#job centre

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

okay so normally when i make informative posts about current news, i try to always link a source for it (i tend to rely on the guardian) or at least explain the source of it.

but i dont know if the government are planning to publicise this or quietly implement it so im hesitant to give details on where i got this info. im just gonna say it was from someone/s who works in the department of work and pensions, and hope that my prior post history speaks well enough of me for you to trust that this isnt misinformation.

i dont like doing this but i think this information is too important for me not to share it and said info is fucking disgusting.

starting in march, in the uk, if you ask at the job centre for a voucher for a local foodbank, you are going to be turned away.

under the current system, if you go to a job centre that has a food bank referral service, the staff will fill in a slip (theyre advised not to call it a voucher but tomayto tomarto you know?) and refer you to a local charity which will allocate you food according to the slip.

that ends on march 1st. after that, they will just hopefully signpost you to other services that can help you get an emergency food parcel. that will likely involve you having to travel somewhere, potentially on a public transport, costing you more money that you dont have. and that does not guarantee that you will get the food you need either that day or at all.

our government does not care about its citizens, but especially not about us who are poor. they see the working class, the impoverished and the homeless as subhumans. they see us as what new right sociologist and white nationalist libertarian charles murray coined the underclass.

and you know this because of how the current system will be working from now until the end of february because if youre gonna stab someone while theyre bleeding to death, you might as well double tap it, ay?

from now until february 29th, you now must have an interview so that they can be "sure" that you need that food.

bear in mind that this does not cost the government anything. they are not losing money because of this service, if you want to call it that.

and that interview? that could take up to 3 days; its whenever they have a timeslot within 3 days of your asking. you could go in and say "i have no money and i have no food, i havent eaten for days, please help," and they could tell you to come back in three days, and then not even give you that slip of paper anyway.

this could kill someone. yes, it takes longer than three days to starve to death, but if someone is struggling that much to need help acquiring food, theyre gonna have more problems going on. people might choose food over heating and freeze to death; they might decide to eat food thats gone off and end up dying from it because they couldnt call 999 because they didnt have electricity; they might decide to try and injure themselves so bad that they have an extended stay in hospital as a way to get food and die in the process; they might not have eaten in weeks and starve to death.

but hey, if you do pass the interview process, youll get the referral you needed up to three days ago and a discussion about how better to manage your finances, because hey, youve already stabbed the stabbed person two more times, why not twist the fucking knife?

#uk politics #ukpol #british politics #britpol #britposting #food banks #long post #job centre #i dont know what to tag this as #i also dont like posting this without more details on the source of the info #but i dont know if the government are planning to publicise it and i dont want to risk them getting in trouble #rishi sunak #tories #fuck the tories #conservatives #conservative party #anti tories

[spoonielivingfree]

And now for a rant about the Job Centre

The Job Centre. I’m not sure why they call it that because they don’t actually do a whole lot of helping people get jobs, more sanctioning, manipulating, and forcing people to apply for jobs they’re not qualified for, not well enough for or have no way of commuting to. The place that literally needs SECURITY GUARDS because clearly, I’m not the only one who ends up filled with murderous rage and…

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#chronic illness #Chronic pain #Disability #DWP #fibromyalgia #Job Centre #ME/CFS #mental health #Social security #spoonie #Welfare state

[j-august]

The youths were still lounging around outside the Job Centre and the old people sitting on the benches round the fountain. Ellie had an unpleasant fantasy that what the youngsters were really doing was forming a queue, forty years long, for a place on one of those benches.

Reginald Hill, Deadheads

#quote #quotation #Reginald Hill #Deadheads #youths #job centre #old people #fountain #queue #Ellie Pascoe #Dalziel & Pascoe

[stubz]

"Okay everyone floor is lava in 10..."

children scatter across the in door park.

"9..."

some leap onto nearby benches. Others climb nearby trees.

"8...7..."

the nearby safe spots become too crowded. Some force their way in while others sprint for the only place with enough room for the remaining few. The water fountain.

