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From:
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Subject: Update/Fwd: Complaint
To: Contact-Us <Contact-Us@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk>
Cc: CONTACT-US <CONTACT-US@dwp.gsi.gov.uk>
Hi,
now I got an unsigned(!) letter from the Jobcentre, about the Work Programme.
I have some questions regarding this.
It says this programme is for people who have problems doing job-searching.
But, I've showed my job-seeking-diary, every forthnight, at the Jobcentre.
I'm even on Ladders.
But are you ignoring that there has been a finance-crisis?
And also, why did the Jobcentre call my business a hobby?
I had a self-employed business, (which you now call part-time-job, it seems), before I went on this programme.
But the Jobcentre just called it a 'hobby', and put me on this programme.
What comes to my mind, is the guy at the end of the movie 'Hair', who is being tricked to go to fight in the Vietnam-war.
Was I set up like that?
Because I've read that the company providing this programme, (Ingeus), is 'satanic', on the internet.
When I lived in Sunderland, I got a job that was specially constructed for me, by some private company, it seemed.
I didn't find that application-process to be transparent.
I've read that there should be opennes and transparency, in society.
I couldn't find much of that, to do with that job.
Slavery and exploitation comes to mind, rather than transparcency.
Also I went to an Ingeus-meeting, here in Livepool some months ago.
There were swarming with police-officers outside and inside of the building Ingeus are at now, (after they moved from the Corn Exchange, if I remember it right).
Also, a fire-alarm was started in the midle of a meeting.
Without anyone reacting.
I was told I was going to get to see a business _advisor_, but it turned out to be a business _coach_.
I've gone to business-school and think this must be something 'new age'.
And also, like we say in Norway, one should call 'a spade a spade'.
Here an advicer was really a coach.
That's not to call a spade a spade, like we say in Norway.
Also, there were no founding for marketing on this programme.
(Which was what I wanted advice about).
I think I've been wrongly put on a satanic/New Age-programme here, it seems.
Could I rather get to go on a conventional self employed programme outside the Work Programme, please?
(Since it seems I've been put on the Work Programme wrongly, as part of some plot, or such).
Hope this is alright!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
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From:
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:04 PM
Subject: Complaint
To: Contact-Us <Contact-Us@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk>
Cc: CONTACT-US <CONTACT-US@dwp.gsi.gov.uk>
Hi,
a couple of years ago, I spoke with Mark, (I think his name was), at the Jobcentre, in Williamsson Sq., here in Liverpool, about my web-shop.
He said my web-shop was a hobby, and that I didn't have to explain about it in detail, to the Jobcentre.
Now recently, I've published some old material, from my blog, (which I started in 2007), as self-publish books.
I've gotten some royalites from this.
(Like I've informed you earlier).
And now, at the Jobcentre in Aintree, they tell me this is a part-time job, and I have to fill out some forms.
Why is the web-shop a hobby while the book-royalites are a part-time job?
This is inconsistent and confusing, I think.
I think the book-publishing should be a hobby as well then, when the web-shop is.
I do this on my spare-time, and alway show my job-search-diary, at sign-on-meetings, at the Jobcentre.
So this is something I do after finishing my jobsearch.
How can one be a hobby and the other a part-time-job?
I think this is very strange, I think that when you say the web-shop is a hobby, then you have to say the self-publishing is a hobby, as well.
Hope that you agree with me on this.
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
