Way out of job interview through the jobcentre?

dmg24

X_Sentinel wrote: »

I get what you mean about having to travel for ages, people who drive dont have to get the bus so it never quite as bad. And they shouldn't make you take anything, you have the chance to sit with them and go through the different jobs they have, I was given my 6 month last week and I said I would rather have a job that was closer and they said that was fine and that they would help me to get that. Don't listen to the bitter ones on this website, if they hate their jobs so much they should quit

What a surprise, angel89 gets banned again and then you appear! :rotfl:

scooby088

I think everyone needs to get things into proportion about the OP trying to get out of getting a job which is only an hour away. I used to think like that and before the NMW came into force i also had a level of £5.00 per hour before i accepted a job.

As with age and experience i have learned that you can't pick or choose when it comes to getting a job or the distance. But i did stick to my guns with regards to the hourly rate and it was 2 years before i go a job at £5.00 per hour, but like i have said loads of times before on various threads the NMW whilst bringing people upto a better wage, it has also bought higher hourly rate jobs to that level too.

X_Sentinel

dmg24 wrote: »

What a surprise, angel89 gets banned again and then you appear! :rotfl:

I don't understand but okay.

And in regards to hourly rate Vs. distance, like you wanted £5.00 an hour, I'd much rather have less money and closer distance. To me work is just a ay of obtaining a living, the less time it cuts into my home life the better.

I enjoy being at home, and doing what I love most (writing/producing music) but it's unrealistic to think I could live off my music as it just doesn't happen, so I want a job which gives me as much time as possible to work on my music, towards that day I hopefully breakthought, and also time to look after my house, see my friends etc.

I'm not a very business orientated person, I don't enjoy working for a corporation, but if needs be or an opportunity arises I will do it for my basic needs. Although like I said, the less time spent at a job I don't really care for the better.

starjumper

When I left Uni it took me 3 months to find paid work but didn't sign on or claim any benefits, in fact I set myself up with some work experience which I thought would look better than sitting on my bum all day and I communted on the bus 2.5 hours each way, so 5 hours on the bus plus 8 hours working made for a long day. It was worth it and I got so much respect from the company I was "working" for for being so dedicated.

regprentice

The OP thought he had a problem ! when i went to sign on fifteen years ago i was asked to apply for a 'suitable job' filing at the Job centre. No way out of that one and i got the xxx job as well !

I have two observations to make having worked there (for 4 months only til i found another job)

Firstly, it was soul destroying trying to force low paid jobs onto architects/teachers/nurses etc who clearly should be working in their respective fields, but times were tough and if you didnt accept one of 3 offers of work you got your benefits cut. (even though i was an 18yo filing clerk i had to cover signing on at breaks)

Secondly, the minimum wage has had both a positive and negative effect. It is obviously good that there is a minimum wage, in my second job at the time my wages went up 33% when the nmw was introduced. but there is a much larger selection of jobs at that level now (NMW), and a real dearth of jobs paying more. Many jobs which would have been seen as requiring skill and carrying some degree of respect 10 years ago (hairdresser/gardner/florist/nursery nurse etc) now sit there alongside filing jobs and mcjobs. if you can reconcile yourself with earning the minimum wage there are a lot of interesting jobs you could do, but there seems to be a real chasm between the nmw jobs and anything much better.

Its not often i see jobs in the paper paying over 20K unless they are 'max possible ote 40K' style adverts selling phones or some rubbish.

popadom

devilivus wrote: »

Surely you'd be much much worse off now after getting a job??
Before you had your rent paid for you and benefit money.

Now you pay your own rent, no benefit money, and only work 25 hours per week? How are you 'just about even'?
Curious.
Cheers

I lodge, so i dont pay electrical/water ect(rent only £45p/w) i just buy food and anything else i need

When i applied for council housing i did say it was £40 and was going to pay £5 towards water ect, but housing gave me £45 as it was the going rate, even though i said 40 and they say"money wont be used for bills"

edit: i cant get any help eg tax credits, but id still rather work . the problem is that i work 25 hours and dnt have kids (i do sometimes feel punished that unlike some of my friends who have got pregant young and get a council house, im penilised for not doing so) i dont get tax creidts . But i would like work better

Sammyantha

morganedge wrote: »

Certainly not my intentions!
In fact, i've not responded to lots of the abuse, lol. I simply ignored it. I also haven't posted in this thread at all for the last few pages. Hardly feeding the flames, am I? I asked a question. The genuine advice was that I, unfortunately, had to attend the interview. That's it. Done. It wasn't me who took the topic through a side street.

Some people just dont share the same opinions as me. That's fine. Others who have 'thanked me' seem to agree. But the sanctimonious platitudes being spewed are comical.

I see your point of view (as evidenced by my posts in this thread), but I can also see that they way you have worded the post might evoke a rise out of some people, particularly those with a chip on their shoulder or a bee in their bonnet *rolls eyes*. As a newbie poster it's easy to get jumped on by these people, because you don't yet know the ropes.

So how did the interview go?

morganedge

Sammyantha wrote: »

So how did the interview go?

It went awefully! (I wrote about it in this thread somewhere)

PARIS_5000

morganedge wrote: »

It went awefully! (I wrote about it in this thread somewhere)

Did they phone you and tell you yet that you have not got it ?

morganedge

not yet.
I was absolutely aweful. All of my previous jobs have never really required such a formal interview. I've had jobs through agencies where no interview at all was required. The only actual job interviews i've had before were very relaxed where they looked at my CV for a few minutes, told me about the job and that was it! I was totally unprepared. They were asking me all kinds of questions encouraging me to really 'sell myself'. It was cringewrorthy. I literally had nothing to say. It was so uncomfortable and awkward. Long silences. I can laugh about it now but for them 20 minutes it was brutal.

As bad as I was, the lady mentioned that 2 other candidates from the jobcentre hadn't bothered to turn up or even let them know that they weren't coming which actually made me look good! lol. I think they'll tell me next week.
Despite the negative feedback I've had on this thread, most people i've spoken too in the real world are on my side. Im not gonna take the job whatever happens. There is a risk of them stopping my benefits if I turn it down, but having spoken to other people who have been in this situation and done the same, it is terribly unlikely. Especially considering that my jobseekers agreement states an overall travelling time of 1 hour and this job would take me over 1hr and a half just to get there!

In fact, I read today that that fact alone guarantees that I will be fine and within my rights to turn the job down. We'll see