Can I get any benefits?

annie1975_2

Charityworker wrote: »

Could you start your own rival business in the same industry and undercut him and take all his existing customers? Why can't you just carry on working with him but just move out so that your not living with him anymore? If you just resign and go on the dole and move out that means he's won.

Oh and by the way £200 a week is a good wage. I earn half that.

If you only earn that then you must only be working 16 hrs a week. The OP is doing 60 hours sometimes.. BIG Difference.

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I agree £200 for full time is a low wage, it's almost minimum wage based on 37 hours so if OP is doing 60 hours that is low! OP I assume you don't have any dependent children as you don't mention any? I guess realistically if that is your income you are going to have to look for lodging or a shared house. My Dad lives in a bedsit £75 a week including all bills.

skypie123_2

mynameistallulah wrote: »

Do you think comments like this will encourage people to help you?

It's a normal reaction to the hostile treatment she has received on here after asking for help.
She asked what she could do for herself as her work is tied up with her relationship which she has to leave through no fault of her own, not a lecture on how she should be counting her blessing by a load of knitting, handwringing witches.

princess*daisy

Some of the responses on here are shocking. The woman earns peanuts as it is (yes, I am sure some people have less, but I'm not going to start comparing whose peanuts are bigger than whose) and is now about to lose her job and her home. I'd be really interested to see how those who are blasting her would cope in the same situation.

neverdespairgirl

chris1973 wrote: »

How do you base £200 a week as 'earning very little' ?. Are you currently being head hunted for £40k a year positions?

To be honest £200 a week (which I assume is after tax and ni?) isn't all that bad, I work in full time factory employment for not much more than that for a 39 hour week, and its certainly far more than you would get on JSA whilst looking for other work.

£200 a week is pretty low. It's well under half the national average salary, and you appear to be working 2/3rds of the hours the OP works, and earning more. So leave off her!

Kiboko

£200 a week is low, a friends 16 year old daughter is earning that stacking shelves over the summer in a supermarket. OP if you aren't a director of the company then with the hours you are working you may have a labour case. A single person without dependents can claim WTC, and on that wage you would get something (not much, but around £800 a year i think?)

Charityworker

annie1975 wrote: »

If you only earn that then you must only be working 16 hrs a week. The OP is doing 60 hours sometimes.. BIG Difference.

Sorry your wrong. I work more than 30 hours a week. I work 16 hours a week at the minimum wage in an office and then about another 20 hours a week with my small business. But as any business it cost a lot to start it up so it's not into profit yet.

sausageface

Charityworker


"Sorry your wrong. I work more than 30 hours a week. I work 16 hours a week at the minimum wage in an office and then about another 20 hours a week with my small business. But as any business it cost a lot to start it up so it's not into profit yet."

But you can't be living off £100 a week, what or who is subsidising you?

IMO £200 is a poor wage

mikey_bach

Also OP if you resign your 16 hr min wage job you would still be working in the other buisness full time so no jSA......

grummps

Either there is a lot of winding up going on in this thread or we have some very annoying trolls!!

I find it incredible that people can justify, and presumably they themselves would have no objection to, earning £200 a week for 60 hours!

I cannot imagine how anybody can reasonably say that that wage is OK! It is a pittance. Has everybody bar me gone down to the point that £200 a week is what they would willingly accept?

Come on, as a couple only, and we don't eat the best of foods, shop for bargains etc., it costs us over £100 a week for the supermarket shop alone.

If someone told me that I would have to graft all week for that sort of wage, I would be looking for another job doing anything including cleaning the public toilets!

I know what my labour is worth - and its a lot more than £3.33 an hour! It's worth more than the NMW as well!!

I have friends that refuse to work in the UK because of this crazy acceptance of a low wage. Many work in Europe and some much farther away - Africa, indonesia etc. At least the employers over there value a hard days work!!

One has just come back from Nigeria after being out there for the past 6 months. He was offered a job in the South East and lives in the North East. The job was for 38 hours a week - £350 a week - he turned it down as he objected to the 5 hour journey out and the same return journey at the end of the week and a weeks lodgings to pay for as well.