On 4 Dec, 22:08, melanie.fullw...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> On 4 Dec, 21:33, Robbie  wrote:
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> > Niteawk wrote:
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> > > "Robbie"  wrote in message
> > >news:5rlp78F12bnvfU1@mid.individual.net...
> > >> Niteawk wrote:
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> > >>> "Robbie"  wrote in message
> > >>>news:5rln4lF14uh77U1@mid.individual.net...
> > >>>> Niteawk wrote:
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> > >>>>> "Robbie"  wrote in message
> > >>>>>news:5rlfmkF151r30U2@mid.individual.net...
> > >>>>>> Niteawk wrote:
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> > >>>>>>>> Seems to be a fair bit of screw them on both sides.Plusa good
> > >>>>>>>> chunk
> > >>>>>>>> of trying to do the rigfht thing on each side too.
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> > >>>>>>> I dont think so, a very high percentage will be signing on for
> > >>>>>>> the first
> > >>>>>>> time ever.Plusa fair percentage will not be out of work for
> > >>>>>>> long, you
> > >>>>>>> cant say these people have a screw them attitude. Maybe you can,
> > >>>>>>> this
> > >>>>>>> proves what some of us have been saying, you tar everyone with
> > >>>>>>> the same
> > >>>>>>> brush.
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> > >>>>>> it does work both ways...
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> > >>>>> Oh no it does not, there is a big difference, you lot make the
> > >>>>> rules and call the tune, like I said before, its down to you and
> > >>>>> how you treat people.
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> > >>>> The staff don't make the rules. And as for "its down to you and how
> > >>>> you treat people" - how do you want to be treated when you
> > >>>> eventually find a job? I bet you wouldn't want to be treated like
> > >>>> shite? Why should DWP staff be treated any different? Or are the DWP
> > >>>> staff fair game?
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> > >>> Fair game when they deliver bullshit, there are no problems if you
> > >>> treat people fairly. As in life if you want respect you have to earn
> > >>> it, muck people about and suffer the consequences. You need to stop
> > >>> operating at idiot level, pretending to help people and then offering
> > >>> them dead end low paid jobs, people are not the fools you think they
> > >>> are.
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> > >> People turn up to do a job - whether it's working for the leccy board,
> > >> the Co-Op or the DWP. Do you think the DWP staff go home and plan the
> > >> next day? The staff work for the money - albeit it isn't much - then
> > >> they leave the office and go home.
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> > >> The only people that care are the claimants!
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> > > Ahh Mr Bond, at last you are making sense, thats why we dont need your
> > > ND muppets pretending to care. We can do it for ourselves so butt out
> > > anytime soon and let us get on with sorting our own lives out. I would
> > > be in work now if it wasnt for ND.
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> > What a load of bollocks! You'd be in work if you got your arse out of
> > bed and made the effort. What you wrote above is hilarious. How come you
> > are still on the dole while most of the population have managed to find
> > work? And why is the centre of your life the DWP? You're one of these
> > people who thinks he knows it all and does fuck all to better his life.
> > And then whinges about it all when life gets hard.
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> The DWP has become the centre of our lives because we have been forced
> to live on DWP benefits for a period of time. Not by choice you
> understand - I'm certainly NOT a lazy arse. I work very hard. The
> Jobcentre inundate me with letters and phone calls - reminding me of
> appointments, giving me unsuitable job details, threatening me with
> benefit withdrawl if I don't comply! I feel cornered. They tell me I
> must be prepared to travel for 90 minutes to work, which is a bit
> silly, bearing in mind I use buses. I need to be closer to home as I
> am a Carer. I've just been told today that they will stop my benefit
> if I don't attend another useless 13 week course starting in January.
> Lets hope I'm fixed up by then to save me the indignaty. I have a few
> interviews - in my chosen field and local area I might add - so things
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90 minutes with buses, including change if necessary, is presumably
the standard answer. Not necessarily for carers.

Is there a local carers group in your area? The local council for
voluntary service (CVS) in the phone book might know, or sometimes the
local church of england diocese will know (Derbyshire one is pretty
good if you are in their area).
A carer group may have come across this situation before and be able
to help with advice (including what to quote if necessary).

Martin  <><