To be surpised these days over the Swedish labour market is nothing strange at all. Many we are now, as during many years as we chose the wrong education have been treated worse than animals. The working market has turned into something which does not lead us, the people, into something better and we remain unemployed. Year after Year. So why then as so many have good marks?
In the employment buro everything goes slowely, slowely. It seems like they have all the time in the world investigating things. The Union:s rules says: You have to work the many % as you declare when you are searching your contribution during your unemployment periods. Yes, that is alright and ok. But if you can not work these 100% because you are sick and the doctors do not fully agree with the other majorities? Then you are between, the man in the middle. Maybe in the end you HAVE to work 100% and suffer every day. They do not give you any choice, as it seems.
If you suffer from a working disability, partly or 100% you are immediately into trouble in here. If the employment buro think that you should be under “sickness benefit” but the doctor wont, so where are you? You have to sit down and you dont know what to do. Looking for jobs? Be under a sick benefit? Accused for weakness and to be lazy by the public….
Cooperation problems?
The cooperation seems to be very bad within these majorities, and the believe Swedish majorities have in people is low regarding to my opinions and experience. Suspicious as always they are checking people and underlying assuming that they are liars or that they are exaggerating their sicknesses.
So, suppose they are liars? How many of these liars have the power year after year to claim that they are sick when they are not? What do they get for these lies? Well, most of them “earn” about $1000-1500 after tax.
My question then have to be, how many have the power to serve these lies for this sum??? After realizing this I have decided to believe people when they are claiming their sicknesses during a long time, maybe years. I think it would ne normal if the majorities are realizing this too and we all can live more happy, more satisfied with our lifes.
Lies
Another problem I have to announce is all these lies about people. Rumors are what they are living after in Sweden, as it seems. I can take one of all this sick examples I have. I moved down to our capital during 2003, for the second time. I got another unemployment office as I had to visit within a couple of weeks when I arrived there.
The first day, new people, new contacts and I had never met anyone there at all. They offer me a “working psychologist”! I think I have never got so upset in my life as I understood that some information must have been transferred from my old office into this new one – as I did not know about.
I have never in my life had any problems with psychologic sicknesses, no one within our relative area suffer from anything like that and now finally I have discovered and heard rumors that people abroad are contacted to warn possible employers to hire me.
Analyze
Soo, I have tried to analyse this from the ground. Can it be like that the majorities do not want to admit that they have treated me bad, too bad, so now they are trying to claim that I am psychologic sick. It has to be that way.
Back side pain and neck problems
I suffer from back side pain since the end of 1989, I have documents on that. 1998 I falled and hurted my neck, after that I have got migrain which I never had before the accident. Now, they are unwilling to give me partly or 100% sick benefit, but from some of the majorities they are syaing yes. i can not look for jobs abroad, even though I have declared my uncomfort in here, as they most probably have blacklisted me.
What are they afraid of? The truth about that the rest of the world will get to know how it really works behind the “draperies”? Mostly when I submit an application for jobs abroad I get weird comments or no comments at all back. I have also declared for the majorities in here that this climate is not good for my pain and that I need to move to a warmer place. No reactions, just this horrible waiting and I stand as the man in the middle between all these rules.
Is this fair? Is it fair to stop a person to live the life they want? And also I can work from home so I really do not understand why they are trying to force me into something I do not want and can do.
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