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Turning down a job?
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I'm after some work atm, and have just been offered a low-paying but full time job, that's fairly convenient to where I live. The problem is it's with one of these dodgy credit card protection companies where you sell identity fraud protection and stuff over the phone and I've been warned off them already by someone else as being utterly soul destroying!
I had a bad feeling about it anyway and have an induction day tomorrow, but thinking of just phoning up and cancelling. But it would be £240 a week before stoppages and I'm not sure whether turning down a horrible job is worth it to lose that kind of potential money.
I had a bad feeling about it anyway and have an induction day tomorrow, but thinking of just phoning up and cancelling. But it would be £240 a week before stoppages and I'm not sure whether turning down a horrible job is worth it to lose that kind of potential money.
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Yeah, if you need the money I think if I were you I'd take it and keep applying for lots of other things. Sometimes anything is better than nothing just to have some money coming in.
As a registered student I'm not eligible for any kind of state welfare at all which really doesn't help. Obviously with the student loan I had previously been receiving I've probably had my fair share anyway... but now its stopped I have to fend for myself, pay rent, etc. etc. for 5/6 months with no support. I was joking with my gf earlier that in the current state of play, I am better able to support myself turning to a life of crime than getting a job - that cant be right for a bright switched on nearly-graduate!
Should have taken the shit soul destroying job I guess .
Anyway, just needed to vent, sigh! Anyone have any more pointers other than keep trying? If anyone wants to see my CV PM me. Though I've been told in the past it's upto a good standard (as basically there is only so much you can do before you are in a 'career' as such).
You need to keep yourself in a 'normal' routine, even if you've not got much to do.
I realise this is stating the obvious, but I take it you've tried the job centre?
And are looking for permanent as well as temporary positions?
And are tailoring your CV to each place you're applying to?
A lot of the jobs I'm applying for are similar, but I'm not tailoring my CV to every single job I apply for. I don't have tonnes of experience in loads of different fields anyway, so I've just got everything on there really - education, previous work experience (admin generally), volunteering + references.
Applying for every single vacancy I meet the criteria for. The ones that put me off slightly are the ones with their own online application process that you need to jump through hoops for - I did that with british gas (took about 1h30 including the competence tests) and got through to telephone interview stage where they said I lacked experience but if I got telephone experience apply again in 6 months .
I understand the need to keep myself in a normal routine and have been doing so, but today I'm just out of energy and fed up now its the same old every day, apply apply apply reject reject reject. My bank balance has just dipped into my overdraft for the first time in 12 months.
It wasn't even the call centre directly that offered it to me, it was an agency (Manpower, the worst in my experience!!). I will pop by at some point and see if they have any more vacancies.
Only downside it being 20h a week + overtime rather than 37.5h weeks, but beggars cant be choosers!!
Good luck for that ShyBoy
I was looking over the active conversations and saw 'turning down a job' and 'big gay' underneath, and automatically read 'turning down a big gay job'. just thought i'd let you know, it gave me my first laugh today :P
- I'm not allowed to take sick days
- Made a comment about me having a girlfriend or kids and whether other commitments would cause a problem
- compulsory no-notice overtime (though this is something id probably be happy to go along with, imagine leaving work to go somewhere and being told you're staying for another 6 hours)
- no official employment thing
it's pretty dodgy all in all, looks to be cash in hand for a small little off-the-radar sales operation and if I had the choice I would run a mile. But money is getting pretty tight
Lack of jobs = employers able to take the piss.
People would find it a nuisance, but if its to sell something, its not as if they are genuinely harassing them in a way a stalker would.
Is this even legal?
If you take that on after agreeing to all that stuff be prepared for them to walk all over you, then stuff off one day without paying you.
I'd avoid it like the plague. There might not be that many jobs but there's still legitimate businesses hiring.
Yea, well I've applied for another job in the local area that's full time and would be perfect - but haven't heard a peep back yet.
No call, and the sign advertising the job has been taken down, guess I did not get it >.<
I'll keep looking though, I just want this part time one to tide me over until I find something better.
Sorry to hear the job hunt is difficult - it's a really tough time for graduates at the moment and there's loads of competition for jobs so the fact you're finding it hard to find something is absolutely no reflection on you! How is it going - have you got any more leads?
In the meantime you could consider contacting the CAB if you have any questions about whether a company's policies are legit or not.
This Q&A from the site.org has some facts about sick pay - you are entitled to statutory sick pay after three days of illness.
Here's an article about scam/fraud jobs - a growing problem with so many people looking for work.
cheers - good luck and let us know how you're getting on...
So that ticked me off, along with him being pretty patronising about some aspects (its taken me a few hours to get used to where all the stuff is when picking for orders, so the guys can walk to the shelf and grab, I take about 30s-1m per item trying to find it if that makes sense), but I can deal with that. I was a bit miffed today as I'd already arranged to hang out with my girlfriend who is now busy so can't see her today , but he said he wanted me to stay so he could train me up (which apparently I'm not getting paid for as before).
So I'm weighing up just whether to keep trying to find jobs, or whether to quit this now and hope something better comes up.
Emily - not actually a graduate, though trying to explain my circumstances to the boss after the 10th time got difficult (hes not a native English speaker which makes it even more difficult) so when he said again 'so you've finished uni eh? what you wanna do?' i said 'yea, dont really know - anything to tide me over'.
I'm worried if I just say 'I quit' now he wont even pay me for the last two days.
Also regarding the sick pay, it's not the getting paid that's an issue - its the fact he said it 'wasnt allowed' - insinuating to my belief that if I did take sick days I'd get the sack.