Lost my JSA

Naykon

Hi everyone,

I've just been informed this morning that i've lost my JSA for "voluntarily" giving up my job.

I was working around 30 hours a week but was only on a 10 hour a week contract.

I'm a graduate desperately trying to relocate, I hated the job and small town in which i live.

My argument was that I could spend more time applying and hopefully get out sooner if I worked less hours (i.e more time dedicated to finding work elsewhere) but my employer could not meet these requirements (I regurlarly worked 25 -30 hours+.

The truth is though I felt the people i worked with were hostile and non welcoming towards me from the start, and a degree of bullying was present. But how could I have proved that? i kept no records and it's my word against theres.

Needless to say I went with the first argument hoping it would hold up.... but it didn't

How is it the government are so reluctant to give financial support to postgraduates but will quite happily give Wayne and Waynetta enough money to pay all their bills and go on holiday once a year? and pay for themselves to have 2nd homes and a new Duckhouse and all the other crap!

makes my blood boil...

I'm sure Winston Churchill would have something to say about it, if only he was alive today

-BA-

Naykon wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I've just been informed this morning that i've lost my JSA for "voluntarily" giving up my job.

I was working around 30 hours a week but was only on a 10 hour a week contract.

I'm a graduate desperately trying to relocate, I hated the job and small town in which i live.

My argument was that I could spend more time applying and hopefully get out sooner if I worked less hours (i.e more time dedicated to finding work elsewhere) but my employer could not meet these requirements (I regurlarly worked 25 -30 hours+.

The truth is though I felt the people i worked with were hostile and non welcoming towards me from the start, and a degree of bullying was present. But how could I have proved that? i kept no records and it's my word against theres.

Needless to say I went with the first argument hoping it would hold up.... but it didn't

How is it the government are so reluctant to give financial support to postgraduates but will quite happily give Wayne and Waynetta enough money to pay all their bills and go on holiday once a year?

If Wayne and Waynetta gave up their jobs, they too would lose eligibility for JSA for the same reason. Perhaps Wayne and Waynetta would have been a bit more savvy and telephoned the jobcentre before giving up work to see what they might be entitled too.

A steep learning curve, but a mistake I am sure you won't make again.

Paparika

I agree with BA, if Wayne and Waynetta walked out of their jobs they would get diddly squat.

Be grateful, i have to give up my job because of ill health, currently feeling like a prisoner in my own home due to it, i want to go back to work rather be sat here on half sick pay. (which is less than the benefits Wayne and waynetta are getting)

Sorry but a person of said knowledge you say you have would of checked before walking out of a job. life for everyone is very very tough atm

If your desperate for work see if the local McD's are hiring or is that beneath you

Ninja_Seb

25-30 hrs per week if far better than the usual 37.5-40 hrs per week most people work, when it comes to looking for another job..

You should have stood up for yourself and waited until you were pushed out if there was an element of bullying going on or just quit knowing full well you would not be entitled to JSA.

You live and learn I guess.

wishface

how is he supposed to learn with no income to feed himself?

What kind of lesson is that? We don't treat criminals like this !!!!!!.

onlyforboards_2

Why couldn't you have stuck to your contracted ten hours a week?

Paparika

wishface wrote: »

how is he supposed to learn with no income to feed himself?

What kind of lesson is that? We don't treat criminals like this !!!!!!.

He chose to leave work, he put himself into this possition, would you say the same if it was Wayne and Waynetta?

littlemisslettings

I too am a graduate. Its tough getting a decent job, esp in this current climate, but after the tax payer has subsidised your degree, why should the tax payer now pay for your to find a better job than the one you already have?

dan_essex

I have sympathy for the guy to a degree, because there is nothing worse than being stuck in a job you don’t like. We’ve all been there, and at any other time you probably could have got another job fairly quickly. However, the golden rule is never leave a job unless you have another one to go to. As a few have said, it is no doubt a lesson you have now learned and we all make mistakes.
As a graduate you will appeal to agencies for temping work, because you’ll be cheap and relatively good. In your position i would pursue temp work and then look for full time work whilst already employed.

Oldernotwiser

Most people have to look for new jobs while working full time; to say that you couldn't manage to work part time hours (25/30) whilst doing so is quite ridiculous.

I agree with everyone else; don't leave a job without another one to go to and find out what will happen before you jump. Lessons to be learned in the University of Life!

wishface

Paparika wrote: »

He chose to leave work, he put himself into this possition, would you say the same if it was Wayne and Waynetta?

Isn't it nice to judge people's actions without their experience from afar. Isn't it easy to tell people what they should have done.

What a sad judgemental message board this is.

So this guy deserves to be treated worse than a criminal then? He should starve to death in the gutter then?

!!!!!! there's worse crimes than quitting a job. Is the economy so important that people should make themselves miserable and unhappy in menial jobs then?

What's any of this got to do with daily mail stereotypes of the unemployed or the working class?

Pathetic.