As said in the post below, i've been offered a job, well sort of. I've put my name down for a job with a agency working in: ta dah...a food factory, the one place of work i wouldn't ever want to go back to ever given the choice.
Problem is, i haven't. I am skint and i'm being terminally being f**ked around by the social security system at the moment so i will be penniless very very soon, if they don't pull their finger out of their you-know-what.
Also, i miss work. I don't miss the Bullying or the conditions that would make George Orwell's "The road to Wigan Pier" look like a brochure for a trendy Urbansplash flat (yours for a deposit of 30%, move in today...).
But i do miss the cameraderie, the laughs, the feeling of being useful and earning a crust.
One thing i found interesting at the agency, was although the agency lady was lovely, unusual for agency staff, she did frown a bit at the one year gap in my employment history.
This i could maybe understand if i was going to work in IT, finace, or management consulting, but as a hired hand in a grotty factory, i don't really, but still i (perhaps i'm either too naieve or too much of a old school socialist) don't really understand the whole employment/recruitment thing. When i left school in 1996, it was more or less, at least in the factories, if you could do the job, you were in. This caused a lot of problems admittedly (some of the stories i could tell about co workers, but can't...) And now we seem to be in a position of: "If you don't have a perfect CV and work history, no gaps mind..." then you don't work, or are viewed as some sort of half-creature which has part worked, part been on the dole, and in these box-ticking days then that does not compute. You're either a worker or claimer and that's a narrow attitude to have, not just in recruitment.
Still, they've got the power now. I haven't. I guess i'm just a worker ant waiting to be exploited. I still can't wait for the day that i actually do get a full time job because somebody actually wants me...
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Hi Lewis, so will you take it? One thing about taking a job is that it feels so good if you feel you have a choice. These days it feels as if you have no choice at all, just have to take something, anything. If you email me via www.copingwithredundancy.org.uk I can tell you what job I've taken.
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