Some good news. My lad begins his temporary new job tomorrow at - not sure whether its Parcel Force or Royal Mail. Anyways, it's working indoors at a sorting office, and starts at 3 pm.
I'm really impressed with him. Unlike some people I know, he's taking any work he can get, and he's willing to work unsociable hours. There's a possibility he may be taken on permanently.
Meanwhile, he's a Minecraft software coder (unpaid) and he's been noticed by the Dutch company that produces it. They've asked him to do a few tasks, and they seem pleased with his work.
A neighbour who works in public service managed to get his CV on her managers desk, and he's been short listed for interview, and a web developer company has noticed his coding technique and indicated they may want him to do some work for them.
For all the reports in newspapers about the 'won't work' (and I come across at lot of those) it's cool that he's getting out there doing his thing and getting noticed.
I'm well proud of him. That's my lad, that is :)
If you want to follow him on twitter, he's @Cloudhunter.
3 comments:
well done to your lad, I'm guessing it's a christmas casual job, with Royal Mail, been there, done that, tell him to accept any overtime they offer, nights and saturday mornings at other sorting offices, sometimes 12hr shifts, better chance of being kept on.
Josie x
Yeah, it is.
On his first day he turned up at work and they told him they'd changed his hours to an earlier shift and less hours.
It seems it's legal because they told him within six months. The Job was only supposed to last two.
More, he had doctors and vet appointments based on his previous hours. They've allowed him to go in later, but he's pretty brassed off. He thinks he'll be worse off than being out of work.
He'd signed off the dole (and all the housing benefit thing) so I've told him to grit his teeth and get on and do it. I get that it's unfair, but if it's work, and gets him into work......
welcome to Royal Mail, thats what they do mess you about and sometimes they mess wages about as well :-(
how long has your lad been on the dole because if it's longer than six months then he's entitled to housing benefit/council tax benefit run on for four weeks, but they seem to forget to mention it...
Josie x
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