The Unemplyed.

[Theland]

How would YOU deal with the Unemplyed?
How would you coerce them into jobs?
(Oh hang on. Where are the jobs?)

Part time. Zero hours, benefit sanctions?

WHERE ARE ALL THE JOBS?

Not all of the Unemplyed are drinkers, smokers, and druggists. THINK!

[tonyav]

[tonyav]

Sorry about that, Theland. Wrong thread.

[Theland]

Whoever it was for, what a crap song!

[Mamyalynne]

No need to be rude, we all make mistakes.

[tonyav]

Oh dear, didn't get out much in your youth then.

[anneasquith]

Tony, he's maybe having a bad day. ( as we all can ) .:-)

[tonyav]

True.

[TonyV]

I've been having a bad week

[scorpiojo]

I've had a bad year

[anneasquith]

Sorry to hear that T. I hope things improve for you .

[anneasquith]

I'm sorry to hear that jo. :-)

[ummmm]

My daughter works in recruitment. There are plenty of jobs it's just the pay isn't great and you often need to travel...if you have no money buses are expensive.

[scorpiojo]

Thank you, anne :-)

[RobNorth]

With the communications we have today there is no longer any excuse not to spread more Government jobs around the traditional employment blackspots. Around 1200 Quangos alone employ about 750,000...these may or may not be part of the total 5.4 million in the Public Sector. Charities themselves, with 765,000 employees could possibly do more to spread out - Look up any at random and you will most likely find the head office, as with Quangos, is in Central London.

[Theland]

The bum song? I was sixteen in 67, the summer of love, sergeant pepper? Had better music back then!

[tamborine]

I need my flat cleared & some field fencing. Also my tv aerial on roof reset. I cant find any casual labour :(

[Theland]

I can. £15 for two hours cutting hedges. Would have been more but money ran out.

[Buenchico]

>>> My daughter works in recruitment. There are plenty of jobs . . .

Most recruitment agencies won't even consider older workers. Prior to getting to pension age, I was unemployed for several years (apart from occasional casual work on traffic surveys, which I always 'signed off' for). In that time I applied for over 2000 jobs (with many of them on minimum wage and requiring quite a lot of travel, so I wasn't 'pricing myself out of the market', as Ummmm would seem to be suggesting).

Only about 100 firms bothered to acknowledge my applications and I got just three interviews.

One of those employers invited me to do a day's unpaid work trial, working a 13-hour shift with no real breaks. After I completed it I never heard from that employer again. (i.e. they didn't even have the courtesy to contact me to tell me that I'd not got the job and they ignored a subsequent letter from me).

The second interview led to me being told that I'd got the job subject to confirmation by the big boss when he got back from his holidays. After I'd heard nothing from the firm for quite some time I phoned them to enquire about the job, only to be told that the big boss had decided to reorganise the firm and consequently there wasn't a vacancy after all. (Again, they'd not had the courtesy to tell me that I'd not got the job).

The third interview led again to me being asked to do a day's unpaid work trial. The job was basically handling calls and processing bookings for a skip hire firm but the boss asked if I could also take a look at getting their formal health and safety documentation put in order. At the end of the day he was clearly impressed with what I'd done on it (while handling phone calls and dealing with paperwork at the same time). He said that I'd achieved more in one day than he had in four months in trying to sort things out, so he asked me to go in the following day (paid this time) to finish the task. At the end of that day he was again obviously impressed with what I'd done but then I heard nothing from him after that. When I wrote to remind him that he owed me a day's pay, he sent me a cheque together with a letter apologising that he'd not felt able to offer me the job because I was "too intelligent"!

[emmie]

some like myself fall by the wayside due to ill health, mental problems, yet the DWP is asking me to go to a medical miles away so i can be assessed for work.
Its been deferred 4 times so they can read the bloody paperwork i sent them three weeks ago. I can't tell you what i really think as i would be zapped.