Hey everyone!
This post comes so soon after my last life update and, I must admit, much sooner than I was intending on following up on that previous one.
The reason is a quick snapshot of what went on today. It's quite a lengthy one so buckle in for the ride...
I've got some thoughts on this ill thought out scheme that I wish to address today.
Finished At Last!
That heading says more than I ever need to because I, personally, thought the whole programme was a waste of time.
"Bro, how can you say that with what it might lead to?"
All I can answer to that question is this; how would you like to feel so undervalued that you ask to be given a placement that would be likely to give you some retail experience and you get placed on... ready... a farm?!
For goodness sakes, dudes, that was the absolute last place I was expecting! :-D
As if that wasn't making you feel undervalued enough, I was then transferred (after an incident which I don't want to go into here as it involves other what other people said/did on a work night out) back to the centre. I then took a pointless job in telesales, which I will never ever be going back to. Before ending up back on the programme (having to wait five weeks in centre 9-4 "jobsearching", stupid putos!) as a driver's mate in a charity shop.
I know it is at this point that I should feel grateful for the experience and believe you me, I do, because it meant I got to spend the better part of the end of last summer outside clambering up hills enjoying the scenery of Littleborough!
What my main problem was, though, was that I asked for one thing and they completely ignored me and gave me something completely irrelevant to what I asked for. When asked about what either placement was, they wouldn't even tell me because they didn't even frickin' know!
Nice one, Seetec!
You're lame, that's all I've got to say about that one! :-P
Ranting Like a Boss
Sorry, I know this has turned into a rant and I haven't had one for a while, well, not since dealing with my crush anyway. But this whole programme is a typical Tory gesture; make the unemployed work for society because they're all leeches who don't want to work!
Excuse me, but don't tarnish everyone with the same brush because some of us do want to earn our crust and not have to rely on state handouts!
Anyway, you know what I realised as soon as I was given the opportunity to express my opinions over the whole programme at today's exit interview? Two things: -
- I held the power and could be really nasty if I had wanted to; and
- I didn't have to react the way I'd been wanting to in my closing weeks on the programme.
I felt like the person with the shotgun ready to pull the trigger on an injured animal, if I'm completely honest. The more I sat there and thought, whilst my 'temporary advisor' messed about trying to log in, the more I realised that it was futile to tear into them.
Why?
They're running a broken programme that's probably on its way out depending on how this In/Out vote goes for the EU membership, so it made little sense to blurt out a whole heap of negativity toward them.
Do you see what I did there?
I saw Seetec as the wounded animal that it is, all sick and dying like, and thought of pulling the proverbial trigger with my comments, but... I... just... couldn't do it!
It was too easy!
I thought it best if I just exit the programme and saw that at that point, if I spouted verbal terrors, I would be speaking negativity over an already broken programme.
I just wasn't willing to do it, as I said; it was just too easy!
So in effect, it was the equivalent of the hero about to shoot the villain, only to offer clemency at the last possible second in an action movie and we all know how that turns out!
I thought it was pointless to do that, to lay into them about how unhelpful they were just letting you spend four hours on a computer and doing pointless courses about how to find a job. The only jobs they did turn up with were garbage and not worth the paper that they were printed on, yet they made out like you were stopping yourself from finding work by not taking them.
Did I mention that many a site was completely blocked by the gormless IT who couldn't have created a more amateurish network if they'd tried? You couldn't even pick up new skills thanks to the vast array of websites that are out there!
I'll give you an example; imagine turning up every week sitting looking at a computer screen jobsearching when me, legend that I am, can have my jobsearch done in well under an hour most days!
Four hours is a complete waste of time in my opinion because I could be out actually getting interviews by turning up in some stores instead of looking at a computer screen. Also, it's worth noting that they showed the same jobs no matter which job site you went onto.
I know that I have to maintain a sense of perspective in this, because God can use this negative experience (placements aside as they were alright on the whole) and work it all together for my good.
So why complain?
It's more a case of this being me going down on record as saying what I really thought of the programme, that I didn't want to say to them because it wouldn't have changed anything, or maybe it would... but I didn't!
All I can say is that this is my final record of this because it's a new chapter for me starting now, so I don't aim to keep revisiting it.
I'll endeavour to make sure it is now completely closed in my life and I can benefit from some, hopefully, better avenues in the near future.
Final Thought
In God's hands is not only my future but my eternity so I'm 'marking it down as learning' to quote a Matchbox Twenty song I heard recently.
I could get bitter about this and I could get critical but I'm not going to, instead, like I told my dad, I'm closing this chapter of my life as I move into my new season some more!
Next stop, all focus on making friends with my new friend properly!
We had a lovely chat yesterday evening and I fully intend to follow that up when I next see her because I want to know her more. That is all. :-)
Until next time...
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