if you want to stay sane the most important thing to do is make sure all the dealings you have with the dole office etc are absolutly spot on accurate and watertight.get an exercise book and jot down, date you signed on, who with what details you provided.ask loads of qwuestions and make sure you know what money you will get and when.make sure it arrives on time and if no question it emmidietly!
i signed on a year ago for 6 months and it was a bloody nightmare.to the goverment the idea of handing out money for nothing to needy people who are desperate is almost unfeesable so you must jump through every hoop correctly and on time.mess one thing up and it takes ages to sort out,you constantly get brushed off to other depatments or need to fill in certain forms etc etc.the actuall "job seeking"is the last thing they care about, just as long as you dot the i's and cross the tees there happy
and as for the pond life in the "job centre"..well its an experience i think everyone should go through once in life just to make you actually appretiate working and what you have/had/could have…in fact it was almost all worth it just to be a fly on the wall in there every two weeks!some of the characters were just amazing.my missus used to be in histerics with the story's i would come back with 😆
