So the job i just did was for raising money for charity and as such i was not paid for my work - the expenses of the trip was covered by the company that was working with the brand. Today, i had to go and ‘sign’ on - the number one dread for me as mr doledestroying. i really hate it, it’s ‘soledestroying’ - the staff are always nice but it is like each chair has it’s own custom dark grey rain cloud hovering overhead.
So today, being the honest sole that i am on things like this (after all i need to live and £64 gets you nothing these days) i told them about the trip - after all not telling them might be worse right?
Looks like i’ll probably lose out on 3/4 days dole pay because i was out of the country and i never let them know (was pretty much last minute) so we wrote out a statement and we have to post that off for a panel to review my actions. seems so hard these days to do the right thing. A few things i want to get out of note.
- i was not paid for my time producing content
- all expenses for flights and hotels were covered by company involved in organizing
- it was last minute so i did not update anyone about going (job centre - my bad)
- it’s probably going to be treated in that i was not looking for work.
I’m guessing that this situation ever rarely happens - a weird extreme case of raising money for charities from 2 different locations (6 in total from 3 in team) where i actually lose out. I wanted to document this experience thou. I think it is a good wake up call for adding an additional section for someone jobless that if they do charity work and also at the same time use social media so people can see their work first hand before making a decision about if they are useful for a job or team or not. In directly sometimes producing social media does that.
Just for once i hope they make the right decision on this and realise that indirect i was doing three fold - i was actively extending my own social network, promoting nokia products and raising money for charity. It’s a strange world sometimes.
