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Occupational therapy instead of job placement at the Burgenlandkreis Job Center? - News from the Sloth FarmJust three months ago, we reported on a case that already raised many questions at the time. 
Today we can continue the story. Unfortunately, not with good news about successful job placement, but with yet another example of how far some job centers appear to have drifted from their actual mission. As a reminder:A long-time volunteer had been active for years, almost daily, in an association. Not a token activity for a résumé, but real work with fixed tasks, fixed hours, and clear responsibilities. When the association was converted into a commercial enterprise at the turn of the year, this volunteer work was even supposed to become a marginal part-time job.In principle, a success story. In principle. Because while employer and employee had found a way to take the step into regular employment together, the job center apparently had other priorities. There, they insisted on continuing with an “one-euro job.” Not because the person concerned had been inactive. Not because they lacked daily structure. Not because they had to learn to get up in the morning first. They had already proven all of that long ago. Nevertheless, it was made unmistakably clear that refusing the measure would have consequences. Conversations on equal footing? None. The message was rather: Do what we demand, or expect sanctions. Anyone who still believes that the era of authoritarian administrative mentality is over should take a closer look at cases like this. What is particularly remarkable is the fact that all attempts to explain the situation objectively initially came to nothing. Neither the future employer nor the person concerned themselves were apparently able to be heard. Arguments played no role. The actual lived reality of the person concerned played no role. The already existing daily structure played no role. What apparently mattered was only that a measure had to be processed. Only when a regional politician contacted the head of the authority and asked why there was no willingness to engage in dialogue did the situation suddenly change. Suddenly a conversation was possible. Suddenly dialogue was possible. Suddenly the job center was willing to listen to the matter at all. A remarkable development. Because it inevitably raises the question of why those involved had to take this political detour in the first place. Is a benefit recipient only considered worth talking to today when a politician gets involved? Must political pressure first be created before an authority is willing to listen to its own “customer”? And what happens to all those benefit recipients who do not know a politician willing to make a phone call on their behalf? The subsequent conversation revealed further surprises. The responsible job placement officer was not presentIt also became clear that the case file apparently painted a very distorted picture of reality. Conversation content was only recorded in fragments. Statements were documented in shortened form. Contexts were missing. Anyone deciding solely on the basis of these notes would inevitably have reached a different conclusion than someone who had actually witnessed the conversations.After more than an hour of discussion, what should actually have happened from the very beginning finally took place: The one-euro job was terminated. Immediately. Without further conditions. Without further discussion. This simultaneously answered the question that had been hanging in the air for months: Apparently the measure was not as essential as previously claimed after all. Yet even at that moment, the actual core of the problem did not seem to be understood. Because hardly had the measure been terminated when the search for the next funding idea began. Perhaps an everyday assistant could be deployed. Perhaps there were other programs. Perhaps support could still be provided somewhere. One can only rub one’s eyes in disbelief. There sits a person who has independently organized their daily life for years. Who takes responsibility. Who is committed. Who has already found an employer. And the first reaction is not: "Well done." The first reaction is: "What measure can we apply to them next?" Exactly at this point, the fundamental question arises about the self-image of some job centers. Is the goal still to bring people into work? Or has it become about managing people as long-term cases within funding structures? Because anyone who forcibly pushes a person with a functioning daily structure into employment measures, while thousands of positions remain unfilled and real support is lacking elsewhere, is clearly pursuing goals other than job placement. Perhaps that is exactly where the real problem liesA system that does not reward initiative, but views it with suspicion.A system that interprets volunteer work as a need for support. A system that only becomes willing to listen after political intervention. And a system that continues to search for new measures even when the original measure has just been recognized as unnecessary. Anyone hearing stories like this cannot avoid asking an uncomfortable question: How many people are actually kept busy every year in measures that nobody needs – except for a system that has to justify its own existence? The answer to that would probably cast not only this case in a very different light. Author: AI-Translation - Karla Kolumna | |
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