got sacked.

[benny hedges]

oh dear. i got sacked today.
been expecting it for over 6mths like - they've been right arseholes.
their reason was... on the 26th i told them i noticed my car tyre was down so pumped it up with the latex repair thing.
took it quickfit after the bank holiday and got it sorted.
apparently i shouldve got it fixed same day & that's their grounds for dismissal - even though it was only a slow puncture
someone said claim unfair dismissal but instead i cracked a beer & celebrated good riddance!

ah well never mind. signed on the dole and housing benefit etc.

made a few fonecalls and emails and just got a call from a major competitor - start on monday lol!
best thing is last set of twats didnt get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement so i will have great fun picking my way through their contracts over the next few weeks!

amazingly tho.... i used direct.gov benefit calculator last night and it worked out i would be £248 a mth better off for not working! WTF!
i did fancy having the summer off just for a break but i'd rather be working.

[lloydie]

good luck with the new job benny

[alec]

Good luck mate, lets hope i get mine now eh

[pinkyfloyd]

amazingly tho.... i used direct.gov benefit calculator last night and it worked out i would be £248 a mth better off for not working! WTF!
i did fancy having the summer off just for a break but i'd rather be working.

Bugger about the job but if you didnt like it there then enjoy the time off and get yourself back to work.

As for the quoted text. I used to work full time on a semi decent wage for a chef. I done 45 hours a week and was screwed over by the managers. I had been doing the catering managers job for months and when a youngster was taken on I was asked to train her up to help me run the kitchen, I trained her up and she was given the catering managers job by the building manager and area manager. (Lots of chiefs). She then stabbed me in the back royally and I quit. Friend got me a job where he works part time and we looked into family tax and low income benefits etc.

End result I now work 20 hours a week and my income is £20 less than it was working full time. I get to see my daughter a whole lot now which is great.

It doesnt pay to work full time on anything less than £20K a year. Thats why so many of the troglidites dont want to work. Not worth it. They get more money on the dole.

[benny hedges]

well turns out i was unemployed for 5hrs lol... got to be a record

[pinkyfloyd]

Congrats!

[Stratman]

made a few fonecalls and emails and just got a call from a major competitor - start on monday lol!
best thing is last set of twats didnt get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement so i will have great fun picking my way through their contracts over the next few weeks!

[marravtr]

good luck with the new job benny, old place sound like a reet load of nobjocky's anyway!

[Miztaziggy]

Good luck mate, and good on you for working. So many people would take the easy route. What is it you do?

Seriously though, being able to 'earn' more on benefits than from working is a disgrace and is exactly what you get from 13 years of a labour government. The more people they get on benefits, the more votes they get, the harder it is to get them back in to work and so on.

This country is going to the dogs...I hope someone in power will have the balls to stop all this nanny state, benefit loving, uneducated teen pregnancy, drunken yob, public sector nonsense.

No offence to anyone on here, but the state of this country, especially the education system in this country makes me so angry. Millions of English people don't know the difference between your and you're, never mind there, their and they're. Basic grammar I know, but if we English can't get that right, yet the French and german kids who i talk to online, who speak English as a 2nd language get it spot on every time.

Someone needs to cut sodding benefits, especially child benefits that reward single young mothers to breed more dole-ites by increasing their benefits as they pop out more half wits, and spend the savings educating the children of this country...

Rant over

Anyway, good on you benny. Nice to know the work ethic isn't completely dead!!

[alec]

Good luck mate, and good on you for working. So many people would take the easy route. What is it you do?

Seriously though, being able to 'earn' more on benefits than from working is a disgrace and is exactly what you get from 13 years of a labour government. The more people they get on benefits, the more votes they get, the harder it is to get them back in to work and so on.

This country is going to the dogs...I hope someone in power will have the balls to stop all this nanny state, benefit loving, uneducated teen pregnancy, drunken yob, public sector nonsense.

No offence to anyone on here, but the state of this country, especially the education system in this country makes me so angry. Millions of English people don't know the difference between your and you're, never mind there, their and they're. Basic grammar I know, but if we English can't get that right, yet the French and german kids who i talk to online, who speak English as a 2nd language get it spot on every time.

Someone needs to cut sodding benefits, especially child benefits that reward single young mothers to breed more dole-ites by increasing their benefits as they pop out more half wits, and spend the savings educating the children of this country...

