It’s 2019 and there’s a program that gives out monthly payments to the unemployed, provided they are actively looking for a job. I work in an employment centre, and it is my job to interview applicants after their application has been preliminary selected.
We have to fill out a form, and we can instantly award the payment if the applicant has some form of handicap preventing him from taking up a job OR is a convicted felon currently serving his sentence.
In walks an applicant. We start the interview, fill out the form. He has just one lung and goes about with an oxygen tank in his backpack but doesn’t want to take the money and go home like he could, he wants to work for it.
We keep interviewing him for an hour and a half and then, being done, we tell him he can go home, and we will call him to schedule an appointment for the next step of the process.
Customer: “Okay, but I don’t know if I’ll be available; I’m to be sentenced this week and I’ll be locked up for a while…”
An hour and a half wasted when he could have simply checked the “Convicted” box, sign and be out in thirty seconds…
Please Employ Some Common Sense
It’s 2019 and there’s a program that gives out monthly payments to the unemployed, provided they are actively looking for a job. I work in an employment centre, and it is my job to interview applicants after their application has been preliminary selected.
We have to fill out a form, and we can instantly award the payment if the applicant has some form of handicap preventing him from taking up a job OR is a convicted felon currently serving his sentence.
In walks an applicant. We start the interview, fill out the form. He has just one lung and goes about with an oxygen tank in his backpack but doesn’t want to take the money and go home like he could, he wants to work for it.
We keep interviewing him for an hour and a half and then, being done, we tell him he can go home, and we will call him to schedule an appointment for the next step of the process.
Customer: “Okay, but I don’t know if I’ll be available; I’m to be sentenced this week and I’ll be locked up for a while…”
An hour and a half wasted when he could have simply checked the “Convicted” box, sign and be out in thirty seconds…