Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I have, as it happens, just handed in my notice, without another job to go to.
Leaving employment without another job to go to...
- Thread starter Divisive Cotton
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Divisive Cotton said:
This is a difficult one.....are things really that bad at work?
I have done this before but only after things had gotten so bad that I despised going to work and it was making me miserable...at that time I didn't have a lot of financial responsibilities so that made it easier to walk away.....
It did leave me feeling liberated and luckily I wasn't without work too long before i got another job....Are you thinking of a change of career? Returning to study?
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Nahh wouldn't reccomend it without savings .And espically a plan otherwise you will just sit at home whatching crap posting on urban 
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.just done it myself. last day is nov 30th and nothing lined up as yet.
my partner works full time on a good wage so we'll be okay for a bit.
I think some people think I'm mad leaving a job when we ve got a wedding to pay for in May but life's too short to be stuck doing something that makes you miserable.
got a few job applications to knock out on sunday and hopeful that I'll find something quite soon. everyone keep their fingers crossed
my partner works full time on a good wage so we'll be okay for a bit.
I think some people think I'm mad leaving a job when we ve got a wedding to pay for in May but life's too short to be stuck doing something that makes you miserable.
got a few job applications to knock out on sunday and hopeful that I'll find something quite soon. everyone keep their fingers crossed
8ball
World is a fuck
No, you can't sign on after walking out, not for a long time anyway.
On the up side, my flatmate left his job (which he was very pissed off with after 8 years) a couple of weeks ago. He starts his new job on Monday - less cash but better hours and he can meet up to play with his band more so he's quite happy.
On the up side, my flatmate left his job (which he was very pissed off with after 8 years) a couple of weeks ago. He starts his new job on Monday - less cash but better hours and he can meet up to play with his band more so he's quite happy.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
You can sign on, you just can't receive any benefits relating thereto.8ball said:
Zinedine*
Well-Known Member
marty21 said:
I have social housing experience, which was my preference. But even with basic admin jobs, data entry, customer service-even call centre work, I havnt been able to get a temp job until now. Never ever had a problem before but spoke to lots of agencies and they said things are very slow at the moment.
chez said:
not if you did it voluntarily without good reason, but after 6 months, you can receive JSA again. if however there was a good reason for you leaving the job (I am sure you can find many, but wanting to search your inner soul or developing your budding writing/artistic skills aren't one of them), you can JSA straight away, although they may want to check.
Hmm interesting. I've just handed my notice in without anything to go to and reading this has made me wonder!
My work has been really hacking me off for quite a while and I decided that life is too short and I want to do some voluntary work. I do have savings tho which makes a difference and means I can last for a few months without working.
I'm looking forward to the adventure
My work has been really hacking me off for quite a while and I decided that life is too short and I want to do some voluntary work. I do have savings tho which makes a difference and means I can last for a few months without working.
I'm looking forward to the adventure
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
8ball said:Yeah, that's kind of what I meant.
No lovely dole.
"lovely dole"
I prefer lovely wages to lovely dole, but after a year of not working, even dole money would be better than nothing...
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I had a friend in her late 40s who was considered 'too old' as well.etnea said:...I found it very difficult to get any temp work at all based on a variety of factors from "overqualified" to you're too old to be temping
They also seemed very reluctant to sign me up as a temp once they heard that I was looking for permanent work...
And they're probably reluctant to sign you up if you tell them you're looking for permanent work in another sector. This is because they actually make quite a lot of commission from placing people in temp-to-perm jobs, where someone starts as a temp and then fills the vacancy on a permanent basis. They get a commission of a percentage of the annual salary (paid by the company you work for, not a deduction from your salary).
It's therefore in their interests to recruit temps who want permanent jobs in the kind of roles where they are temping. Either don't tell them that you are looking for permanent work doing whatever it is you're looking for in a permanent role, say you're looking for a career change or something, tell them that if a temp job works out and you like it, you'd consider it as a permanent job.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
This is because people don't understand how temp agencies work.PacificOcean said:
You think that if you register, you can just sit back and wait for the call, because you're on their database, right? So when they get a booking, they're just going to enter the skills required: 70+wpm, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint... and then they press a button and hey presto your name pops up and they call you. Right? Wrong.
What actually happens is that the temp controllers work more from memory and 'call sheets' than trawling their database for likely candidates. They'll have regular temps who've been working for them for a while, and they'll always take precedence over newly-registered people, because the temp controller knows them, they're a known quantity and they know their existing temps will please their existing clients.
So you need to be proactive, keep calling the agency, reminding them that you exist and that you're still looking for work and making them think you're keen. Call them, say on a Thurday afternoon/Friday morning and say that you're looking for a placement for the next week. That way, as they're ringing round their clients to sort out the bookings for the following week, they'll have you on their list of people available for work. If you don't get anything, get up first thing Monday, call them, let them know you're available straightaway, so when they get 'called in sick' jobs, they can send you out.
One agency I temped for (by which I worked in their office), had 'call sheets'. Their temps would call to say they were available for work. If a client called to say someone had called in sick and would the agency send someone, the temp controller's first port of call was the 'call sheet', just a daily log of name/number of people who'd called to say they were available. That would tell him/her who was already out of bed, dressed and ready to go straight to work.
If you don't keep calling them they'll forget you exist, or just assume you've got fixed up by another agency or started a full time job elsewhere. Try calling them every other day, and then maybe the Friday morning/Monday morning thing, so you're not 'hassling' them too much.
So many people seem to think that once they've filled in the forms they can just sit back and wait for the phone to start ringing, but the agencies don't explain properly how they work.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Again, this just shows that people don't know how employment agencies work. I said in my previous post that you can't just register and then sit back and wait for the phone to ring, you have to keep reminding them you're available for work.perry1 said:
Also, the thing about them calling and offering you a one day shitty assignment... well, if you turn your nose up at the first assignment they offer you, they're unlikely to call again.
When you sign up with an agency, you can't expect them to offer you all their plum assignments. Of course, they're going to offer them to people who've been temping with them for some time and who've 'proved' themselves. They'll resort to a newbie when they're a bit desperate or stuck. But that's how you get your foot in the door.
If you prove to a temp controller that you can accept a last minute booking and turn up sharpish, do a boring/shitty/out of the way job with a smile on your smile, if you 'save' the temp controller's arse in that kind of situation, enable them to fill a booking and make their client happy, then the temp controller will look upon you much more favourably for longer/better assignments. You probably need to do two or three of these 'a couple of days here 'n' there' assignments, at short notice when someone's called in sick, before you get the advance notice call on Thursday to tell you you've got a full week's work next week.
You have to prove yourself willing, keen, capable and reliable for them to trust you with a bigger/better job. If you're not reliable enough to turn up for one day's pay when you're apparently 'desperate' for work, they're not going to trust you with a week's work. That's how they work. You've just got to grin and bear it for a couple of weeks till the regular/long term assignments start coming your way.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
oops. double post, my PC is playing up.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
excellent posts, A O'N - I don't 'do' high street agency, but I know enough about that sector to know you've got it about right.
If you're seriously unhappy, you won't be able to think straight about your next move. Every time I've quit a job, I've ended up ok. Sometimes I ended up having to take the same kind of shit job again, but this time I've properly landed on my feet. Sorry to be smug, but the point is if you don't take a chance, you'll never know.
