Work For Dole

[stonerblue]

This country/successive governments adopted an obsession with 'targets' some two decades ago.
It has led to the Public Services, and those in the Private Sector contracted, going all out to meet those targets and nothing else. There is no foundation or real substance to the deliverance of anything approaching real results or quality. Because as long as those targets are met then the Government at the time can quote said targets.
It's all a load of shite but some buy it.

i remember the birth of the 'customer charter' in the job centre. Big signs everywhere full of promises and ancronyms. The one that said 'we will serve you in 2mins' kept me amused for hours.

The modern equivelant is the council website full of non-existent emergency numbers, un-monitored 'report a problem' links and computer generated e-mail 'replies' that achieve precisely fuck all apart from hitting a target. And don't get me started on the online housing register forms.

 

[mcmanus]

Any of these mother fuckers calling for no dole have they ever signed on?

It isn't special. You feel like shit at times. Not had to do it for years but fuck you.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Any of these mother fuckers calling for no dole have they ever signed on?

It isn't special. You feel like shit at times. Not had to do it for years but fuck you.

Have they fuck! The idiots on here have no experience yet they shout the loudest.

I'm one of the few who's admitted to signing on in the past.

 

[bluemanc]

I got got made redundant in July and HAD to sign on,got a part time job after a week then a full time job that was not what it said on the tin so left.
Signed on for another 5 days then got a job.
The fuckers spammed me with mail & pages upon pages of the laws governing getting benefit.
Missed one dole office interview which would have been 3rd interview in 6 days.
For that heinous crime they have stopped my dole for around a month,BUT offered me a crisis loan if i wanted it,loads of people down their that are stressed after having benefits stopped for next to nothing.
November before i would get anything,doesnt matter because i'm working but the way they act with an on the spot guilty verdict is not good.
Never in a million years should it be called a job centre,the fucker who did my 2nd claim was literally running about because they have a target time to complete re-claims.
Until i'd had the dole office experienced i was kinda dismissive of how bad people said it was.
"Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes",in this case thats true.

 

[law74]

I got got made redundant in July and HAD to sign on,got a part time job after a week then a full time job that was not what it said on the tin so left.
Signed on for another 5 days then got a job.
The fuckers spammed me with mail & pages upon pages of the laws governing getting benefit.
Missed one dole office interview which would have been 3rd interview in 6 days.
For that heinous crime they have stopped my dole for around a month,BUT offered me a crisis loan if i wanted it,loads of people down their that are stressed after having benefits stopped for next to nothing.
November before i would get anything,doesnt matter because i'm working but the way they act with an on the spot guilty verdict is not good.
Never in a million years should it be called a job centre,the fucker who did my 2nd claim was literally running about because they have a target time to complete re-claims.
Until i'd had the dole office experienced i was kinda dismissive of how bad people said it was.
"Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes",in this case thats true.

Having spent a very large part of the last 13 years in jobcentres I find parts of this very hard to believe, benefits are not stopped for "next to nothing"

 

[mcmanus]

Pick up rubbish for dole money? What the fuck. I know a lad who works for the council and that's his job, obviously not glamorous but it pays the bills.

Just imagine if Call Me Dave decides the 3 million on the dole should do your type of job. You really think your boss would carry on paying you a wage when he could get slaves to do the work for nowt.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Pick up rubbish for dole money? What the fuck. I know a lad who works for the council and that's his job, obviously not glamorous but it pays the bills.

Just imagine if Call Me Dave decides the 3 million on the dole should do your type of job. You really think your boss would carry on paying you a wage when he could get slaves to do the work for nowt.

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Collect the bins / Lollypop traffic wardens / litter collectors / Council gardening / Grave diggers .........all under threat if this comes in

 

[BigJoe#1]

This is undoubtedly the most illogical, irrational government we have ever had to endure, they even surpass Thatcher.

So everyone needs to sign on every day and spend all day n the Jobcentre... stupid, who is going to process and manage these people, what are they going to do when they're there?

So we'll make the long term jobless work for their money. No,No, No if this work needs doing, create a job to do it and pay the minimum wage! Who is going to manage these people, control and co-ordinate them.... I understand hey are keen on making cuts a the Job centre as opposed to creating jobs there.

Where I lie in South Wales there is no work, people can't afford to run cars and can't afford to catch the bus to work... What jobs does this Government think exist for people to do?

I loathe this current batch of career, no experience of living in the real world, politicians.

 

[Dalian Blue]

I got got made redundant in July and HAD to sign on,got a part time job after a week then a full time job that was not what it said on the tin so left.
Signed on for another 5 days then got a job.
The fuckers spammed me with mail & pages upon pages of the laws governing getting benefit.
Missed one dole office interview which would have been 3rd interview in 6 days.
For that heinous crime they have stopped my dole for around a month,BUT offered me a crisis loan if i wanted it,loads of people down their that are stressed after having benefits stopped for next to nothing.
November before i would get anything,doesnt matter because i'm working but the way they act with an on the spot guilty verdict is not good.
Never in a million years should it be called a job centre,the fucker who did my 2nd claim was literally running about because they have a target time to complete re-claims.
Until i'd had the dole office experienced i was kinda dismissive of how bad people said it was.
"Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes",in this case thats true.

Having spent a very large part of the last 13 years in jobcentres I find parts of this very hard to believe, benefits are not stopped for "next to nothing"

It does happen - two days late signing in (genuine mistake), stop JSA for a month

 

[kinkysleftfoot]

Any of these mother fuckers calling for no dole have they ever signed on?

It isn't special. You feel like shit at times. Not had to do it for years but fuck you.

Have they fuck! The idiots on here have no experience yet they shout the loudest.

I'm one of the few who's admitted to signing on in the past.

I did once after 14 years in the army and vowed never to do so again........and I haven't