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Jobseeker's Allowance Megathread ver. We're all overqualified!

Want to find some great job offers?
Check out universaljobmatch for all the lowest paid jobs in the UK!
 
and see all made up ones that give you the run around, AND ones deliberatey faked in order to obtain your personal details to sell on to ad firms (this happens a FUCKTON) .... don't tell the JC peeps about it tho, cos they don't have a fucking clue about it and you'll get sanctioned for not applying for the fake fraudulently intended 'job ad'
 
It is a terrible site, the worst place to find a job.
Channel 4 news had a report last week about all the fake jobs on Universal Jobmatch & if I recall correctly one bloke alone had posted 11,000 fake job adverts & was making £1 for every CV that he received which he then forwarded onto Cv Library.
 
A good buddy has been whinging about the fake ads for well over a coupla months now - cos they were forcing him to apply for one but he refused. I'll tell them about it being on Ch4, he'll be chuffed about knowing he wasn't making it up. It's possibly something you can use to justify not applying for them in the future
 
some people are putting job ads on gumtree for 'home help' and then when the applicants apply it gradually becomes clear exactly what sort of help the guy wanted. This was shown on the first episode of Benefits Street. I've quite enjoyed this series after all. That Fungi guy is a bit of a state, his house is in total disrepair, sink fallen off the wall etc, no electricity for months on end cos he spends all his money on drink. He's a nice guy, but is gonna struggle/ find it impossible to turn his life around. He's in his mid 40s and has never worked a day in his life, he's taken every drug under the sun, been addicted to heroin, now just uses diazepam and tennents extra. He's not allowed to see his kids on account of his addictions.
 
Marmalade said:
A good buddy has been whinging about the fake ads for well over a coupla months now - cos they were forcing him to apply for one but he refused. I'll tell them about it being on Ch4, he'll be chuffed about knowing he wasn't making it up. It's possibly something you can use to justify not applying for them in the future
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Channel 4 actually sent a reporter up to Scotland I think it was where a dry cleaning job was advertised and checked with all the dry cleaners in the area and no such job existed.
I guess your friend can probably find the report online somewhere.
I've also noticed that a lot of the jobs are duplicated as well. I've applied for a job then seen it advertised with about 6 other agencies on UJ,so one job suddenly becomes 6 or 7 jobs making it look like there are more vacancies than there really are.
 
all the jobs on UJM just send you off on links to other websites anyway ? Like Reed or Monster etc. You might as well use the proper sites to begin with. Ive seen jobs on UJM that were 2-3 months old. Fucking disgracefull. If they want people to use it and have any kind of respect for it (never going to happen), shouldnt they at least keep it at least slightly updated. :\
 
The government paid the folk responsible for the Monster website to design Universal Jobmatch.
Looks like they took the payment of however many millions they received but made sure that the government site wouldn't be as good as theirs, why create competition for yourself?
Apparently UJ was developed at a cost of £17 million with annual running costs of £6 million.
 
absolutely ridiculous, thats a clear and very dubious conflict of interest.8o:sus:

£17 million for that shit. Knock could have done a better job for £100,000 (or w/e he wanted to charge them). Its nothing more than an extremely poor search engine for jobs, and a means of them keeping tabs on your activity on there. After all, all unemployed people choose to stay on benefits dont they and are too lazy to even apply for jobs, according to the Tory "logic" underpinning the whole thing.
 
i have been working in a very good online media career in london for three years before my heroin habit fucked me up so much i couldn't even wait to get home and then ended up getting fired for smoking in the office toilets...i was so silly and i regret it so much..i thought nobody would even notice anything even though i was regularly nodding off at my desk etc... well anyways after that i had to sign on and even though i had of course great qualifications and experience and would get an interview for almost every job i applied for i never made it to get employed as i was turning up at the interviews fucked up still believing nobody would notice this..2013 was an epic fail for me...but yes i believe a lot of the jobseekers in the uk are indeed overqualified and i would refuse to work in mcdonalds after investing so much time and money into my BA and my career..everyone slips up sometimes but as long as you are not planning to stay on job seekers and try to get your life back on track somehow it is ok imo
 
