The Work Programme New Thread

AP007

donnajunkie wrote: »

yes i know. i find they tend to try and make alot of appointments/signing in the middle of the day. this is to maximise the chances of annoying those who want to fiddle. personally i have never had a time earlier than 10.30am or later than 2pm. i am not saying what they do is perfect i am simply saying what i think they do and why.

never signed after 11am

donnajunkie

AP007 wrote: »

never signed after 11am

thats great if you want to get it done and out of the way. personally i am not a morning person so the earlier mine is the more i dread it and the grumpier i am. mine is not long before lunch and the bus home is due 8 minutes after so when i am lucky i walk straight out and onto the bus home for lunch. sadly they often keep me waiting and i miss the bus.

AP007

donnajunkie wrote: »

thats great if you want to get it done and out of the way. personally i am not a morning person so the earlier mine is the more i dread it and the grumpier i am. mine is not long before lunch and the bus home is due 8 minutes after so when i am lucky i walk straight out and onto the bus home for lunch. sadly they often keep me waiting and i miss the bus.

not a morning person? How do you get by then you are in work?

donnajunkie

AP007 wrote: »

not a morning person? How do you get by then you are in work?

because i have to. it really depends what i am doing.

SaveMeDo

Hehehe

Just wait until they put us on the flexible new(er) deal.

9:00 till 16:00 every weekday!

I ain't kidding!

john539

hauxwell wrote: »

Here is the what is going to happen after people finish the work programme.(add a www to the beginning as I can't post links yet)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-details-of-post-work-programme-support

They will never learn, replace one failed system with another.

The tone of this new programme is for media consumption & a cover for the complete failure of the government's flawed & useless Work Programme.

Jobcentres are not equipped to deal with this anymore.

Support programmes have been offloaded to private companies for years.

JC advisors are so used to the safe cushty civil service life of following rules, doing what they are told, covering their backs, they are disconnected from reality & the real job market and in no way equipped to deal with this.

scooby088

Well I still haven't heard anything off either the WP provider or from the JC for my none attendance at my re introduction to the WP. It has only been about a week, but still I thought I would get a letter or a phonecall threatening me with a sanction. Really disappointed as I feel like a good old verbal disagreement with either one.

SaveMeDo

Let's hope it stays that way ;-)

donnajunkie

SaveMeDo wrote: »

Hehehe

Just wait until they put us on the flexible new(er) deal.

9:00 till 16:00 every weekday!

I ain't kidding!

just been reading through what is next on the government website. it says within days we must be either in training, on a work placement or on an intensive jobsearch course. later it says we must attend the jobcentre more regularly and possibly everyday. anyone spot the flaw? how can you attend the jobcentre regularly if you are doing something full time like a work placement? you cant be 2 places at once. what a bunch of wooden heads they really are.

donnajunkie

john539 wrote: »

They will never learn, replace one failed system with another.

The tone of this new programme is for media consumption & a cover for the complete failure of the government's flawed & useless Work Programme.

Jobcentres are not equipped to deal with this anymore.

Support programmes have been offloaded to private companies for years.

JC advisors are so used to the safe cushty civil service life of following rules, doing what they are told, covering their backs, they are disconnected from reality & the real job market and in no way equipped to deal with this.

like i think has been said already most jobcentres will need more than 5 members of staff to run this as they say it will run. it will cost more than 30m as well. i actually think it would cost more than the wp to run and that gets 600m a year.