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Jobless German spurns politician's work offers

An unemployed mason famously told to “get a haircut” by the head of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) has turned down a personal invitation to receive job offers, Reuters reported on Tuesday. SPD chairman Kurt Beck had told Henrico Frank he would help him find work if he got a haircut after Frank berated him in public about cutbacks in unemployment benefits.

Frank got a haircut, shaved his straggly beard and also removed two nose rings. But he turned down Beck’s personal invitation to meet him at his office in Mainz, where Beck had lined up eight job offers with local companies.

“I’m not a lazy bum,” Frank told reporters, whilst wearing a badge on his leather jacket reading “Work Sucks!”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .