Lavoro a Voghera: l’appello disperato di una figlia per suo padre

VOGHERA – La disheartened… desperate letter from a daughter who is (in vain) looking for work for her sixty-year-old father.
“I am writing this sort of ‘denunciation’/plea against a world of work that not only sucks, but also enjoys mocking people who desperately ask not only to live but to survive.
I am the daughter of a pensioner but I prefer to remain anonymous because I do not want to put myself or my family at the mercy of those (relatives, friends, acquaintances, and strangers) who have turned their backs on us in all these months. We are reserved but honest people. And it is precisely an honest job that I have been searching for my father for a long time. No one wants to take away work from someone who doesn’t even have an income… Today, we all need a job and we all need to survive, without distinctions.
It is humiliating to ask for help, and it is even more so for a daughter who is looking for work for her father. And not out of laziness. Yes, because I work but I earn little, and that little, added to my father’s pension, is not enough given the difficult period we are going through. Also because at the moment I can only do remote work.
I have written everywhere, I have posted ads, I have distributed resumes to ask for a part-time job, even just for 5/6 months, to allow us to get out of this bad period. And in response, silence or the lowest illusion (which is even worse). Local companies (including one based in Voghera and quite well-known, but I prefer not to mention the name) made it seem like they were going to schedule a job interview. And you can’t even imagine how much a small piece of news like this, even without any certainty of hiring, had reopened our hopes. And then nothing. A phone call comes announcing the interview. My father doesn’t have time to answer. 3 days go by because the HR manager is on vacation. They call my dad back and confirm that the phone call was for the interview. They tell him that he would be contacted again to set the date.
Hours pass and silence. An email arrives saying that unfortunately, they are evaluating other candidates. Curtain.
What changed in a few days and a few hours? I’ll tell you. In companies that behave like this, nothing has changed. Workers are just soulless numbers, kept only to produce. For those who suffer these jokes, it is just another blow that announces the deepest abyss. Why deceive? Why take advantage of someone else’s desperation?
So, I make one last appeal: my dad is looking for work as a forklift operator/ packaging operator/ picker… He has thirty years of experience in these positions and possesses a valid forklift license. Yes, he is over 60 years old. But he is still energetic and dynamic.
I am ready to face the criticism of those who will not understand my desperation. If, on the other hand, this letter and this plea for help can touch the heart of someone who is looking for these job positions, thank you in advance. I leave the email: cercolavoroperpapa@gmail.com”
Vittoria