jobcentre staff

Cheers Intenseworld - "Job Centre robot" really does it for me.

The thing is NAS is supposed to be helping JobCentre plus to be more supportive. So where is this outcome? Are we talking better services weeks ahead, months ahead, years ahead, or never?

Osborne's "clever" comparison of the shift worker and the shirker on benefits www.theguardian.com/.../strivers-shirkers-language-welfare , and the "strivers versus shirkers" rhetoric coming out of Government, has rather "pulled the rug out from under" any efforts to properly support the disabled in this context.

The trouble is most current non-workers are either those unemployed not by their own choice struggling to get back into work, and people who, because of their disabilities cannot secure employment. The long-term shirkers and benefit cheats are fully identifiable and could be tackled by more direct methods, rather than this damaging political rhetioric.

What was easy for the clever-*** chancellor to say will take years of undoing. And it has created a culture in the Department of Work and Pensions and particularly Job Centre Plus staff that unemployed disabled are shirkers.

So the attitude and rudeness you are seeing is to them justified.

Sadly these days politicians don't get to "hang" on their words, or have to fall on their swords. 

Sadly Osborne will never be called to account for the words "Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits".

Sadly he doesn't need to give a thought to the consequences. In a just world he should....but this isn't a just world.....

Cheers Intenseworld - "Job Centre robot" really does it for me.

The thing is NAS is supposed to be helping JobCentre plus to be more supportive. So where is this outcome? Are we talking better services weeks ahead, months ahead, years ahead, or never?

Osborne's "clever" comparison of the shift worker and the shirker on benefits www.theguardian.com/.../strivers-shirkers-language-welfare , and the "strivers versus shirkers" rhetoric coming out of Government, has rather "pulled the rug out from under" any efforts to properly support the disabled in this context.

The trouble is most current non-workers are either those unemployed not by their own choice struggling to get back into work, and people who, because of their disabilities cannot secure employment. The long-term shirkers and benefit cheats are fully identifiable and could be tackled by more direct methods, rather than this damaging political rhetioric.

What was easy for the clever-*** chancellor to say will take years of undoing. And it has created a culture in the Department of Work and Pensions and particularly Job Centre Plus staff that unemployed disabled are shirkers.

So the attitude and rudeness you are seeing is to them justified.

Sadly these days politicians don't get to "hang" on their words, or have to fall on their swords. 

Sadly Osborne will never be called to account for the words "Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits".

Sadly he doesn't need to give a thought to the consequences. In a just world he should....but this isn't a just world.....