My Debt-Free Plan...HOOS and the Case of the Incredible Exploding Oven!! :-o

gettingbetter

just had a lightbulb :rotfl: :rotfl:

tell him a cleaner is £40 per hour and as he
doesnt clean up after himself
you have no choice but to employ one

there fore his rent is going to double :eek: :eek: :eek:
if that doesnt give him the kick up the !!!!
he needs nothing will

kas xx

Head-Out-Of-Sand

Ha ha I like your thinking!!!

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Paid £40 from mystery shopping jobs last month off the RBS OD

So I've now paid 18% of my LBM debt off, hurrah!

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Weighed myself this morning - my exercise & diet efforts have *finally* paid off - I've lost half a stone!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Very pleased, was starting to think I'd never start losing weight! :j

gettingbetter

:j :j
wel done on weight loss

patio still available if needed
you will need your own transport and shovel

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

kas xx

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He he thank you!!

Not needed at the moment, although he has just walked in on a phone conversation between me and my mum and tried to join in?!?!

Weird boy.

Although I was teaching her spanish swearwords. Hee hee. :rotfl:

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Urgh, work situation is looking a little shaky...

One of my co-workers is off with the same work-related (i.e. WORK'S G*DDAMN FAULT) injury, and was due to go back to work next week, all of a sudden they've contacted her to say she's being investigated for some "serious breach" of IT policy and is not to go onto the premises without the express permission of our LM's boss (who was previously my LM, who is known for flouting HR policy/law and whom I have previously won a grievance against for such things...)

Poor thing is distraught, she's not been in for 6 months, and can't figure out what she did over 6 months ago which wasn't serious enough to be dealt with at the time but suddenly, now she's returning from long term sick, is a major issue??

They phoned her to tell her this, but said "the details are in the post" but chances are it wont get to her before BH weekend, and they will not give her any further information about what she's supposedly done, and wont even clarify whether she is or is not suspended, so she has to wait til Tues morning next week to ask for permission to come into work?!? And she's got a whole BH weekend of sleepless nights and crying with worry. How could they do that to her?

Urgh. I feel terrible for her as I can imagine what she is feeling right now. We both half-joked about how they were going to get rid of those of us who were causing them a problem by being injured...not so funny any more.

So in the last year, of 5 people who have come back off long term sick to our office, one was fired on a trumped-up charge (total nonsense, and would have usually been a slapped-wrist response), one was accused of telling a client to F off over the phone (no evidence was ever presented, she was just told "it could only have been her" - it was dropped eventually), one was moved into a corner of the office on her own and given no work to do, until she found another job and left, one was pressured into taking voluntary redundancy (withdrawn when she quite rightly got the union involved), and now one has been suspended on some unknown, historical alleged IT breach. This is getting kind of scary now.

I feel sick myself as I'm due to return over the next few weeks and I'm just waiting to see what they've managed to trawl up to get me on. They'll undoubtedly find something, as they would with any employee if they purposely went looking (who hasn't sent the odd personal email from work, even though you're technically not meant to...) so I'm finding it hard now not to dread returning.

The woman responsible for this used to be my LM, as mentioned above. I honest to god, hand on my heart, would not put something like this past her. I've seen her do it before and I know she has no regard for HR policy, the law, or any kind of notion of how you treat other human beings.

I think what they're trying to do is to make things so difficult for us that we'll leave voluntarily, constructive dismissal, but that's so hard to prove you'd never get anywhere with it. Either that, or they actually intend to get rid.

I'm seriously worried about whether I'm going to have a job in a month's time. And all because I got injured through someone else's negligence. Sometimes the world is a really sucky place.

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RIGHT!!!! THAT'S IT!!!!

The final straw. Camel's back well and truly broken.

F*CKWIT has left my door unlocked AGAIN despite coming in telling me there'd been a spate of burglaries in our neighbourhood.

THEN I go to make my tea tonight to find the freezer has defrosted because the person who has the middle drawer has stuffed it over-full, then shoved a load of their stuff on my shelf, and the door then didn't shut and ALL MY STUFF IS RUINED. Shall I let you guess which particular housemate has the middle shelf? Or is it all getting a bit too predictable?!!

I'm gutted, I'd literally just filled up my shelf with meat, seafood etc, there must have been about £40 worth of stuff in there, and all in an effort to save money!! The irony. What's worse is I texted them both saying what had happened and he texted back saying "I've been away all weekend". Well, other housemate has been away since weds and I've only just got back, been away since the 4th!!

That's it. I can't take any more of his moronic behaviour. He's getting his notice at the end of the month. Either that or I take KAS up on her offer!!!!!

essexgal

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RIGHT!!!! THAT'S IT!!!!

Surprised he didn't try and say that someone broke in and they're the ones who left the freezer door open.........:rolleyes:

Seriously - you'll be so much better off without this idiot - not necessarily financially but in terms of peace of mind.....if someone had burgled the place you'd probably find the insurance wouldn't cover you because they didn't have to force entry.

Shame you're not Liverpool way 'cos I know someone looking to get away from housemates similar to yours.

Now you've made that decision do you feel better - if yes, that's the right decision.

essexgal

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Thanks hun, I do feel soooo much better now I've decided. He's now slamming around the house downstairs. What he feels he's got to be angry about I'm not sure. I've now emptied the freezer and it's defrosting.

Totalled up my stuff from freezer and it comes to £42 :eek: I had enough meat, fish etc to keep me going for 2-3 months, and it's all gone. It was kinda heartbreaking throwing it all away, what a waste.

I just don't need this crap. I've got so much stress and rubbish going on with work, I can't handle having someone in my house that causes me extra unnecessary stress. Just not looking forward to the eviction conversation, but these things have to be done I guess.

As for the door thing, it'd certainly void my insurance claim, but not only that, I don't like the idea of strange men getting into my house - there was a case a few years ago just down the road from me of a student who was raped by a guy who got in through an open hallway window. I can't risk someone who leaves my house unsecured as you just don't know who's out there.

Tell your friend she has my utmost sympathy!!! xx