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Whooo, I may have gone quite, quite mad.
That is to say, I've been though the kind of hellish life that would break far stronger people than me, and considering there wasn't that much of me to begin with I'm amazed I survived this long... where was I. Oh yes, the madness, yes, quite, quite mad. Anyways, having dealt with the bradford benefits system which, although being statistically pleasing to anyone who dosen't know the inherently evil nature of their business, it's design is such that the only people it dosen't screw over to make the figures look good are people who are currently in employment and not actually claiming benefits. A year or two (my memory isn't good enough to remember how many years I've been going through this) of trying and failing (apparently I'm unemployable) to find work while suffering from severe depression and regular financial punishments for failing to do as well as a well adjusted unemployed person have broken me. And I was already pretty broken to begin with.
So everytime you read an article in the newspaper saying "so many hundreds of people are off jobseekers" keep in mind that most of those people don't have jobs now, they've just had their benefits cut off for not attending meetings or have missed more than five half-days of a 15 week course on cv writing through injury, lateness, death, unavoidable mishaps or taking too long to smoke a cigarette during their fifteen minute break.
This took me 2 hours to write. Wooooo *twitch*
That is to say, I've been though the kind of hellish life that would break far stronger people than me, and considering there wasn't that much of me to begin with I'm amazed I survived this long... where was I. Oh yes, the madness, yes, quite, quite mad. Anyways, having dealt with the bradford benefits system which, although being statistically pleasing to anyone who dosen't know the inherently evil nature of their business, it's design is such that the only people it dosen't screw over to make the figures look good are people who are currently in employment and not actually claiming benefits. A year or two (my memory isn't good enough to remember how many years I've been going through this) of trying and failing (apparently I'm unemployable) to find work while suffering from severe depression and regular financial punishments for failing to do as well as a well adjusted unemployed person have broken me. And I was already pretty broken to begin with.
So everytime you read an article in the newspaper saying "so many hundreds of people are off jobseekers" keep in mind that most of those people don't have jobs now, they've just had their benefits cut off for not attending meetings or have missed more than five half-days of a 15 week course on cv writing through injury, lateness, death, unavoidable mishaps or taking too long to smoke a cigarette during their fifteen minute break.
This took me 2 hours to write. Wooooo *twitch*