AthenaFaeyrn
01-05-15, 15:53
I got a sick note from my Dr for 12 weeks off work (it was a "Statement of Fitness for Work for Social Security or Statutory Sick Pay").
She told me to go to the JobCentre with that form, and today I finally summoned the courage to do it.
Well, I get there, and was told by the JobCentre man at the door that I had "got it in the wrong order" and was sent home with a phone number and told to do it at home!!
So, I get back home again, sweating and confused after that waste of a very difficult walk, and call up. I cannot hear the man on the line very well at all so I keep having to tell him to repeat things over and over again, and then the line just drops and he's gone. He didn't even call me back despite having gave him my phone number, so for an 0800 number on my mobile (I have no landline to call for free), I would have to ring up all over again - for a 45 min phone call.
I can't do this nonsense being sent from pillar to post when I have just been doing all of the things I was told to do and it be so incredibly mindblowingly hard and complex and testing as Hell on my condition. I did as I was told and went to the JobCentre, was sent home, and then this line cuts out and I still don't even know what I'm doing or which benefit I'm even applying for!
I wanted to go to the JobCentre and do what I needed to do there as I was told in the first place, not faff around with all of this sickeningly complicated process. It's just not worth it. I'd rather the horrors of struggling in poverty as I have been doing, than to endure this awful thing only for me no doubt to be interrogated in the future. It used to be Atos that was the real nightmare for me, but now all of it has changed and it's all just absolutely horrible from the very start.
I have completely exhausted my capacity for patience and willpower. It is hard enough for me to summon the strength to get out of bed, let alone waltz about to the place and then waltz back home and listen to Vivaldi Four Seasons for ages on hold and then get through to someone who I can't even hear.
She told me to go to the JobCentre with that form, and today I finally summoned the courage to do it.
Well, I get there, and was told by the JobCentre man at the door that I had "got it in the wrong order" and was sent home with a phone number and told to do it at home!!
So, I get back home again, sweating and confused after that waste of a very difficult walk, and call up. I cannot hear the man on the line very well at all so I keep having to tell him to repeat things over and over again, and then the line just drops and he's gone. He didn't even call me back despite having gave him my phone number, so for an 0800 number on my mobile (I have no landline to call for free), I would have to ring up all over again - for a 45 min phone call.
I can't do this nonsense being sent from pillar to post when I have just been doing all of the things I was told to do and it be so incredibly mindblowingly hard and complex and testing as Hell on my condition. I did as I was told and went to the JobCentre, was sent home, and then this line cuts out and I still don't even know what I'm doing or which benefit I'm even applying for!
I wanted to go to the JobCentre and do what I needed to do there as I was told in the first place, not faff around with all of this sickeningly complicated process. It's just not worth it. I'd rather the horrors of struggling in poverty as I have been doing, than to endure this awful thing only for me no doubt to be interrogated in the future. It used to be Atos that was the real nightmare for me, but now all of it has changed and it's all just absolutely horrible from the very start.
I have completely exhausted my capacity for patience and willpower. It is hard enough for me to summon the strength to get out of bed, let alone waltz about to the place and then waltz back home and listen to Vivaldi Four Seasons for ages on hold and then get through to someone who I can't even hear.