The Work Programme New Thread

AP007

You will never believe this.

Just got an email re a spec letter I did at the WP yesterday

They really like my CV and are expanding as a group so want too keep me on file and say 'will need excellent people in the future to join us'

but the down side is they had a role that they filled last week via an agency and when I just looked at my email inbox 'jobs' I had applied to it.

Damn agencies

Gaz1971

john539 wrote: »

Snooping, surveillance, monitoring.

It's a new toy to use & abuse.

Someone ex WP has already been threatened they have to login 6 days a week, make notes every day & that advisor can see their login times.

These idiots, like the clueless Tories, have in the back of their mind that people are up to no good, not looking for work, that they must be doing something else with their time.

As opposed to writing it down in a diary sheet EVERY day?

Adamthegreat984

My Work Programme just ran out and had my first sign on since then Thursday the 20th.

I have to fill in a huge claim book(again), and have been given a direction to sign on to UJM.

They have arranged a 45 minute appointment upstairs at my local Job Centre for me next week on Wednesday, i fear the return of weekly signings !

AP007

Adamthegreat984 wrote: »

My Work Programme just ran out and had my first sign on since then Thursday the 20th.

I have to fill in a huge claim book(again), and have been given a direction to sign on to UJM.

They have arranged a 45 minute appointment upstairs at my local Job Centre for me next week on Wednesday, i fear the return of weekly signings !

you had to re claim? Why?

Adamthegreat984

The book is called,

Jobseeker's Allowance (Making sure you get the right money)

JSA2 05/13

ionracas

I feel i need to air this so people who are on JSA know all about it.
background info been disabled since 1995 with lupus/cancer/arthritis etc, been on and off the work programme, finished work in January 2012 when i found out i had cancer, had to have 2 ops to cut it out my back so now have problems on my left side.

I went to sign on yesterday Cannock jcp, and it looks like i have a sanction, the adviser used the excuse that other people are applying for the vacancies you should be to, (know these vacancies require driving licence/car/heavy lifting, and already working in the role, and experience - none which i can do or have) when i challenged him if these "other" people have the same disabilities has me, i got total silence the lights are on but no one is home. False Allegations were made against me that I am not doing job search I am just listing websites on my job log, i was this colour by the time he had finished slandering me


I then had to come back two hours later to see someone else, by this time my feet were killing me to the point i could hardly walk, and she implied to me ( i couldn't get her to get off the fence) you had to be fit enough to do the jobs, which then made me think well what about all the people they moved from ESA to JSA, or if your a Muslim is it work with pork or get a sanction.

I feel like I'm being made a scapegoat of they miss their targets, never mind lets pick on the disabled. Since march i have been at college taking level 2 in computing to help me get a job, and sending spec letters to companies when i could find nothing to apply for but it seems these don't count.

So i have been forced to starting next week claiming ESA, as the job centres view is you have to be able to do the job there is no way at the moment i can stay on JSA, and nor can i compete with able bodied people, i tried that in 2011, and got told i was not quick enough.

At the present moment i hate this country and i hate this government and i cant wait for them to be out of power.

Adamthegreat984

Any other Work Programme returners here ?, would like to know what im in for with weekly signings and one of those signings being advisor interviews that last 45-60 minutes.

john539

AP007 wrote: »

you had to re claim? Why?

Adamthegreat984 wrote: »

The book is called,

Jobseeker's Allowance (Making sure you get the right money)

JSA2 05/13

Maybe looking for changes of circumstances or he's due a review or something to talkabout at 45 min appointment & use up time.

AP007

Adamthegreat984 wrote: »

Any other Work Programme returners here ?, would like to know what im in for with weekly signings and one of those signings being advisor interviews that last 45-60 minutes.

Your JC have enough staff to see people for 45 mins? The WP only see me for 5 if that

grai

I went in today for the "after work programme" which involves me going into the JC every day this week then several times a week until I am put onto a mandatory "programme"

I asked what will the programme involve and he didnt know - just spouted stuff about it being "more tailored to your personal job search"

they are not even trying to dress up the reality that they want me off the dole and will harrass me daily until I go

He asked me about the WP and when I was giving my account he kept interrupting saying "no that's not true"

In the end I said "you're contradicting for the sake of it" to which he replied "no I'm not" (!)

I just said "you're contradicting everything I'm saying so there's no point talking" and he was uncomfortable for the rest of the time getting papers for me together as I sat there in silence

to his credit though as I left he apologised and said "I'm sorry if it came across as contradiction it certainly wasn't meant to"

I saw he was a decent guy - but why not treat people with basic respect in the first place? I shouldn't have to DEMAND it

my nightmares about this whole thing are coming true