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Post by mrclaypole on Jan 22, 2010 15:30:25 GMT
Ive been forced to go to a job interview next Thursday for a nigth porters job at a hotel. I say forced, well it feels like it, Ive been unemployed now for 1 year and had to go too an agency through the job centre aswell as sign on, it was mandatory that I went otherwise I could kiss goodbye to my dole. Well Ive been dealing with a lovely woman called Vanda who said on Wednesday that her area manager wanted to see me, I thought it was strange so I went in today to see this other woman who said that she had a look at my (scant) C.V and thought that I'd be ideal for this job as a night porter, I said I didnt want to work nights and that the job sounded rubbish and I wasn tinterested. So I get home this afternoon and I have a message from this bint too say that I have an interview next week and I have to attend or I loose my benefits. I said this was bullying and that I was already dealing and making progress with my advisor, I told her that she had an agenda and that she was just looking for drones to fill this high turnover, crapply paid position for her friend who works at the hotel and that Im not going too the interview. Then the ugly side of the organisation came out and she said shes goignt o cut my dole off (I wanted to cut her smug head off). So now I feel totally bullied about this situation, Im wondering if any of you lot out there have been in the same boat and what did you do. If I have to go for the interview then that friend of hers doing th einterview is going to see a modern day version of a very sulky Catweazle walk through her door. If that fails Im going straight too the bar in the hotel and Im gonna get smashed and give them a taste of what to expect.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 22, 2010 16:13:36 GMT
Sounds like you'd make a typical English service worker, as my mum has described; grouchy, morbid and unhelpful. No wonder they want to hire you, you would fit right in.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 22, 2010 16:14:21 GMT
Get yer own scooby-doo bags.
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Post by shan on Jan 22, 2010 17:56:23 GMT
Do not let them cut your dole! Just agree with them and go to the interview.... at the interview tell them you hate people, can't lift anything heavier than a bag of sugar cos of your bad back, turn up 10 mins late, swear, put your feet up on the chair or desk, then excuse yourself saying you must go and have a smoke/pee, come back 5 mins later and gaze round the room while they talk.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 22, 2010 21:19:25 GMT
And don't forget your bong.
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Post by Linda on Jan 22, 2010 22:14:38 GMT
Oh... don't shave or shower for a few days. Scratch your ass and take a sniff of it. Haa haaa............. I know this was meant to be serious but do the interview. It could be a worse job.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 23, 2010 0:47:41 GMT
Do you get a nifty uniform?
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Post by mrclaypole on Jan 23, 2010 12:08:54 GMT
Well I intend in turning up like this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirutCHZ-QII did a calcualtion of tax and N.I on the government webiste and I was actaully earning more money 8 years ago when I was in a lower position, one more reason to hate politics and international banking, the poor man will always be poor....Im gonna start my own currency based on the Queens tears. Hugh, the UK is well known for surly service staff, its beacuse we are over worked, under payed an dhave to deal with people getting in the way of us.....we arent naturally cut out too be nice.
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Post by mrclaypole on Jan 23, 2010 13:57:18 GMT
Do you get a nifty uniform? That scene in Quadrophenia when Jimmy realises the cool person is just another normal person and he screams "bell boy, BELL BOY!" at Ace Face is pure magic, you suddnely realise that behind the curtain is just a man with a microphone and lots of front. How many times have you ever wanted to get away and recreate a happy time only to relaise that you cant the moment has gone.
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Post by Linda on Jan 23, 2010 23:14:40 GMT
Well I intend in turning up like this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirutCHZ-QII did a calcualtion of tax and N.I on the government webiste and I was actaully earning more money 8 years ago when I was in a lower position, one more reason to hate politics and international banking, the poor man will always be poor....Im gonna start my own currency based on the Queens tears. Hugh, the UK is well known for surly service staff, its beacuse we are over worked, under payed an dhave to deal with people getting in the way of us.....we arent naturally cut out too be nice. I had seen that clip before and it's pretty funny. I hate to say this but we are all over worked, over multi tasking, under paid, under appreciated. It doesn't matter where you live. But we do what we gotta do to survive, especially those that have to support other people besides themselves. You can be nice 'if you wanted to.' The way with the economy is, you can't compare to something in the past.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 25, 2010 9:06:22 GMT
Benefit money makes you feel like you are a none person.. My eldest has umteen ailments and has to go thru hell to get a bit of loose change, its lucky shes got me really ... well until Terry pulls the plug..
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Post by mrclaypole on Jan 25, 2010 13:19:17 GMT
Yeah I was on the sick for years due to my accident then got unceremoniously kicked off just before the recession started......strange that, did the poilticins know something?. Im gonna tell this woman where too stick it and keep looking into working for myself.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 25, 2010 19:57:40 GMT
What ever you do theres always some Hampton Wick head telling you what to do..
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Post by shan on Jan 26, 2010 11:26:36 GMT
I got booted off the sick, they told me 2 weeks later...charming. Now I have to sign on again, I said to the bloke "so now I have to lie and say I'm fit to work full time, or do I tell the truth and not get paid?" He said recently he's seen people with letters from their docs and the hospital saying they cannot possibly work, and they get their money stopped too. Fkin government statistics & people knowing feck all playing go.d with other people's lives, we've worked & paid the money in all these years - all I wanted was a few months to get my health sorted....
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 26, 2010 16:40:29 GMT
Heaven knows im misribble now..
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