Wednesday, January 04, 2006

late for an appointment

Well today I had an appointment at my local job centre plus office, nothing important or serious just an ordinary appointmet that you get every so often if you are 'unemployed'

Well as is my way I was about ten minutes early and expected to be seen on time. Fifty minutes later I was finally seen. No excuses giving for the long wait...instead they almost made me feel as if they thought it was my fault.

Now here comes the stupid part. The person that finally came to see me was not the person I went to see. Instead it was someone to tell me that the person that I wanted was not only not in work today but would not be returning as he had been moved to another department. This move had happened about one week before the christmas holidays... I got the letter for the appointment yesterday.

Seriously these people have no idea what they are doing.

Oh on a side note while I was waiting I watched and listened as a man almost lost his claim for being five minutes late to sign on.

That means if we the public are even the slightest bit late there is serious consequences and we lose our money (which is probably the only source of income we have at the moment) but if the people who work there are late (or don't come at all) they just shrug their shoulders and basically say 'oh well'