Census Jobs

NonGeographicalMan

first78 wrote: »

Not filled with confidence with my co-ordinator though I must admit....so I was wondering if there were any co-ordinators here who had time to PM me so I could ask a couple of questions?

As you have actually got the job unlike most of the rest of us here I would be intrigued to know how you would have answered any questions in Siftability about what to do if your co-ordinator did not seem to be doing their job properly.:eek:

Also would your answers to Siftability have been the same or not as your current proposed course of action regarding your apparently less than confidence inspiring co-ordinator?;):D:rotfl:

NonGeographicalMan

VintageGirl wrote: »

Well, I got my call from a manager at 3pm on the dot. Well they still claim that my trainer did not confirm on the system that he witnessed my original documents, and have been unable to chase the trainer as a considerable amount of people are in the same position! I suggested that I am happy to bring the documents AGAIN to another training session being held in the local area, which I am now going to do on Friday. Apparently once this is done and the trainer, hopefully, confirms this on the system my contract can then be sent out.

I trust that once you are on their payroll system you will be billing them for all the hours that you should by now have been employed but have not been due to the incompetence of Capita's employee.

When you have done everything correctly and they have messed up there is no way you should be made to suffer financially as a consequence of their blatant ineptitude.

first78

chalkysoil wrote: »

Friday!! :mad::eek:

we're supposed to be doing 16 hours this week on the street and I had no intention of killing myself working 8 hours plus travel plus paperwork on saturday and sunday.

Husband thought he saw a census collector on the way home from work - he slowed right down and was about to accost the woman when he decided she might not be census her yellow vest didn't have census written on it, nor her satchel , poor woman probably thought he was a kerb crawler.

I am so annoyed I can't eat!

We were told in our meeting with the co-ordinator today to count travel time and paperwork as working hours...hope maybe that helps a bit.

aliwali

I'm not a co-ordinator but can I please assure you it probably isn't the co-ordinators fault that they haven't got in touch with you. I was at my co-ordinators this morning and there was a recorded delivery of an id card for a person not on her starters list last night. she went to her computer and his details were there, so she rang him at 12.15 to come to a meeting at 2pm. Made her look incompetent but was completely not her fault.

Hope you all get sorted soon, I am a special enumerator and I finish my 6 weeks next friday, been great to work with some great people but I can't wait to finish now.

ex-dmp

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

I trust that once you are on their payroll system you will be billing them for all the hours that you should by now have been employed but have not been due to the incompetence of Capita's employee.

When you have done everything correctly and they have messed up there is no way you should be made to suffer financially as a consequence of their blatant ineptitude.

But technically if you have no employment contract signed or have been working for some significant time and can prove it, you are in a very poor position to make a claim for "hours worked". The conditional offer email makes it very clear:


"This conditional offer does not constitute a guarantee or contract of employment"

So until you have a signed formal contract you haven't got a leg to stand on:eek:

NonGeographicalMan

aliwali wrote: »

Hope you all get sorted soon, I am a special enumerator and I finish my 6 weeks next friday, been great to work with some great people but I can't wait to finish now.

It seems very odd how the dates of employment of a "Special Enumerator" (it sounds such an exciting title for such basically straightforward work unlike boring old "Collector") extend two weeks in the period of employment of a Collector so that it would be impossible to do both roles.

Surely given all the hassle that any potential census employee has in getting a job from Capita and the significant additional costs per extra employee (classroom training, payroll setup, coordinator liaison time, telephone interview, final bonus etc) it would have been far more sensible for some people to be able to work as a special enumerator, then a Collector and then an Interviewer in one gradually developing role (they all share the common theme of knocking on front doors about the Census).

But then I suppose that would involve treating people like people rather than as simply assembly components on a "just in time" factory production line.:(

RosieS_2

The whole process of applying, testing, interviewing and training has gone very smoothly. I've been kept informed the whole way, started work without a hitch and have enjoyed the last 5 weeks of Special Enumerator work. In February I (successfully) applied for a CSS interviewer role, and again the whole recruitment process has been totally straightforward. Colleagues that I have been working with have had a similarly good experience.

first78

chalkysoil wrote: »

9pm, 6th April. I was told on the phone & by email my coordinator would contact me on or before 6th April.
I'd heard bad things about Capita before but this is the tin lid.
This Census collector has not been contacted.

I suppose it's safe for me to drown my sorrows now? :beer:

Awwww, I'm so sorry no one's been in touch with you, hope you hear first thing tomorrow.

You definitely deserve a drink...or two...or three!! :beer:

wosters

RosieS wrote: »

The whole process of applying, testing, interviewing and training has gone very smoothly. I've been kept informed the whole way, started work without a hitch and have enjoyed the last 5 weeks of Special Enumerator work. In February I (successfully) applied for a CSS interviewer role, and again the whole recruitment process has been totally straightforward. Colleagues that I have been working with have had a similarly good experience.

Something is clearly wrong when so many experienced people have been treated so badly! Maybe it depends on the area you work in. Who knows? One thing is sure the recruitment by CRAPITA has been a total shambles - I wonder how much the tax payer has had to pay for it ? It should have been left to local authorities to do their own recruitment.

ex-dmp

About £25m to Capita and £480m overall for census, about twice the cost of the 2001 census