Would that it was that simple! Figure massaging is the official description.

So I booked a foreign holiday last year, not aware that Jarvis would go belly up. In my bi-weekly jolly to ye oldie jobby centre I have now been forced to “sign-off” “sorry sir we don’t make the rules we just follow them”, sure I heard that somewhere before, Germany was it?. Apparently this draconian system dictates if you are going on holiday outside the UK mainland, you are obviously not seeking employement and therefore are not a statistic, cannot receive any benefits and must go through the entire rigmarole again to restart your claim when you come back.

Not only penalised for working for a moronic company that collapses, but also penalised for having a holiday. However if I were holidaying in Mainland UK, I would still be classed as unemployed and eligable for everything, go figure.

Not the bitter twisted person that I am I wished the snot nosed kid behind the counter a good day and told him I looked forward to him joining me on the Job Seeker queues when a new govt comes in and throws out half of the paper pushers sat in these places. Grrrrr!!!