invited same day to job interview, couldnt attend - will i get sanctioned?

[Mr.P]

IIf a DWP staffer wants to sanction you they'll have to tell you about it. In the meantime, look for work when you can and stop fretting about sanctions. You'll be OK.

 

On that point, I solidly concur - DWP staff have strict guidelines that they should follow and can not go dishing out sanctions on a whim. I'd also recommend going to bed earlier, cutting back on coffee & tea in the evening, and perhaps getting in to the routine of using a computer for just a few hours each day.

 

Oh, and go out and find at least one thing each day that makes you smile - For me, it was the silver tabby that lives a few doors down that came in wanting a fuss made of her.

Edited June 27, 2013 by Mr.P
Way past my bed time...

[RebeccaPidgeon]

i know i keep going on about stupid things but i'm kinda worried about what happens when i signed on today

 

 

well the guy i saw looked at my job search diary and i asked if there were any restrictions preventing me from doing a full job search, i said no there isn't and he started telling me details of how to fill out my job search form if an application was made/not made or something, then he wrote on my job search diary no restrictions and i'm worried this means i'm going to get sanctioned :/

then went the meeting was over he said have a good forenight, you may get lucky.

 

 

am i worrying over nothing or because i do most of my job search online as i suffer from anxiety not count as a full job search? i can prove i have applied for all the jobs on my form.

The No Restrictions issue is baloneous....in the sense that you can only reasonably be expected to apply for those jobs for which you are skilled, qualified and competent to do, and for which the barriers to entering a specific job are not excessive.

 

Provided that you apply for a reasonable number of jobs each week (I apply for a reasonable number of jobs each day), which include job goals in the Job Seekers Agreement, anyone in Job Centre Plus who is not a Jobsworth with Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour with the intent of raising a sanction doubt for even a minor indiscretion is unlikely to raise a Sanction Doubt simply because you identify job leads from the internet.

[joeski]

The No Restrictions issue is baloneous....in the sense that you can only reasonably be expected to apply for those jobs for which you are skilled, qualified and competent to do, and for which the barriers to entering a specific job are not excessive.

 

Provided that you apply for a reasonable number of jobs each week (I apply for a reasonable number of jobs each day), which include job goals in the Job Seekers Agreement, anyone in Job Centre Plus who is not a Jobsworth with Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour with the intent of raising a sanction doubt for even a minor indiscretion is unlikely to raise a Sanction Doubt simply because you identify job leads from the internet.

 

 

thanks, i just worry to much about things

 

also at my advisors appointment nothing was said about UJM and if i had signed up or not

[RebeccaPidgeon]

omg i hope not, so it would even record what you were doing on sites like facebook or twitter? :O

Of course now - it would be positively sacreiligious to believe such a thing.

 

When you create an account with UJ, the IP Address of your address is recorded. According to

 

According to the Security Analyst Edward Snowden, currently in Moscow (with the US trying to extradite him), both the NSA and GCHQ (and others) have been involved in collating electronic information concerning individual usage of electronic communications (such as IP Address, Emais sentl, websites, Phone Records visited etc) , Project Prism is simply one example.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/prism-gchq-access-covert-operation

 

Data Matching would therefore allow the IP Address used for Universal Job Match to be correlated with other security information - hopefully, the records pertaining to George Iain Duncan Smith and his be-atch Mr Freud (or vice versa) will be released in due course. We should enjoy reviewing the gay porn sites which they have visited.

Edited June 28, 2013 by RebeccaPidgeon
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[san_d]

I'm assuming it records EVERYTHING you do; when you've logged in, what pages you've looked at, etc...and that's the dangerous thing.

It's manager by Monster USA. I doubt they will refer Terabytes of cookies activity to the DWP.

 

By the way, who is Universal Jobmatch:

Whois Information For: ukmgs.co.uk Domain name: ukmgs.co.uk Registrant: MONSTER.COM Registrant type: Unknown Registrant's address: 5 CLOCK TOWER PL STE 500 MAYNARD MA 01754 United States Registrar: Melbourne IT t/a Internet Names Worldwide [Tag = MELBOURNE-IT] URL: http://www.melbourneit.com.au/contacts Relevant dates: Registered on: 07-Aug-2012 Expiry date: 07-Aug-2014 Last updated: 16-Nov-2012

[san_d]

so that means i probably will get sanctioned?

You worry too much.

[joeski]

You worry too much.

 

i know, but with things the way they are right now who wouldn't be worried.

[antone]

What's with the whole "George Iain Duncan Smith" thing? I mean, I realise it's his name and all, but is there some particular reason why folks refer to him in a way that he does not refer to himself?

[joeski]

What's with the whole "George Iain Duncan Smith" thing? I mean, I realise it's his name and all, but is there some particular reason why folks refer to him in a way that he does not refer to himself?

 

you should see the comments been made about IDS on facebook, people would be very happy if he died tommorow and id probably buy champagne

[antone]

you should see the comments been made about IDS on facebook, people would be very happy if he died tommorow and id probably buy champagne

 

I'm sure they would, but here on CAG we don't wish death on people, not even Mr Duncan Smith.

