It was a beautiful beautiful moment
Some years ago I was out of work for a while. Most of the people at the DSS were OK, punctuated by the odd cunt.

On one occasion and only one occasion I missed my signing on time, and popped in the net day, apologising for not being able to make it the previous day

Cunt: What's you excuse?

Me: Excuse!? I can tell you the reason if you like?

Cunt: Go on then.

Me: My 18 month old daughter was throwing up, I could have come in, but there would be sick everywhere.

Cunt: But you have to be available for work or interview.

Me: I am. If I had an interview I'd have arranged child care, but this was jut signing on.

Cunt: But you have to be available for work....

The cunt was in robot mode, and told me the next time my child was ill they'd stop my payments. Nice.

Anyway a few month later I'm an IT Support Manager and all is right with the world. 2 years later I'm interviewing for 4-5 new help desk people..you know what's coming.

In walks the cunt. I couldn't believe it. I actually had to make my excuses and leave the room for 5 minutes to calm down, and THANK THE LORD.

No doubt some others on here would have wreaked long winded and complicated revenge. I just explained to cunt that I was someone who'd been on the receiving end of her 'customer service skills' at the DSS and there wouldn't be a place for here. She demanded to know the details, but I told her 'I'm not going to waste my time on this' and ended the interview. All with a fucking huge grin on my face mind.

So there you have it. For those couple of minutes my universe was wonderful ordered place run by a benevolent divine power.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 23 Feb 2008, 10:18, 6 replies)

hmmm
for the sake of all the other poor bastards who will inevitably be on the end of her "customer service skills" - because she WILL get work, unless Britain has missed out on the labour shortage - I wish you had told her why you didn't want to hire her. Cunts don't learn unless you take a 4x2 to their head, or at least spell it out very, very s-l-o-w-l-y.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 11:49, closed)

probably not
I doubt she'd have used constructive criticism from you anyway. I would have thought it was impossible to get fired from DSS so if that's not a telling issue I don't know what is.

I think if she had any sort of a brain hearing "I was someone who'd been on the receiving end of her 'customer service skills' at the DSS and there wouldn't be a place for here."

would be good enough. If she didn't figure it out then she never will.

You're paying her dole now anyways so she got back at you (and the other 16 working people in the UK) that way.
(Lurkaloid awarded wanking black belt on, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 18:36, closed)

She probably wasn't fired
And it's the Department for Work and Pensions now. Their job is to give everyone a job and a pension at the end of it, they're achieving this by privatising everything. How much better do you think the service will be when JCP is staffed by Capita cretins on minimum wage? It's only a matter of time before they sell off the "front line"!

She was most likely either on a fixed term contract or a "friends and family" casual appointment, most likely the latter. FTAs have to go through the same "fair and open" recruitment process as permanent members of staff so it's usually the casuals who are the biggest waste. Casuals have to leave after a year otherwise the law says they have to become permanent, it's amazing how often managers simply forget who the casuals are and allow them to become permanent by default though.

Obviously I worked there (not in JCP though), unfortunately I only got out via privatisation.
(Wikidd, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 19:46, closed)

Having been...
in such a similare situation before I really am looking forward to the day when I can walk into a job center - ask to speak to someone in hushed tones... they assuming I am going in for a dole claim... only to turn to them saying I am looking to employ a couple of underlings...

the only reason I cant be arsed with dole fraud is because of the way they speak to you... and the other patrons smell... :D
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 20:51, closed)

I was a DSS / Jobcentre monkey
For more years than I care to remember. I hated nearly every minute of it; HOWEVER, that did not stop me from doing my job professionally and considerately. I treated everyone equally, even the murderers and child molesters (and total fucking layabouts) and always gave them the benefit of the doubt. Unless it was totally blatant that they were trying to fuck the system, then it was a case of get them in and get them out again as quickly as possible. Why waste your time on a waste of time?

However, there are some in the job that have zero social skills and are there because (a) they couldn't get a job anywhere else, and (b) because of the pension. But please, don't tar us all with the same brush. It's like saying that all Irish people are stupid, all Welsh men are in-bred sheep shaggers or all Scots are tight-fisted alcoholics.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 23 Feb 2008, 21:32, closed)

Karma
I live for moments such as these. I hope she went home and thought about it all day long.

Congrats, you, for getting a decent job with no help from her.
(ohnonotagain It's worse than you thought. I'm Canadian., Mon 25 Feb 2008, 5:36, closed)