Signing On

seven-day-weekend

I personally don't see what is wrong with waiting for two hours. Read a book or use the internet in the library. Doesn't cost anything and keeps the rain off. I've waited for two hours to get a train before now, no big deal, and it is only once a fortnight.

As for advertising the jobs....my son got a job at Morrisons last year which was only advertised INSIDE the store. In fact he didn't even see it, I did, whilst doing some shopping. So aways worth having a look.

Good luck with your jobseeking.

ghost_whistler

Edinburgh65 wrote: »

I fully agree with you, I was just trying to avoid a backlash from other posters truth be told. Whenever i dropped off an unsolicited CV, I was only ever referred to the companies' websites and met with boredom, because they are being bombarded with CVs due to so many people having to keep themselves straight with the JC. In my experience, it was a very demoralising exercise and a total waste of time, but some people are probably luckier.

Indeed. Much better these days to use the internet (which I have at home and don't need to use a library, where you can find that's still open of course) and just go to the company's website. They always have a careers/jobs page for precisly this purpose.

This is the 'age of austerity' though, which means it's fertile ground for all the old cliches, such as 'take responsibility for yourself'. All the tired old cliches that are trotted out to mask the fact that there's a problem and people can't be doing with engaging with that problem. I can no more take responsibility for the bus routes in a rural locale than I can the weather, but that won't stop the right wingers i've noticed that dominate this site from glibly touting these hackneyed old platitudes.

JC9297

I think the point a previous poster was making about being able to cycle to a potential job was to ask how you intend to get to any job you apply for. Presumably you live in a rural area where there will be few potential jobs so you will have to travel to work, you will not be able to limit your jobsearch to jobs that fit around a very limited bus service or to a small rural area.

ghost_whistler

Fridge3 wrote: »

Sigh, how about taking responsibility for your situation.

How exactly? Buy shares in the bus company? I can't even drive!

Edinburgh65 wrote: »

It's hardly the OP's fault that he has no transport of his own, and an unreliable bus service.

If there are no regular bus services what would you expect him to do? Let me, guess, walk 3 hours each way in and out of town for his JC appointments, as someone has previously recommended in another older thread (not relating to this OP) as being perfectly acceptable.

People who have not experienced unavoidable or chosen unemployment, seem to presume that Jobseekers have 24 hours a day of doing nothing at their disposal and assume that it is a constant holiday.

If you are a genuine Jobseeker, the opposite will probably be true. You will be on job search mode all the hours that you are awake, 7 days a week, worrying about how you are going to keep a roof over your head and wondering if life will ever be normal again, and the longer that situation continues, the less energy you will have as you become more and more mentally drained.

Indeed. Anyone that thinks life on the dole is the life of riley is welcome to get themselves fired and sign on. See for yourself - if you dare.
This attitude of resentment and suspiciion toward the unemployed really has got to stop. Marginalising a growing section of the population and making pariahs of your neighbours has got to be the worst thing we can be doing. it's what this nasty government wants and people on this forum seem to enjoy buying into this narrative.

ghost_whistler

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I personally don't see what is wrong with waiting for two hours. Read a book or use the internet in the library. Doesn't cost anything and keeps the rain off. I've waited for two hours to get a train before now, no big deal, and it is only once a fortnight.

As for advertising the jobs....my son got a job at Morrisons last year which was only advertised INSIDE the store. In fact he didn't even see it, I did, whilst doing some shopping. So aways worth having a look.

Good luck with your jobseeking.

Those options would presume facilities not in existence. I have no desire to sit on a park bench for two hours twiddling my thunmbs. People moan about the unemployed doing nothing, yet some expect you to do just that it seems. Can't do right for doing wrong.

Good for your son, but the job was advertised. That's the point. We all know where places like big supermarkets advertise, others will put a note up (at the very least) in the window. Places like morrisons have a bulletin board. It doesn't take two hours to see these things and it's not possible to expect someone that has to sign in the middle of town to traipse the ENTIRE town looking in every window, knocking on every door, etc going 'giz a job mate'. That's not the real world, and chances are that job was advertised on the morrison's website.

JC9297 wrote: »

I think the point a previous poster was making about being able to cycle to a potential job was to ask how you intend to get to any job you apply for. Presumably you live in a rural area where there will be few potential jobs so you will have to travel to work, you will not be able to limit your jobsearch to jobs that fit around a very limited bus service or to a small rural area.

Of course I will have to travel to work, that's a given. But that fact doesn't mean that buses will magically appear to offer me transport to every vacancy that might exist. If that means my options are limited then that's hard luck. If I can understand that why can't the jobcentre. If their rules mean i have to apply for jobs beyond my means to get to them then that's fine, all that means is i'm wasting the time of the employer who will join the ranks of those already fed up with the jobcentre sending them unsuitable candidates.

McKneff

Is there any chance of you moving from where you live to be nearer any potential jobs.

Oldernotwiser

You still haven't countered the suggestion of spending a couple of hours in the library once a fortnight. Even if you don't choose to use the internet there you'll still find newspapers, useful careers material and reference books as well as just simply changing your library books.

Marisco

Ghost, you haven't answered those who suggest a bike!! Is this impossible?

ghost_whistler

McKneff wrote: »

Is there any chance of you moving from where you live to be nearer any potential jobs.

This thread isn't about whether or not I can move to wherever jobs might be.

ghost_whistler

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You still haven't countered the suggestion of spending a couple of hours in the library once a fortnight. Even if you don't choose to use the internet there you'll still find newspapers, useful careers material and reference books as well as just simply changing your library books.

I believe I did answer.

Marisco wrote: »

Ghost, you haven't answered those who suggest a bike!! Is this impossible?

I don't own a bike, nor the money to buy one, nor is the jobcentre near enough to cycle to.