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abigailbradyregarding this
it looks like i'll be no longer employed in a few days. in meantime i am on "gardening leave".
i'd better start updating my CV then.
unfortunately i don't have a garden. although i have been considering buying a pot plant. on the plus side it does mean I get to watch Bargain Hunt more often for a while!
it looks like i'll be no longer employed in a few days. in meantime i am on "gardening leave".
i'd better start updating my CV then.
unfortunately i don't have a garden. although i have been considering buying a pot plant. on the plus side it does mean I get to watch Bargain Hunt more often for a while!
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:06 am (UTC)What kind of work would you be looking for, and are you only looking in Leicester?
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:16 am (UTC)Leicester would be ideal, but open to Birmingham/East Midlands possibilities, especially Nottingham. If it goes on too long I may have to reconsider that.
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:47 am (UTC)If you get to the point of considering Cambridge, I can ask around for you, although knowing a little more about what kind of programming you're interested in would be handy :-)
Good luck!
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 11:33 am (UTC)It came as a bit of a shock. Terms not yet decided on and anyway can't discuss those in public.
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 11:50 am (UTC)"Nice friendly lawyer" is probably equally as effective :D
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Date: 2006-02-09 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 11:29 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:31 am (UTC)maybe you should come work for us :-)
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:42 am (UTC)I dunno, though. Last time I tried working from home it ended up very badly (as I alluded to back here), but then, I was rather depressed at the time.
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Date: 2006-02-09 12:46 pm (UTC)Mary x
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Date: 2006-02-09 12:51 pm (UTC)sorry
and sorry to be crap but...
You need to sign on and sort out HB immediatly!
Like do this today whilist your on leave!
you might get a job next week but if you don't you will be hemoraging money
If you sign on and get JSA that gets you into the system, once your registered as unemployed or that you will be unemployed at X date, then you immediatly goto to Housing benefit and register with them. If you have IS/JSA then you will immediatly get full HB assuming that the rent officer oks your rent.
whatever happens you need to do this now, don't leave it i have watched people drive themselves into massive debt rather than sign on, do it and now, today and then move on with looking for a job
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Date: 2006-02-09 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 02:25 pm (UTC)on HB you can pretty much start that immediatly they will want evidence of your savings, so they can adjust how much you will get.
You might want to go to a local bookstore and order a copy of The CPAG handbook AKA welfare and benefits and tax credits handbook 2005/2006 isbn 1 901698 75 0
I use the handbook to track my way round the benefits system its £33 now or you could wait till your signed on and go down to to london to CPAG and they will sell you one for £7. They might ship it by post to you direct now and since your now unemployed you might get it for £7 but they haven't been reliable with me in the past
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:10 pm (UTC)Useful book, especially when I had to play the income support game. I'd recommend it to anyone who's got £8 to spare.
Right at the bottom of http://www.cpag.org.uk/publications/ Click on the link and play with the form (which you have to print I think). I posted it with a cheque and my book came through within a week or so.
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Date: 2006-02-10 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:13 pm (UTC)Put in a CV to ZEDA up in Nottingham, see what they say. In fact, a couple of days' commuting up to Notty and talking to pimps (SP? Recruitment agents?) is probably more productive than sifting the jobs market in Leicester.
I wouldn't think that Brum - even directly over New Street Station - is do-able as a commute these days.
And the time to start is now. Walking out before your notice is up, straight into a new office, is waay better than job-hunting when you're not in a job. Apparently the disloyal are desirable potential hires, and the unemployed are unemployable.
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Date: 2006-02-09 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 07:42 pm (UTC)are you coming to psychocandy to drown sorrows?
I'l buy you a beer! ;)
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Date: 2006-02-11 10:04 am (UTC)