Following on from another post on another thread…
We all have bills to pay food to put on the table etc etc but would you ever leave a job without a job to go to?
I understand if you left a job through no fault of your own you would at least qualify for job seekers allowance, but leaving a job for any other reason would surely be your own fault, or would it? Therefore you wouldn’t qualify…right?
It’s interesting how some say they wouldn’t work for less than £? but that’s just bluster isn’t it? After all, a jobs a job right?
global.
I did, about 4 years ago…and have done so several times years ago before johnny foreigner arrived, when hard jobs were reasonably easy to find if you had a good work ethic/record…(few hard jobs left so lots of applicants chasing the easy life now.)
No mortgage no debts, only the good wife (early retirement) and me, kids flown the nest.
The fine woman in question had seen the detioration in me, she took me to one side one day and quietly told me she didn’t want to be the richest widow in the town, she was right i was in a bad state and hadn’t realised, and after paying the house off there was no longer any need to chase it so quit, best thing i’ve done for years.
Not sure i could have done so had we needed the money, as i was leaving very well paid work but where every penny and more was earned twice over, if i hadn’t left i doubt i’d be still here in reasonably rude health.
I’d leave a poor payer without a moments hesitation.
I do it but I’ve no dependents & can’t stand working for people I don’t like if I don’t absolutely have to.
I’ve done it too and I was earning big bucks for the previous ■■■■■■ I worked for…still makes me angry to this day 
Thats why I’m sat at home here playing on the computer 
global:
Following on from another post on another thread…
We all have bills to pay food to put on the table etc etc but would you ever leave a job without a job to go to?
I understand if you left a job through no fault of your own you would at least qualify for job seekers allowance, but leaving a job for any other reason would surely be your own fault, or would it? Therefore you wouldn’t qualify…right?
It’s interesting how some say they wouldn’t work for less than £? but that’s just bluster isn’t it? After all, a jobs a job right?
global.
No, it’s not just bluster. And I haven’t starved to death yet. But then, I don’t have any debt to consider. Took me a while to learn the lesson but learn it I did. That’s why I’m sitting here now instead of working for ■■■■■■■■■■
global:
Following on from another post on another thread…
We all have bills to pay food to put on the table etc etc but would you ever leave a job without a job to go to?
I understand if you left a job through no fault of your own you would at least qualify for job seekers allowance, but leaving a job for any other reason would surely be your own fault, or would it? Therefore you wouldn’t qualify…right?
It’s interesting how some say they wouldn’t work for less than £? but that’s just bluster isn’t it? After all, a jobs a job right?
global.
The thing is even if you only get paid ,let’s say £6 p.h,then you’d get all sorts of benefits on top of that to boost it up.
I remember not that many years ago I was full time doing 60/70/80 hrs p.w,mrs was full time 40 hrs p w(+bit of o/t,daughter had 2 part time jobs and I think it was 15/17 hrs p.w,as studentwe were still getting benefits for here,can tremember whether it was family allowance,family credits but paid for holidays abroad every year
I’d want to know hourly rate + benefits before saying yay!nay to a job
Times have changed as well,women rarely stay at home with kids 100% of the time!they’ll work in some shape or form!and in a lot of cases earn as much or more than bloke
I left my last full time job with nothing lined up. I was commuting from Rosss on Wye to Wednesbury in the small hours of Monday morning, spending all week in the truck, then getting back home late on Friday evening. We’d just bought our first house, and one weekend I came home and found myself asking my other half how she’d organised the kitchen … I had no idea where things were in my own house. A few weeks later she rang me when I was in Scotland, and said that we had more money than we knew what to do with, but a really crap life as we never saw each other. I handed my notice in when I got back to the yard that Friday.
Life is too short to waste it being absolutely utterly miserable in the job you’re doing for 60-70hrs a week. Worst that can happen is you leave your job, can’t find owt, end up in a ton of debt, go to the county court, declare bankrupt and start all over again.
The best thing you can do is build up some “Fk You" money - £4000-£5000 or so which you can use to pay the mortgage or rent for 6 months to a year. Its surprising how much more tolerable "fk you” money makes a bad job because you know that if it gets too much you can go “fk you" to the boss and quit. Its even better if your boss knows you have "fk you” money because then he knows his threats of sacking you in order to get you to do something unreasonable are meaningless because quite simply you don’t care.
