JobBridge is too much pressure

vector · 23-11-2015 11:39PM #1

I've been on a JobBridge scheme for about 6 weeks in an industry that I do love.

However, I am sitting next to people who are the same age, and who are being PAID.

The boss sets my team a task and it's as if I am an employee, I go to lunch, I come in everyday at 9 and leave at 5.30, sometimes I have to work through lunch on big projects, just like in a proper paying job, but at the end of the day the pressure is too much considering I'm not being paid.

Q: how can I diplomatically tell the boss that I love the job, but that I should be given some slack because I'm not actually being paid! e.g. can I work 20 hours a week instead?

There must be some reasonableness surely?

JohnPPP · 23-11-2015 11:41PM

Isn't that what jobbridge is about? Work experience?

drunkmonkey · 23-11-2015 11:43PM

You should say it but I think it's a little early. It's still only 6 weeks. They have an idea if you fit by now but there might have not been a full time job available or could be down to budget, projects etc.
It might be worth just having a coffee or something, very informal to get their opinion about how things are going.

hdowney · 24-11-2015 10:59AM

That's exactly what work experience is. You do the SAME work and take the SAME breaks as the paid employees doing the SAME roll.

Xcellor · 24-11-2015 12:12PM

vector wrote: »

I've been on a JobBridge scheme for about 6 weeks in an industry that I do love.

However, I am sitting next to people who are the same age, and who are being PAID.

The boss sets my team a task and it's as if I am an employee, I go to lunch, I come in everyday at 9 and leave at 5.30, sometimes I have to work through lunch on big projects, just like in a proper paying job, but at the end of the day the pressure is too much considering I'm not being paid.

Q: how can I diplomatically tell the boss that I love the job, but that I should be given some slack because I'm not actually being paid! e.g. can I work 20 hours a week instead?

There must be some reasonableness surely?

But if you worked 20 hours a week you aren't in fact getting the proper experience. Most people work 40 hour weeks. Think long term, you will have proper working knowledge with proper references that will let you look for jobs which would have been unavailable to you before.

timmy_mallet · 24-11-2015 04:16PM

Fair play to the employer, free labour for profits.

Tell him and the government to shove it.

Corvo · 24-11-2015 04:26PM

You should probably ask yourself the question, regardless of getting €50 quid or a normal wage, will you be able to handle the pressure anyway?

doc11 · 24-11-2015 07:16PM

Xcellor wrote: »

But if you worked 20 hours a week you aren't in fact getting the proper experience. Most people work 40 hour weeks. Think long term, you will have proper working knowledge with proper references that will let you look for jobs which would have been unavailable to you before.

What difference will 20 over 40 have over a reference?

Anyway OP you knew the deal when you started the internship if you can't accept others getting a paid wage alongside you don't do jobbridge , 20hr wouldn't qualify under job bridge too. If the company wanted to pay someone they would have advertised a proper job and perhaps got someone better then you for there money or get someone else who will work 40hr under jobbridge. You've only been there six weeks so I doubt you have any leverage at all, either walk or suck it up.

elastico · 25-11-2015 01:39PM

vector wrote: »

I've been on a JobBridge scheme for about 6 weeks in an industry that I do love.

However, I am sitting next to people who are the same age, and who are being PAID.

The boss sets my team a task and it's as if I am an employee, I go to lunch, I come in everyday at 9 and leave at 5.30, sometimes I have to work through lunch on big projects, just like in a proper paying job, but at the end of the day the pressure is too much considering I'm not being paid.

Q: how can I diplomatically tell the boss that I love the job, but that I should be given some slack because I'm not actually being paid! e.g. can I work 20 hours a week instead?

There must be some reasonableness surely?

Send CV out to recruitment agencies and start looking for a paid job. Let them know you are actively seeking a job and ask are there any positions worth applying for.

If they are happy with your performance they will want to keep you.

FortySeven · 25-11-2015 01:44PM

I did a jobbridge .I worked harder than anyone who was getting paid. Guess what? They started paying me.

JobBridge is too much pressure

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