some people who never work but get more in benefits than some people do who work a 40 hour week. Why should they then get in the ground for a reduced price?

If you want to fill up the empty seats give some tickets to the local kids teams or local schools.

I still say that is what we need to do , get the kids early , and they may stay for life, if we dont , the Prem iershite clubs will happily poach them from under our noses...

I am tired of all of the Chelsea, Wet Sham flyers I get through the door , with special offers , telling the kids that its a ''support your local team''

 

[Norwichshrimper]

So it's better to sit at home and sink into black gloom and depression? No, I don't think so, and I think clubs should have a separate pricing structure for those unemployed (verified by one means or another). If it's a choice between going and hopefully enjoying a football match or slumped alone smoking roll ups then I know which does you more good!

Absoloutely and 100% not - it's a crazy idea and open to huge areas of abuse. Why should I have to pay more for my match ticket than person B just because I have a job and they don't. I don't pay more for my fruit and veg at Tesco than Mr or Mrs Unemployed, so why should I pay more to watch SUFC - it would be Grossly Unjust in my opinion...in fact my opinion is irrelevant, it would be grossly unjust fullstop! A person who is unemployed is already getting their ticket cheaper than me as the government are contributing to their weekly income which they are choosing to spend on a trip to the football.
Where does it end anyway?....If myself and Jam Man (excuse me using you as an example here JM) are both working full time, and I am earning £25k per year and he is earning £50k per year does he have to pay twice as much as me to get into Roots Hall?
Whilst I have every sympathy for those unemployed (or those actively seeking work) giving them reduced price tickets to football is wrong on a number of levels.

Would you do volunteer work if you were forced to do it ?

:dizzy:

How about an earn your ticket scheme for the unemployed ? You do 2 hours of volunteer work on behalf of SUFC in a community based scheme to earn your ticket.

Everyones a winner.

Now that i would agree with....pay for your ticket, but just not in the usual monetary way.

 

[Norwichshrimper]

Would you do volunteer work if you were forced to do it ?

:dizzy:

How about an earn your ticket scheme for the unemployed ? You do 2 hours of volunteer work on behalf of SUFC in a community based scheme to earn your ticket.

Everyones a winner.

Maybe our unemployed fans could be provided with government subsidised allotments and encouraged to grow onions to be served with the burgers....there would be a sliding scale where the number of onions provided (or perhaps the gross weight, I'm undecided at the moment) could be exchanged for a voucher to be used against the purchase of a match ticket. 1 onion gets you 50p off the ticket price, up to 50 onions for free entry, or even a season ticket if you commit to provide the club with at least 50 onions a week for the duration of the season.

 

[Swiss Tony]

So it's better to sit at home and sink into black gloom and depression? No, I don't think so, and I think clubs should have a separate pricing structure for those unemployed (verified by one means or another). If it's a choice between going and hopefully enjoying a football match or slumped alone smoking roll ups then I know which does you more good!

Depending whats in the roll up of course..........................................Old Holborn or Golden Virgin.:sad:

 

[Swiss Tony]

Would you do volunteer work if you were forced to do it ?

:dizzy:

How about an earn your ticket scheme for the unemployed ? You do 2 hours of volunteer work on behalf of SUFC in a community based scheme to earn your ticket.

Everyones a winner.

Ok i bagsy filling in all the pot holes in the car park,thats gotta be a season cards worth of work.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

What we should do is kids for a quid if accompanied by a full paying adult. (No more than 2 kids per adult)

We have 5,000 spare seats minimum, let's fill them!!

 

[McNasty]

Ok i bagsy filling in all the pot holes in the car park,thats gotta be a season cards worth of work.

