I'm having a DFW baby!!

Snaggles

You know when a day goes from bad to worse.......

Stu has just had a text message from a mate at work - he's going to be made redundant in August/September because they're closing down.

He's known it was on the cards for ages, but it WOULD have to happen now!

Sea78

OH no!!!! How awful.

Will he get a pay out? Is there work out there that he could get afterwards? So sorry to hear this - especially now!!

Sea xx

Queen.Bess

Oh Snaggles, I'm sorry to hear that. Just make sure that the process is done all fair and above board. But keep smiling, you have beautiful baby to enjoy! Good Luck!

Lucy1982_2

Oh Snaggles!

That's not good. But if he tries job hunting now and you looking into what you are entitled to should the worst happen at least you'd be a little prepared for it. Also remember there should be a redundancy payout

Let us know how you get on.

Snaggles

He's been there 8 years so will get a payout of some kind but it will be the bare minimum I'm sure. He should be able to get another job, he works in a warehouse driving fork trucks etc so I think he will get work, although he might have to put up with rubbish shift patterns etc for a while. We'll be okay, but it's just come at a crap time.

mrsspendalot

oh heck Snaggles, what a blow!

Snaggles

Updated 'jobs for today' list:

[STRIKE]Clean bathroom[/STRIKE] Done
Dust Bedroom
[STRIKE]Tidy Ryan's room[/STRIKE] Done by Stu :T
Fill in/post child benefit form Filled in but not posted yet
Sort out standing orders for sharesaves Have got all details together, tackling this at the moment!
Ring tax credits office to update details
Dig out Stu's CV and update it
Go for a drive round local industrial estates and make a list of places to send CV

And in other annoying news, Ryan's teacher has rung, she's 'too busy' to see us today so has rearranged our meeting for Friday, so I have to wait and worry for the rest of the week about what she's going to say....:mad:

immoral_angeluk

Surely the title of this thread should now be I've 'had' a DFW baby? lol

Just wanted to say a couple things, one about the child benefit.. you can apply online! Can't remember the address but that's what we did and then we just sent them the birth certificate and it went through really quickly.
Also when we updated tax credits the payments changed straight away so you shouldn't have to wait to long.

Hope your DH sorts his work out soon!

elantan

if she changed the title i'd nver be able to find it...sorry to hear about stu's job snaggles hope he gets something else soon ...cant be too bad about ryan though (hopefully) otherwise she wouldve made a point in seeing you ...chin up babe it will get better

Sagaris

Sorry to hear about Stu's job - but I'm sure there is something better out there for him - might not seem like it now though.
Fingers crossed for you all, and don't worry about what that teacher will say - I'm sure some of them get a perverse pleasure from torturing us parents!
(Joke btw - I work in lots of schools and know a fair few teachers!)