Hello.
Some of you may be aware that, back in February I did a City & Guilds National Certificate for Door Supervisors. I did it with a training company in Doncaster.
I completed and passed the course March 1st.
Simple? It should be.
To work as a bouncer, you need to be properly licenced. The licence application fee is £190. The job centre agreed to pay for this for me, and this is where the problems started.
The job centre sent the money to the training company I did the course with. Meanwhile, the guy who provided training for them (we'll call him Andy) left to set up his own company. For reasons which will bewilder me to my dying day, the job centre would not give me a cheque made out to the Security Industry Authority.
So ever since march, there's been £190 floating about in an abyss somewhere between the dole office and myself. They sent it to the training company, the training company sent it to Andy, Andy gave it to me.
This has taken three months. I don't know why. I finally went to collect the cheque from Andy today. He helped me to complete the SIA application form (which I'd already done correctly anyway but he checked it over), and gave me the cheque which he had received from the training firm he used to work for, and was made out to the SIA. Lovely.
Lovely, that is, until about half an hour ago when I was gathering everything up to get ready to post it off tomorrow.
Thought I'd make sure the cheque was all correct. They've dated it 19/6/05. I stopped to think.... its 2006 now, right? AAAAAARGHHHH!!!!!!:bang: :bang: :bang:
So tomorrow, I have to ring Andy, explain that I have a cheque in my possession that's nearly a year out of date (you have to present cheques within 3 months of their date), then go through the whole effing pantomime again.
I'm not pleased. I'm utterly ****ed off with the whole damn business. I've had to take a job that pays £6 an hour when I could be watching drunk people go into pubs and getting paid twice that.
All because I didn't have £190 of my own and am relying on other people to correctly perform one simple task.
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Some of you may be aware that, back in February I did a City & Guilds National Certificate for Door Supervisors. I did it with a training company in Doncaster.
I completed and passed the course March 1st.
Simple? It should be.
To work as a bouncer, you need to be properly licenced. The licence application fee is £190. The job centre agreed to pay for this for me, and this is where the problems started.
The job centre sent the money to the training company I did the course with. Meanwhile, the guy who provided training for them (we'll call him Andy) left to set up his own company. For reasons which will bewilder me to my dying day, the job centre would not give me a cheque made out to the Security Industry Authority.
So ever since march, there's been £190 floating about in an abyss somewhere between the dole office and myself. They sent it to the training company, the training company sent it to Andy, Andy gave it to me.
This has taken three months. I don't know why. I finally went to collect the cheque from Andy today. He helped me to complete the SIA application form (which I'd already done correctly anyway but he checked it over), and gave me the cheque which he had received from the training firm he used to work for, and was made out to the SIA. Lovely.
Lovely, that is, until about half an hour ago when I was gathering everything up to get ready to post it off tomorrow.
Thought I'd make sure the cheque was all correct. They've dated it 19/6/05. I stopped to think.... its 2006 now, right? AAAAAARGHHHH!!!!!!:bang: :bang: :bang:
So tomorrow, I have to ring Andy, explain that I have a cheque in my possession that's nearly a year out of date (you have to present cheques within 3 months of their date), then go through the whole effing pantomime again.
I'm not pleased. I'm utterly ****ed off with the whole damn business. I've had to take a job that pays £6 an hour when I could be watching drunk people go into pubs and getting paid twice that.
All because I didn't have £190 of my own and am relying on other people to correctly perform one simple task.
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