JobCentre To Man With LD: Do As We Say Or Sign On More Often
An extract from Kate Belgrave’s blog:
Now isn’t this charming.
On Thursday, I went again to one of the northwest London jobcentres to meet up with Eddie (named changed), the 51-year-old man with learning and literacy difficulties who I’ve accompanied to JSA signon sessions for coming up to six months. Eddie’s signon time changed last week and I met him at the jobcentre just as he came down the stairs from his appointment.
He was furious. He felt that he’d been threatened. He said the jobcentre had told him that his next sign on appointment would take place at 2pm on a Thursday afternoon, rather than in the morning as usual. Eddie told the jobcentre that he preferred morning appointments. It suits him. He finds that routine easier to manage. But that is too bad, it seems. Eddie said he was told off for arguing the toss about the new afternoon signon plan. He said the jobcentre made it clear that if he kicked up a fuss about afternoon signon times, he’d be forced to attend every week to sign on instead of every fortnight. No matter that absolutely nothing ever happens at his signon meetings. He’d just be forced to attend more of them and get no help more often. Great.
Same Difference 
This would have caused me to drag the c*nt over the desk put my hand under the chin and apply pressure to the base of the neck with my knee saying “and how long do you want to live?” Making it perfectly clear any attempt to get me off will result in the persons death. I’ve used this technique twice in over 30 years, sadly not on JCP employees, they run like hell when I show any signs of been aggressive, the last time been sometime in 2009.
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