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  • PiggyBankShaker
    PiggyBankShaker Posts: 1,164 Forumite
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    Piquant wrote: »

    Anyway, bizarre experience of the Job Centre today. My adviser has asked me to write his online dating profile....

    Piq

    Do it and charge him a fiver... :rotfl:
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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Hope he's not going to pay you more than £5 ;).

    Go on then, have a practice :D.

    Great news on [STRIKE]cake[/STRIKE] job :T

    I'm not sure how to describe his long slicked back oily hair yet!

    He has suggested that I train for an HGV licence to open the lorry driving opportunities. It'll certainly open something. This is the woman who has difficulty parking or reversing a Honda Jazz!

    Me behind the wheel of an HGV :eek::eek::eek::eek:
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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    Do it and charge him a fiver... :rotfl:

    I'm trying to train him to contact me straight away if anything suitable comes to light. However, his idea of suitable and mine seem to differ a little....

    I don't have to see the other signing in officials now. I'm booked to see him for all the future visits. I'm hoping for the astronaut job...

    Piq
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  • PinotGrigio41
    PinotGrigio41 Posts: 4,213 Forumite
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    :rotfl::rotfl:

    This has made me laugh so much.

    Has he given you any hints and tips as to what he wants written?
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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    :rotfl::rotfl:

    This has made me laugh so much.

    Has he given you any hints and tips as to what he wants written?

    Yes he has! I think he is a nice enough sort of guy, a bit intense and not really very clued up. My problem is trying to imagine him with a personality and to describe the kind of look he's going for and missed...

    Piq
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  • trix-a-belle
    trix-a-belle Posts: 1,532 Forumite
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    Piquant wrote: »
    He has suggested that I train for an HGV licence to open opportunities. It'll certainly open something. This is the woman who has difficulty parking or reversing a Honda Jazz!

    Me behind the wheel of an HGV :eek::eek::eek::eek:

    If 'they' are going to pay go for it, its a skill, if they expect you to pay I'd say give it a miss & tell them to have their head seen to :) (its cira £1000!) not sure where they think the jobs are though, my mate did her hgv thinking she could find a job & there was nothing about what so ever
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  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    omg dear please write a story about this.

    HGV christ on a bike!
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  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    I thought this sounded amazing and well worth a try. So I signed up and penned a 425 work article on my hobby, sourced a royalty-free photo and uploaded it only to be told...



    :eek:

    Oh well, back to the drawing board for me!

    ok epic fail for me. did you try yahoo.co.uk?

    let me do some digging!
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    Weight 13.9/ 12.6 -1 stone 3
    saving for refurb £2000/£700 1 July 2013
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
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    yay to the patchwork income but boo to the hgv driving suggestion, they really do drag the bottom of the ideas barrel don't they. You're blog should be about your experience with the job centre it's so laughable.
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Piquant wrote: »
    Yes he has! I think he is a nice enough sort of guy, a bit intense and not really very clued up. My problem is trying to imagine him with a personality and to describe the kind of look he's going for and missed...

    Piq

    This has got a farce along the lines of Cyrano de Bergerac written all over it :rotfl:.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
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