Weekly sign-on at Job Centre

janninew

98jdougl wrote: »

I've been claiming for over 6 months (finally got a job today!) and never asked to attend weekly at all!

Congrats on the new job!!! :j

98jdougl

janninew wrote: »

Congrats on the new job!!! :j

Thanks, am over the moon!!! Was going insane

duncans-mum_2

I have been signing on for 4 months now, and have never had a problem with the staff at my Job Centre. I always find if you go in , smile and be pleasant, chances are that is how they will respond to you. At the end of the day, they are just human, and are just doing a job with rigid guidelines. I think if you have a negative attitude to start with you are just annoying yourself.

When I had my 13 week interview, on chatting to the lady about what interviews I had attended and how I felt things were going, she deferred my weekly signings for a month as she felt I was doing ok and didn't need any extra assistance, and I was doing all I could.

I have never minded going in to sign on over this period.Its not like I have not had time on my hands. It has got me out of the house, talking to people, and it made me realise the other people there were the same as me, people that have worked all their lives and have found themselves in an awful situation.

Luckily I can sign on this Thursday and advise them that I have a job offer of which I will be starting on 17th.

BTW. Congrats 98jdougl on your new job.

CCFC_80

I think that the job centre staff making you sign weekly after your 13 week interview is just taking the p**s !
I would also regard it as a bit of an insult beacause it is coming across that you are not making enough of an effort to find a job fortnightly so they'll make you sign weekly.
Powers that be in the job centre -"Just get real ! there are not enough jobs out there at the moment "and how is signing on weekly going to help people improve their chances of getting a job ?

sharski

For the 1 millionth time......................

It is NOT the JC staff who 'make you' sign on every week, it's the rules!!!
Like 'em or lump 'em....!

Don't like the rules.. complain to your MP....!

ahai1

It is not that they are not trained to do the job it is that they are not up to it. I was told by someone I know who worked at the jobcentre that some of the staff had been there for ages but they were not up to the job.

busy_mom wrote: »

There are a lot of new staff in jobcentre who have been through training but can't be expected to know everything.
Basically when you sign you are signing to say for the last 2 weeks I have been available for work and actively seeking work.
There is no problem with attending the wedding as you can still be treated as available and actively seeking for times but like this but only so many times.
If you are actually going away to the wedding she completes a holiday form then attends the next available day, if it just a local wedding but means you cannot attend at all that day again you just attend next available day and use one of your treated as available periods.

DCFC79

sharski wrote: »

For the 1 millionth time......................

It is NOT the JC staff who 'make you' sign on every week, it's the rules!!!
Like 'em or lump 'em....!

Don't like the rules.. complain to your MP....!

well said :T

sexandthecity

I was made redundant earlier year and have been on JSA since then. I have been treated like dirt in my local JC even though I am nothing except polite, enthusiastic and pleasant to every person I come into contact with in the JC, I just dont get it really. I have worked in customer facing positions and dealt with real a holes all day long, got sworn at called names but I just let it go over my head and I knew that not everyone was like that.

When I went in for my 1st signing on I was in a queue to hand in my pack.

A sweet oldish well dressed chap in front of me asks the person on reception if he can have the form to sign on as he has just been made redundant.

JC person says no you can phone up or do it over the internet or take it away.

Old guy says ok is it ok if I have a form and complete it and hand it in

JC person says no you will have to go away

Old guy says but its taken me nearly half an hour to walk here please can I not just complete it here and leave it with you

JC person says - No you will have to go away, do you not have a home ?

At this point I got called in so dont know what happened but is this really any way to treat anyone, this guy was a normal decent, non abusive person and this is how he was treated.

sexandthecity

andy46 wrote: »

I think that the job centre staff making you sign weekly after your 13 week interview is just taking the p**s !
I would also regard it as a bit of an insult beacause it is coming across that you are not making enough of an effort to find a job fortnightly so they'll make you sign weekly.
Powers that be in the job centre -"Just get real ! there are not enough jobs out there at the moment "and how is signing on weekly going to help people improve their chances of getting a job ?

I had my 13 week interview today and was not told to sign on weekly

Not sure why, just grateful. Dont think I could face the humiliation and patronising weekly instead of fortnightly, I dread going in, I really do

CCFC_80

Yes, I think that some job centres are making you still sign on fortnightly after your 13 week interview as they just do not have the resources to make you sign on weekly. Again if anyone can come up with a logic as to why making people sign on weekly is going to give us unemployed a better chance of finding work, perhaps they can respond.