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I was recently made redundant from my own company as we had to go into receivership due to bad debts and spiralling overheads and the dreaded bank overdraft being taken away. We had been trading for well over 22 years and a lot of the staff (who also had to be made redundant) had been with me from the start. All I can say is that I was absolutely gutted that this had to happen.
After the shock of the world falling down on myself, my wife and the two children with the bank demanding the overdraft back etc. I went to the jobcentre. Oh and by the way, before it got to the redundancies I signed a personal guarantee and my wife and I lost another fortune in cash that weI threw in from our house adding it to our mortgage. All this just to keep the business going and the staff employed. But it was to no avail.
Anyway off to the jobcentre... What a farce that was. I was redirected and told to come back twice and only after one polite jobcentre employee sat me down, did I get a result and start my Job seekers allowance claim. Apparently it took them a while to realise that I was a class one NI contributor etc., even though I had all the paperwork P60 etc. from my first meeting. Talk about slow to get things moving!
OK, so that was all finally resolved and I was told to return to the Jobcentre on the 30th December to meet "Louise" my job adviser on arrival she picked up my log book read it whilst standing in the middle of the open plan office, and proceeded to lambast me over the fact that I had not filled it out correctly, and that the handwriting on one page was not the same as on the other pages, and I quote "it should only be your handritten entries". I assured her it was my work. In fairness one page was much neater than the other as I had used my fountain pen. But this rant was all in front of the half empty office (Christmas ??) but within 3 metres of a Group 4 security guard who was propping up the wall with his arms folded along with 12 other people, a mixture of staff and job seekers.
Respect? Ha bloody ha! She should read the DWP charter and brief that is sent out to them all. At the end of the day I am a customer not something that needs scraping from the bottom of her shoes. I am now aged 53, have never been unemployed and have contributed to the welfare state considerably over the years. It has been a very difficult end to 2013, and I find myself needing some help and support from the welfare state for once. I was actually starting to feel a little less depressed, perhaps with even a hint of Christmas spirit. However, by the time I left the building I seriously considered the local bridge and the river.
By: Davo
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GO BACK TO SCOTLAND IAN YOUR A FOOL WHO JUST GOT SERVED !
Did you have a point to make? Or is it the limit of your intellect to acknowledge that somebody moving house 14 years ago is not current?
Troll on little Nick
Current or what. Have you got any new stories to tell....
I await with baited breath.
Companies are not allowed to make people redundant, they make roles redundant. they felt they could do without her role, not without her!
She's been in gainful employment since she moved in as far as I am aware and that was nearly 14 years ago.
I feel for you! Your local Jobcentre staff sound like a complete idiots. I have one question! After the G4 security had already been beating you and the friends you already had why oh why did you allow yourself to get out of work with these beasts and their terrible attitudes? In fact how could you allow them to even lay their hands upon you?
"Your full of it."
I think you'll find it is "You're" not "Your".
Signs of an uneducated person to me. Off to the pub with you!
What an absolute load of tosh....utter nonsense!
My neighbour has an Msc and an MBA and last year through no fault of her own found herself unemployed. She has commitments to meet and therefore needed to register at the job centre. Are you saying she neglected her education?
You're an idiot of the highest order. Give yourself a pat on the back of your head......with a shovel!
That goes for all of you on this post. Basically you’re a bunch of uneducated freeloaders, who spend your days in the pub using my taxes.
I expect they're secretly like it because not many people like them. There are a few good ones but some I have met in the past have been rude and inefficient. Perhaps you should have made a formal complaint, not to them but their superiors and stated that it was your hand writing and if someone is going to discuss it with you then they should do it privately and not in front of all those people. I would reiterate client privacy and that they must have some formal agreement which has to be signed by the workers.
I agree with the last poster about recording them, it seems they will soon stop if you did that. The reason they do it is because they think they can get away with bad behaviour.
It sounds like you're dealing with idiots, don't let them get you down!
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