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The job Centre is going to love me tommorow -
Dear Whom It May Concern at Job Centre Plus,
For nearly two years I’ve been trying my hopes with the Job Centre but I still can’t see my dependency for job seekers allowance coming to a halt soon. The deprivation that is the result non participation in the working world has at times left me feeling demoralized . At the moment I feel stigmatized thanks to the amount of rejection I’ve experienced by applying for various types of jobs that do not meet my true abilities and potential..
I automatically expect to be shunned for any job that I apply for these days. This is not because I have no confidence in my ability to do the job. The bottom line is I have no confidence that anyone will provide me a fair opportunity without discriminating against me for lack of prior hands-on experience.
A good example of this is when I was discriminated at ASDA via REMPLOY where I worked for my job seekers allowance whilst staff at ASDA were getting a better wages than me for doing the same job. I was put on this scheme because I am somewhat hard of hearing which allows the likes of ASDA to take advantage in the wrong way.
Five weeks into that job I decided to leave because it was like a long-winded interview simply to prove myself to people seeking to recruit anyone but me at the time. After all; why have someone on the ASDA payroll when you can have someone working for free?
I’m sick to death of filling out application forms that stand a low chance of landing me a job and even more fed up of attending interviews that are unlikely to get me hired. Everything I’ve done so far as requested by job centre staff has failed to deliver anything meaningful, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this letter. Instead I’d probably be in a job of some sort complaining about the working conditions.
In the next few months there’s a real danger that I’ll just stop applying for any job leads whatsoever because I can only put up with so much rejection. From time to time I’ve already shown glimpses of not seeing through potential job leads because I expect the same old treatment. Too much rejection overwhelms anyone and after a while its natural to find a way to avoid it.
Finally; the most important bit to close off this letter: these last few years have shown that I’m totally incapable of getting myself off job seekers allowance in a positive way. I’m now going to leave the responsibility of getting me a job to the staff at the job centre who should be better trained to help odd and special cases like mine. If JCP is unable to get land me into a proper job then we’ve failed each other I’m afraid.
Thanks for reading.
Damo-Leeds
