Simon, Thats always assuming you can get a job at MacDonald's. I know somebody who would happily take one if he could get it. He must have applied for over sixty jobs since christmas.
He started out feeling reasonably confident that something would turn up but as time has gone by the panic has really set in. The stomach churning four oclock in the morning sort of panic.
Don't underestimate what people are prepared to do when everything is on the line. We are not talking about beer and f*gs dole scroungers now.
Real people with mortgages and families and the redundancy money running out fast.