Job Agent boasts about stopping benefits on Twitter

[Rincewind]

She's been suspended. and hopefully be sacked. She will now know what it feels like.

 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/job-agent-suspended-after-boasting-on-twitter-about-halting-suckers-benefits-29493102.html

 

 

 

 

[Charl91]

Wasn't she talking about people that didn't turn up to job interviews that they were supposed to? Admittedly, she shouldn't take so much pleasure in it, and she's clearly on a power trip, but if they don't turn up to job interviews then they really shouldn't be claiming job seekers, so she's right in principle.

[Guest MattP]

At least she was doing her job properly.

 

Bit daft to write it on Twitter though, even though she is right.

 

Sure a girl like her will have no problem finding another job anyway. Recruitment sector is absolutely heaving.

[Captain...]

Reading that I don't really see what she did wrong, she works in recruitment and must get pissed off with people messing her around not turning up for interviews, and if someone does have the attitude of not wanting a job as benefits pay more she is right to report them. The more offensive comments came from her friends/followers.

 

The only thing she really did wrong was call them suckers, which isn't that offensive, and discussing things like this in public.

[MikeyT]

If people are meant to be turning up for interviews at the job centre or with a potential employer or one of the work programme things and not bothering, then yes they should get into trouble for doing so. I can't quite fathom why they wouldn't if they know their benefits will be stopped.

If someone is genuinely trying to find work and wants a better life for themselves then I've no problem but if they are just taking the piss and not wanting to work then no sympathy from me whatsoever. 

I have been signing on since last October up until recently, because now have a job I start in September working for the NHS which I can't wait to start. Can't tell you the amount of people I got told about that missed appointments and never gave a reason why. They are asking for their money to be stopped and it would be stopped for quite a while too. 

 

However the woman posting stuff on Twitter is a bit of a prat for doing so. What did she think would happen!

[Rincewind]

Why did you leave your last job?

I was sacked for taking the piss out of job seekers.

Next.

[ADK]

 

Bet she's a right cow and they were just looking for an excuse to get rid of her.

[Guest MattP]

Why did you leave your last job?

I was sacked for taking the piss out of job seekers.

Next.

 

Not if I'm interviewing.

[Guest MattP]

Reading this again it's not really gross misconduct is it?

 

If she isn't on a final warning no way will she be sacked for that until they are really looking to get rid for other reasons.

[MooseBreath]

People will be lining up to give her a job. Fantastic attitude.

[Guest Bilo]

I would argue that stopping benefits of people who don't want to work should be regarded as a necessary evil rather than something in which pleasure can be sought. I'm sure some of the people she took benefits from deserved to lose them but to boast about it on Twitter is unprofessional, mean spirited and makes you question whether she should be in a profession dealing with some genuinely vulnerable people.

[bovril]

Well there's more than one reason for not turning up for an appointment. It might not just be out of laziness. Ignoring the benefits argument, she seems like a right arrogant and vindicative bint boasting about it on twitter.

[Captain...]

I would argue that stopping benefits of people who don't want to work should be regarded as a necessary evil rather than something in which pleasure can be sought. I'm sure some of the people she took benefits from deserved to lose them but to boast about it on Twitter is unprofessional, mean spirited and makes you question whether she should be in a profession dealing with some genuinely vulnerable people.

 

She's not, she's in recruitment, she doesn't work for the job centre, she arranges interviews for people, if they don't turn up they are wasting her time and giving her more work to do as she has to organise another interview.

 

It depends on how you see twitter, I'm fairly sure she doesn't have many followers and probably uses it to let off steam after work to a handful of her friends. The problem is it isn't a private comment and the whole world can see it and jumped on it as there are a few keyboard warriors out there.

 

As MattP says if she got sacked for that, then she had to be on a warning, so maybe she is an unpleasant piece of work, but I see no problem with calling people a sucker for not turning up to an interview, they are, unless they have a genuine reason, but that is for the job centre to decide, and it is for her to report it.

[Guest MattP]

Absolutely spot on Captain.

 

You can bet a pound to a penny this was spotted on Twitter via a retweet or something and some sad bastard with no life decided to report it. Pathetic.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Wasn't she talking about people that didn't turn up to job interviews that they were supposed to? Admittedly, she shouldn't take so much pleasure in it, and she's clearly on a power trip, but if they don't turn up to job interviews then they really shouldn't be claiming job seekers, so she's right in principle.

This.

 

I don't believe we are talking about people who want to work, and do their best to find it. It's the scroungers who have no intention of working.

 

Wrong to put it on Facebook though.

[Guest MattP]

Yep I was right.