Take you all season to do all the holes. :smile:

 

[DTS]

Why not kill two birds with one stone and apply to become a steward. That way you can still watch the games, the hours are not enough to effect your benfits and there is no outlay. You get a snazy old outfit to wear and you get to mix with the other stewards like the guy with pubes for hair, the two muscle head twin brothers that cant string a sentance together or the bloke whos trousers have had a fight with his shoes and wears white socks regardless of shoe or trouser colour?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Get a goddamn job Al.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

In any case, there's special offers during the season, such as the 2 tickets for £9.50, and latterly the North Bank for a fiver, as well as family days in the recent past.

If the club had offered nothing in the way of special offers to get punters in the past few years, I'd say it was a good idea, but they have, on a semi-regular basis.

 

[TrueBlue]

Absoloutely and 100% not - it's a crazy idea and open to huge areas of abuse. Why should I have to pay more for my match ticket than person B just because I have a job and they don't. I don't pay more for my fruit and veg at Tesco than Mr or Mrs Unemployed, so why should I pay more to watch SUFC - it would be Grossly Unjust in my opinion...in fact my opinion is irrelevant, it would be grossly unjust fullstop! A person who is unemployed is already getting their ticket cheaper than me as the government are contributing to their weekly income which they are choosing to spend on a trip to the football.
Where does it end anyway?....If myself and Jam Man (excuse me using you as an example here JM) are both working full time, and I am earning £25k per year and he is earning £50k per year does he have to pay twice as much as me to get into Roots Hall?
Whilst I have every sympathy for those unemployed (or those actively seeking work) giving them reduced price tickets to football is wrong on a number of levels.




Now that i would agree with....pay for your ticket, but just not in the usual monetary way.

What about somebody who is disabled? Why should they pay less?

 

[Cricko]

Absoloutely and 100% not - it's a crazy idea and open to huge areas of abuse. Why should I have to pay more for my match ticket than person B just because I have a job and they don't. I don't pay more for my fruit and veg at Tesco than Mr or Mrs Unemployed, so why should I pay more to watch SUFC - it would be Grossly Unjust in my opinion...in fact my opinion is irrelevant, it would be grossly unjust fullstop! A person who is unemployed is already getting their ticket cheaper than me as the government are contributing to their weekly income which they are choosing to spend on a trip to the football.
Where does it end anyway?....If myself and Jam Man (excuse me using you as an example here JM) are both working full time, and I am earning £25k per year and he is earning £50k per year does he have to pay twice as much as me to get into Roots Hall?
Whilst I have every sympathy for those unemployed (or those actively seeking work) giving them reduced price tickets to football is wrong on a number of levels.

Wow it's a good job your whole world just revolves around money then. I can quite see why this ****whole of a world is how it is now..

 

[Norwichshrimper]

What about somebody who is disabled? Why should they pay less?

Sorry? don't see the connection between being disabled and being unemployed? -why not ask whether kids should pay less??

Wow it's a good job your whole world just revolves around money then. I can quite see why this ****whole of a world is how it is now..

My world doesn't revolve round money...far from it, which is a bit of luck as I don't have much of it. You seem to have completely missed my point.

Unfortunately due to my limited income I can't afford to holiday in the Seychelles twice a year. Perhaps Hayes & Jarvis or Kuoni should offer it to me for the price of a weekends B&B in Clacton so I don't miss out.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Cricko's point is a good one though. The insinuation seems to be that hard-working supporters paying full whack would be subsidising work-shy layabouts. I would say that's rubbish, leaving aside the sweeping generalisations made about unemployed people, that the extra people it would attract would probably cover the loss of revenue from unemployed people that go already.

To say the idea, trying to reach out to a section of the public that may just appreciate a helping hand occasionally rather than the tired old stigmatising, it's grossly unjust is to over-react just a tad. A fiver discount for one match ticket doesn't really equate to upgrading Clacton for the Seychelles.

I just tend to think that the club do enough offers over the course of the season to accommodate this part of society.

 

[blue chip]

Don't have any issues with it if they are willing to do a couple of hours work either before or after the game even if it's to help clear the rubbish from the ground. Don't agree with the free meal ticket idea so to spk