"6...5..."

the fountain can hold them all but is far. The slow one's won't make it.

"3...2...1..."

Some of the strong ones carry the slowest. their kindness is their downfall.

"FLOOR IS LAVA!!"

the lava takes them.

"Okay everyone on the ground is out!"

*chorus of groaning*

"So we have, 1, 2, 3...8...11...wait. Everyone hold still for a sec." the human recounts the children. And then again. And again.

"Where's Piper?"

"She was running that way!"

"Yeah towards the field!"

"The field? But there's nothing to climb there.."

"Is the floor still lava!?!"

Out in the field is Piper, sitting on top of her other teacher Kim's shoulders.

"Piper your out, you know the rules. You can't ask someone to carry you when the floor is lava."

"I didn't carry her."

"Kim no fibbing. Kids don't like it when it comes to floor is lava."

"No really I didn't. She climbed me," the woman picks the girl off her and put her down "show them Piper."

The 7 year old smiles and goes behind Kim and then starts to climb. Using the adults calves as a step she boosts her other foot to Kim's hip and then latches onto her neck with her arms. From their she shimmies herself onto her teacher's shoulders. All while Kim keeps her arms to her sides.

"...how long has she been able to do this?"

"Since yesterday."

"That's really cool."

"I know, right?"

.

..

...

"Human Kim I'd like to ask you a question about...human children."

"Yeah sure, go ahead."

"So as you know I am courting Morgan, who has 2 children, and I was wondering if it's normal for them at their age to not be able to climb me or him?"

"Climb you?"

"Yes, like that human child with blonde hair. Harrison is about her age yet he can't climb us like she can climb you."

"...Ohhh, yeah that's not a normal thing."

"Really?? But she does it with such ease and you look so, so, used to it. As if it was normal behavior."

"Piper is incredibly flexible and strong for her age, and while yes I am used to it that's because I'm used to kids climbing me while I'm sitting or helping them."

"So human children do climb their caretakers?"

"Yes."

"But Piper's climbing is not normal?"

"...yes. Wait. Hold on...So human children do climb on their family members but most of them can't climb to an adult's shoulders like that without help. Only a few like Piper are strong enough to do that."

"Ah. So I should not be concerned that Morgan's children can't do that?"

"No, you should not."

"Okay then. Humans are strange."

"That they are!"

#humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans in space #the adventures of kim and max running a space child care centre #I was talking to some other kids at work and slowly noticed that 'Piper' was climbing me #and was actually doing a great job at it #the child climbed onto my shoulders like it was nothing #in like 15 seconds she was up there #i have no idea why she thought of climbing me but she did and was determined to get up there #i'm not tall but still it's impressive cause there's a 12inch difference between us

[ratanarchist]

"Dyslexia is discovered around the same time as literacy becomes mainstream through education; ADHD becomes more prevalent with the increasing sedentary lifestyles from the industrial revolution; autism increases in line with modern frequency of social communication and sensory stimulation and DCD as our day-to-day need for motor control of complex tools and machinery becomes embedded. The evolutionary critique of neurodevelopmental disorders is that their perceived pathology is related to what we consider normal in modern times, as opposed to what is normal development within the human species."

Doyle, N. (2020) Neurodiversity at work: a biopsychosocial model and the impact on working adults. British Medical Bulletin, 135: 108–125

#dont mind me i'm doing research for my phd thesis idea and this quote hit me like a truck #my coping mechanism for being terrorised by the job centre seems to be plunging myself into research #my neurodivergent ass when faced with the terror of employment: let's turn this into a phd thesis! #work #neurodivergent

[mercyofempty]

scribble

#art tag #whisper i scribbled when i was loosing my mind bc the job centre was almost an hour late calling me 😑👍

[yridenergyridenergy]

I did it! Heavily reconstructed artist photos for the release of 19990120. The thumbnails got blurred out; click for higher definition.

Needless to say, these pictures are available on demand for personal, private use without the watermark. But some would be utterly heartless and steal those if there weren't any watermarks...

