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Jobcentre staff face investigation after 'sick' & 'offensive' voicemail to jobseeker

Jobcentre staff face investigation after 'sick' & 'offensive' voicemail to jobseeker

A jobseeker was left shocked and insulted after she was left an angry message by Jobcentre workers, calling her a “scrounging b*****d that’s popping out children like pigs.”

The message, which was accidentally left on Cecilia Garcia’s phone, insulted people with “foreign-sounding” names.

The two Jobcentre employees described how they resented “running around for these people” when “none of them have English names” - the Daily Express reports. Garcia was left the message by Ann Goode, an employee at the Bromley Jobcentre in South East London.

The message was originally left to ask Garcia to call them back on Monday. However, Goode forgot to hang up the phone.

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