job update: not promising

[tielan]

So, according to all reports (from contracting company, from consulting company, from client) the project is still on and the consulting company is still being used, and the contracting company will be putting me in for the job.

However.

There is apparently no start date as yet. There is no news about when this is actually starting. And, as such, the actual job is up in the air.

And my unemployment payments will have requirements as of the 1st June: ritual humiliation and hoop jumping to ensue.

Interestingly, although I got the 'economic boost' payment from the government, and they said they've paid my unemployment payments for the last couple of weeks, I can't find a bank entry for it.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Uncertainty is not needed right now. That totally sucks.

[tielan]

It does quite suck not to know right now.

[grav_ity]

Ugh, every part of that sounds annoying.

[tielan]

Oh yes, it all adds up to being extremely annoying.

[monanotlisa]

Huh, not great to see that Australia, too, doesn't seem to be on the up and up regarding the coordination of keeping its populace fed and housed. Or is this a NSW/local problem? Either way I hope this whole mess gets sorted out! (I agree about the humiliation and hoop jumping; I did it once in my life like the good little German I am, straight after my first uni graduation, and it was entirely ridiculous.)

[tielan]

The PM is conservative and Evangelical by the US definition. And yes, unemployment/social security is a federal concern...but health and hospitals and education are a state concern.

What this means is that the federal level wants everyone off the unemployment/social security ASAP because it's ruining their bottom line (and the conservative party prides itself on 'good economic management' which - like all modern economies - is about profits, not about the prosperity of the population), whiles the states are more concerned about 'what if the health system gets overrun?'

And the NSW parliament is presently in the hands of the conservative party, so they're knuckling down to getting everyone back to work and school right now sayingt 'we're all okay, back to normal!', while the Victorian parliament is in the hands of the centrists (the other major party) and they're holding off a bit longer.

Back when I was able to claim the study allowance for students (in my late teens), I had no requirements at all. Now, for those on 'newstart/jobseeker' there are at least four applications per month for jobs 'suitable for you' and you're supposed to take whatever is offered - anything to get you off the dole, etc. But it's exhausting and stressful and demoralising. (And small businesses aren't so fond of it either, because it means they have a lot of people applying for jobs who aren't qualified for them, and it just makes extra work for them...)

[nrgburst]

:(((( Keeping my fingers crossed for you. This is such an anxious time to live through.

[tielan]

Thank you! It is indeed rather stressful, even if I'm in a far better position than many of my compatriots.