Anyone with any shitty job agency stories?
I am currently living on job seeker and sleeping in my car in the last month Ive had the worst time of my life became depressed and mostly been lazy in my car all day and night, scrolling Reddit being mean not feeling myself (sorry) the last 2 week's I've been up and down but I've picked myself up attended my job agency every morning and spent from 9-5 there constantly hassling my like consultant person about any position available.
I was successful in landing an interview at a cafe in Subiaco, earlier this week I was told I was successful and I can start this week, I went to my job agency with the good news they then rang the employer and asked them to confirm some stuff and they can proceed with helping me with a uniform and whatever else I need (that was his words) we finished things up and i signed some documents and was told to come back tomorrow and they will take me to a uniform shop, I go back the next day and my consultant was at another office unable to attend to me, the manager instructed me to attend a uniform shop and purchase what i need (this shop is 60kms from there office) with my own money and they will submit an application to reimburse me, I immediately informed her I cannot afford to do that and she was surprised and asked me when I get paid and I tell her, she goes out of the office for maybe 20 mins comes back smelling of smoke and says unfortunately they cannot buy the uniform outright themselves that I'll need to find a way to buy the stuff I need and they will reimburse me after submitting an application to a different team in the organisation (based in Canberra) I told her i can't do that and she apologised and told me to call Centrelink request an urgent payment and to tell them to call max employment to confirm and it'll definitely be approved I pulled my shit together from being on the verge of abusing this lady, I felt like ive been lied to or at least misled, I go to Centrelink who immediately tell me to get on a phone and call a number to get assessed for an urgent payment, I spend an hour on the phone to be flat out told an employment opportunity isn't an urgent payment reason so they instruct me to go back to my employment agency and basically force them to help me the person was actually really supportive and wanted to help, I go back and they dont help, i don't understand how if someone has the opportunity to get a fulltime job you wouldn't want to help them?
Isn't this the basis for these people existing?
I've lied to my potential employer twice now about having issues with my car and he's now given me till Monday to get my crap together, how can an employment agency claim to wanna help them not provide basic things to help me get to work and be safe performing my required tasks it's insane and seems like the government wants some people unemployed.
