I have just gone through my Eldest's ATOS forms , and despite my intolerant attitudes , she like many others is a genuine case , which I believe the majority are , the minority of scroungers and scoundrels get the rest a bad name . The lowest paid job have so many drawbacks no-one wants then , I have heard Farming Today on Radio 4 cite Farmers who cannot get fruit pickers at the minimum wages , Fruit picking is very hard work , back breaking , I would not want to do that at minimum rates , the Industry I worked in ran seven days , we had trouble getting unskilled guys because of the fact that they wanted to have the weekends off with their mates . We ran on 10% foreign temps on minimum wage and paid the agency £ssss over the top for them . These Job Centre people that I have come across in the last forty five years are mostly quite aggressive , I found them rude and deliberately unhelpful , as though each claim was an insult to their intelligence . I think they go out of their way to be unhelpful , The last time I rang , I encountered an ignorant Oaf at the Cosham ( Portsmouth ) office who should have been retrained . asked a question and he said he was not there to answer phone questions , i should get my self down there and sign on , like I am supposed to do . I would get no money or expenses , but I should do it anyway , I used to wonder why they were behind polycarbonate screens , but that encounter in 2009 , told me that they needed to be .
