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Originally Posted by Escapee
My partner recently went along with a client to one of these. The guy had a few mental health issues and was refusing to go so she offered to pick him up, take him there and sit in on it.
She wanted to go out of curiosity to see how fairly they were being conducted. She doesn't know if her attending made the difference but they went easy on him and she was surprised that they decided very quickly that he was unfit for work without any persuading required from her.
Knowing the guys history and hearing horror stories on forums she fully expected a problem, but she thought it was conducted fairly and with the right outcome.
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You always gets good and bad opinions, you mostly only hear the bad though.
A while back I got called up to see a work advisor to see if there was anything they could do, this was totally out of the blue. (Pre ESA days).
I turned up and she saw straight away I shouldn't be there and sincerely apologized for the inconvenience. She called a taxi for us to take us home, and told to get a receipt and claim the taxi fare back (which I wouldn't have bothered). But at about 6pm she turned up at the door and handed over taxi fare personally. Some do their best to help but often goes unnoticed.