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I got a letter yesterday from Centrelink (the government welfare agency) stating that my dole had been cut off because I "did not attend a Preparing for Work [sic] interview" on June 4.

What a bunch of fuckers. It's hardly suprising, at least to anyone who's ever actually been on

A young heathen is rescued by time-travelling homosexuals from the year 1976 in Jack Chick's The Exorcists

unemployement welfare, that these random letters appear. That letter was the first I'd ever heard of the interview, but you'd be wrong to think that the system was at fault.

This kind of randomness is factored in. The constant state of insecurity is used to force people to compete with each other for jobs that don't usually exist. It amazes me that people don't seem to realise that the unemployed are punished arbitrarily, though not without reason. So the system is working perfectly, just not to my advantage.

You know, I'm bored most of the time at Work for the Dole, and I can tell that post after post of "Help me, I'm frustrated" doesn't make for good reading. I hereby promise that, instead of telling you how bored I am, I will make fun of others, preferrably people I don't know and will never meet.

Surfing the interweb while "giving back to the community", I had a look at Jack Chick's website. I have written about him (well, derided him) elsewhere, but it's good for a laugh and worth checking out.