The Jobcentreplus site has many questionnable 'jobs' on offer. My husband took up one last week. (Minimum wage, £6.08ph, part-time only to avoid various obligations on their part) It was a very shady 'hotel' (more like a dosshouse) Given a bottle of neat bleach and told to wipe out toilets with his bare hands using the handtowel in each room. Filthy place, demoralised and very young staff. The 'manager' looked like an extremely dodgy used-car salesman. My husband rang me and I came and fetched him away. These people know that the jobless will take almost anything, and they are, in one word, Exploitative. I feel that Poundland (and others) see the present economic climate as a jolly good way to get workers for nothing (or next to nothing). My heart went out to the poor little lass and a grubby lad (both coughing) who continued to trudge round with their bleach bottle and a clapped-out vacuum cleaner. We've gone back to Dickens in his blacking factory!