Work programme?

FBaby

Was is there always this assumption that once you get a job, job searching should end? People are doing jobs they are not interested to every day. They do have the assumption to look and apply to different jobs that they might enjoy more. Why should it be any different for unemployed people?

NYM

If you need a job and are motivated into finding one, your attitude to that job is what moves you forward or not. Job satisfaction isn't necessarily confined to the work you do. It can be the camaraderie you have with co-workers/supervisors. It can be the salary that you earn. It can be the pride in completing a task you've been asked to undertake.

Whatever job someone does, it's applying a positive attitude to it that can give them the most satisfaction.

konark

I thought the work programme had been cancelled. Only to be replaced by the work and health programme, some fresh hell!

Londonsu

konark wrote: »

I thought the work programme had been cancelled. Only to be replaced by the work and health programme, some fresh hell!

Think you are getting confused with workfare, the work programme is different to that

Calz922

Well the work programme is good and the woman asked me what jobs I'm INTERESTED in and to apply for those. So to all those people who believe people should be forced into jobs that you have no interest in..well you don't.

Bogalot

Calz922 wrote: »

Well the work programme is good and the woman asked me what jobs I'm INTERESTED in and to apply for those. So to all those people who believe people should be forced into jobs that you have no interest in..well you don't.

Awaits the next thread, "Sanctioned for not applying for enough jobs".

heartbreak_star

I didn't particularly like selling insurance, but it paid the bills and I could afford to enjoy my life outside work until I found a job that utilises my skills and that I enjoy.

I'd far rather work and have enough money than not work and just exist.

HBS x

nannytone_2

Carrieanne wrote: »

I find it incredulous that anyone would choose to do a job they hated for 40 years. You would think that over that span they would develop the brain power and self-motivation to secure different employment they didn't hate which paid a similar rate of pay. But I know many people who have a mind set that says someone else must employ them because they cannot conceive of employing themselves. I think it's down to a lack of confidence in themselves and an absence of get up and go so they remain wage slaves. In the private sector, of course, their labour is exploited for profit.

As for the Work Programme, it's another means of terrorising the unemployed.

my dad did a hard but well paying job.
he hated every second of ity.
but his criteria was that he had x amount of hours to 'sell' and he would do whatever he needed to get the best price for those hours.

hence the 40 years of doing a job he hated.

you seem to think he did a job he hated because he didn't want to better himself.

he didn't have the luxury of choice.
he had responsibilities and so went for the best paying job.
(he wasn't a labourer or an unskilled worker who just accepted whatever was offered to him)

Londonsu

nannytone wrote: »

my dad did a hard but well paying job.
he hated every second of ity.
but his criteria was that he had x amount of hours to 'sell' and he would do whatever he needed to get the best price for those hours.

hence the 40 years of doing a job he hated.

you seem to think he did a job he hated because he didn't want to better himself.

he didn't have the luxury of choice.
he had responsibilities and so went for the best paying job.
(he wasn't a labourer or an unskilled worker who just accepted whatever was offered to him)

Same with my old dad he worked 3 jobs when I was younger, not sure if he enjoyed all of them but he certainly didn't enjoy working most of the hours God sent and sleeping for the rest of them.


But hey the work programme coach has giving them the green light so who are we to argue, until the time when the provider tightens up the conditions or they get a new coach who is more proactive in getting them to get off their backside and get a job then I suppose we will be in a position to say I told you so when the OP comes back bleating about the unfairness, but this is MSE and I am sure we wont gloat will we????

52%

For 326 pages worth of interesting comment about one particular Work Programme provider head here:
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?309173-Ingeus/page326

The other WP providers aren't much better either.