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Signed On Today - A Small Tale
November5th
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Unfortunately I was let go in Jan (with many others) so had to sign on today.
While I was waiting I checked the jobs terminals and found a job that was quite suspect - I am in a fairly specialized section of an industry, so if this role came up in London I would know about it almost instantly, so I investigated - the job had been scraped from a site, that was also a job scraping site that then led me to another job scraping site - that was now just a page that said 'under development' - all I can imagine is this job was posted up, genuinely, months ago, and is now living on as a zombie job - how many of these are there I wonder?
There was never enough detail to go further so I couldn't work out who the original employer might have been.
The difference with the group sign on this time is all they talked about was sanctions, the demands they were now allowed to make, and that we could be asked to attend on Saturdays. Of course we got told that we would have to sign up to Universal Jobsmatch and record our activity - so I pointed out that this was not essential until the Government had resolved the data protection issues, so she back tracked and said we would have to fill in our booklets.
They have removed the seating area from reception, you have to stand now.
While I was waiting I checked the jobs terminals and found a job that was quite suspect - I am in a fairly specialized section of an industry, so if this role came up in London I would know about it almost instantly, so I investigated - the job had been scraped from a site, that was also a job scraping site that then led me to another job scraping site - that was now just a page that said 'under development' - all I can imagine is this job was posted up, genuinely, months ago, and is now living on as a zombie job - how many of these are there I wonder?
There was never enough detail to go further so I couldn't work out who the original employer might have been.
The difference with the group sign on this time is all they talked about was sanctions, the demands they were now allowed to make, and that we could be asked to attend on Saturdays. Of course we got told that we would have to sign up to Universal Jobsmatch and record our activity - so I pointed out that this was not essential until the Government had resolved the data protection issues, so she back tracked and said we would have to fill in our booklets.
They have removed the seating area from reception, you have to stand now.
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Universal jobmatch ill soon be mandatory, no you do not have to allow DWP access to your account but you will have to register. You will have to do this via the PC in your local office or library if you refuse to accept the cookies at home.
The government pay monster to run the jobs site now so JCP cannot do anything about these vacancies.0 -
It's to get more people in, if you hadn't realised.November5th wrote: ».... They have removed the seating area from reception, you have to stand now.You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'0
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