To be perfectly honest

All in all I ended up loving it, for making characters so flawed and real and make me like them.

I don't think it came across the lads were lazy in the job club, I think it boiled down to the fact. They'd been job searching for some time and probably got fed up in finding there was nothing going. Funny thing is, nothing changes twenty years on there still isn't a great deal of jobs going for Brits, if there is any its probably poor wages and poor hours and you'd probably be better off earning more money on the dole. All the good jobs have already gone and if there replaced, they'll only go for someone with qualifications in every subject. Also with foreign labour coming in, they work for really low shocking wages and employers rather go for them. No doubt some of these foreign workers are very good, but some barely speak English and sometimes you can't understand how they get job but a person who is English and speaks good English can't. Also foreign ownership only want foreign workers. Some people call English workers greedy, but rely on good wages in order to pay all these taxes that government keep banging on us. Sorry about that I've gone on a little rant.

On the characters you do feel sorry for them, they've got no job, no money and currently low in confidence and seriously depressed. Bugging up Gerald's interview was mean but they were getting revenge on the years when they were treated like s h i t by him. However in the end they did give him a big favour.