Job Centre horror

Well today was the most degrading day of my life. For the first time in my life I'm at the job centre as a client not a contract provider.
Skip back a year...I used to manage several contracts to aid training for the unemployed. I came here to advise and sell our courses or to kick arse and demand referrals. I'm sure you can now understand why this is so horrible.
Anyway my appointment was 2:05pm to be told its been changed to 2:30pm! Joy I have to sit longer now.
What a site to behold, there's what people would class as your regulars who know all the advisors by name and clearly know how to work the system. There's your school leavers with the attitude, a poor man who looks like he is broken from the horrors of life and another women who like me looks mortified and moving further and further from the man next to her. Well I can smell him from here and that's saying something cause the guy next to me stinks of weed!
I've been recognised!!! The utter humiliation "well well never thought I'd see you on this side of things".
I can also hear someone refering a client to one of my old courses...Jesus no wonder we had to fight for clients they no nothing and under enthusiastic is being nice!!!
Ok so now i've been seen and what a joke. All I wanted was to get me stamp paid and stay on mat leave till March but they wouldn't do that they would only pay my JSA. So I was trying not to take JSA and they were trying to force it on me! Go figure! I told them I wasn't ready to work yet ect so she very politely told me to do one, I was not quite so polite back.
After all that trauma I ring National Insurence and i'm bloody covered through Child Benefit!
God help me when I actually do need to sign on! Why would anyone want to subject themselves to that every 2 weeks for £60 odd pounds! Don't get me wrong people do genuinly need help with job serach but long term...not for me!