People are unclean nowadays!!!!!!!!!

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I have started a new job where I have to see and help people into work. I have been amazed by the amount of filthy, dirty people out there! These people are not disabled in any way and I get to know a lot about them and their circumstances. They smell of sweat, their hands and clothes are dirty (very dirty fingernails is common) and women's soles of the feet are literally brown! They are very unkempt and just don't seem to have any desire to be clean and fresh. Greasy hair is also common. Now I might get slated by some people but honestly, what has happened to people? I was taught to bathe twice a week making sure to wash everywhere, all the creases etc. Other days you have a good wash at the sink 2 or 3 times a day, washing under arms, face, genitals and feet! Do i say anything to them or could I be sued? How do you help people into work like this?

We have all met someone over the years, who didn’t want to work, turn up at the job centre fortnightly to sign on. A good week was no questions, get the pen and sign.

A bad week was to have to sit there and justify to someone who was “a poacher turned game keeper”, why they didn’t have a job.

Why would anybody want a job if they can feed their family from an allotment, the rent was paid by the dss, the council tax was paid by the dss, they didn’t smoke and rarely drank alcohol, their place was spotless, they could be there for their kids.

Occassionally, they would have to go to a course once a week, the only way to keep these sub contracted companies employees was to be totally disinterested, walk the twelve miles to the place, so you can keep the bus fare, and not wash the day before!

There is a thread on here at the moment where someone and her partner get £6,000 a month net and she is wondering if it’s enough - I’m not sure if that’s a fantasy thread or not - but are minimum wage jobs worth killing yourself for, when you are better off in some cases on the dole?

There's no fake excuses as you would know if you were ever actually in poverty. Or are you just saying that to make it look like these people are just lazy scroungers?

If that poster is for real, they're either very ignorant to how life in poverty can be for some people, or unable to understand not everyone is like them or OP has made an unconvincing sock.

Some people aren't taught to so no they can't because they don't realise its necessary.

No you don't. You just want to judge the poor smelly people. If you truly understood and wanted to teach them you wouldn't be on here calling them lazy wasters

We lived in poverty when I was growing up, but my Nan made me wash properly in a bucket of cold water every day. I've seen people washing in public toilet basins. We don't live in caves anymore.

Absolutely!

Where is the thread on where someone and her partner get £6,000 a month net and she is wondering if it’s enough?

@Sartre you do realise that many university age students struggle, mental health issues are rife, so it’s not just a case of can’t be arsed 🙄

OP. You’re in the wrong job. Some of the patients I visit have extremely poor hygiene and bad environments. All for different reasons. The trick is not to be a judgemental dick about it.

I know - I bet she does have a whiff about her. Would LOVE to know what her new colleagues think of her hygiene!

If you are so repelled by your stinky clients, OP, why don't you just go and get a nice hygienic office job instead, where you don't have to look at grimy feet all day?

That's not a sarky question, it's genuine. Not everyone is cut out to work with vulnerable people. I wouldn't want you on my front line team, for example, but you'd probably be ok in the nice admin offices away from the clients.

You can go on saying people need to wash as much as you like but that doesn’t change the fact that some people are unable to take care of personal hygiene. It’s not as uncommon as you think, otherwise OP wouldn’t have started this thread.

As for PP bringing up a thread about someone who gets £6,000 a month, or is that a week or is that a year? Wtf has that got to do with anything, if it is even true, which I doubt.

But that's the point that some PPs are making - the OP is supposed to be "helping" these people into work, but nowhere has she said that she has advised them that good personal hygiene is part of being work-ready. So, she isn't really helping them in the ways that truly matter.

Also assuming they have a home to actually wash in...

A lot of unemployed single people are lucky if they can afford a room in a HMO with a shared bathroom that may or may not be in a state to be used. I see a lot of 'pop up' tents dotted around the place with people living in them because they simply can't get a roof over their heads

But still, there's always lakes, or a puddle somewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh god, where to start with your comments op?!
I would argue that most people who are out of work and have been sent (I assume they don’t really want to be there) to you, most likely do have some mental health or underlying issues. They probably just haven’t felt that you are a caring, non-judgmental person who they would want to open up to.
How do you know they’re out boozing all weekend? Have they told you this? I was on the dole while between jobs and I can promise you, I barely made it through the month without going hungry.
If they are buying drugs, obviously they have problems!
When you feel like shit, often people do stop looking after themselves, just don’t see the point. I can imagine being sent to you to be looked down at, to be sent to some job they don’t want or aren’t well enough to do, will make them feel even more shit.

I find your washing regime very strange OP