Job Centre meeting tomorrow - might need extra spoons

Folara
Folara Member Posts: 568
edited 19. Mar 2012, 07:47 in Living with Arthritis archive
Tomorrow morning I have to go to the jobcentre to explain why I think I can't get a job. It's not from lack of trying but I am in a wheelchair, I have arthritis in both hips, knees, ankles, lower and upper back, left shoulder, right elbow and recently diagnosed with tendonitis in both wrists but predominantly the right one. I am also incontinent due to nerve damage and have sciatica. I have been told that in the next 5 years I can expect to have 2 or 3 operations.

Who on earth would employ me? According to the Jobcentre that's my fault for not highlighting the positives enough. Hmmm ok.

Anyway it's a mammoth task for me to get there and totally wipes me out even with my husband wheeling me and whatever so I am anticipating a lack of spoons for tomorrow. I might borrow a couple from Tuesday but if anyone has a spare one tomorrow, please think of me.

Thanks for listening to my moan.

Fols x

Comments

  • jillyb1
    jillyb1 Member Posts: 1,725
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Think you need pocket duties for that , Folara , that's when we all " jump in your pocket " to be with you and offer cyber support . I'll be there with my dog Betsy for extra strength ; don't let them grind you down . Jillyb
  • Folara
    Folara Member Posts: 568
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks jillyb, didn't know about pocket duty. Your support is very much welcomed and appreciated. Tell Betsy thank you as well please. My doggy Poppy will also be in my pocket.

    Fols x
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Jilly is right, pocket duties are where we all report to offer support so count me in - and here are your two spoons back to help.

    These blasted things really get on my mammaries: the complete and utter lack of understanding from healthy people about what we have to contend with. There's a new campaign being started by Rosa Monckton about how those with learning difficulties are treated in our current society: ooops, I can feel a rant coming on and this ain't the place! Sorry. :oops:

    I will be thinking of you tomorrow Folara, I have not been in this situation and won't be (I am self-employed) but it irks me how much frustration, pain and stress this procedure places on people who just don't need it. ((())) DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • gilly1957
    gilly1957 Member Posts: 212
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    GOOD LUCK FOR TOMMOROW,HOPE ALL GOES WELL FOR YOU.

    I WAS ON JOBSEEKERS TILL A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WHEN I EXPLAINED ABOUT MY OA IN LUMBER SPINE THEY TOLD ME I COULDNT STAY ON JOBSEEKERS, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY JOBS I COULDNT DO

    IM ON ESA NOW,WRAG GROUP AND HAVE TO GO JOB CENTRE EVERY SO OFTON FOR AN INTERVIEW.

    HOPEFULLY YOU WILL SOMEONE WHO DEALS WITH CLIENTS THAT HAVE HEALTH PROBS, AND THEY WILL BE SYMPATHETIC.

    GILL
  • spacey
    spacey Member Posts: 126
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I will be thinking of you too - its a really stupid system that we have and it is very wrong one x
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    You are clearly a wastrel, Fols :lol: . I, too, shall be with you in spirit tomorrow and I shall personally carry a large spoon for the purpose of knocking some sense into someone. :roll:
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • traluvie
    traluvie Member Posts: 2,579
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Will be with you, Its so unfair that people have to go through this, Please let us know how you got on..x
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  • Folara
    Folara Member Posts: 568
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thank you everyone for all your lovely replies. It really does mean a lot. I'm really quite worried about the whole thing but thankfully hubby is strong willed and won't let me be beaten down.

    Will let you know as soon as I am back.

    Fols x
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Fols
    I will be thinking about you tomorrow ..good luck with it, and I really do hope they listen x
    Love
    Barbara
  • jaja
    jaja Member Posts: 135
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi folara.....hope alls well tomorrow...what is our country comming to?....i suppose they are only following orders....now where have i heard that before?

    all the best JAJA
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am thinking of you. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh dear I'm not sure what is going on nowadays with this job seeking stuff

    Elizabeth x
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • ValOrient
    ValOrient Member Posts: 16
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Fingers crossed it will be a specialist JC worker who deals with people who have disabilities and health problems.

    My husband has his ESA WRAG jobcentre meeting a few weeks back and the lady was lovely, and said he is not suitable for paid work (no s***, Sherlock!) but as he was a good talker asked would he be interested in some voluntary work, spending an hour or 2 a week chatting with an elderly person who is lonely? My husband is thrilled at the thought of being able to do something to help someone else, even with his health problems.

    I really hope your advisor is of a similar mind and sees that you really aren't able to do anything this stupid Govt thinks you should be able to do. <jumps in pocket, with lucky drawers on> xx
  • JuliaHod12
    JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Best of luck Fols, thinking of you xx
  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hope things go well and you are not too wiped-out,sending hugs and a couple of spoons.(((()))) Mig
    ps will be in pockets with chocos.