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Not all claimants at those centres will take part – and lone parents and carers might not be required to attend for the full 35 hours a week.
Is this ignorance on the journalists part or ignorance on the DWPs part? As a carer claiming Income Support is not obliged or expected to look for work, just go for interviews where they are patronised into being shown how much better it would be if they didn't take care of a sick person for nearly nothing.
 
Jesus Christ that is harsh :(
Where are these jobs supposed to be coming from :(

Also, can you imagine the deluge of irrelevant applications employers will be flooded with when trying to hire someone - you'd need some kind of agreement between companies and jobseekers over a secret "just throw this away without reading code"or everything would grind to a halt.
 
Yep I agree, one of the MP's comments - "at least they aren't lounging around watching TV"
I found the last paragraph extra :hmm:

Meanwhile, those with deep-rooted problems must attend therapy sessions to deal with poor literacy, or drink and drug addiction.

Aside from making my best cross face at the compulsory treatment issue, i had no idea that therapy sessions sorted literary problems.
 
Also, can you imagine the deluge of irrelevant applications employers will be flooded with when trying to hire someone - you'd need some kind of agreement between companies and jobseekers over a secret "just throw this away without reading code"or everything would grind to a halt.
i'm more concerned with the wellbeing of the jobseekers than whether Mr Asda gets more applications than he can contend with.
 
The viewpoint is so entrenched. When I was on the dole, I remember my advisor telling me "I can tell you aren't a scrounger, you will find a job soon" and other stuff like that.
 
i'm more concerned with the wellbeing of the jobseekers than whether Mr Asda gets more applications than he can contend with.

It's not going to help anyone get jobs just making reams and reams of paper to be shredded, and will encourage things like dodgy in-house appointments and nepotism by employers because they've had to stop paper applications and only accept applications by email which they then auto-delete.

Eight hours a day of job applications multiplied by the number of unemployed people, facilitated by the odd out-of-work IT guy who creates a program for automatic creation of applications based on a feed from employee websites? It's nothing more than an idea for a spam factory.
 
I think reading between the lines, the job centre staff may sign them on everyday then send them out to "job seek" because there is literally not enough room in the building for them all to be in there at one time.
It could be a genius stroke for unemployed people to join together, though. I thought this was just the sort of thing tories were trying to do away with (unity, people getting together etc).
 
What kind of purpose does that ham-fisted psychological profiling really serve? Because it seems far too crude to have anything to do with actually helping people into work!
 
See, I do believe that support can be effective in helping people get back to work.

I don't believe that what the jobcentre will be offering will be good enough quality or effective enough to do anything except make a few people think, sod this, I'd rather be sitting on a till in Tescos than listening to this shit. And that's the only way that this stuff will be effective and (I think) the only way that it's meant to be effective.
 
Who will be conduicting these tests?

Probably some spivvy private company, if past performance is anything to go by.

Considering that the DWP has previous for mandating that people take useless tests, this latest news shows that they haven't learned their lesson (or that they've learned precisely the wrong ones!).
 
i'm more concerned with the wellbeing of the jobseekers than whether Mr Asda gets more applications than he can contend with.
Although if the employers get pissed off greatly enough by having to divert resources to sorting constant floods of speculative applications, they might give Dunked-in Shit a toe punt to the nads for costing them profit.
 
What kind of purpose does that ham-fisted psychological profiling really serve? Because it seems far too crude to have anything to do with actually helping people into work!
The purpose it serves is to give the DWP an ongoing dataset that they can manipulate to show...well, anything the bovine cunts want them to show, sadly. :(
 
WTF is going on?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/212000-people-beaten-up-being-4186370

Devastating research reveals that four years of Tory-led war on the poor – and the recent TV series Benefits Street – have taken a terrible toll on the most vulnerable in society.

A YouGov survey shows:

Up to 212,000 have been physically attacked because they’re on benefits
6% say their children have been bullied at school because the family gets state aid
16% of claimants have been turned down for a home, and
11% have even been shunned by
their own families
 
Would also add to the comment at 11.33am that in speaking with Job Centre Staff I was shocked to learn that in management meetings and daily operations the management have instigated, not sure if this is universal, the practice of referring to claimants by their number rather than their name. This is deemed good practice as it helps to prevent decision making on an emotional basis.

posted on CIF, any verification, very alarming if true.
 
What! I am just posting what I read, questioning it and looking for verification, why stalk and make negative comments?

I sincerely hope it isn't correct
 
What! I am just posting what I read, questioning it and looking for verification, why stalk and make negative comments?

I sincerely hope it isn't correct
why should anyone believe you with no link, you could have edited it or even made it up entirely

i'm not stalking you, get over yourself.
posts without links are often challenged as people like to see the source/evidence for themselves
don't you?
 
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