On 2 Dec, 19:03, "Niteawk"  wrote:
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> >>news:6dc38dc4-77e6-4f9d-8980-c4b343d38bcb@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...> >>> I agree with you that sometimes it seems as though the staff are
> >>> winding you up for the fun of it. Maybe to make their dull lives
> >>> exciting perhaps? I do sympathise about the abuse that some of them
> >>> have to take; and it shouldn't be.
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> >> Why? the only time they get abuse is when they screw up and fail to
> >> recognise or ignore who they are dealing with. You leave a man with 3
> >> children to feed without money for food and see what happens, I have seen
> >> it ;) you are asking for trouble. Like any job you can make life easy or
> >> hard for yourself. If I worked for the DWP, I would make sure that people
> >> I dealt with got paid, thats all you have to do to avoid any
> >> unpleasantness. Its of no interest to me why they are out of work or what
> >> they are doing to find work, all I have to do is verify their details so
> >> I can access their claim and sort it. Its a very easy job to do isnt it> >> a trained chimp could do it.
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> >> But you are always going to come into contact with some jobsworth who
> >> wants to humiliate you and deals with claimants in a manner like its
> >> their money and they are paying you out of their own pocket. They are the
> >> ones who cause the trouble, so be it on their heads. They deserve all the
> >> hassle they get IMO.
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> > If only the trouble was always because a payment hadn't been made...
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> True, you lose peoples details before they even get started, some people
> have to make several claims before they can get benefit.
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> > Why don't you get a job at a JC if you think it is so easy?
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> I have applied for a Revenues and Benefits assessor post, will they give me
> the job? no I dont think so, most if not all of these jobs are filled
> internally or given to a friend of a friend. ;)
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Really?
Or is that just what you'd like people to think?

I daresay there are internal promotion boards. But that does reduce
the staff at the grades below.
Which means sometime they have to recruit externally.



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The top line can be done in just a few years. But requires getting
onto the fastrack.
Very hard, with fierce competition - but start at HEO grade and within
5 years are in upper management. UG7 was the fastrack level it pushed
to a few years back - about £45K a year and in charge of hundreds of
staff.
But of course there are higher grades.

The one person I've known to do that had to work hard for it - usual
working day 6 days a week was 7am to 10pm.

Martin  <><