#I HATE hair #especially Die's #Kaoru's and Toshiya's photos are especially gorgeous! #to be honest I didn't know what to make of Toshiya's lower portion #what with his right hand seeminlgy in the centre in a completely nonsensical position #so I moved that portion to the left because it was more realistic #oh and I probably gave everyone some sort of nose job... #Toshiya is wearing one long leather glove on his left arm if it wasn't clear #photoshop edit #pictures saved by sukekiyo #pictures saved by mystery na #Dir en grey #19990120 #reconstruction #Kyo #京 #Kaoru #薰 #Die #Toshiya #Shinya

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #cats of tumblr #cats of the internet #cats with jobs #employed cat #beautiful cat #call center #call centre #black and white cat #working 9 to 5

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Every game is rigged. It's a waste of time unless you cheat."

Leverage S04E06 The Carnival Job.

#leverage #eliot spencer #molly connell #christian kane #lea zawada #oh eliot my secretly soft-centred man #all hard and tough and scary right up to when a kid is involved #and well this is the carnival job #we all know the lengths he was willing to go for her #but here #here he just got sassed #you left yourself wide open for that one buddy #i loved molly #she should come back in redemption somehow #ghostly'sgifs

[kindaorangey]

everybody cross their fingers for me i just applied to work at the lego store<33

#thunder rambles #im being veeeery picky abt my job applications even tho i need a job bc all the listings in manchester central #are shitty supermarket positions or in the arndale/trafford centre/a station #i.e. liable to be extremely busy #and the lego store IS in the arndale however that is counteracted by how much id enjoy working there bc i love lego #and this is the first listing ive found since last week that hasnt been complete shit👍🏻

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so im at a 3 for 3 for near panic attacks every time ive had to go to a job centre so if they could stop making me come in every week, thatd be great

#personal #universal credit #job centre #uk politics #i genuinely dont remember getting from the job centre to the train station #and i have no idea why i chose the train station as my destination #i just needed to get away from that fucking place #i hate it so much #its so inaccessible #and their systems are such bullshit #sorry you cant confirm that im paying rent because i have a housemate and you only know the combined rent #even though ive uploaded my fucking tenancy agreement seven times #and my individual rent is on the agreement #im sorry you cant fucking read but i have a fucking anxiety disorder and every single message from you nearly sends me into a panic attack #im this close to spiraling #and im not in a place where i can spiral #because if i spiral im spiraling into suicidal thoughts #i barely got out alive last spiral three months ago

[sheepalmighty]

Wanted to explore the dynamic for this ship a little more with a fun-to-draw piece

#hi-fi rush #hi fi rush #hfr #hi fi rush mimosa #hi fi rush korsica #mimosica #yeah im stealing that tag #like with her job she makes herself the centre of attention in a relationship by seemingly caring about the object of affection #next time i get the chance i wanna check out what korsica says in the mimosa boss fight because im sure she does but i never pay attention #'tis mine

[neitherabaron]

Illness update! About a month ago I ended up having some private investigations done in London (after 18 months of waiting for NHS care; I don’t approve of private healthcare and I would never have been able to pay for it on my own, but I was getting steadily more and more ill and was fortunate enough to receive help to get seen).

The results were good in that I don’t have cancer, but bad in that I really *am* pretty dang ill and will get worse over time with an increasing chance of life-threatening complications unless we find the right medicine to treat it: I haven’t responded to the drugs that would normally be used to manage it.

So, the consultant in England wrote last week to my doctor in Scotland requesting she prescribe a different drug that he described to me as kind of a last resort in cases like mine where other meds haven’t worked.

I’ve just been to see my doctor who has told me that this drug is illegal in Scotland.

