Where do I stand with this?

DKLS

Not sure the JC will consider your reasons as valid and most likely they will sanction you.

Martynb_

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

Why can't you sleep with things in your ears?

Just can't. I tried ear plugs before and I can still hear the noisy traffic, wagons and lories and police cars. Not good. At night it is peacefull.

red_devil

DKLS wrote: »

Not sure the JC will consider your reasons as valid and most likely they will sanction you.

Thats really helpful isnt it sanctioning you. You can appeal anway and i think if op explains all it should be ok.

Martynb_

Okay. I emailed them back and they said that they would accept me for an interview. But I know that this job, if I get it, is not going to work for me. I fear for my health and sanity on this one.

Martynb_

red_devil wrote: »

Thats really helpful isnt it sanctioning you. You can appeal anway and i think if op explains all it should be ok.

I'll just go to the interview and explain that if they take me on it will likely impact my health. In fact I am certain it will do. Also this will be a job working against targets and it is fast paced. So I'll be working all out against my body. Not good. Think I'll mess up the interview. Thanks but no thanks. My health comes first before any job. And if people here don't like it then that's just tough!

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Martynb_ wrote: »

So was I right in refusing it? QUOTE]

Yes stick to your guns, all the better if you apply for or get an interview lined up for something which does suit if you can, I was at a recruitment agency yesterday where there were people with JC booklet in hand trying to be talked into outbound cold calling - the agency wouldn't report them for refusal (not only because it wasn't their cuppa and so wouldn't go down well with their client think reputation if they keep sending people who are uninterested) and because there to busy helping people who do fit the criteria - remember the agencies & work finders are profitering from these times of high mass unemployment

You have just been contacted about an unsuitable vacancy, we all get to write a defence, I've never hid mine and not had a problem in all honesty - and while I didn't see eye to eye with my Advisor - it was the amount of interviews and applications I would get lined up that would swing in my favour

Martynb_

red_devil wrote: »

Phone them back and say you didnt listen i said days only. There is no point putting you forward.

The charity that is doing this for me could make my life hell, so I've been told. They can get stroppy if I don't play along with them. I told them that I cannot under any circumstances work nights. They didn't listen, so I'll just mess-up the interview in the hope I don't get the job. I know a job is a job but a job shouldn't be a death sentence.

fufu_banterwaite

Martynb_ wrote: »

I'll just go to the interview and explain that if they take me on it will likely impact my health. In fact I am certain it will do. Also this will be a job working against targets and it is fast paced. So I'll be working all out against my body. Not good. Think I'll mess up the interview. Thanks but no thanks. My health comes first before any job. And if people here don't like it then that's just tough!

Sounds like you’d already made your mind up on this one before you posted here. I think you should give it a go, you might be fine with it. Don’t forget often these things are self-fulfilling, if you keep telling yourself working nights will make you ill than it more thank likely will as that’s what you are expecting. If you go into it with an open mind and be prepared to try it out then you might be fine. Unfortunately most jobs these days are working against targets and fast paced.

red_devil

Martynb_ wrote: »

The charity that is doing this for me could make my life hell, so I've been told. They can get stroppy if I don't play along with them. I told them that I cannot under any circumstances work nights. They didn't listen, so I'll just mess-up the interview in the hope I don't get the job. I know a job is a job but a job shouldn't be a death sentence.

Yer mess up the interview tell them your health isnt good as well which is true. If you take medication for depression tell them too because you arent supposed to operate machinery on them.:D

did you say you got sanctioned before for not attending an interview what was the sanction how long.

dandelionclock30

I once had a night job in the 1990s and I stuck it for a few months but gave it up because I couldnt sleep during the day and was getting really bad headaches at night and I found it disorientating.
I told them at the jobcentre and they were fine about it. I know things have changed since. However theres actual studies that have been done that show that night work can make people ill.
I'd just do the same as you, give the wrong answers or say you dont know to the questions when you go for the interview.