Note: Not a funny answer.
I've only had one brief spell of unemployment between leaving 6th form, realising university wasn't for me and beginning 'real work'.

I had to sign on in an amazing little town in the North-East, amazing for drug addled nu-monkey raves and brain dead etiquette.

I expected to be treated like crap at the Job Centre, I mean half the people there I knew from my old school and I wouldn't have given them the time of day if it was my choice. Not because I feel I'm socially better then them, but because they have attempted rape convictions and have assaulted some of my good friends.

The first woman who took me through the intial process was pleasent and helpful, although a bit patronising either because she wasn't sure what she was talking about or because she found it easier talking like a four year old instead of using a vocabulary which people wouldn't understand.

Then after that I got put on to an 'old school' draconian member of staff, this guy made me feel like I was back starting Comprehensive school again and enjoyed talking down to me, he passed over that all important little homework book and sent me on my way for the week.

My next appointment got changed at short notice and very few busses run between our villages so I turned up 20mins late after running most of the distance, I handed across the book filled with 3 pages of detailed employment hunting, also an up to date CV and an idea of what jobs I wanted to search for.

He looked at me, looked at the booklet and I'm sure that was the first time he had warmed to an 18 year old school leaver since he started there. He talked civily to men helped me all he could and commented on the abysmal organisation of the whole place.

Thats when I realised that they were actually normal people who had simply had their souls destroyed by people who didn't give a toss about finding work. So please next time you're in that situation don't treat them like a disease ridden mong just because you don't like the situation you're in.

The organisation is crap, their communication is non-existant and the jobs they had available ranged from cleaner to 'hygiene technician', but atleast some of the staff there can retain humanity.
(Vikingheadache, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 14:57, Reply)