Work Programme Provider Pressure To Take Job

Orville

Truegho wrote: »

But this job WASN'T within an hour's travel; it was MILES away from where I live. Would never have made it in on time every day.

Hey it was nights wasn't it..? Which means you'd have all day to get there.

It's not like a 5am start when there is no public transport about.

KiKi

I travel 3.5 hours a day (in total) for my job, around 90 miles each way. I take home around £100 a day for that. I pay £350 a month for the pleasure of the commute. Not really worth it, but I needed the money at the time, and it's given me good contacts and a good reference.

I think the reason people are having a go at you, OP, is not because the job's not so suitable (we all want a job that's easy to get to, right?) but the fact that you've posted so many, many times on here about how you can't get a job. And now you're offered one which may not be ideal - but could lead to a good reference, further employment, other opportunities. To just refuse it - and complain about it - when your other posts are about your frustration that you can't get a job, is perhaps a bit short sighted, that's all.

KiKi

csmw

Hi

I have worked for both the Provider's and JCP, if you are offered the job they can sanction you on refusal of employment which when I worked at JCP was for 6 months intially. They will fill in paperwork where you will have the chance to state your reason as to why you haven't accepted the job. The paperwork will then go up to a decision maker who will decide whether to stop your benifit or not.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but hopefully this will help you in preperation.

dandelionclock30

Also working nights can be very disruptive if you have a family like children or elderly parents to see too. If your single and only have yourself to consider and want to work them then thats a different matter.

Pricivius

In an ideal world, we would all have jobs we liked that were easy to get to at hours that suited with pay that was sufficient. That would be great.

But we're not and so we all have to make choices as to what compromises we are prepared to make in the list above. I have worked jobs I hated, worked nights stacking shelves in a supermarket, travelled over three hours each day by walk/bus/train/bus/walk and earned NMW. I have had jobs I was grossly over-qualified for (filing in alphabetical order for three days when I had just completed my second masters degree), jobs I was not qualified for (looking after children) and jobs which put my life at risk (I've been held at knifepoint twice).

Why? To have a job and earn money, gain experience, skills and knowledge. I guess some people are prepared to make more compromises than others?

Emmzi

Personally I'd still take it and find a way to make it work somehow. The longer the gap on your CV the tougher it gets to be taken seriously by employers. Yes, it may be awful. But it's a lesser evil.

Vincent_Buenisedes

OP, as others have advised, go to the interview; if it turns out to be agency work and can not guarantee a full working week, you should be able to turn it down, as the work HAS to leave you better off than on the dole, otherwise at the interview subtly make the interviewer aware that the role is not suitable. That way, you'll protect yourself from being sanctioned, as that's what the Jobcentre is so desperate to do nowadays as it looks good on their figures.

DCFC79

Widen your search area OP, look at other supermarket websites for vacancies and apply for them.

~Loz~

My partner worked in Norway for 4 months because he was made redundant and after 3 weeks searching for jobs nothing came up except the Norway one.

Did he like it - no, in fact he hated it but he still stayed 2 months over his contract because it meant guaranteed money and a job.

He could have made every excuse in the book not to go - It's too far away, I don't speak the language, it's too long to leave my family etc etc.

But he manned up and got on with it, shame more people can't do the same.

A !!!!!! job is better than no job!!!! Life is what you make it!!

emmaanddave

Crazy_Larry wrote: »

Truegho, your WP advisor sounds a nightmare! People are right, though, he or she can sanction you - in fact, they can get a bonus for doing it. If I were you, I would go to the interview and give some really inappropriate answers to the questions. Why not let slip that you are recently out of jail, suffer long term mental health problems or something like that? I ain't jokin! Works every time for me.

That's news to me as I have never heard of WP advisors getting a bonus for sanctioning someone!! Where did you get that info from? What provider do you have experience from?