Rant over



Anyway, good on you benny. Nice to know the work ethic isn't completely dead!!

child benefit replaced family allowance which every mother in the country would have got including yours mate and if you have kids then you would have got them to, as far as benefits go i agree with you but not to the point of cutting benefits but maybe regulating them, i've been off work myself for just over a year now through a work related accident 5 years ago (fractured spine), if it wasnt for benefits i'd be sleeping rough with my young family now, i do agree that benefits have been made easy to get which entices youngsters to go unemployed and get the £65 a week but although you say no offence to anyone on here you tar all the people claiming benefits with the same brush, i have worked since i left school at 15, 17 of them self employed working 7 days a week 18 hours a day as a private hire driver in maidstone and other than when i fractured my spine and holidays this is the longest i have been out of work,
please dont take offence to this as its not a 'have a go at you' its just some people can be quite tetchy about having to scrounge off the dole especially after 27 years putting into the system

[Miztaziggy]

No mate, I understand your point, sorry if my first post came across like having a go at all benefits.

There has to be a safety net there, benefits for people who can't work or can't find work. What I disagree with is benefits for those who simply won't work.

In times like these, benefits for people who lose their job or can't work are essential. But way too many people seem to take benefits as an option rather than work. My ex girlfriends sister's life ambition was to leave school, get pregnant and leave home, get a house and money all paid for by the state because of her child. She ended up shagging some random guy and getting knocked up. A year later she was in a council house and wasn't planning to work for the next 18 years.

Child benefits are the same, essential for the genuinely needy, but why incentivise people to have more children by never ending benefits. It's not like we need more people in this country.

I work full time, as does my girlfriend. We earn an average amount, about 40k per year between us. With what we spend on food, fuel, rent, bills etc we can't afford to have kids...but some scrotum who decides to get pregnant at 16 and have kids by the dozen gets the whole lot paid for by the state...by my sodding taxes.

It's a discrace.

Anyway mate, sorry if I come across as harsh or having a go at everyone on benefits, because that isnt what I'm saying. I'm just angry at those playing a system way too easy to be manipulated.

[alec]

No mate, I understand your point, sorry if my first post came across like having a go at all benefits.

There has to be a safety net there, benefits for people who can't work or can't find work. What I disagree with is benefits for those who simply won't work.

In times like these, benefits for people who lose their job or can't work are essential. But way too many people seem to take benefits as an option rather than work. My ex girlfriends sister's life ambition was to leave school, get pregnant and leave home, get a house and money all paid for by the state because of her child. She ended up shagging some random guy and getting knocked up. A year later she was in a council house and wasn't planning to work for the next 18 years.

Child benefits are the same, essential for the genuinely needy, but why incentivise people to have more children by never ending benefits. It's not like we need more people in this country.

I work full time, as does my girlfriend. We earn an average amount, about 40k per year between us. With what we spend on food, fuel, rent, bills etc we can't afford to have kids...but some scrotum who decides to get pregnant at 16 and have kids by the dozen gets the whole lot paid for by the state...by my sodding taxes.

It's a discrace.

Anyway mate, sorry if I come across as harsh or having a go at everyone on benefits, because that isnt what I'm saying. I'm just angry at those playing a system way too easy to be manipulated.

now i agree with what your saying mate re the child benefit, i've always said if thats the reason thay have kids then cut down the benefit but families who work and pay into the system leave alone, that way there would be fewer unwanted kids cause lets face it we all know people who just had a kid to get a council house, trouble is where do you draw the line some people have kids through know fault of their own, anyway take a sicky friday and get on that wales run.

[Miztaziggy]

Yeah I know its hard to draw the line somewhere, but ever increasing benefits is ridiculous. It basically pays people to have more kids. People think having kids is a right, when having kids should be a privilege. People need to take the decision to have kids seriously and not have kids just to increase their benefits that the majority will only spend on anything other than their kids anyway.

Lol, would love to have the day off, but I have a handover meeting on Friday...bloody typical it is over in Cheshire just off the M6 / M56 junction too so im half way there. You guys could all stop in on your way and take my luggage down ahead of me

Any takers?

[alec]

Hi Benny how did the new job go today then ?

[benny hedges]

Hi Benny how did the new job go today then ?

sorted mate... cracking bunch of guys, no slackers and bullshitters which is refreshing after 4yrs with the last shower of clowns.
done 2 days so far, 3 sites yesterday & just been down to chesham & back.... loads of work on which again makes a change.
got a crappy van for a few weeks like but so far it's great - no company vehicle tax (was £120 a mth) got a fuel card so i dont have to buy my own diesel and beg for it back, plus i get paid for the hours i do instead of doing 10 - 15hrs a day and only getting paid for 8.

very happy with it and think it was a timely move

no word from the other jokers yet.... waiting to see what / if i get paid next week before i begin operation database