Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-9-2020: Charlie Sheen

3rd September, 2020

Right … 

That’s that idea put paid too!

If you recall?   I’d been trying to get hold of funding to buy a laptop?   So I could do a European Computer Driving license course?

I got turned down by the Shaw Trust, the people who run the Work and Health Programme I’m on.

They can only buy one if I get a conditional job offer.

So … ?

I did a little research: and found I could possibly get help from what’s called the Flexible Support Fund.

Something that I usually access with help from my Job Centre case worker, and that usually pays for fares to interviews.

So I asked the Job Centre about help.

In theory?

According to them … ?

I could get help in the form of a budget advance.

Which wouldn’t cover the costs … and is something I’d rather save for emergencies.

I could possibly have put in for help from the Flexible Support Fund … 

Except — wouldn’t you know it — for two facts.

One?   It can only really be used if I have a conditional job offer.

And two … ?

I can’t use it … as I’m on the Shaw Trust’s Work and Health Programme, and help like that is supposed to come from them.

Ever get the feeling you’ve been had … ?

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 25-8-2020: The Number, 25 …

25th August, 2020.

Right … 

We have rain … and a nice chilly breeze!

Which, frankly?   Given how warm it’s been … ?

Is a welcome change.

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Does that mean my phone signal’s back up … ?

Nope!

O2’s website tells me they’ll have have more updates on the 31st August … 

Whilst they email update system … ?   Has no idea … 

Apparently?

O2 have got the hang of Matthew 6:3.

Their left hand really doesn’t know what their right hand is doing … 

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Which, now I think about it … ?

Equally applies to the Shaw Trust: who are running the Work and Health Programme I’m on, for the Job Centre.

I’ve applied for a European Computer Drivers License course: it’s a computer literacy course.   OK, I’m fairly computer literate.

But having the paperwork that says I know how to copy and paste from one Word document to another is helpful.

With that in mind, I’ve applied for the ECDL course, AND for a home working job that needs me to have a Windows based PC — not something I want, but there you go — running a recent version of Windows Ten, and a recent version of MS Office.

So I’ve sent off the relevant bits of paper-work, and the eyewatering tech specifications to my case worker: who’s referred it upwards.

I checked in with him, yesterday.   Only to find that he’s on holiday: and I need to mail the colleague who’s covering him, to follow up on that.

That colleague?   Has just emailed me, literally, just emailed me.

To tell me they wouldn’t be able to fund a laptop for the home working job I’ve applied for: without a firm offer of a job.

Which is disappointing, but understandable.

But also told me I’d need to speak to my usual support worker about anything else: when he gets back on the 1st September, about anything else.

Why I mention this?   In connection with Matthew 6:3?

Is simply that one didn’t have a clue about the other’s caseload.

Which is also fair enough … but … 

Well … 

Either way … ?

I think I’m going to have issues, when it comes to doing the course: I may just have to cancel … 

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