My job is a bit weird (as well as my title) but my main job is to help students enrol into “TAFE/College” classes and a lot of the times we are called in in the morning. Unfortunately, at the moment, we are not being called in a lot. Luckily for me and some of my other co-workers we were asked to work in a particular study area office as their receptionist. It’s one of those study areas that I really feel uncomfortable around, but I don’t have much choice at the moment. I have also found out that none of my other casual co-workers took up the offer.
So now I’m working by myself in an area I am completely unfamiliar with, so today I am just studying all the notes I took and had been given after training for one day…ONE DAY! This area works with Visa’s and people who have English a second language…and there is me…No second language at all! So I am slightly freaking out today.
As much as I am freaking out, I am really honestly feeling a little embarrassed that I was the only people who offered to work any shifts. At the moment I am just doing Tuesday – Thursday because Monday and Fridays I have just started volunteer work. Here is Australia you have to be doing something each week to “earn” your welfare/dole pay. So I can’t give up my volunteer work because the paid work is not permanent. It’s turned into a really complicated system and kind of unfair system. Instead of actually paying people, businesses now use volunteers, full time, instead.
I am trying to enjoy this last day of freedom before tomorrow.
Lolsys Library 
Ah, systems … inventive and creative methods that encourage us to yearn for the days when we were treated like humans instead of statistics 🙂 And if someone is compelled to do work, isn’t it a bit strange to call it ‘volunteer?’ To me it sounds like the same thing as regular work, just with a different boss and different method of payment 😉
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I guess it depends on if the person feels compelled or resentful or something else entirely,lol
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The volunteer system is really awful! People should get paid for the work they are doing xo
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They really should, especially since now they’re expected to work full time pretty much. I think under the age of 31 they have to do something up to 25 hours.
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