[joeski]

I'm sure they would, but here on CAG we don't wish death on people, not even Mr Duncan Smith.

 

 

i'm sure for vile old ugly dunc we can make an exception though

 

when he does die they'll have to advertise professional mourner vacancies at the jobcentre as nobody will be genuinely upset he's gone hahaha xD

Edited June 29, 2013 by joeski

[antone]

i'm sure for vile old ugly dunc we can make an exception though

 

when he does die they'll have to advertise professional mourner vacancies at the jobcentre as nobody will be genuinely upset he's gone hahaha xD

 

Kinda like the North Korean football team in the last World Cup.

[joeski]

Kinda like the North Korean football team in the last World Cup.

 

i never knew they had a football team, it'll also be like the movie scrooge in the scene where he looks into the future and see's everyone dancing singing and having a party because he's died. i bet even David Cameron would find it hard to look upset as i've heard he hates IDS as much as everyone else does

[RebeccaPidgeon]

What's with the whole "George Iain Duncan Smith" thing? I mean, I realise it's his name and all, but is there some particular reason why folks refer to him in a way that he does not refer to himself?

We simply indulge and tolerate a pleb of the calibre of George Iain Duncan Smith, a pathetic individual who, after being kicked out of the army in 1981, was unemployed for 6 months (ie sleeping all day, playing video console games, living off Betsy), and later, could only gain kudos by lying on his CV.

 

Hopefully, before the next election, David Cameron will have sidelined the pleb into a less demanding role.

[joeski]

i got to go into the sub provider for a couple of days a week to do job search, hope they don't expect me to use UJM as they'll be in for a shock

[antone]

i never knew they had a football team, it'll also be like the movie scrooge in the scene where he looks into the future and see's everyone dancing singing and having a party because he's died. i bet even David Cameron would find it hard to look upset as i've heard he hates IDS as much as everyone else does

 

Yeah, the North Koreans qualified for the last World Cup. Also, they were one of the beaten quarter finalists in 1966, a year that is either glorious or infamous depending on which side of Hadrian's Wall you were born. Who knew? But in the last WC, it was supposed that all of their fans were actually Chinese folks paid to cheer for them, although they didn't do much actual cheering. Mainly they looked bored and tortured by vuvuzelas. Can't say I blame them - the football was dire and the vuvuzelas sounded like a paint can full of angry wasps. But I digress.

 

Cameron can never trust IDS. The round-faced one has never forgiven him for becoming PM.

[antone]

We simply indulge and tolerate a pleb of the calibre of George Iain Duncan Smith, a pathetic individual who, after being kicked out of the army in 1981, was unemployed for 6 months (ie sleeping all day, playing video console games, living off Betsy), and later, could only gain kudos by lying on his CV.

 

Hopefully, before the next election, David Cameron will have sidelined the pleb into a less demanding role.

 

I don't want anyone to think I'm upset about this - folks can call the man whatever they like and I won't object. It's just a little...odd.

[joeski]

Yeah, the North Koreans qualified for the last World Cup. Also, they were one of the beaten quarter finalists in 1966, a year that is either glorious or infamous depending on which side of Hadrian's Wall you were born. Who knew? But in the last WC, it was supposed that all of their fans were actually Chinese folks paid to cheer for them, although they didn't do much actual cheering. Mainly they looked bored and tortured by vuvuzelas. Can't say I blame them - the football was dire and the vuvuzelas sounded like a paint can full of angry wasps. But I digress.

 

Cameron can never trust IDS. The round-faced one has never forgiven him for becoming PM.

 

 

lets face it no one can ever trust IDS, he's a massive [edited] and everyone wants him gone..his wife probably can't wait to see the back of him aswell as he has scrounged of her just to get where he is today.

Edited June 30, 2013 by honeybee13
Pejorative word removed.

[joeski]

also when IDS does die let me know where he is burried so i know exactly where to p!ss hahaha xD

[postggj]

Why do you want to put the fire out

 

Unless you have been drinking vodka the night before

[joeski]

Why do you want to put the fire out

 

Unless you have been drinking vodka the night before

 

no i want to p!ss on IDS's grave haha xD

[postggj]

I would sooner add fuel to the flames

 

Suffering is good for the soul, or i should say the fires of "Dante's Inferno"

[antone]

also when IDS does die let me know where he is burried so i know exactly where to p!ss hahaha xD

 

Guys, I've complained about these sorts of remarks before. IDS has few fans around here, but we need to be temperate in our comments, yeah?

[joeski]

Guys, I've complained about these sorts of remarks before. IDS has few fans around here, but we need to be temperate in our comments, yeah?

 

ok i'm sorry, just IDS makes my blood boil because of the way he has treated the disabled sick poor unemployed and vulnerable.

[antone]

ok i'm sorry, just IDS makes my blood boil because of the way he has treated the disabled sick poor unemployed and vulnerable.

 

Yeah. Look, he won't be invited for supper in my house either, but we have to maintain some basic standards here.