In the 'dole-drums'

Talking of which......have you been to sign on lately? Well I haven't in about 22 years and it has certainly changed!

I walked into the Job Centre ('Plus' whatever that means?) and no-one even approaches you for a start and thats because there are hardly any staff working there these days.....it's all automated and via internal phones. Very strange. Where have all the desks gone and the hoardes of people that used to work there.

You are confronted by touch-screens instead of boards and they print off job specs if you see something you want to apply for......which wasn't much in my opinion!

To even get that far you have a telephone type interview, sat in a very public booth where every bugger around you is very interested in what you're saying! And 'they' ask you a million and one questions about everything thats happened to you and what you want etc, etc....

I want bloody everything after paying a fortune in taxes over the years thank you very much, and the quicker the better now that I will be skint very shortly!