From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:

>  They have a special "intensive care" system or something. Wait...
> I'll look it up. I *love* bureaucratese.
> 
>   Intensive Support Services!

    A contradiction in every word they use.

>  Centrelink is shedding *all* its services now, passing it on the the
> agencies. If you are not a prime candidate, they don't actually give
> you the best job to get rid of you... they put you in the Intensive
> Support.

  Where you sit vegetating waiting for the payments that never come.  Too bad 
they forgot to tell you they're stopping all those payments.

>  It's an agency! They get paid two ways: Centrelink pays them to run
> all this crap, and they get a share of the first-year's salar - so it
> works the opposite to what you're saying. The keep the jobs for the
> *prime* suspects, where they're sure to get a divvy on the first year,
> and the long-term no-hopers like me go into Intensive Care which
> presumably pays more from Centrelink.

  Ah, so I was right, but for the wrong reason.  They are looking at not losing 
the least money, but making the most.  Apparently, the losses aren't as great 
as I first thought.

>  There is *nothing* of value for me on their site. It looks liek they
> have dumped the professional end of the job market entirely.

  So, not only have they become headhunters, they're not even good ones at that.

>  I went to an Intensive Support interview last Friday, and the nice
> lady suggested I go to teaching, at TAFE! ROFL!
>  I'm 64 in November, my degree is incomplete and 40 years old anyway,
> and the conversion course from engineering to teaching is 12 months.
> What the fuck?
>  Oh. I forgot to mention, TAFE has compulsory retirement at 65.

  That's ok, with a year of training, you can teach for two months.  It's a bit 
of money at least.  (who's paying for the training by the way?)

>  Then she asked had I considered voluntary work. "What for?" says I.
> "Are you saying that I'm worhtless?"

  I suppose you can go back to all those people who called you good-for-nothing 
and tell them you're now a certified good-for-nothing.

>  I was conned by a classic. He was American, an engineer, he had all
> sorts of paper, worked on everything... a beauty! So I hired him and
> then we discovered he couldn't solder! Did not have a clue!
> 
>  I didn't sack him, though. Just gave him a tech's wages and taught
> him to solder. Ed... he was a brilliant conman.

  We get them to solder during the second interview.  Anything short of perfect 
is a fail.  If they can't get something simple like that down pat, they 
probably have no hope in getting anything else right.
  But again, I've never seen any bad solderers myself, (although heard stories 
from others years ago).  yes, all the good bullshitters have retired.

>  Or I hope so, anyway. It'll be a real bastard if they actually get
> me a job.   

  You can always "pretend" to work there. :-)

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