sorry, but I think hassle woods is more apropriate

This programme is excrutiating.

wait till they break out in a chorus of Red Robin at the end mate

Can't believe that guy thought they'd found him a permanent job. Just a scam to keep him in employment long enough (4 weeks?) to get a government bonus which was no doubt being split between A4e and Continental Landscapes. Must be a conveyor belt. £700 million p!$$£d up against the wall by the government there - well done.

I have never cringed as much as i did when i was watching the Chairman/woman of A4E being interviewed. How this woman secured a 700 000 000 contract via the government is shocking.

Id give that Sherelle a job tho!

But you offer nothing!

People want training, training motivates.

Why were people reading the SUN and the STAR, not many Jobs advertised in these publications.

The A4E chairman could not give an answer when the producer, told her the jobs her staff was finding was short term agency work, and many who take this work end up back on benefits after 4 weeks, but by this time she's gained her government bonus and another job seeker.

Certainly not in the football pullout!

was thinking the same mate

I was made redundant in feb of this year after working as a design engineer in several companies for the past 7 yrs. I've got a b/eng in mech engineering, working towards chartership and was due to start my masters in 2010. I've taken qualifications in pneumatics and hydraulics, have 7 a'levels A-C and 12 GCSE'S. Unfortunately the market is swamped with engineers, with firms closing weekly. My partner works fulltime which pays the bills and keeps the car on the road.

I went to an advanced job search at the request of the job centre a couple of weeks ago where I was told that my job seekers allowance would end in the first week of november, as thats when my contributions ran out. I was then offered some part time employment at mitie cleaners and told that if I wanted to, I could also take a GCSE in english and maths (just to bump my grades up. I have A's in these subjects at A level).

The long and short of it is that the job centre is a farce. The courses that they offer are a farce, and some of the people that work there, are a farce. The sooner it stops being all about the figures and more about the people, the better. If wasters dont want to work, then dont make them. Just dont dont pay them.

As it is I've voluntarily come off job seekers. Fed up of being raped of my dignity every second monday.

When staff have to meet targets the welfare of the clients doesn't matter.

just like i told you

so what you got to say now emma

just like you told me? sorry ive not had the energy to read all these posts!

i still stand by my opinion that those who want to work, will work. those who dont, wont...and should get their benefits stopped.

and im tres proud of my friend on there!!! awesome.

and i have one last thing to say. a lot of people have been saying "god this puts hull in a bad light etc" for once im proud to be a wezzie hahaha

put how can people look for a job when the tutor would rather them look in the star and look for a job in there

when there are no jobs in it

lee is a sound bloke and he tried to help me alot as did gary who gave me the best cv i have ever had

Who was your mate Emma?

Sherelle

you think she was bonny on that you aint seen her facebook

Seems the Hull A4E is attracting some other attention

[urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/16/firms-fraud-probe-for-whitehall-cash[/url


After watching last night, it only served to enforce my belief that all these
companies serve is there own profit margins. I am also deeply concerned how these companies promise "work" and then release people after a few weeks. They get a nice big wedge of dosh I bet and guess who funds that to the tune of £700 million, that is the bloody scandal.

All the time I can hear people moaning about benefit cheats and it would appear that the biggest fraud seems to be happening with full government blessing. I can not see any reason to keep these companies in work, sorry I mean sponging of the backs of the unemployed. The fact is they offer false hope to people and the guy last night who went to the gardening firm, was aweful. The fact that everyone knew what was going to happen and clearly the guy had problems but fair play to him he had a go. Then they kicked him in the vitals, some people may have gone out at that point and done serious damage to something or some one.


This has to stop

and a4e are also involved in our Citizens advice Bureau being taken over by them after being run for 40 years with council funding now the funding is going to a4e.

[urlhttp://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6812822.ece[/url

I am now going to ask some serious question to a former trade union leader turned local MP.

She can have a job at my place!



Seriously!

Think you'll find he's a bit of an eco-warrior these days.

But seriously, what did he do for you when he actually NEEDED your votes at the next election. His constituancy is still one of the worst places to live in the developed world.

He is not my MP I have his female namesake with the bad hairdo and specs



As my trade union leader he always commanded my respect and had a deep knowledge of the business which he used with great effect for the benefit of the membership.

He then seems to have lost the plot a bit like the large ( very large ) ex trade union leader from the East

I had mixed feelings watching this programme, one one hand these 'can't guarantee you hours' temporary jobs are crappy and aren't a career for anybody

but on the other hand there were several in there who just looked like complete wasters. There's only so much the government/society can do for people, and some of them blatantly didn't care what they were doing with their lives.

many people don't like the concept of making people 'work' for their benefits...but I disagree, there were several on the programme who I feel would like the opportunity to do something better than make paper planes for their benefits, and getting them into a regular work routine and out meeting people would help some of them.

It was also sad to see 'the immigrants' used as an excuse yet again...some of them simply can't handle the fact that some of the immigrants (despite having poorer english) are still more attractive to employers, because they're so determined they've actually moved countries to work and earn money. Rather than some of these who'd turn down a job if it was in their own back garden.

He is a t@sser, forgot where he came from.sold us out. simplz


I remember meeting him, I thought he was a t@sser then as well


Rant over

our nickname for her is Coxy but everyone else will kno her as Natalie C