Diary Wednesday 23rd May 2018

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I had my dreaded welfare hearing this morning, which meant getting up early to prepare all my evidence for how much job searching I have done and discussing the training course and the job interview with an anonymous warehousing company organized through their agency rep. The new job search log I am expected o use (replacing a previous system that has been closed down due to numerous complaints) has proved to be disastrous, as there is no option for logging job not searched for on the site itself. I expected conflict with my advisor over this but he has already been notified of its problems presumably from other signing on for welfare hearings this week. He was surprised and pleased that I had taken part in the course, and surprised that no one had informed him of it so he could assign me to such activity himself. My next hearing is in two weeks. I headed to the community centre to use its computers for today’s job searching, the first to be listed for showing to my advisor in a fortnight’s time. While there I was treated, along with others, to free sandwiches and samosas, left over from a buffet lunch prepared for another group visiting the centre. The heatwave continues but it was pleasant again after yesterday’s stifling humidity. Arthur Chappell