mellie wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 9:28 pm
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At least Dole bludgers are honest.
Honestly hopeless, but honest none the less.
Well I'm generally pretty honest ... too honest for my own good at times ... but at least those who know me or have to deal with me know I'm not telling them rubbish.
In may I got laid off work for 3 months (wound up being best part of 4 months) ...I've been on the dole several times previously, so know the drill.
I made what money I had last as long as I could, because being on the dole usually means running around doing pointless errands for the sake of activity itself. Which takes up time and fuel (= $) ... I suspect this is meant to annoy potential bludgers into taking a job they don't want.
When I was down to $70 after 3 weeks I applied for the dole. Nobody could explain or give a reason why I was being mucked around but it took 7 weeks from applying to being paid.
Within a fortnight of getting on the dole my employer called me in, so I told the job agency I wouldn't turn up for an appointment as I was quitting the dole because I was working again.
Turned out we got 2 days work and were laid off again for 2 weeks , so changed my plan and stayed on the dole, and will continue to until work picks up again ... get a few days here and there currently .. eg 6 days in last fortnight.
Anyway a week after I got on the dole they changed the job application reporting regime from paper forms handed in to the job agency to doing it online via a 'MyGov' account.
I'm required to apply for 20 jobs a month, but so far there's never been 20 or more job vacancies in the relevant fields advertised on the 'job active' section of MyGov ... so to tick the boxes, I apply for jobs that I'll never get or are not qualified for.
I'm qualified for several jobs in metal industries, agricultural industries and driving bull dozers ... but last week I applied for a hairdressing job and a beauty therapist job. Dishonest? Yes. But I don't set the arbitrary rules I must comply with, nor have any influence over the job vacancies they advertise.
If Donald Trump is so close to the Ruskis, why couldn't he get Vladimir Putin to put novichok in Xi Jjinping's lipstick?