Way out of job interview through the jobcentre?

nearlyrich

Maybe you should just ring the jobcentre and tell them that you are not available for work and they should stop paying you benefits and cut out the middleman. That way I would feel so much better about my long amd hard working week so far and the amount of tax I pay to support lazy people who can't even be bothered to go for an interview offered on a plate. Bring on the coalition plans to stop people who don't want to work from getting benefts I say...

scooby088

I wish that i had this sort of help getting interviews but then again giving your phone number doesn't make them phone you on the off chance. i have been long term unemployed i know how you get after a while, you learn to live off the money you get once a fortnight and begin to accept it. What is needed is someone to give you a morale boost or confidence and being long term unemployed that gets knock out of you with every rejection letter.

Jinx

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!

It is not the OPs fault the job centre did not help you. And those who 'sponge' in your words, quite often will have paid into the system for years, that same system that paid YOU JSA. Would you have liked to have been told to get off your !!!??

I've just spent 6 weeks on JSA, started my new job on Monday and I've paid tax and NI for 20 years with nothing in return and the OP may be the same, so I think it is very easy to point fingers without knowing the facts. I wouldnt do a job that took me 2 hours a day commuting for minimum wage.....Everyone is allowed some time on JSA to find a job at their 'normal' salary.

Harry_Flashman

Jinx wrote: »

It is not the OPs fault the job centre did not help you. And those who 'sponge' in your words, quite often will have paid into the system for years, that same system that paid YOU JSA. Would you have liked to have been told to get off your !!!??

I've just spent 6 weeks on JSA, started my new job on Monday and I've paid tax and NI for 20 years with nothing in return and the OP may be the same, so I think it is very easy to point fingers without knowing the facts. I wouldnt do a job that took me 2 hours a day commuting for minimum wage.....Everyone is allowed some time on JSA to find a job at their 'normal' salary.

I never blamed the OP for that, I simply stated that he was lucky to have such a pro-active Job Centre and is much better off than some for that. I told myself to get off my !!!! and went and found a job - not paying as much as I had been getting - but a job.

I think that, if the Job centre is pushing him to get to interviews, the 'grace' period has passed.

morganedge

The Jeans are on and im about to leave for the long long bus journey there and back.
Even if I can make the interview last only a few minutes I'll be gone a good few hours.
I actually think I look too smart in my jeans still! I saw one lady from the jobcentre go bear footed to an interview once! True story, i even tried to take a quick snap on my phone because it tickled me so much.
Terribly nervous. Haven't even ate anything.
I'll update when i get back.

PARIS_5000

morganedge wrote: »

The Jeans are on and im about to leave for the long long bus journey there and back.
Even if I can make the interview last only a few minutes I'll be gone a good few hours.
I actually think I look too smart in my jeans still! I saw one lady from the jobcentre go bear footed to an interview once! True story, i even tried to take a quick snap on my phone because it tickled me so much.
Terribly nervous. Haven't even ate anything.
I'll update when i get back.

Good luck just use it as interview experience.

C_Mababejive

Is this what they do now..?? Whoopeeee....

nickyhutch

An hour on a bus? Is that not better than an hour sat on your !!!! watching Jeremy Kyle and Cash in the Attic? For God's sake get out and get a job. LOTS of people have to travel an hour, and more, to get to work and home. I would kill for an hour on my own, relaxing, on a bus with a book. Instead I have to drive to and from work in dreadful traffic because I have to use a car for my job.

Stop whining.

EllaKeat

To be honest, just lost all interest and sympathy for this one. Going to an interview, determined to muck it up? Get a grip....it might not be your dream job, it might not be two streets away and pay a fortune, but it is a step on the ladder to better things.
I am usually the voice of moderation and encouragement, but really lost it with this one now:mad:

amandada

OP please don't feel the need to get a job. I work weird and not very wonderful shifts in order to help support my family....I'm pleased to know that my hard earned taxes help you to not bother working-NOT