Have you ever been fobbed off by a job offer?

[snorri]

it was just something to get easy money.

Hard work's no' easy, an' easy work is hard to find.

 

[Bayerd]

Lesson one. Easy money is a rare thing.

If you're after easy money, a charity is a stupid place to look, especially now. If you're prepared to do something you don't care about in order to get money, get a job in a call centre or Tesco. Don't waste a charity's time applying and declining.

I agree. Basically the charity are looking for people that want to 'give something back'. You don't go into a job like this for money, you do it as a way of genuinely trying to help somebody. Many people do work for organisations in this way and find it rewarding (but not in a financial sense).

If you're looking for easy money, go on Gumtree. Plenty of easy money jobs on there...

 

[Chromatic]

Give us a shout when your boat comes in. It is called 'work' for a reason!

He needs a talking to in your office Greg, invite him in and tell him a few truths.

 

[swee'pea99]

Seems to me there are two kinds of people who work for charities: employees and volunteers. The former do it as their livelihood; the latter for ethical reasons. Seems perfectly reasonable to me that if you're invited to apply to be an employee, you should expect to be treated as one. Not to have 'volunteery' type stuff starting to get smuggled in en route.

Charity or no charity, if you want employees, say so. And treat them accordingly. If you want volunteers, again, be clear. But don't muddle the two. It's disingenuous at best.

 

[Matthew_T]

I think people may have got confused by what I mean by "easy money".

I meant the process of training would be swift and the job itself would be fairly easy. I understand that it is a charity, but they were offering paid work for employees, not volunteers. When this offer came throught the post, I didnt feel like it was work at all, or volunteering. They just overcomplicated things to save themselves money.
I would be in a terrible position if I had taken it up and been fobbed off after 3 months unpaid training.

 

[akb]

Instead of slating a charity on a forum for your mis-understanding of the task involved, why haven't you picked up the phone and spoken to someone to clarify?

 

[akb]

They just overcomplicated things to save themselves money

Do you understand what a charity is?!

 

[swee'pea99]

Do you understand what a charity is?!

Do you? One of the things a charity is is an employer. They pay people to do work. Derek Conway, for example, CEO of the Cats Protection League, is on £75,000 a year. Not that I have any gripe with that. But it's his job, not his 'service to the community'. He's probably a very nice man, and doubtless is good to cats in his own time, but that's a whole separate issue.

Charities are, among other things, organisations which pay people to do a job of work. People who do the work have every right to be paid and treated fairly. And it seems to me at least that offering someone a job and then saying 'Oh, and by the way, we won't give you sick pay or holidays and we also expect you to give up days and days of your time, unpaid', is iffy behaviour, charity or no.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

He needs a talking to in your office Greg, invite him in and tell him a few truths.

I've got that Friday feeling....

The sad part is I don't actually have an office. Damn open plan work spaces....

 

[Chromatic]

Two birds with one stone Greg, the rest of your staff could listen in and get the message too