I will concede
that some of them can be nice people, if they can get past the "every claimant is scum" mindset.

Unfortunately that's a major obstacle, and mere mortals who are decent hard-working people but who haven't got easily summed-up and impressive management experience to force a bit of respect, often get treated like scum as the default position.

I doubt there's many people who could tell an advisor "well, for the last three months I worked on a factory line, before that I'd been at Woolies for six months, and before that I was answering the phone at the Happy Wok three days a week after college" and still get treated like a human being, be given proper and correct advice, sign on without the snooty interrogation about what they've been doing to find work, etc.
( Batsgirl, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 18:25, 1 reply)

To be completely honest
the management part of my job was nominal at best. I was basically a desk jockey.

It was two years of my life spent in a shit job in a shit company with shit bosses. I actually cried on the day I got that job, because I knew at that moment I would be dooming myself to the kind of life I didn't want, but couldn't afford to turn down.

On the plus side, they taught me how to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver, let me use the company laptop on weekends, and .... well, no. That's the only upside. There wasn't anything else from those two years that I would like to remember. Certainly not the high-handed attitude of the managers (the real ones, not pretend ones like me); not the disdain of the other departments for our little team (which was basically keeping the company in business by bringing in that £2million from Europe); and not the oiks in overalls who treated you like a raving lesbian if you didn't want to suck them off in the workroom cupboard.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 8 Apr 2009, 10:47, closed)