Can being off "sick with stress" affect your upcoming redundancy payout?

ska_lover

Rochdale-Guy, I really do not know why you have bothered starting this thread, you will NOT get any sympathy from most people in here - are far too ignorant to see beyond the end of their own opinionated noses. (As per the unhelpful and judgmental comment above..)

The people on here do not KNOW you, they are just strangers behind a keyboard, we are not your friends and cannot guage your situation adequately from a few words on a screen - and they do not care either, mores the pity. It makes them feel better to judge you.

If I were you, I would delete this thread immediately, because all the put downs, obnoxious 'I have only had one sick day in 30 years' comments are going to make you worse.

So what if someone else does not feel stress - that has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR SITUATION, and they are using your situation to validate them (pathetic) selves for being loyal to a job which would no doubt !!!! on them when it suits.

You look after YOURSELF. Only you know how you feel, do not let anyone else tell you different.

I actually understand what you say that you feel you may be off with stress in the near future, because, as those of us ''in the know'' and with a bit of insight into how you may be feeling, will realise that STRESS DOES NOT COME ON OVERNIGHT and you can feel yourself slipping.

My advise would be, yes, have your pity party - but then force yourself to get a grip, and fast. Sometimes you need time away from a situation - however you need to ensure that this does not overwhelm you and BECOME your life iyswim. Not everyone is as mentally strong as some people on this thread claim to be....but be kind to yourself..........you are only human after all.

Be clear, that there are people who go to work every single day and suffer panic attacks to the point that they feel they will pass out / massive stress - but they carry on and struggle through and do not let it become them - and then there are the ones who let it rule their lives..and end up on sick leave long term and jangling with pills. You need to decide which one you want to be.

Stress will eventually pass, you have ten years experience in your job so are a very marketable employee!

Good luck

SeduLOUs

So you've been given your 1 month notice and 10 weeks redundancy pay. Way I see it is you've got 14 weeks to find another job without losing out on any money. That's more than most people get.

Don't start panicking until you have to, start making cutbacks now, and don't make up an excuse to go off sick and scupper any hope you have of finding another job.

Rochdale_Guy

Hi, long time since I was on here. Took a self imposed break to see if things got any better, and they didn't. In fact I would say things have got worse, hard to believe that's possible.

So, I was told I am being made redundant and my last working day is 30th November, and I am to get 10 weeks redundancy pay. 1 measly week for each complete year, so after 10 loyal years I have done, all I get is 10 weeks.

I am still paying £126 each month to CCCS on my Debt Management Plan, despite not really being able to afford that amount. I explained I was being made redundant to them and they just said "keep us informed" and to remind them nearer that date, great. I have to complete a whole new budget and SOA just to get them to reduce my monthly payments. I am sure I have read on here people say they have had an unexpected expenditure, rang CCCS up, then they reduced the monthly payments for like 2-3 months. Well, not apparently in my case, just great again. And they have started taking out money from monthly payslips for this 3 days enforced unpaid leave. Sigh.

I am also trying to find out what happens when I get my albeit small redundancy lump sum. Will CCCS want a big slice of that to offer to my creditors (don't forget I still owe £26k), or will my creditors act like ever hungry wolves and come baying at my door when they hear I have got a redundancy payment? I didn't tell CCCS how much I was getting, and I have no plans to tell my creditors I am getting this lump sum.

Anyway, that's not the end of it.

Since our "team" has been given our redundancy notices and terms, Rochdale Council have now announced another 200 job losses, and another £45million in savings to make, and had now written to ALL employees asking for people interested in taking voluntary redundancy.

This is just a few weeks remember after I was told I am being made redundant and I will get 1 weeks pay for every year of service.

This new package is going to offer anyone who accepts it 3 weeks pay for every year of service, so that would mean 30 weeks pay for me, and not the paltry 10 weeks I am getting.

We are absolutely livid over this, how could they do this to us? It is so unfair.

Rumoured here, back in August 2012:
http://menmedia.co.uk/rochdaleobserv...educe-job-cuts

....and now confirmed in the letter sent to every employee. Have only just recently found that link.


Life does not get any better I am afraid to report, things are now below rock bottom and I am genuinely scared and worried sick.

I am convinced CCCS will want a slice of my redundancy money, and I won't be able to get another job (you aren't allowed to get a job with the Council or another local council for 28 days anyway after getting the redundancy money), and things just suck big time.

How do you find the strength to keep going?

People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. No it doesn't. It just further eats away at you, zapping what little strength and will you have left in you and knocks you back even further, leaving you in a crumpled, dazed and defeated state on the floor.

My so called life. Ain't it great?

mumcoll

I asked the very same question a few weeks ago for my husband. He didn't go off with stress (or anything else).

He did find it incredibly stressful being in work beside people who hadn't lost their jobs. (One man who actually falls asleep in the afternoons. He was obviously spoken to about this as he then sent an email to all in his team, blaming his diabetes for making him sleepy! - Where was the 'capability' there?)

Anyway, hubby carried on and now feels much more positive - he had his first interview in 5 years yesterday.

Good luck to you Rochdale Guy.

Rochdale_Guy

Thanks mumcoll