"Until a few years ago, I remember that to stamp the unemployment card you could go from 8 in the morning, and you only had to make the relevant queue and present the ID." This is how the complaint of a reader begins, who assures that the schedule to stamp this card at the Arrecife Employment Office has been reduced from 12:00 to 14:00 hours.
In this sense, he says that he found "a few months ago" with an "unexpected" change. "You had to get to the office before 11:00 to be able to stamp, because otherwise you should go another day," he explains. This reader thought: "Well, that schedule wasn't so bad either. I shouldn't be distracted."
But, days ago, this neighbor had to renew the unemployment card again. For this reason, he decided to call the 012 information telephone to find out if the renewal schedule had changed. "In this information telephone only the old renewal schedule is granted and adds the information of being able to renew the card by Internet and/or telephone," he says.
However, a few days ago, he saw a sign when arriving at the Arrecife Employment Office that said that the schedule had changed again. "Far from making us get up early as responsible people, or even lengthening it thinking about the number of people who are currently unemployed, I find that the hours had been reduced to two, from 12:00 to 14:00 hours," he denounces.
The reader also learned that even if you renew the card online, you have to pick it up in this period of time, from 12:00 to 14:00 hours. The neighbor asked if the rest of the offices in the country also have this schedule, something that "seems to be exclusive" to Arrecife.
"I looked around and saw that of several tables that are in the office, only four were attending to all the people present there. Do you think that in our office less work is done every day, or do you think it is okay for them to reduce working hours and time so that they probably don't have to get up early? This is just my opinion, I hope you respect it and express yours as respectfully as possible," he says.