I left a very well paid job after 17 yrs as a Docker and earning over £40 k for thé last 3 yrs but they changed the shift pattern from 4 on 4 off to a 39 hr week over any 6 days and that was days or nights. They could lay you up at a moments notice or phone you up and say you must come in to work now, basically until you got your 39 hrs in you were at their beck and call. Oh and overtime was very much expected and you could never plan anything socially as you didn’t know what shift you were on.
So I jacked it in knowing i had my class 1 to fall back and got work the very next week on agency and landed a full time job with a well known company 12 months later and don’t regret leaving.
Not surprised you left bald bloke, what a joke the new rota was, I bet most of the other lads jacked as well.
Silver_Surfer:
I bet most of the other lads jacked as well.
No hardly any left because pay wasn’t touched nor the final salary pension and sick pay but they’re all totally peed off with it all. And as i stated i had my license to fall back on.
I have left a job with no job to go to more than once, my advice to all of my friends and family has been if your not happy at work leave as you will only drag every one around you down. and why should you be unhappy for any reason ,poor money idiot office or work so called mates. you work more than any other thing you do (42 years so far) and are a long time dead. f em.
I jacked my last full time job(before this one).I signed with an agency that morning,and was clocking on at warburtons hours later.
I had been happily plodding along on agency for about a year,when I got a call from the firm I work for now.
if you are unhappy…change things.
Conor:
Life is too short to waste it being absolutely utterly miserable in the job you’re doing for 60-70hrs a week. Worst that can happen is you leave your job, can’t find owt, end up in a ton of debt, go to the county court, declare bankrupt and start all over again.The best thing you can do is build up some “Fk You" money - £4000-£5000 or so which you can use to pay the mortgage or rent for 6 months to a year. Its surprising how much more tolerable "fk you” money makes a bad job because you know that if it gets too much you can go “fk you" to the boss and quit. Its even better if your boss knows you have "fk you” money because then he knows his threats of sacking you in order to get you to do something unreasonable are meaningless because quite simply you don’t care.
Correct.
One of my worse bosses used to actively encourage his blokes into getting themselves bigger cars houses etc, even front them money, the more in debt they were the harder they’d work to pay it off.
Just wish more people could see the futility of trying to live a celebrity lifestyle that many of this generation yearn for, all on the never never, flash clothes/cars/holidays/phones celeb style weddings costing upwards of £20k WTF is that all about, just what you need to start your married life a £20k debt eh?
Pay your house off ASAP, don’t take out any other form of credit and THEY haven’t got you by the bollox.
this^^^
makes me chuckle when you see some knob pull up at the petrol station in a flash car…and then put a fiver in 
then theres the bloke in the pub who earns a fantastic wage...but always seems to be missing when its his round 
theyre full of ■■■■....so wrapped up in consumerism,that they dont care how much debt they wrack…as long as they have this months en vogue materialistic ■■■■■■■■ on display.
buy now,pay later ffs
I have absolutely no debt and some savings. However even if I didn’t I wouldn’t tolerate crap working conditions.
If you’re not happy call the boss a ■■■■ and walk away.
It’s madness to be unhappy at work
Tipper Tom:
I have absolutely no debt and some savings. However even if I didn’t I wouldn’t tolerate crap working conditions.If you’re not happy call the boss a [zb] and walk away.
It’s madness to be unhappy at work
I would’nt have agreed with you two or so years back but now, I could’nt agree with you more. Like you, I have no debt and some savings so it does make it easier for us to stick two fingers up if we dont like it.
bald bloke:
I left a very well paid job after 17 yrs as a Docker and earning over £40 k for thé last 3 yrs but they changed the shift pattern from 4 on 4 off to a 39 hr week over any 6 days and that was days or nights. They could lay you up at a moments notice or phone you up and say you must come in to work now, basically until you got your 39 hrs in you were at their beck and call. Oh and overtime was very much expected and you could never plan anything socially as you didn’t know what shift you were on.So I jacked it in knowing i had my class 1 to fall back and got work the very next week on agency and landed a full time job with a well known company 12 months later and don’t regret leaving.
this sounds like drake port work ethic?