Workfirst - Another Agency

Oh where to start.

Playing pool? Team building, government sponsored get your arse back to work, seriously.

Ok first day of a two week course, we go off to play pool, team building, like were a bunch of unsuccessful office wallers who need to gel because performances are slipping. Really, we`re there to get back to work, so they take us to play pool, get us membership  and everything, a bonding session for long term unemployed.
Really?
Or just a vehicle for this.

The Orange Drink?
So were at our bonding session, you know a bunch of long term unemployed layabouts being taken to a pool hall to play pool and drink, apart from me, i didnt drink at the time, i had orange squash, well that what it was supposed to be, i didnt buy it, someone else did, i wasnt too sure about it, it didnt look right, took a couple of sips, it didnt taste right, i left it and after finishing my game of pool i left.
This was the first day of the course.

Towards the end of the course one of the blokes starts telling this story about pissing into someones drink, it was a long winded story cant remember the specifics, (disgusting really, to think people behave like that) he`s telling his story making sure everyone's hearing it and he`s looking at me as tho to make sure im paying attention, like an indirect admission, yes he was the person that brought me the drink.
I may be wrong it may be a total coincidence maybe not, i dont think it was myself he seemed to be basking in his glory telling his tale, gloating again.

The Screwed Up CV`s 

Funny, ive been to many different government sponsored companies, get your arse back to work, you know.

Everyone recommends changes to your CV,  there's no template, just another persons opinion of what a CV should look like, nothing wrong with mine in reality just another advisors opinion, i sat with an advisor he decided to make a few changes to my CV,  he`s the guy trained to do this, so i trusted him, he made a few changes then printed me about 15 copies off.
Cool, i left there went to 9 or 10 agencies and dropped my CV with them.

I get home start looking at the CV he had edited, i didnt really watch him, i was there but i trusted his judgement expecting the basics at least to be accurate!
When he printed it off i was glad to be leaving the place so didnt look at it, jesus, my 14 yr old daughter at the time could of done a better job, im no English expert, but the errors were embarrassing, typos, grammar, all kinds of errors, capitalisation, missing full stops, incomplete sentences, yes i had just given it out without looking, imagine that, i had just given out a load of CV`s looking for work that looked like they had been finished by a kid. Yes i should of looked, should of checked or paid more attention, but these are the people paid to do their best to help you get back to work, you know the government is paying them to get you back into work.
Jesus, i could of done a better job, no scratch that i did do a better job of it myself.

I was still keen at the time, you know made an effort, looked and all that, but as time goes by and you realise you are just banging your head against a brick wall and no matter what you do your not going to get anywhere, at every turn theres a new obstacle something else getting in the way, you just give up.