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My experiences with JSPs

jamestwcraig
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:37:35 GMT

All things said and done, I've had a relatively painless run with my "employment consultants". Yes, they have wasted many hours of my time. They have mislead and threatened me. But I have always managed to escape being left penniless or overtly abused. There are a few telling episodes though. An early experience was with Max Employment who set me up with a warehousing course at a private training provider, supposedly including "free" forklift licenses. These shonks they sent us to operated out of a two-room office and the forklift licenses were only "discounted", not free. In the middle of our first day of training the receptionist came into the room and told the "teacher" that she was heading out to deliver christmas presents to Max Employment! Our JSP accepted bribes to force us to attend a scam training course. I'm sure this still goes on. Recently a much more directly human event shocked and chilled me. I was waiting for my appointment at Employment Services General (I think I waited 1 hour then) and a woman in her late 50's was having her appointment right near me . She was describing some of the job-searching she had been doing, and the young "employment consultant" she was speaking to answered a personal phonecall while she was literally mid-sentence. He chatted with his mate for about 5 minutes. It makes my blood boil to see such contempt for the unemployed. They don't see us as people, not even the older among us who have certainly earned the right not to be humiliated by a 25 year old boy. It makes you want to stand up and go off at them, demand they show some manners, ask who the hell raised them. But you can't, because they have been given authoritarian power over our lives. There are no "mutual obligations", they dominate you and sell you as a commodity.