Your idiot boss should have swallowed his pride and taken the job then, instead of being a stuck-up **** thinking he's too good for that. No wonder the nation's in the toilet.
That's if this post is even true.
This is someone who's coming to terms with losing their 'status', wage and self-affirmation. You're then asking them to add insult to injury and let what remains of their pride take a fatal blow?
I hope you're never in such a position to understand the 'cracks' so intimately.
The above story is likely to be true because I've heard similar ones myself which I know definitely happened. I myself, after graduating university was eventually forced through the humiliating ordeal that is 'New Deal'. I gained absolutely nothing through it - in fact, I was often correcting the idiocy of those trying to teach the programme - and it complete disregarded the fact that I'd already done a similar programme through university and to a much, much higher level.
I kid you not, they expected you to do word-searches for words like 'interview' and 'prospect' and also answer multiple-choice questions such as this little gem:
1. It's the night before your interview, do you?
(a) Go out and celebrate with some friends with drugs and alcohol?
(b) Prepare what you're going to say, wear and where the interview is located?
(c) Rape a tramp?
Needless to say, the whole ordeal was humiliating and completely counter-productive. They expected you to search and apply for jobs on computers which posed a serious security-risk and were intolerably old and useless. My time truly would've been better spent at home, where I could apply in peace without the annoying stereos of chavs distracting me.
Of course, if I didn't attend this 'course' (it does not deserve such a title!) my benefits would've been cut and at the time I had debt-collectors harrassing me on a daily basis. I was at breaking-point. A friend very shortly after went through the same process and very nearly went mad.
You're between a rock and a hard place. The system is geared at only 'helping' the complete wastes of society that cannot or will not help themselves. As a graduate, I did not need to spend over a month of my life being pandered to about the fact it's important to iron your clothes and rest well before an interview.
It's not as simple as simply swallowing pride. In the truest sense of Catch-22, the system is illogical and mad.
It's all well and good providing these platforms for certain demographics, but for professionals and well-educated people alike - especially in times of a recession - alternate systems need to be in place.
To those still struggling: I had exactly the same problem after graduating: no-one wanted to know as despite having worked part-time since I was able, I lacked the 'full-time' experience. Qualifications counted for nothing. I eventually found work in a bookies, where I remain today and I absolutely hate the job but it's leaps ahead of being forced back through the humilating lunacy that the job-centre's creating. It very much seems that as soon as you sign on, you're tarred with the same brush. You're scum and you know nothing. It's wrong.
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