Bleeping furious right now!

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My girlfriend has been unemployed for 4 weeks! 4 weeks. She has A levels and is not at all thick. The job centre is basically forcing her to work for 2 Months for FREE at a store called "The Works" which looks like a ***** version of Waterstones, for a chance of a job at the end of 2 months against 10 other people! Yes 10!


And they don't even want her to only do a couple of days work experience a week, no, it's 5 days a week ,starting at 6 am until 5, what the heck, have we actually reached an accurate meaning of corporate slavery? Do British companies have no shame? This is not even cheap labour, this is FREE labour, 10 people full time an offering one of them a chance to get a crappy minimum bleeping wage job?


I'm all for getting people back into work but this is retarded, before anyone here says "it's my taxes", no guess what, she gets £200 a month, for the next 2 months while she's working full time like a mule (certainly more then what I and most people here work), I'm still going to be the one supporting her because £200 nowadays is **** all.


Sorry for the rant, but I'm just so angry right now. I would understand a couple of weeks work experience, but forcing someone to work 2 months for free, full time, 6am shifts for a "1/10" chance at a job, is just too much.
 
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The Works are all over, they are a discount book seller, selling all of the out of season books, cut price books that did not sell etc.
 
fieldy said:
where abouts in UK is this C?
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Birmingham


Edit: What makes me more mad is that I know it's partially her fault, because she's one of those people who just can't say no, and often gets taken advantage of by employers because of this to the point where when she comes home crying I have to fake sympathy.
 
This happens a lot with internships, particularlly with the fashion industry. I think channel 4 did a documentary on the whole situation and nothing really can be done about it since so many people are willing to do these things.

Granted that jobs are hard to come by at the moment, your GF could just use those 2 months to look for an alternative instead, I know I would.
 
pretty harsh that theyre lumping her straight on this, i know guy thats 21 now left school at 16 and has been on the dole since then just bums around his mums they got him a place similar at poundland and he just didnt turn up

so what did they do? give up and carry on giving him his jsa
 
Refuse to take the job (loss of £200)... Get a job in Mc Donalds... Always hiring and she'll earn loads more.

I'd be annoyed also
 
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C.# said:
forcing someone to work 2 months for free, full time, 6am shifts for a "1/10" chance at a job, is just too much.
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She could turn around and say i'm not interested, just don't accept the state handouts.

Also it's not just for the chance of that job, it's a chance to get some job experience down on her CV, work which she hasn't been payed for always looks more favorable, shows willing to work.

Yes it might be 'annoying' but perhaps it's worth thinking about the bigger picture.
 
To add to the thread this time, that does sound royally rubbish :/

I don't think such schemes should be allowed, it's just companies taking undue advantage of the system at the expense of those looking for jobs.

If I was her, I'd rather not claim than do such a thing. £200 a month is nothing.
 
C.# said:
I'm all for getting people back into work but this is retarded, before anyone here says "it's my taxes", no guess what, she gets £200 a month, for the next 2 months while she's working full time like a mule (certainly more then what I and most people here work), I'm still going to be the one supporting her because £200 nowadays is **** all.
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Better than nothing. She leaves with (a) work experience and (b) a chance at a job and (c) a very basic level of sustenance.

10 people full time an offering one of them a chance to get a crappy minimum bleeping wage job?
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Maybe she should qualify for a better job? :confused:
 
Isnt it part of the recent changes to the jobseeking market. Collage leavers and <25s are automatically put onto this new scheme and everyone is basically treated like criminals. ITs an effective way to massage the statistics to say less <25s are out of work.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
Better than nothing.
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Debatable. Working full time for a month for essentially ~4 days pay of a £7-9ph job.

I'm fortunate to be in the possition that I don't have to make that decision, but I certainly would consider it very carefully.

It seems more cost effective to apply to 4 jobs a day and not take the JSA, which is just a broken system IMO.
 
Improves economy. Stops people being lazy in most cases, though not necessarily in this one.

Your gf isn't working for free, she is earning her JSA. She has the chance of being given a job.

Brilliant system.
 
Jambo said:
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Basically, you get fed into something called "Work experience" and by this "work experience" they mean ,you get forced to work in places like Tesco, Poundland and etc.

Now I can understand this being done to 16-18 year olds who just got out of school and have no experience whatsoever, but my gf has experience as an executive assistant, office, photography, etc. She has worked a lot in the past 4 years and just because she is on a low now through no fault of her own, it's basically my fault since my job made me move to the Midlands and I agree to provide for her until she could get her foot in somewhere. But what they are forcing her to do for 2 months is not work experience, she has no desire of working in a store and she is better qualified then that. This doesn't benefit the job seeker in anyway possible and is purely corporate slavery in my eyes, a scheme designed to give companies who are already bringing in millions in profit (Tesco I'm looking at you), quite simply, free labour.
 
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