Way out of job interview through the jobcentre?

SDavies

why waste the interviewers time

morganedge

Hammyman wrote: »

You're damned right your only option was to say yes and no, you can't get out of it. Obviously you've been scrounging and not trying to find a job to the point where the jobcentre found an interview for you. They don't do that to many people.

I think the reason they contacted me is because im one of the only people who stupidly gave them my landline number! lol. Most people dont.

As for 'not being able to get out of it' that's not necessarily true (I know people on JSA who have lied their way out of doing courses, job interviews, trials etc etc and are still getting benefits so its obviously possible if you know how the system works and the 'right' excuses to say), although I AM going to go to the interview despite not wanting the job.

morganedge

SDavies wrote: »

why waste the interviewers time

I dont want to waste their time, but if i dont go to the interview, there's a risk to my benefits being stopped. I'll just go and try to get it over with as quickly as possible.

tsimehC

morganedge wrote: »

I dont want to waste their time, but if i dont go to the interview, there's a risk to my benefits being stopped. I'll just go and try to get it over with as quickly as possible.

Yeah just do this but don't be so blatant about it.

Harry_Flashman

You're damned lucky. I wish the Job Centre had given me some help when I needed it. I hated being on the dole (aside from the lack of money, there was also the lack of pride in earning my own wedge).

You're a disgrace. get off your !!!! and get some work - stop sponging off those who actually work for a living!

turts2008

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

You're damned lucky. I wish the Job Centre had given me some help when I needed it. I hated being on the dole (aside from the lack of money, there was also the lack of pride in earning my own wedge).

You're a disgrace. get off your !!!! and get some work - stop sponging off those who actually work for a living!

Totally agree with this. I think the OP speaks on behalf of 95% of unemployed people in this country, especially once they have been out of work for a prolonged period of time. If they sorted you an interview, yes minimum wage.

But thats like at least £25 more per day than JSA...ATleast £125 more per week....and atleast £500 extra per month. Surely that money is better than living on the JSA?! Why not go in a shirt and tie, impress them, they offer you a job....but that doesnt mean your job searching ends there, you should keep looking while working until you find something more substantial and right for you.

cassieB57

If you act in such a manner that you are not offered the job because of it, the jobcentre will know and could still sanction your benefits; all such interviews are checked and the outcome recorded, so be aware. Also, if you cannot be contacted or do not answer your phone, it is not unknown for the jc to decide you are 'not available' for work and bang! Another sanction.

morganedge

Cheers.
Although its not as though im gonna bring my dog to the interview or challenge the interviewer to an arm wrestle or anything in order to look bad! Like the other guy said 'dont make it too obvious'.
There's no way they could stop my payments because I wasn't offered the job because I didn't make much of an impression on the guy. That's just how it goes sometimes. Not everyone is good at interviews.

You could be right about the phone thing and not being able to be contacted, but id be surprised. You show you're available for work when you sign on and show emails to and from potential employers etc. I cant imagine them saying at a 'sign in', 'it says on my computer that you didn't answer your phone on Thursday. Im sorry but we gotta stop your benefits'.

stingeylass

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

You're a disgrace. get off your !!!! and get some work - stop sponging off those who actually work for a living!

The judgemental attitudes of some people on this forum never cease to amaze me. The Op asked for advice about their situation, how is insulting them going to help?
We don't know why they don't want this job, how long they have been unemployed, how many jobs they have applied for etc, so I really don't think it's at all fair to call them a discraceful sponger for not wanting to be strongarmed in to a job they do not want to do.

Op, it does look as if you will have to go to the interview, but try and think about it in a more positive way; once you get their and see the place you would be working it might not look so bad, and if you still feel that you realoy wouldn't want to do the job, then your lack of enthusiasm will probably show through preventing you from getting the job anyway!
If nothing else, it will at least be a good interview practice.

Harry_Flashman

We do know why he doesn't want the job. He doesn't think it pays enough for him to bothered to travel to it.

He'd rather sit it out and live off the tax payer.