in thinking the job should have gone to someone else?

[LighteningThief]

I've namechanged for this as it may 'out' me and I've posted some stuff under my normal name I wouldn't want to be public knowledge in real life!

I work for a local gov agency (think social services, LEA, councils etc) and we recruit for admin staff on a 'rolling' basis from temp agencys. Our latest admin person is a teenage uni student who I don't think should have the job. She turns up each day in her convertible car (paid for by daddy) with her designer handbag, meets her friends at expensive coffee shops and restaurants in her lunch hour and generally does NOT seem like someone who needs the money.
I can think of at least half a dozen people I know who would have been just as good at her job, one of whom even applied for it yet they lost out to her. These are women who are single mums, with kids to support, who've been made redundant and need the money. She's here, by her own admission 'to bolster my CV!'
She'll only be here for a month then she'll go back to uni (because the local one 'isn't as strong academically' as her fancy pants one!) so I don't know why they bothered getting her in.
It just seems so wrong that she's here getting money to pay for her highlights and holidays when someone who actually a NEEDS A JOB ffs could have been hired!

I sorry but it sounds like you don't think she should have got the job because you are jealous.

She went for the job along with everyone else and she got it. Unless you can prove that something fishy is going on then I'd keep quiet.

YABU - an employer is not there to decide who "deserves" a job, but to pick between the applicants according to some criteria they set down in the job ad and the interview procedure.

This young woman may not need the money, as you say, but that doesn't mnean she can't do the job. And even if she only wants it for her CV, hopefully the experience she gets there will be "good for her" even if only to understand what it is like to do an admin job.

If she is getting the job done properly, why do you care? After all if she is a daddy's princess isn't it a good thing that she is getting some real world experience of work?

Can she do the job? That is really the only criteria you should apply.

They are unlikely to have recruited her because of her highlights and her convertible - they will have recruited her according to a strict set of criteria which she will have met.

Unless daddy is on the council you haven't anything to complain about have you?

What an odd post.

YABU - were you on the interview panel?

I just think the council should be recruiting people who not only can DO the job, but NEED it too. My friend would be able to do it just as well as her but because she hasn't got the academics this teenager has they passed her over. I think social services especially should be trying to help people into jobs who need them the most.

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YABU. Jobs should be given based on merit. In my experience the public sector in particular has very strict criteria and if she met them best then well done her. The rest is none of your business.

plus think of the hairdressers, coffee shop staff etc that she is keeping in work

If you think that your organisation are setting the academic requirements for this post too high for what they really need, then do have a word with them about it. But it's up to them to set the criteria they think are essential and/or desirable for each post, and if your friend doesn't have these then it's not the princess's fault, is it?

I'm sure job centres try to help people into jobs - that's certainly what they used to be for. I don't think it's usually anything to do with social services though.

Now that would be an interesting employment litigation case - a form that required you to say why you were poor enough to be worthy of a job. And what is your hierarchy of needs?

I think she should be admired for going out and getting a job and thinking about her CV, when it would be much easier for her to just hang about and rely on her father for handouts as many teenagers do.

It's a job, not a charity service.

You can't sack someone for having a nicer life than you, tempting as it is.

Lol
so on application forms I should write I neeed this jib because my boiler broke, I'm skint and I've got kids to keep warm?
Instead of wowing them with my admin experience

ha ha , as if

There was a time when married men would have got jobs in preference to women because they had a family to support.

I think you just sound a bit jealous.

OP as someone who has just started a new job, it can be really intimidating walking into an office full of people who already know each other.

Please welcome her and give her a go - you might even like her...

er, she does need the job, she needs it to improve her CV to help her get something else after she's completed uni. She needs to have work experience to stand out from other applicants.

Why should the employer take someone who they think will be shitter at the job just because they'll spend the money on more practical things?

Oh, and when she quits, your more worthy friends can apply.

YABU. Odd Op. If your friend doesn't have the academic stuff the job asked for that isn't the other temp's problem. The counbcil needs people who can do the work not to try and employ everyone who needs a job.