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  Agreed Howard, a really tough job.
  
  Unfortunately the 'working conditions' is underemphasised here. I'm all for people questioning all the other reasons for the strike, but in such reports the real issues often get ignored.
  
  Targets are now being set in job centres based on the number of people on benefits in the area, numbers that now need to be reduced. The government are driving these targets and expecting job centre workers to take the burden of the implications. Quite rightly, the workers don't see the targets to be enligned with what is fair - as every job centre has vastly different demographics and social issues.
  
  This is not about people being lazy, but being given unrealistic targets that are not necessarily a reflection of their ability or work ethic.
  
  We could start judging our local MP by comparing local wages to other areas. We could perhaps (ignorantly) decide that he/she was not doing a 'good job' as the average wage in Dover was not as good as that in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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