 

Linda Sinclair of the Bedroom Tax Action Group, a welfare lobby which highlighted the tweets, said: “I am quite horrified that anyone working for a recruitment agency (somewhere surely designed to help and encourage people back to work) has the authority to get someone’s Jobseeker’s Allowance and/or Housing Benefit stopped, and then appears to take pleasure in doing so.â€

 

 

The Bedroom Tax Action Group. Can't even begin to imagine what a unwashed rabble of filth that lot would be.

 

Also important to point out she is wrong in everything she says about her being allowed to get that stopped.

[Bert]

Reading this again it's not really gross misconduct is it?

 

If she isn't on a final warning no way will she be sacked for that until they are really looking to get rid for other reasons.

 /political correctness gone mad.

[sphericalfox]

the company may well have a very strict social media policy, and if it's evidenced that she has brought the company into disrepute via social media then it might well be a sackable offence.

[Rincewind]

Yep I was right.

 

 

The Bedroom Tax Action Group. Can't even begin to imagine what a unwashed rabble of filth that lot would be.

 

Also important to point out she is wrong in everything she says about her being allowed to get that stopped.

 And how many of the group do you know? Can they not just be a group of people concerned about the inpact it will have on working families with low incomes? I know many people with the same concerns and they are certainly like you have stereotyped.

It is insulting to them and the  good work they do to try and help those that desprately need help.

[Guest MattP]

 And how many of the group do you know? Can they not just be a group of people concerned about the inpact it will have on working families with low incomes? I know many people with the same concerns and they are certainly like you have stereotyped.

It is insulting to them and the  good work they do to try and help those that desprately need help.

 

Well I know of one, a person who highlights a young girls tweets from her personal account in order to try and get her sacked from her job. What a pathetic envy ridden waste of oxygen she must be. Did she know the girl? Of course she didn't.

 

What good work? They went to court to challenge the government and their case was so bad they got laughed out of court.

[Rincewind]

This.

 

I don't believe we are talking about people who want to work, and do their best to find it. It's the scroungers who have no intention of working.

 

Wrong to put it on Facebook though.

II have heard of people having their money stopped for being ten minutes late. And what if a persons child takes ill? Are they supposed to leave them? or if a child carer fails to show? These people still have their only income stopped and this woman is typical of the ones that stereo type and fall for the myths put out by sections of the media.

I hope she is sacked and refused benefits when she struggles to find another job.

[Guest MattP]

II have heard of people having their money stopped for being ten minutes late. And what if a persons child takes ill? Are they supposed to leave them? or if a child carer fails to show? These people still have their only income stopped and this woman is typical of the ones that stereo type and fall for the myths put out by sections of the media.

I hope she is sacked and refused benefits when she struggles to find another job.

 

You really are a bitter, twisted man if you really want that to happen to someone for doing their job properly.

[I am Rod Hull]

Another "twitter tvvat" gets dicked 

 

No sympathy for her whatsoever, the thick cow....

[Rincewind]

You really are a bitter, twisted man if you really want that to happen to someone for doing their job properly.

Her job is not to stereotype then boast about making peoples lives a misery.

 

I have just seen a comment on Facebook from a woman that worked at a jobcentre for 12 years and never sanctioned anyone. She said she gave a lecture to a few and told them they were taking the piss and get their act together. They are there to help people back into work not to judge.

I looked at that BT action group FB page. They have sent a Q/A to over 400 councils and all but a few say the demand to downsize far outweigns the number available properties so residents who were struggling before are a lot worse off now.

It may look a good idea on paper but in practice it simply does not work.

[Captain...]

Her job is not to stereotype then boast about making peoples lives a misery.

I have just seen a comment on Facebook from a woman that worked at a jobcentre for 12 years and never sanctioned anyone. She said she gave a lecture to a few and told them they were taking the piss and get their act together. They are there to help people back into work not to judge.

I looked at that BT action group FB page. They have sent a Q/A to over 400 councils and all but a few say the demand to downsize far outweigns the number available properties so residents who were struggling before are a lot worse off now.

It may look a good idea on paper but in practice it simply does not work.

She isn't doing anything other than her job, which is to report to the job centre when candidates sent by the job centre don't turn up. It is then up to the job centre to sanction or counsel or do whatever it is they are page to do. She doesn't know if the candidates that didn't turn up got sanctioned or not. She is just generalising and blowing off steam, probably after a shit day of being messed around by candidates sent by the job centre. The only thing she did wrong was forget that tweeting is very public and not a private means of communication.

If her job has a very strict social media policy, then she only has herself to blame, but I cannot see anything wrong with what she tweeted.