Hey, Dear Readers! As always it is great to see you! I hope that you are keeping well and focused! Today, I ate the last of my food supply! With a bit of luck, I will be able to borrow some money to replenish my empty cupboards and refrigerator! Like I have stated in another update, I can't go to the Food Bank as my Vegan dietary needs will have me reject a lot of items; I hate to appear ungrateful! Besides, I am quite a big guy and maybe a bit of weight loss is in order. LMAO! Yes, I have to laugh! This situation is far from funny! However, being able to chuckle every now and then helps to relieve the anger and frustration. Anyway, here is an update before I hit the pillow! DISSERVICE CENTRE Saturday morning, yesterday, 11 Feb 2016, I got up and looked at the bottom of the stairs... Nothing! No customary brown envelope from the Universal Credit Service Centre regarding my Mandatory Reconsideration Notices. This is very, very odd... It is unlike the Universal Credit Service Centre. It is very unusual that I have not heard anything from them. Usually, the Service Centre responds in a couple of weeks or so but this nothingness is very strange indeed. Again, I think that a sanction or sanctions should be revoked should it take longer than 28 days to respond to a Mandatory Reconsideration Notice. These assholes are just playing with people's lives; it is arrogant and morally reprehensible. Who the hell do these people think they are??? Why does it take more than 28 days to respond to a Mandatory Reconsideration Notice??? I just don't know! I am of the opinion that a failure to respond in a reasonable time period, 28 days, is not only unacceptable but illegal! My financial life is turned to shit while these freaking idiots take their sweet time to come to a decision. I am pretty much used it... Afterall, I am the Tribunal King! I have won all my tribunals regarding being sanctioned. These sanctions are so stupid that they do not hold up under the scrutiny of a tribunal. Roll on, decision makers... Either give me back my stolen Welfare Assistance or let me know if yet another tribunal is in order! THE TRULY PERVERSE My local Labour MP, The Right Honourable Joan Ryan has been in touch with Jobcentre Plus Enfield on my behalf and the reply from the line manager is truly perverse... It is said that they are "progressing with the points" that I have raised. What does that mean? She also said that "every time" I made a complaint to JCP Enfield that "the staff addressed my concerns..." This is complete and utter shit! This line manager is a pathological liar. I made a complaint back in 2013 to fight for my place on the New Enterprise Allowance Scheme. I fought hard and I did manage to get placed on the NEA (New Enterprise Allowance Scheme), however, some stuffed up asshole decided to sanction my Job Seekers Allowance regardless. So, if that's what they call addressing my concern they can go screw themselves! My latest complaints have not been addressed by this so-called line manager. My former work coax is still there... Again, this idiot work coax is the one who engineered the 28-day sanction... And if that's not enough, the line manager stood by and watched the sanction go through even though I proved that it was undue. My former work coax had enough time to withdraw the false "concern" she raised and refused! Even up to the last minute she refused. Therefore, she should be fired. She set me up and I managed to clear myself with her line manager as a witness yet she still wants to justify the 28-day sanction. That is bullshit! If I can, I will make her lose her job! I think both my former work coax and her line manager should both lose their jobs! They make the word "incompetent" redundant - no pun intended but the choice of words is so very apt! They have to go! GOOD FORTUNE? Hmmm... I think that the evidence is mounting in my favour. I mean, this email I received regarding the line manager's response to my local Labour MP, The Right Honourable Joan Ryan, should count as evidence that somebody is not telling the truth. Look, if my complaints were being "resolved" would I have contacted my local Labour MP? Would I be still suffering from this undue 28-sanction? If you could see this letter that was sent to me by this line manager, you'd think it was written by a child pretending to be an adult. The letter is poorly written structurally, and the content is vague - vacuous! The letter does not state what or how my concerns are being resolved and this is primarily because nothing is being done. The letter is an attempt to fob me off and it should be plain for anyone to see! You don't need a degree to see that the line manager had not intended to write a formal response to my complaint as she had it in mind that assigning me a new work coach would be enough. As lovely as my new work coach is, I need some answers. At the very least, I want to know why this 28-day sanction was imposed upon me given that I destroyed any and every "concern" that my former work coax had and right in front of her dodgy line manager! A PERVERT EXPOSED My former work coax who I have dubbed "Tricky Vicky" proved herself to be unintelligent, devious, spiteful and, ultimately, disingenuous. Her attitude was and probably still is that work is a form of punishment when it is not! Therefore, she, at least with me, tried to exact a punishment upon me which would be for her to palm me off with a job of some sort of her choosing. I told her that I want to be a Vegan Chef/Cook and she called up some catering outfit that was not Vegan specific, "I have a client here who is a Vegetarian; is it worth me sending him to you?" This is how stupid the woman is... She obviously didn't know and still, doesn't know what the difference between a Vegan and Vegetarian is. Sure, I know that the work coax isn't a careers advisor but if she's gonna pick up a phone in the name of getting her client a job in Vegan cooking it would be prudent to find out at least what being a Vegan cook entails, right? Not her... Oh no! This idiot of a woman that works for JCP Enfield can dare to call herself a "work coach"??? It is unbelievable. I tried my best to inform her with regards to what my needs are and what I must do to achieve work but she looked upon those needs as devices to avoid getting work, "I know you! I know you," she exclaimed. How can she possibly know me when I have never worked with her before??? She just thinks that I am content to live off Welfare Assistance. This makes me vexed in the extreme! What's funny is that part of the "Claimant Commitment" advocates that JCP clients must participate in activities that make them job ready i.e. the creation of CVs, obtaining