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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 7:43:34 GMT
haha at least I was secure in the fact the interviewers were all older than me! lynette not sure I understand the question? but both kids and I were there for Xmas temp job interviews...
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Post by lynette on Oct 12, 2017 12:23:49 GMT
haha at least I was secure in the fact the interviewers were all older than me! lynette not sure I understand the question? but both kids and I were there for Xmas temp job interviews... Yes, that is it. They can get Xmas jobs in nappies now....we’ll not quite but near enough. Good luck anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 12:30:25 GMT
haha at least I was secure in the fact the interviewers were all older than me! lynette not sure I understand the question? but both kids and I were there for Xmas temp job interviews... Yes, that is it. They can get Xmas jobs in nappies now....we’ll not quite but near enough. Good luck anyway. haha right! that's what I thought you were saying! (In fairness I had a Christmas job in a supermarket at 16 and I'd been working at least 2 years before that literally shoveling sh*t at a stables). But yes they seem terribly young! let's hope my age and wisdom won over youthful enthusiasm!
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 12, 2017 13:12:54 GMT
"My mummy said that it's good to answer you back because it means I'm speaking my mind."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 14:56:51 GMT
let's hope my age and wisdom won over youthful enthusiasm Also the fact you can do full week days before school breaks up. Well this also. Mwah ha ha kids bow down to my awesome being able to work during the day powers. Anyway while we're on the subject of jobs, Theatreboard Gods (that's you lot) think good thoughts on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday when I have a series of meetings and interviews that could well help get my life away from stacking shelves with 16 year olds. Ta.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 12, 2017 15:06:49 GMT
help get my life away from stacking shelves with 16 year olds. Ta. At this precise moment it seems quite appealing as it sound better than arguing with middle aged women over board rubbers and washing up bowls...... Good luck!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 15:08:17 GMT
help get my life away from stacking shelves with 16 year olds. Ta. At this precise moment it seems quite appealing as it sound better than arguing with middle aged women over board rubbers and washing up bowls...... Good luck! Thank you! (and having the erm pleasure of working in schools also...I feel you pain on the endless minor but excruciating squabbles that break out)
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Post by infofreako on Oct 12, 2017 18:39:20 GMT
Traumatic seems to cover it. Partners ESA medical assessment review a mere 10 months after sending the forms in. Feels like a prison sentence in some ways which now continues as we await their decision. Assessment started 45 minutes late, a period of time that had been spent with her fitting repeatedly in the waiting room. The fits continued once I had managed to get her into the room for the assessment and when she wasnt fitting she shook uncontrollably and could hardly get a word out. I hate seeing her like this and I hate the thought that she could be passed fit for work and we have to battle through the appeal and tribunal process like we did last time round
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Post by lynette on Oct 12, 2017 20:05:58 GMT
Traumatic seems to cover it. Partners ESA medical assessment review a mere 10 months after sending the forms in. Feels like a prison sentence in some ways which now continues as we await their decision. Assessment started 45 minutes late, a period of time that had been spent with her fitting repeatedly in the waiting room. The fits continued once I had managed to get her into the room for the assessment and when she wasnt fitting she shook uncontrollably and could hardly get a word out. I hate seeing her like this and I hate the thought that she could be passed fit for work and we have to battle through the appeal and tribunal process like we did last time round God, how awful. You poor things. I wish you strength and the best outcome.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 8:05:37 GMT
I'm not very eloquent, so I'd just like to echo Lynette's sentiments. Wishing you all the best.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 13, 2017 8:33:41 GMT
As someone who has been through that same process in the past, you have my complete support and compassion. It can be a brutal system with assessors who are not trained in the full range of medical issues and who cannot understand the reality of every situation.
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Post by infofreako on Oct 13, 2017 12:40:36 GMT
Thanks. It means a lot. I can never quite fathom how a system like this can work. It causes so much stress and anxiety for those in genuine need whilst there are those out there who still know how to play the system and stroll through these without a care in the world
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Post by showgirl on Oct 13, 2017 14:23:16 GMT
Belated thoughts and best wishes for you both from me, too, infofreako. I had thought that the company with the worst reputation had been removed from the list of assessors but even if so, that probably isn't enough. Given what you described on the day, it's hard to see how anyone could even proceed with an assessment, let alone pass someone fit for work in those circumstances, but I'm sure you'll update us in due course.
