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AP007

grai wrote: »

you can cut & paste from other sites in the "job post notes" in the "Activity History" section It's 250 words for each entry - don't do what I did and type in all my applications only to find you have to do them one by one:mad:

then you press SAVE at the side and it goes into your activity record and that's what you tell them to look at

only last 90 days and no good to you afterward unless you have kept another record

grai

for me it all feels a lot calmer I went in to actually sign on and Nick The Pr*ck my advisor was actually reasonably pleasant

I asked "when am I to come in next" and he said "when would you like to come in" I said "in two weeks time to sign on!" laughing

he said "I'm being mean aren't I - that was a very cruel question"

he always makes a little comment ot two like this disguised as an off the cuff remark but it's actually him getting off on being 'in charge'

I honestly couldn't care less - let the baby have his bottle

He DID however let me off a going in again tomorrow and said "oh don't come in for that we can do that today and add it to your signing on day" and changed it to Thursday

("there you are! - I'm giving you two days off!")

he looked at my Universal Job website list of applications (he had to ask the woman next to him "how do I show I've looked at his search record? What do I click?")

Even though he is a creep I would not trust as far as I could throw I feel that if I play the game and go in when they say I'll be ok - this may of course be a trick to lull me into a false sense of security

I do feel calmer about the whole thing though - I have been so stressed Iwas almost ill with it

Lith

Is this 'Work program' still going ? :O

Aren't they scrapping it ? im sure I've heard this several times whats the hold up ?

Just heard my brother has stop going to these because you WONT find employment with them.

When is it being scrapped?

AP007

Lith wrote: »

Is this 'Work program' still going ? :O

Aren't they scrapping it ? im sure I've heard this several times whats the hold up ?

Just heard my brother has stop going to these because you WONT find employment with them.

When is it being scrapped?

no they are not scrapping it as far as I know and you can not just stop going to it

Flyonthewall

Lith wrote: »

Is this 'Work program' still going ? :O

Aren't they scrapping it ? im sure I've heard this several times whats the hold up ?

Just heard my brother has stop going to these because you WONT find employment with them.

When is it being scrapped?

I heard the WP I'm on was being scrapped months ago, but it is still going and I assume the JC are still sending people. Don't know if it is going, but there's many other programs out there that are still running and I haven't heard anything about them scrapping WP altogether.

grai

my advisor told me the government is in a contract with the WP providers that it can't get out of

AP007

grai wrote: »

my advisor told me the government is in a contract with the WP providers that it can't get out of

No its the other way round

The WP providers work for the DWP so they had to bid for the job like a builder does when they give you a quote to fit your kitchen say.

They would or course have a contract but this can be cancelled at any time.

grai

the DWP agreed on a longer time limit and now regret it but obviously have to honour it

being able to cancel a contract at any time defeats the purpose of having one in the first place

AP007

grai wrote: »

the DWP agreed on a longer time limit and now regret it but obviously have to honour it

being able to cancel a contract at any time defeats the purpose of having one in the first place

If you have a contract at work you are expected to do your job to a certain level and when they wake up and realise the WP has not done what they thought it could do they will probably 'fire' them like a staff member would get the sack at a company

93123

This has to be the fourth time my advisor hasn't let me know he won't be in and I've either found out by myself calling by chance or going in and then having to go back home straight away!