Lovely jobseekers staff
I've never been on the dole. I'm intelligent, moderately well educated and have enough experience to be able to get a job pretty much whenever I want, so on the occasions I've been out of work I've not claimed. However, I needed some dental work done and my dentist advised me that if I signed on I'd get it free/cheap.

So I turn up to the job office place, join a queue for about six hours and finally got to the front. "Yes?" I was asked, "er, I'm out of work and I'd like a job, please." said I. Not the right thing to say, this woman looked at me like the whole of humanity throughout the entirity of time knew the process. Except me. She asked me a few questions along the lines of "have you done this", "have you filled out this form", all of which I hadn't. Then she explained I'd have to have an appointment to sign on. "Fine," I said, "it's not like I'm doing anything else today". I was then told it would be at least TWO MONTHS before I could have this appointment because they were short staffed.

"Short staffed?" I enquired, "I've admin and secretarial experience, can I have a job?" To this day I have never been looked at with such hatred and scorn. I feel I would've received a warmer welcome if I'd told her I'd just violated her children. So I got up, walked out, and went and found myself a job instead.
( CowJam, Fri 27 Jul 2007, 15:13, Reply)