qualifications (within reason) and doing some research on prospective employers. Of course, clients are meant to apply for jobs too. But, yes there is a but... I think that it is important for the JCP client to formulate his or her approach to prospective employers. TAKING AIM I hate to use the "sniper" as a metaphor as I abhor violence and war, however, this metaphor works for this example... A sniper, as I have come to understand his or her duty, trains on a specific target, takes aim and then fires the kill shot when the conditions are optimal. The sniper doesn't waste ammunition. Well, we are told... No! I was told by my former work coax to do the complete opposite. I was told to join as many online job agencies as possible and apply to as many vacancies as possible. This, believe it or not, is the wrong approach to looking for work. Why? What I have experienced is that if you join ex-amount of agencies and put in a specific job search such as "Web Designer" for example, in each online agency, the chances are that you will apply to the same jobs times the number of agencies you have joined; vacancies are pumped through all the major online agencies and duplication is a problem. Many online agencies feature a "one-click" application system whereby your CV and an optional cover letter is sent off automatically to the employer. When you are under pressure to build up the numbers to please a work coax you may not realise that you have applied for the same job numerous times; this makes you look like an ass to prospective employers. If you are genuinely looking for work, you do not need to adopt this chaotic method of applying for vacancies. It's not good! And, in keeping with the military for metaphors, you do not send a soldier into battle without ensuring he or she has all the components needed i.e. you as a general would not send a bomb disarming expert to defuse a bomb without protective gear, right? This what my lunatic of a work coax did by not allowing me to create my online portfolio. I told her that I was getting favourable responses from prospective employers that were looking for a Graphics & Multimedia Designer but they asked to see some of my work yet she did not understand or did not want to know. In other words, by not having a portfolio I was just wasting my time in submitting applications. I wanted to address that issue and was prevented from doing so. It wasn't enough for my former work coax to stop me from working on my online portfolio, no! She had the temerity to suggest that I was too old to be in the Graphic & Multimedia Design game, "How old are you?" "What's your age?" "What's your age again?" This is age discrimination; prospective employers never asked for my age (as I recall), they asked to see my online portfolio. This nasty work coax thought she needed to spin a yarn about her son having to change his vocation in IT because he got older. What does this woman take me for??? There are senior positions in the world IT, Graphic & Multimedia Design and Social Media Marketing. CAREFUL CONSIDERATION Because of my former sadistic work coax, I have had to rethink my vocational future. I can no longer apply for Graphic & Multimedia Design jobs as I am not able to get my online portfolio done fast enough and in a way that would make me feel satisfied. Creating an online portfolio is not as easy as one would imagine. One of the things that employers in Multimedia Design look for is the way in which I have created the website; they are looking for technique and the application of good technologies. Then there is the question of the work itself, I have to do my best work; I can't work on my online portfolio under the mad conditions as set by JCP Enfield. My new work coach is great and has given me some time to do my portfolio but this bloody 28-day sanction has me doing everything else but concentrating on producing what I think of as good artwork/graphic design. Again, many of my bills haven't been paid and I am struggling to keep my creditors happy. These freaking fools at DWP/JCP/Universal Credit don't understand it; these freaking imbeciles are ruining my credit rating! I could strangle them with my bare hands! But they are so goddamned stupid that they would think I am giving them a neck massage, "Oh, it's a bit tight..." Take it from me that some DWP/JCP work coax tactics can actually prolong unemployment. I honestly believe that I could have been in a job already if I hadn't been struggling with the work coax from hell! I want you to understand that I have wasted the most part of a year with Tricky Vicky! I can't tell you enough how I resent being made to suffer out of her stupid unfounded "concern". A GOOD CASE Well, I think that my case is good... I reckon that there is a strong possibility that I will be able to do something with all the evidence that I am gathering. I just need to present it to the right legal institution. I am practically alone in this... My local MP can only do so much... The Citizens Advice Bureau at my end is only good for handing out vouchers for the local Food Bank; my experiences with these CAB advisors were really piss poor, frustrating and infuriating. Lately, I keep coming across people who think they know and therefore don't listen... These people give me useless advice as a consequence. I can't tell you as to how that angers me! I have won all my tribunals without the CAB or any other institution. I don't think I need to have a regurgitation of what I am going through. Uh-uh! I just need a lawyer to let me know how to take the most effective legal action. In the meantime, I keep looking for ways to get justice. I try not to depend on too many people. In many instances, I have been preaching to the perverted. It is remarkable as to how people can wax on about issues of which they know nothing about! It is freaky! It's even freakier when I have taken the time to document my concerns in what I consider to be plain written word processed English and some people can't even be bothered to read it yet think they can be somehow useful. The mind boggles. At times I feel like I am in one of those Satan movies whereby the protagonists or group of protagonists visit a new town and things aren't quite what they seem. It is discovered that this new town is full of Satan worshippers and then the protagonist(s) jumps into his/her car to get out that town. Whilst on the road the protagonist(s) comes across road signs that lead back to the Satan worshipping town - unbeknownst to the protagonist(s) until it's too late. Check it out and know how I feel: https://youtu.be/wqv6PIH_ymY I tell you, it is a strange world in which we live in. Thank you for reading! That was a long one! Gosh!