I received a call from my father today. I can't say I was surprised when I asked him whether he'd received a call from this one lady at the Job Centre. When I signed on last Wednesday, I took a doctor's note with me. I couldn't use it, though. The lady said she would call my father since he's my appointee. She said she'd call him on Thursday or Friday. It turns out that he never got that call. It would explain why he never called me on Friday to tell me what had happened with the call. All I could think when he told me was "Fucking typical". I've been getting that a lot lately. People say that they're going to call me (or my father) about something, but that call just never happens. This mostly happens to me when it involves Richard. It occurred with Richard again fairly recently. I'd met him on the street outside some store, and he told me he'd like to catch up and would call me within a couple of days. Never happened.
Anyway, when I go to the Job Centre next Wednesday, my father asked me if I could ask whoever I see to check whether the ESA team got the appeal from him. He sent the appeal via second-class mail yesterday, so it should be with the ESA team by tomorrow. This gives an entire week for it to show on the systems. I hope that something shows up by the time I head to the Job Centre.
The questions won't stop there either. I need to find out whether that lady can call my father; try to get her to call him while I'm sitting there so at least I know it happened. I also need to find out whether my doctor's note will help sway the ESA appeal in my favour. My father and I are hoping it'll be helpful in that case.
Where will this all lead, I wonder.
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