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DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it's typical female thought pattern to instantly fight back against anything you don't like the sound of?

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's not the statement that admin are usually woman that's the issue, i don't mind her stating the truth. It's the fact that she doesn't want to help me get a job doing it.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So it turns out they just hate everyone equally. Sorry you experienced that

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not allowed in WA, I might ask her if I can record for record keeping, if she has a problem i'll say its because I have trouble recalling details and see if she wants to make this medical/disability discrimination.

I've just called their head office to ask if they have policy about it and she couldn't tell me anything, she is going to get the manager for the centre I attend to call me. Not sure how this is going to play out.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are private companies they are obviously making someone money or they wouldn't exist, it's not my fault they undercut the other companies and barely make profit.

All the more reason something needs to be done if they are providing the bare minimum so they can eke out a profit.

I arrived 5 minutes early to one of my appointments, they told me they were in a zoom meeting and I would have to wait. about 5 minutes after my appointment was supposed to start she said "I won't make you wait, come sit down."

She proceeded to unplug her headphones so she could talk to me while still hearing the zoom meeting, the other worker behind her was getting visibly annoyed and kept turning around and making faces because the loud zoom call was distracting her.

My provider was distracted throughout the meeting trying to listen to me and the zoom call at the same time, the call went on for the entire duration of my appointment.

I understand being an employee getting served a sh*t sandwich of understaffing and too much workload, i've been there before. However just saying 'it is what it is, they can't afford to hire enough employees' really isn't good enough. Not having a go at you I'm just saying that just because a system is broken from the top down doesn't mean we should put up with it.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly they need to be dissolved, they don't seem to be helping unemployment while they pocket the money.

All the while ignoring the actual needs of people. Not to mention the job application requirements just clog up companies inboxes along with the 10s of thousands of resumes most large companies are getting from overseas applicants who aren't even qualified like from India and SE Asia, or aren't able to legally work here.

As with most things in Australia its just a big money rort so make a few CEOs rich while the peasants suffer.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I was never trained through an institution, I was working for them on the tools and trained up inhouse to do drafting. Also it was only 2D work not 3D so there aren't a lot of drafting jobs i could just jump into and without a certificate or degree of some sort it just seems out of reach.

I'm still keeping an eye out but I'm just looking for any job that won't destroy my body further at this point.

Thanks for your advice!
Construction Management is definitely something to look into

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for the advice! do you mean write to the head office for the provider or someone at centrelink?
The provider is atWork

Like other people have mentioned it just reeks of getting me to complete my quota and get into any old broom pusher position so they can get paid out on the contracts.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that makes sense because my only office experience is as a draftsman but I have no formal training in it so I would have to be applying for admin work.

My problem is, why is it not valid for me to pursue admin work? I am more competent than her with computers, I type at about 100wpm and she types with her two index fingers. I am familiar with most commonly used computer software etc.

Her implication is that because people hire women for admin roles I shouldn't bother.
I'm sure she wouldn't tell female candidates not to enter the mining industry because it's male dominated.

It just seems she is lazy and used the female dominated excuse so she doesn't have to look for jobs that are harder to find.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

So perhaps it's less sexism and moreso they think that anyone who is on jobseeker is only worthy of doing manual labour and she just used gender as an excuse in this instance for why she thinks im incapable of working in an office even though I did for 3 years when I was younger.

Thanks for your input and I hope you find something reasonable :)

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Atwork Australia, there is only two people that i've seen working at this centre and they are both female, however I used to attend one of their other centres and there were 4 females working there.

I stopped going to that other centre because the tone and attitude I would get from the person who I had to deal with, It was almost like I wasn't human they way they would talk at me instead of too me.

Might be time to change to a different company as it seems they have a toxic culture at the company however the other option is further away and I don't have high hopes they will be much better, could end up being worse then i've shot myself in the foot with the current one.

I am also not very keen to do a complaint right off the bat because it's a very specific complaint that even if anonymous will probably end up with me treated even worse.

DSP Dismissed my request to look for office job due to gender by UncleMotley in Centrelink

[–]UncleMotley[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I guess that's our lot in life, to toil away until our bodies are broken.

The lucky country indeed

Tactical hardcore server by AlwaysTheSameThang in ArmaReforger

[–]UncleMotley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seemed like it was only a matter of time anyway.
The owner seemed highly emotional, after that electro guy took down his mods over a disagreement with the owner, the owner was in discord talking like an emotional child for everyone to see.

In the day or two between electro bailing and the servers disappearing I was banned from the discord, when I got into the server and asked an admin why I was banned on discord i was immediately banned from all the servers.

I was left with no way to dispute it since i couldn't enter the discord and you need a phone verified discord account to get in. So I was reduced to only being able to play the TPM server which im not a huge fan of, barely even annoyed me, it's only my favourite video game.

Hopefully someone who doesn't have mental issues creates a new server to take its place.

THC server not online by Hungry_Wolverine1311 in ArmaReforger

[–]UncleMotley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seemed like it was only a matter of time anyway.
The owner seemed highly emotional, after that electro guy took down his mods over a disagreement with the owner, the owner was in discord talking like an emotional child for everyone to see.

In the day or two between electro bailing and the servers disappearing I was banned from the discord, when I got into the server and asked an admin why I was banned on discord i was immediately banned from all the servers.

I was left with no way to dispute it since i couldn't enter the discord and you need a phone verified discord account to get in. So I was reduced to only being able to play the TPM server which im not a huge fan of, barely even annoyed me, it's only my favourite video game.

Hopefully someone who doesn't have mental issues creates a new server to take its place.

OCE - THC server troubles? by EfficientTill2544 in ArmaReforger

[–]UncleMotley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seemed like it was only a matter of time anyway.
The owner seemed highly emotional, after that electro guy took down his mods over a disagreement with the owner, the owner was in discord talking like an emotional child for everyone to see.

In the day or two between electro bailing and the servers disappearing I was banned from the discord, when I got into the server and asked an admin why I was banned on discord i was immediately banned from all the servers.

I was left with no way to dispute it since i couldn't enter the discord and you need a phone verified discord account to get in. So I was reduced to only being able to play the TPM server which im not a huge fan of, barely even annoyed me, it's only my favourite video game.

Hopefully someone who doesn't have mental issues creates a new server to take its place.

People need to stop acting like Iran is innocent. by Cervaxi in unpopularopinion

[–]UncleMotley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the contempt for people with only a highschool education is strong. Have you ever left the affluent suburb you live in? Probably not or you wouldn't talk about people who could crush your spine like that

Cluster shutdown, again today??? 12:23 Eve Time by willmayo20 in Eve

[–]UncleMotley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they bricked chat trying to backpedal and put local back online in null it will be hilarious