work programme and my mobile num help

cliffandsue

I doubt that not having a mobile phone or indeed a private one that is not to be used other than for and by close friends would be grounds for a sanction.
No one is under an obligation to have a mobile phone.
We still have a postman that delivers letters and possibly a separate email account could suffice
I have a mobile, but very few people know the number and that is the way I would want to keep it.

ab1982

cliffandsue wrote: »

I doubt that not having a mobile phone or indeed a private one that is not to be used other than for and by close friends would be grounds for a sanction.
No one is under an obligation to have a mobile phone.
We still have a postman that delivers letters and possibly a separate email account could suffice
I have a mobile, but very few people know the number and that is the way I would want to keep it.

Of course its your right to withhold you're fastest means of communication from the people aiming to help you get into employment. I suppose it depends on your attitude really.

cliffandsue

ab1982 wrote: »

Of course its your right to withhold you're fastest means of communication from the people aiming to help you get into employment. I suppose it depends on your attitude really.

Everything in writing is the key phrase, you then have evidence and a paper trail
Do I really want to join the hordes of people that I see daily with a mobile phone glued to their ear or in their hand? Probably why they had to bring the law out about using the awful things whilst driving, people see it as part of their body, a compulsion to want to talk to somebody, anybody. To tell the world on facebook what they fancy for dinner that evening.
Besides which none of my employers over the years has communicated with me other than by way of letter.

FBaby

Except that paper trail seem to often get lost my job seekers orc they complain they didn't receive notification of an invitation to interview until last minute and their is not their fault of they can't go etc... you can see why the job centre would therefore prefer communication by telephone.

ab1982

Excuses are like aholes, everybody has at least one.

mattcanary

tomtontom wrote: »

You contacting them sounds like a good compromise. I'm surprised you're not being referred for a potential sanction - if you're claiming to have no means of contact how do you expect employers to contact you?

Er - by post, email or landline perhaps?

mattcanary

tomtontom wrote: »

I was referring to contact with employers - surely you don't expect a recruiter arranging interviews to wait around for the OP to check their emails? Most employers would reject an applicant with no contact number - and this is the lie the OP is portraying.

They haven't rejected me for not having a mobile number (and I haven't at various times in the recent past). They just email you or phone you at home, leaving a message on your answerphone if you are not at home. Which you return promptly.

mattcanary

FBaby wrote: »

Except that paper trail seem to often get lost my job seekers orc they complain they didn't receive notification of an invitation to interview until last minute and their is not their fault of they can't go etc... you can see why the job centre would therefore prefer communication by telephone.

Or perhaps the Jobcentre really didn't send a letter until the last minute (and by second-class post to boot - they have to save money, after all don't they?).

NYM

mattcanary wrote: »

Or perhaps the Jobcentre really didn't send a letter until the last minute (and by second-class post to boot - they have to save money, after all don't they?).

..and there it is. A perfectly good reason to always give a contact telephone number.

cliffandsue

NYM wrote: »

..and there it is. A perfectly good reason to always give a contact telephone number.

There it is then, the DWP more interested in cutting their costs than providing a satisfactory service to the public. After all, civil servants are no longer 'servants to the public'.
When you look at the whole of the benefit legislation, more onus is being dumped on the public to know what to do, when to do it and above all, how to do it. Fail to adhere, and you run the risk of losing a financial lifeline. Even down to postage stamps, whatever happened to the enclosed prepaid OHMS envelopes?