Job centre putting pressure on

TBagpuss

OP, I understand that it isfrustrating, however, even in a low paid jobyou will be better off fincially than on benefits.

If you do take low paid work wwhile continuing to job hunt then it shouldn't stop you taking up an offer. You are likely to find that notice periods are shorter than for 'professional' jobs, and employers are used to having to wait for you to serve your notice, if you are offered a better job.

I don't think you need to make it obvious that won't stick around. You don't need totell any employer you are looking for a job, or that you are going for interviews. (for instnace, if you were to work for Tsco yuou wouldn't necessaruily be working 'office hours' so might not ned to even take time off for interviews, and if you do, you can book it as holiday.

In terms of the lomnger term unemployed, bear in mind that you don't know what pressure they are coming under to look for work, and also that the jobcentre can't control how good someone's application is or how they present at interview. Not to mention that many employers, offered the choice between someone who hasn't worked in years, and someone whowas in work recently, will feel more comfortable taking on the person who has ben working, as they will have more confidence that that person can manage the basics of working life!

Good luck with you job search.

Takmon

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During this time I have never had any assistance and have had to pay council tax in full when out of work, recently discovered the council for the past 3 years never even applied the 25% single person discount despite having the letters returned that confirmed I always lived solely in the property.

How have you only recently discovered this? The last 3 years of council tax bills would have clearly shown that you were not getting any discount and paying the full amount.
Even if you didn't look at the bills when you check the council tax band and rate online you would have seen that you were not getting any discount from this from what you were paying.

You really need to make sure you are more careful reading these kind of documents. I wonder what else you have missed that is costing you money :eek:

Neil_Jones

McDonalds does tend to have a high staff turnover (since most of its front line workers tend to be college students who going to be en-route to university in 18 months time) but there are probably some who have been there for a while as well.

Being a shelf stacker in Tesco is often seen as boring and mundane work but realistically its an essential job because the shelves don't stock themselves and nobody can buy anything if the shelves are empty and the stock sits in the back storage areas.

Its an old fashioned stereotypical view that your boss is always older than you are. While it is still the case for the most part, by the time you reach the age of 50 if you still think your boss is going to be older than you then its probably not going to happen

74jax

As Jay70 in your OP you say you have been on universal credit for 3 months, but when you carried on posting as Sam70 the back posting for Sam is that you left your old job 12 months ago (and couldn't understand why they would not re-employ you when you applied for your old job back).
Did you get another job after the one you left 12 months ago? Or did you go on UC after 9 months for money as savings ran out? I'm only asking as if you needed the money (and after 9 months who could blame you) then surely taking any job is better than losing UC? If you have been looking for 12 months without success then I think you should look at other fields.

Gavin83

74jax wrote: »

As Jay70 in your OP you say you have been on universal credit for 3 months, but when you carried on posting as Sam70 the back posting for Sam is that you left your old job 12 months ago (and couldn't understand why they would not re-employ you when you applied for your old job back).

How do you know they're the same poster?

I do agree with some though you do come across as a bit snobby and I doubt that's helping your job search. You are free to stop the JSA but by receiving it you have to accept there are some requirements from you. Other people's employment statuses is irrelevant although I doubt there are many companies who would rather employ a long term unemployed person with few skills over someone like you.

There has to come a point where you have to accept jobs that are beneath what you feel you should be aiming for.

[Deleted User]

Read this thread and look at both usernames, you can tell he replies with the wrong username.

Smodlet

Fact: If you want to claim benefits, even in the UK (the dole office to the world), you still have to satisfy the conditions for receipt, the first of which is actively to seek work, not to sit around on your rear and wait for the job centre/your fairy godmother to drop your dream job into your lap.

That's the way it is. If you don't like it, don't claim and expect the taxpayers to support you. Rather, go back to being one of them, whatever it takes, and stop seeing benefits as a right; they are a privilege denied to the residents of most countries in the world.

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Yeah agreed, not all countries have benefit systems, it’s lucky anyone claiming gets anything.

Smodlet

MarkN88 wrote: »

Yeah agreed, not all countries have benefit systems, it’s lucky anyone claiming gets anything.

To paraphrase Dostoevsky, "The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by observing its treatment of its elderly, its prisoners, its pets and its unemployed."

Gentoo365

If you take a job (any job) then you are immediately more employable. If there was such a thing as an employability score then showing willingness to take on roles that are not ideal is a big big plus, and (possibly unfairly), being on long term benefits is the employer equivalent of a 'bad score'.

The long term unemployed find it very difficult for that very reason. Its hard for them to prove they are willing to get stuck in and work hard. Even if they are more than willing to do so.

Even stacking shelves on a night shift, or a general retail job shows that you are willing to work hard and can be useful.

Unless there are childcare issues its almost certainly better that relying on the state, and often provides some good life experience and people skills.