Unemployment & Job Agencies.

I have predominantly worked in the construction industry, which in reality means I’ve spent a lot of time getting laid off (3 times in 3 year).

Being unemployed is shit, degrading and lowers yourself worth to the same as that of an annoying house fly.

I am currently into the second week of not working and have so far resisted the temptation of signing on. I’m lucky enough to have a missus who works and providing the house is clean, the tea’s cooked and I’m looking for work she’s happy. The other reason I won’t go and sign on is because I don’t think it’s worth £120 a fortnight to have to suffer the humiliation and indignity of having to justify my existence to some unsympathetic, judgmental bell end, who if they weren’t working in a job centre would be a member of the Hitler Youth, or the Catholic church.

So where do you look for jobs? Internet? Job papers? Well that’s a great start, but be warned. Very rarely do employers advertise job vacancies, for some reason they find it far too tedious for people of their standing, so they go through agencies.

Recruitment agencies one of the biggest parasites to walk this earth. They promise you the world and deliver f**k all.

“Mr Tall Man we have the perfect vacancy for you, it matches your previous skills perfectly”,

“brilliant, is it estimating in the construction industry?”

“Errrrr no its picking peanuts out of shit”.

They send you for interviews that you have no possible chance of getting just to fill the quota they agreed with the employers. And once you get a job, they will take away a percentage of your wage. A friend once told me that his firm paid an agency £12 per hour for an employee, and the employee was paid £5.50 of it. Is that fair?

Recruitment agencies should be forced to close down and the people responsible for them should be tried in a court of law for theft.

When you’re working 40 hours a week unemployment sounds fantastic, sitting around watching telly drinking tea all day. In reality its shit, depressing and boring. I have over 90 channels of shit during the day. I have the choice of home improvement shows, documentaries about the Nazis or re-runs of Only Fools & Horses that I’ve seen a dozen times this week.

Obviously when your unemployed you need to look for work, but you can’t spend all your waking hours looking. Firstly there aren’t that many jobs to look at and secondly after 2 days of this you’ll be depressed and suicidal, because out of the 40 jobs you applied for, none have them have got back to you (been there and done it).

You need to keep your mind and body active or you’ll waste away, and if you do get a job you’ll be that used to sitting in your room masturbating your day away it’ll take you time to adjust to doing something and being around people. By the time your settled your colleagues think your weird, odd and spend a long time in the toilet 3 times a day (been there done it).