no toilets at job centre

twentypenceoff

there were toilets at the jobcentre i used to use, the same ones for the staf and the public, you had to ask the security guard because there is a code on the door to open it and the guard has to take you outside and wait for you.

adouglasmhor

hullight wrote: »

Toilets in Job Centres might mean less drug needles for us to clean up in our toilets at McDonalds.

The McDs I worked in in Glasgow had blue lights in the toilets so they junkies couldn't shoot up, gave everyone else a sore head though if you were in a while, like cleaning up etc.

sharski

I think a railway station, McDonalds, etc are ever so slightly different to the JC!!!

I don't think anyone is implying that all job seekers are low life... but a large proportion of people in the JC (especially large JC in cities) are not the most respectful of people, property.... etc.

If someone doesn't like a decision or they feel aggreived with any issue, who's to stop someone trashing the toilets, or perhaps leaving behind a prezzie!! JCs don't having cleaning staff until the end of the day... and would you lke to use facilities that have been left that way???

Who's gonna keep a check on the loos??? JC staff??? Sorry, but you'd be the first to moan that you are having to wait to be seen because the staff are too busy cleaning $h1t up!!!!

In the JC where I am based, signers must go up a flight of stairs to enter the building - I am not lying when I say that it is not unknown for someone to drop their trollies and leave a poo at the top of the stairs... charming!

chnelomi

Some of the Job centers have rules that you can only use the loo's if you are in using the JC which i agree with in a way, but i was their with the OH and have medical issues that mean basically if i need to go i need to go 5min earlier lol. But when i asked to get the key when OH was waiting on his appointment which was running late they told me i couldn't use the loo because i was not the one attending the JC.

I ended up having to run to a local shop to use their toilet (had to buy a sandwich as it was customer only). When i returned to the JC to find my partner he had finally been taken for his appointment and i was asked to leave as you are not allowed to wait on ppl inside. :mad:

dacouch

The ex Employment minister Tom Mcnulty might have to use the JCP now and realise how poor it is for their "Customers"

Horace

At my local jobcentre people are often seen waiting outside - usually they are there having a fag, petting their vicious dogs, or if it is before 9am (some have to be seen at 9am) then they are waiting for the doors to be unlocked which the security guards tend to do at 9.05am:rolleyes:

dmg24

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

My local Jobcentre has loos but they're in a newish, purpose built building. In many older ones I'd think that the cost of installing them (including with disabled access) and policing them would make it prohibitive.

But surely the govt has an endless pot of money to sort out these things! Maybe they could have attendants too, and a cloakroom?

SomeBozo

More bashing of the system again?

The government provides people who qualify a modest income, the roof over your heads, money to support your children, exemption from some taxs.

They also provide Job centrs where they can help you to find work and post jobs for you to check out.

But don't let that worry you!

I mean, if there are no toilets then its all crap and more feeble excuses.

Its great ain't it!

Bozo

Pssst

ArsenalFC wrote: »

I hope you are not suggesting the million or so who lost their jobs in the recession and had to sign on are underclass.

No the genuine unemployed are a distinct group from the underclass though they may all pitch up at the job centre but for different purposes-the unemployed to seek work and the underclass to avoid it.

onlyforboards_2

SomeBozo wrote: »

They also provide Job centrs where they can help you to find work and post jobs for you to check out.

But don't let that worry you!

I mean, if there are no toilets then its all crap and more feeble excuses.

Its great ain't it!

Bozo

You will find it is serious job hunters who are most disadvantaged. The longer you spend in the job centre job hunting the more of an inconvenience it is particularly when most towns have removed their public toilets.

Lots of local libraries are the same too, no toilets!