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Orginally posted by chandresh

Today I called up to register for the program and here is what happened:

1. Tried to contact my employment advisor at Costi - the agency responsible for running this program in York region - she was not in, no idea when she will be back and not sure whether she will be back today or not.

2. No one else can help me on this mentorship program since that office has no idea about it.

3. Given telephone no of another Costi office to find if they knew about this program.

4. Called that office. Given a name Ireana and a phone no to contact her. When I enquired where is that office located, the person giving me the number did not know the location of this office of Irena.

5. Called up that number -found that it was a long distance number.

6. Called again - Irean picked up and spoke in a worse than 'desi' English/accent (no offence meant please - just to show that people who have their connections, can get jobs in semi-govt/not for profit organisations in customer service even with bad English!!!!)

7. As soon as I enquired about the program, she read out a script (to me it seemed like that) asking me to give my last name, first name and phone no, and said that someone will contact me in a few days' time.

8. I asked 'why a few days?', her answer was, that is what she had been told. I asked her 'how many days', she replied - 'I don't know and do not want to give you false hope'.

9. Asked her where is this office located - got a reply, sorry we cannot disclose that!

So what do I do now? - sit down on my chair next to the phone and shake legs for a few days waiting for the phone to ring! Worse than waiting for some interviewer to call me!

And this office has been funded by the taxes and EI that I have paid

Chandresh

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