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Unemployed to be forced to turn up to jobcentres for 35 hours a week
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439942/Unemployed-forced-turn-jobcentres-35-hours-week-stop-cheating-secretly-working.html
My local job centre only has two computers for 'customers' to use. Should be interesting.
My local job centre only has two computers for 'customers' to use. Should be interesting.
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More of the obscene and the absurd from The Nasty Party.
Theresa May paves the way with pledging to be rid of Human Rights.
I loathe them all.
168 hours in a week maybe they intend us to do both.
There would be hundreds, maybe thousands at the average Job Centre...
OK I can dream can't I?
Gonna FEED them??? Even keeping the loos in bogroll would be a huge spend!
Making them turn up at 8am each morning. That will stop them sitting up all night watching TV and playing X-box games.
When these new "Smart Meters" are rolled out, arrange it so their electricity is rationed so they cannot watch TV all day long.
Looks like it's aimed at anyone claiming JSA who isn't on the Work Programme, basically.
Well said.
Do you mean the 0.8% of JSA claimants who themselves form only a small part of the 1.2% of the governments expenditure. Hmm, well, for a start I'd get my priorities right and not throw the millions it will take to run these stupid schemes to achieve something that wont even scratch the surface in the country's economic recovery!
Quite!
As some insight to anyone who genuinely thinks us unemployed folk are deserving of these restrictions and punishments...
I have sent out 2132 CV's since January 3rd this year.
I have completed over 300 online applications (OA).
The average OA takes around an hour...
...my longest OA took over four hours.
I have gotten 745 replies.
I have had 140 positive responses from applications.
36 of these have resulted in interviews.
I have heard back from 19 interviews.
I have had 2 positive responses from interviews.
For reference one of the jobs was just too expensive a commute when they revealed the salary, and the other one led to a second interview that I had no response from.
I have 14 A*-B GCSE's and a set of strong enough A Levels. I have experience in office work and a bit of retail. I've volunteered and have proven myself on a social level too. Just for reference.
If anyone dares suggest I don't earn my £56 a week then I would certainly contest that. I work harder than a lot of people who actually have a job. In fact I would be cheeky enough to suggest I bloody well deserve the £71 a week I'd be getting if I was a few years older - my bills are the same, food costs the same, living costs are the same. Just because I'm younger, it doesn't mean I can automatically rely on the 'bank of Mum and Dad' any more than anyone else...I can't. Nor will I have orders barked at me by some Government toff's who are under the delusion that everyone who is unemployed chooses to put themselves in that compromising position - I won't.
So do I. This is utterly ridiculous. It would serve them right if all the unemployed people turned up and stayed their all day annoying the job centre staff. Unless they are going to be installing huge numbers of computers and staff to advise and help people with their applications this is a total waste of time.