Topical indeed. I resigned this morning from my job at an East London job centre. On my way back from resigning I'm sure I saw a member of this forum riding a black santa cruz chameleon do a little air over a speedbump in front of me as I was crossing a road.You were wearing shorts, me white headphones… Hello!
Did you know that jobcentreplus as it is now known exists merely to justify it's own existence? I didn't initially, but a few months working there made that clear. Our job description was not to help people into work, find vacancies for them or even grass up cheats. We were obliged to refer as many people as possible onto "courses" where they could sit about reading out of date newspapers and discuss "confidence" issues. Each referral cost the DWP up to £3,000. I shit you not. Jobcentres are now the defacto HR department of Tesco, Sainsbury's and every other large (and not so large) business that wishes to set up a LEP (local employment partnership) arrangement,one where tax payer's cash fields applications for temporary positions and "worktrials" (thats where you work for between one and four weeks for no pay) for big business. That's where the money is wasted. Rather than the Govt providing real training at Govt training centres, it's farmed off to "non contracted providers" who are making huge profits and providing nothing for the money.
I just thought I would share. There's lot's more I can share but I can't be arsed. I'm a lazy black economy bum for the time being.
