Anyone been down the Job Centre?

vivatifosi

Hi Pastures,

Just a thought... Have you tried the local library service? It strikes me that you are very structured and like dealing with knowledge and information, that could be a good area to work in, it would also give you an 'in' to your County Council (if that's where you want to work) and build on dealing with the general public in a way that maybe you could use later at the CAB.

Austin_Allegro

robin_banks wrote: »

I did that job for 3 years and it is the most miserable, depressing job under the sun.

Tel call;

Me : New claims, can I help you ?

Caller : Where's my ****ing giro you ****ing **nt

Me : Have you got you National Insurance number ?

Caller : What the ***k are you on about you ****ing ***ck ?

Me : It's 2 letters, 6 numbers and a letter and is quoted on all letters we send to you.

7 hours a day, 5 days a week for 3 years......how my heart grew weary.

LOL, poor you - but isn't it standard practice to hang up once people start swearing? Shouldn't the pond life learn to ask nicely for their hand outs, or does that breach their 'human rights' in some way...?

I think my main problem is I've never wanted to do ANYTHING really. I've wanted to be retired ever since I started work!

ianian99

mvengemvenge wrote: »

Ah, yes, but I think some are in for a nasty shock. They need to move fast, because after 6 months they can't place restrictions on the wage/type of job.

Thing is, there simply aren't going to be enough well-paid jobs left to soak them up, as many won't have the relevant experience.

but there wont be ANY jobs by then so that wont matter.:rolleyes:

fsrandom

Those sort of people would sit at home using the job centre website as apposed to traveling to a local job centre. Don't mean to be cocky, just realistitc.

ianian99

fsrandom wrote: »

Those sort of people would sit at home using the job centre website as apposed to traveling to a local job centre. Don't mean to be cocky, just realistitc.

They cant sign on from there home though.

Lotus-eater

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

I think my main problem is I've never wanted to do ANYTHING really. I've wanted to be retired ever since I started work!

LOL, I'm not that far off that either

I wouldn't mind doing a part time job I enjoyed (what I do tbh ) but working really hard all your life then dying, hardly seems like a good life plan to me. Hats off to those of you that do it though.

robin_banks

If that was the case then half of the calls would have been terminated after 30 seconds, more ofteh than not as soon as you put the phone down it just rang again and so the swearing continued.

There was of course the usual targets, deadlines, customer focus drivel which meant you needed to keep them on the line in the (vain) hope that you'd get some meaningful information form them.

Also if you needed to ring them they were never in, they were job hunting I suppose.

I would imagine things haven't changed a great deal.

Zelie

gaslampshade wrote: »

reported. racism.

I'm aware that you are using an alternate profile to post that but seriously, how did that come to be racism? He's using grossly stereotyped imagery to mock the person who made rude comments about a large swathe of people. This is not racism (incidentally, there is no race called the Meccans). It's not even abuse of someone's religion. It's called hoisting someone by their own petard.

If you want to whine then whine at amcluesent for being rude about disabled people.

Oh and PS, amcluesent: I *got* that you weren't being rude about real disabled people!

neverdespairgirl

I'd be interested to know his "normal" ID, myself.

Pobby

We went to the job centre a few years back. Mrs. P had been unwell and had some years away from work. We were looking for advice on how to get her back into a job. They were hopeless. Kept going on about bennies even when we told them that we wouldn`t qualify. Didn`t stop them sending us a letter to confirm that fact. As for advice, forget it. Btw, it was chavvy in the extreme.