#like #letters are being written #it’s not impossible that a senior doctor could rule that there needs to be an exception #but we’re once again looking at months when I thought I’d be starting meds today #meanwhile I can’t work full time which is a problem because #A - I haven’t been paid in months #B - I have to convince the job centre that I can’t apply for the jobs they want me to apply for

[dontmindmeinthegutter]

When you're being the good little toy in the threesome and they start talking about you while they fuck you 🥺🥺🥺😳😳😳

#this is quite possibly the hottest thing ever to me #period #berrytalk #like the degradation of being talked about like you're not there #or like they know you're too far gone and dumb to understand or speak for yourself #while also being happy to be talked about because that means you're doing a good job #f a v o u r i t e #I normally literally can't stand being the centre of attention #it makes me so uncomfortable #but during sex... #👀

[taikanyohou]

there's an alternate reality where this vegas:

and this pete:

most definitely fuck.

#i have a scenario in my head where the bodyguard disperse to find porsche and as vegas is heading out back to main foyer area #he bumps into pete and pete just looks at him with disgust and knows vegas is Upto Some Shit and porsche disappearing is bc of him #and vegas who's already Mad does not need pete to be looking at him like that so he spits out a 'what the fuck are you staring at?' #and pete just cuts to the chase and asks vegas 'where the fuck is he i know you're upto some shit.' and vegas just smirks and says 'who?' #whilst he steps closer to him until he's trapped pete up against a wall and leans into his ear and says 'who pete?' #and pete spits back in vegas' face how 'i know you've got your eyes on him. don't think i haven't been watching your every move.' #and at first it feels like a bucket of ice water has been thrown on vegas but then he composes himself and says #'why? are you jealous?' at which pete just scoffs. and then vegas tries again and says 'or do you like what you see? the thrill of it? #eyeing me just to see what i do next?' #and pete doesnt respond. just bites the inside of his cheek. bc there is a thrill to it #but he is not gonna give vegas the satisfaction. and yet all vegas has to do is look at pete as he clenches his jaw and he gets his answer #and then vegas just rakes his eyes all over pete's body and says 'you've never looked so good'. #and pete isnt gonna get distracted by the fact that vegas of all people is telling him this. so he asks again 'where is he?' #and vegas just tuts and steps even closer and presses their bodies together and says 'fuck him. i'm talking about us. #stop being so fucking good all the time pete. doesnt it get tiring?' #and pete's trying to stay focused on the task at hand here and he knows exactly what vegas is doing as vegas carries on saying #'don't you wanna be bad sometimes pete? what if i let you be that with me? no one has to know.' #and the invitation sounds so tempting. the prospect of it. that he should be with kinn doing his job but instead he's fucking his cousin #and just being the centre of attention for once. being vegas' centre of attention .... it makes pete's toes curl. #and vegas glances down at pete's mouth that's fallen slightly open. and its so pretty. so pretty that he has to touch it. and as he does #pete opens his mouth wider and vegas runs his thumb along pete's entire bottom lip. and he can feel pete breathing hard. #'you want this.' vegas says. 'look how you open up your mouth for me so pretty to have more.' #and now vegas is calling him pretty too and pete's resolve is breaking brick by brick until he moans when vegas wraps his hand around his #throat and vegas says 'i wanna taint you so bad that you'd have to wear this to cover the bruises on your neck. and the next time i see you #i'd do it all over again.' and pete asks in a barely there voice 'next time?' and vegas smirks and leans into pete's ear and says #'if its what you want. because i do. i wanna see you be bad for me. just for me. i want you to come to me only. for me only.' #and then vegas bites down on the skin there making pete clutch onto vegas' blazer and as divine as vegas looks pete wants to rip it off. #and just as he's about to do something about it vegas steps back leaving pete's arm mid air. and pete hates that. and vegas sees it all #over his face and says 'what do you say pete? you either leave with me right now or you can go back and be the good little boy they think #you are.' and vegas holds out his hand. and no one's ever treated pete like this before. so he takes it. and lets vegas take him.

[vamprisms]

i need to get a job that lets me be creative before i shrivel and die im dead serious

#i've seen a course i think I'd benefit from but it's so expensive to study #and im not entitled to student finance 😭 #if i get asked about my stats at my shitty call centre job again as if it matters im going to cry