REAL LIFE
How was your Christmas? The most exciting aspect of mine was
having to bundle up to post a response to the Doubt raised by SEETEC over non
attendance to a mandated interview. To explain I am on the Work Programme for
the unemployed run by a government and they in theory help me to find work. I
missed an interview because I had got myself a job interview, I had informed
them beforehand but apparently that makes no difference. That fact as well as a
few others to me shows clearly that all these changes to the rules around
benefits for low paid and unemployed people is just an exercise in screwing
people out of money in order to appeal to the public at large they are dealing
with those evil benefit scroungers (while ignoring all the rich tax dodgers and
evaders) and to reduce the welfare bill (though the majority of it is pensions
just so you know). Anyway the letter has been sent so now I have to wait for
the response.
I haven’t really picked anything up for Christmas mainly as
a result of some unexpected expenses that came up just before it. I had three
interviews in rapid succession and SEETEC in a move that proved their ‘worth’
refused to pay for travel for the 2 outside of the local area, in this case it
was to cover the cost of travel to London for the interviews. That really made
things difficult and I nearly couldn’t come up with the funds to make it happen
needless to say food was a little light on the ground following those
interviews but I’m still here so we move on. I am in the process of writing up
a complaint about the whole thing after talking to the Job Centre who think
that SEETEC are in the wrong for refusing to help with the costs of travel but
we will see how long the complaint procedure will take.
GAMING
Still I did fun things at Christmas too I did a little
levelling on World of Warcraft even managing to pop 86 on my Horde Hunter and
see some of the Horde storyline play out in Pandaria which I haven’t seen
really up until this point. It is interesting so far and it is good to be home
I have always identified more with the Horde than the Alliance the communities
in my experience feel quite different and I just got used to the Horde side
stuff after levelling through 4 max level characters.
So now I am going to do my best to do some smart shopping to
stretch my limited pounds for all they are worth. My shortlist includes some
new smart shoes for interviews, a new cap and some books.
Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? I’m still waiting
for that most precious of gifts – a job.
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