Its a lot harder than i ever realised itwould be to get another job. I dont plan to stay on jobseekers. At the moment i feel like im stuck in a catch 22, if i take opis ive got the motivation and the energy and thee drive to apply for jobs and attend inteviews, despite knockback after knockback. I guess i have to believe that i will gradually readjust to life without opis. I feel like a broken deadbeet burnout atm. This is so shit. Whinge, whinge, etc, etc. It's very early days yet though. I have to give time, time. And all that. :\
 
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I know the feeling MDB i probably wouldnt of gotten addicted to valium if i had a job at the time, drugs just helped me get through. Without them id of been depressed i can guarantee i was jobless for ages until 2 weeks back. Its going alright for me atm for once. Im feeling better about myself and my anxiety levels have dropped

I used to dread the job center :!
 
Good to read some good news on this thread. Hopefully there will be more success stories to follow in the coming weeks, as the effects of the supposed economic recovery start to trickle through in the form of more jobs to go round, and less people chasing down each and every one of them.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
At the moment i feel like im stuck in a catch 22, if i take opis ive got the motivation and the energy and thee drive to apply for jobs and attend inteviews, despite knockback after knockback.
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This I can relate to. I had no problems working when I was on the gear cos you'll put up with anything - only thing that matters is getting enough gear. Without it I'm just my "normal" self and that's a far trickier beast.

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Im feeling better about myself and my anxiety levels have dropped
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Good to hear :)
 
Shambles said:
This I can relate to. I had no problems working when I was on the gear cos you'll put up with anything - only thing that matters is getting enough gear. Without it I'm just my "normal" self and that's a far trickier beast.
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Aye, yes absolutely. Im gonna have to stop whining about my problems on EADD as i appear to have pushed several people beyond the limits of what they will tolerate.

It seems inevitable that there will be conflict when you have people pooled together, where some have accepted their addictions and are just 'getting on with it' and others cant seem to make up their mind one way or the other if they want off or on.

If ive learnt anything over the last few months it is that these type of problems are far from unique, and that being stuck in a kind of limbo land, being neither a 'proper addict' nor clean is the worst place to be, as you seem to have to be in one camp or the other, and if you dont commit to one thing or the other then you are going to loose what were previously 'on line friends' one by one. Possibly because people find it difficult to attach lables in these circumstances, 'is he one of us or not'.
 
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Not quite sure how that relates to what I said but I tend to agree that you're either actively addicted or not. Choosing to act as if actively addicted whilst concurrently proclaiming a desire to not be is a bit of a contradiction. Not that it's especially unusual - denial is a big part of addiction and doing one thing whilst saying another counts as denial in my book. Whilst not being addicted to anything is obviously preferable, it's also true that there's precious little point tormenting yourself if simply not ready to deal with the addiction. I "tried" a gazillion times to quit because "it's the right thing to do" and none of them worked, as soon as I was truly ready and decided for myself it was time to quit it was actually surprisingly easy. But you do have to genuinely want to quit not just be going through the motions.
 
cheers for your understanding. It does help a great deal when someone seems to understand. I guess my previous post was as much in response to the several attacks i have been subject to recently, and i just needed any vague cue to get my response out there, even if it didnt directly relate or follow in any way. I dont expect to be especially logical or clear headed about any of this until i have got out from under it and distanced myself from it all a bit more, then i will be better able to judge to what extent the addictions were clouding my thinking, and if i do want to live without opis or not.
 
Just to clarify, despite the fact that I had no problems working when on the scag and have not been able to work since quitting, my life is infinitely better for having quit. Yes I could work but I was only working to fund my addiction and, frankly, I still had to steal on the side cos no wage packet covers a serious opi habit. Unless you earn silly money - no "ordinary" job can fund a serious opi addiction, perhaps. Although it will depend on willpower too... and that tends to be in short supply in Addictworld :\
 
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