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Post by infofreako on Oct 13, 2017 14:54:25 GMT
I will update as soon as we hear. Hopefully some common sense will be applied
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Post by glossie on Oct 13, 2017 16:59:51 GMT
Sending good wishes to you infofreako. I still have nightmares thinking about the 9 page form I had to complete for my brain-injured and blind brother a couple of years ago to see if he was 'fit to work'. The way the questions were weighted was shocking and I had to qualify almost every answer with 'physically he could do **** but wouldn't understand the instruction/be able to decide which action was required/couldn't carry out safely without intervention/is not capable of leaving the care home unaccompanied' etc etc. Hope the right decision is reached quickly.
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Post by infofreako on Oct 13, 2017 18:10:45 GMT
Sending good wishes to you infofreako. I still have nightmares thinking about the 9 page form I had to complete for my brain-injured and blind brother a couple of years ago to see if he was 'fit to work'. The way the questions were weighted was shocking and I had to qualify almost every answer with 'physically he could do **** but wouldn't understand the instruction/be able to decide which action was required/couldn't carry out safely without intervention/is not capable of leaving the care home unaccompanied' etc etc. Hope the right decision is reached quickly. Thats so true sadly. Its all designed to catch people out. So much of it right now I could answer with yes she could do these things if she could see to do them/safely hold items without danger to herself or others. For me its a complete nonsense and her abilities were plain to see yesterday I find myself having to resist giving really sarcastic answers on those forms because I get so annoyed as every question seems to twist the previous one around
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Post by glossie on Oct 14, 2017 10:48:26 GMT
Had a lovely evening on Thursday. Went back to Gloucester to a very special event at the organisation we were part of for over 20 years which has been awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service and proudly received our very own badges.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 18:38:27 GMT
I went to a zoo today. At one point I was hanging around by the waterfowl lake. There's a two-rail wooden fence around the lake to allow the birds to come and go while maintaining a suitable separation between careless humans and natural selection. There was a large pelican just on the lakeward side of the fence, chilling out despite the presence of humans in that relaxed way you can afford to do when your mouth is several times the size of a human head.
Many people wanted to photograph the pelican. For some reason almost all of them decided to do so while standing in the middle of the path, resulting in a picture for which the only appropriate title would be "Boring wooden fence with partially obscured pelican". While I was there only one person thought to take a couple of steps up to the fence so there wouldn't be a fence between her and the thing she was photographing.
Don't these people ever look at their photographs and think "It's a shame that fence is in the way"? Doesn't it occur to them that there's something they could have done about it?
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Post by joem on Oct 14, 2017 22:09:21 GMT
Tonight went to listen to Tales From Ectoplasmic Zimmer Frames. Not really, Martin Turner, ex Wishbone Ash, live at the 100 Club. Doing the whole classic "Argus" album and more. It used to be said that classical music was for old people....
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Post by lynette on Oct 14, 2017 22:56:49 GMT
Seen Dido, she the Queen of Carthage and Volumnia, she the Ma of Coriolanus this weekend , so feels like a particularly vicious hen weekend. Am exhausted but somehow delighted by these gloriously conceived women characters from another age.
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Post by tmesis on Oct 15, 2017 12:10:06 GMT
At Prism in Hampstead yesterday I sat next to a nice Canadian guy who had come to to London on a theatre-fest. He had almost completed seeing 19 productions whilst here and apparently he comes 4 to 5 times a year and averages around 100 productions!
I looked back in my diary for 2016 and it transpires I saw 73 plays / musicals / operas / ballets - what a lightweight.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 12:48:06 GMT
Had an eye test yesterday which on reflection was really perfunctory and didn't include many of the checks I'd had in the same optician's branch previously. So phoned up today for a whinge and they're redoing it for free & "having words" with the locum who did the test.
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Post by tysilio2 on Oct 15, 2017 19:12:47 GMT
Eldest daughter finally flew the nest today to her own rented flat. Weekend has involved numerous journeys back and to but she's finally seconded in her own little space. She'll be back tomorrow night though as her car is being fixed!!!
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Post by tysilio2 on Oct 15, 2017 19:18:28 GMT
I typed esconsed, it came out seconded. Damn auto-correct!
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Post by showgirl on Oct 16, 2017 4:07:08 GMT
I typed esconsed, it came out seconded. Damn auto-correct! Auto-correct can be very weird and is a pain when I text, though it may instead be auto-complete. My mobile supposedly learns words I use and adds them to its memory but infuriatingly, though it accepts some frequent abbreviations such as "wdn't", it refuses to learn others such as "I'd" - yet "I'm is OK - now why is that? Yesterday I typed "sure" and it changed it to a much longer and completely different word; sometimes I don't notice what it has changed and then the person I'm texting texts back to ask what I meant or tease me.
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