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i was at the jobcenter today and was talking to some guy whoes
on JSA and he was tellling me he don't get anyhelp at all looking for
jobs the staff they just ask him to sign on his signing on date then he can go for two week and he told me the majic question they always ask is
Hows the job search going
on JSA and he was tellling me he don't get anyhelp at all looking for
jobs the staff they just ask him to sign on his signing on date then he can go for two week and he told me the majic question they always ask is
Hows the job search going
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Very true, my job centre are about as helpful as shit on sticks. I just google it now.
It's not hard to press the buttons on those gay purple machines though. Seek and ye shall find (a crappy data entry job for £4/hour).
They're pretty useless. But then, I wouldn't rely on the 'job centre' to get me a job lol I'll do that myself hehe.
Ilora x
on jsa (if i back date my claim i might be able to go back to new deal)
or doing another apprenticship mayby in retail at least you get some
custormer service experience although motor viecle sounds good as will
If they helped you get a job then they'd be one step closer to losing theirs!!
Maybe the answer is to put them on commission - i.e. more people they get in employment for at least 6 months the more they get!!
into all these shops and supermarkets and asking for vacancies or doing
it by phone. i wonder how much money full time person
gets in a supermarket just for stacking shelvs.
If you're genuinely out of work, you're free to go in in office hours.
The staff would be better if they were paid a decent wage (a significant proportion of benefit staff are on benefits themselves), and Brown didn't sack 12,000 of them to prove that he is "big on cutting waste" (whilst leaving the real wasters sitting at their desks fucking everything up).
I totally agree. The salary paid to the Jobcentre Plus staff is just about the lowest out of the civil service. I work for another department and when the National Minimum Wage was introduced we had to be given a payrise in order to be compliant with the new legislation.
The jobcentre staff can be quite scary though, I was briefly unemployed years and years ago. I went down to the jobcentre to start my jsa claim and asked what available jobs there were. The adviser said there were jobs at the local chicken factory, I pulled a bit of a face and said I would really prefer an admin type job. I then got the beggars can't be choosers lecture, and told that they wouldn't give me JSA if I was turning down work! Fairy nuff, I see their point but I hadn't actually started my jsa claim at that point. I slunk off and came back a couple of days later and signed on when a different adviser was at the desk!!
'how old are you?'
'17'
'sorry we cant help you, and dont think you can have benefits either'
i walked out of there so embarrased like id been slapped in the face, not that id wanted benefits but that they wouldnt help me at all, luckily i found another job within 2 weeks
Rachie: have a look.
Must admit that when I turned 18 and claimed the dole for a little bit they just used to ask if I have applied for any jobs and then show you a list of the jobs you might be interested in your selected area.
New Deal are a bit better altough they more or less force you to take a job.
Never found them that helpfull apart from one bloke who was really kind and treated you as if your wasn't just someone else on the dole..
Which is how it should be.
did they ask you to go for
I'm not defending anyone, but are you supposed to only look at old threads, not comment on them?
Otherwise, you end up with a clique of older posters with new ones frozen out.
And to think when I was a punk in 1977 I thought I'd never live to 21.