Wages Paid Incorrectly causing time off work!!

MissSarah1972

denla wrote: »

Each meal you can have 2 packs of the noodles with some mixed veg and a little bit of diced sausages. There's your meat, veg, egg extract and wheat. Currently £18.53 altogether. Still enough for a £1.18 4 pint milk which can last a whole week or more if you drink only a small cup each day.
malnutrition even if you ate and drank like this for a whole year... especially if you add a £3.99 60 caps of vitamin supplements to your list. I've ate like this during uni. I'm not underweight and have energy to participate in sports.

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Noodles for breakfast? You make a pint last a week??? :eek: How? Oh yes as you are having noddles for breakfast!

jonjb_2

any one else get the feeling this is going off topic?

Dumbe

denla wrote: »

£0.11 for 65g noodles. 2 packs per meal x 2 meals per day x 7 days x 4.4 for the month. That's £13.55. Add 2x £1.50 for 1kg frozen mixed vegetables from Tescos. That's £16.55 for the month at the moment. We have noodles and some mixed vegetables. How about a little meat? Add 2x Hessy's 10 hot dogs 350g from Tescos to the list for £0.99 each.

Each meal you can have 2 packs of the noodles with some mixed veg and a little bit of diced sausages. There's your meat, veg, egg extract and wheat. Currently £18.53 altogether. Still enough for a £1.18 4 pint milk which can last a whole week or more if you drink only a small cup each day.

That's £19.71 to eat relatively ok and healthily and have some milk in addition to plain water. It's not difficult to keep food spending low when you need money to travel for that 1 month before you get the wages back. Oh wait, it's still below £20... I still have another £10 to spend... maybe 2x £0.40 for long grain rice and something else. In other words, stop whining you can't survive. It's also just for a month. You won't die from malnutrition even if you ate and drank like this for a whole year... especially if you add a £3.99 60 caps of vitamin supplements to your list. I've ate like this during uni. I'm not underweight and have energy to participate in sports.

It's one thing claiming you can't survive on £20 a month eating well, another whining you can't buy your luxury foods and alcohol because you're not willing to cut down your costs to get to work.

Ok at the risk of feeding this ... I felt compelled to comment as if this is what you eat you are storing up serious problems for the future ..

Noodles - not healthy .. Simple white (bad) carbs. Contain MSG,salt etc.. Will not do you any favors in the future.

Frozen veg - tick but you need 5 different serves of fruit and veg a day to include different colours e.g dark leafy greens, peppers , tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower etc... A bag of mixed veg servd everyday is not adequate what fruit veg are you having with your breakfast, snacks etc..

Hot dogs - sorry i don't class these as lean healthy meat .. You need a mix of things like oily fish, chicken etc.. Hotdogs contain all sorts of nasties and are NOT 100 percent lean meat.

My menu today.

Breakfast - porridge made with rolled oats and water plus an apple.

Snack - rye bread with sliced tomato, ham ( not processed) and rocket.

Lunch - tuna salad sandwich on rye bread .. Includes tomato, cucumber, rocket, pepper with a coleslaw side.

Snack - handful of nuts and an orange.

Dinner - salmon roast in oven with garlic butter, blanched spinach , green beans and crunchy carrots.

Evening snack - kiwi fruit.


Drinks - tomato juice, coffee with skim milk, water.


No idea how you buy that mix of veg, protein etc.. And have different mixes regularly... Eating the same thing each day does NOT give your body the variation it needs.

Tomorrow I will have

Breakfast - boiled egg, kiwi fruit.

Lunch - ham and tuna home made salad

Dinner - homemade chill con carne. Contains lean minced beef, kidney beans, tomatoes, spices, brown rice side of veggies

Plus snacks.

What you are proposing is processed rubbish that is not a relatively healthy balanced diet by any stretch of the imagination, you will end up with serious deficiencies leading to long term health issues.

jonjb_2

In response to dumbe,

I agree totally with you, i wish i could be that disciplined though lol. Love the menu. Can we do that on £20 a month though??? lol

IanatSeaton

As someone who used to run a payroll department, our policy always was to correct an error involving underpayment by giving the employee an advance of salary roughly equivalent to the amount of money needed to bring their take-home pay up to what it should have been. ie we took into account the effects of NHI and taxation. The following month the short payment was added to the employee's gross pay and the salary advance was recovered as a deduction from their net pay. This was the policy at several companies that I worked for at different times, including ICI and Cortaulds. I would expect most reasonable companies to operate in a similar way.

MissSarah1972

jonjb wrote: »

In response to dumbe,

I agree totally with you, i wish i could be that disciplined though lol. Love the menu. Can we do that on £20 a month though??? lol

You can if you substitue all of that for 100 packets of noodles!

Dumbe

jonjb wrote: »

In response to dumbe,

I agree totally with you, i wish i could be that disciplined though lol. Love the menu. Can we do that on £20 a month though??? lol

Lol...I seriously doubt it .. But then I seriously doubt that you can eat healthily on 20 for a month ... Or not my definition of healthy anyway!

Uncertain

jonjb wrote: »

any one else get the feeling this is going off topic?

To some extent....

However you were the one who posted on here because, when your employer failed to pay your full wages this month, you did not have enough money to put fuel in your car and get to work.

In addition to answering the employment law questions you asked I also pointed out running your budget that tight was not a viable situation.

A number of people have made suggestions, some better than others, about how you might attempt to make a modest salary go a little further.

Only you can acknowledge the problem and takes steps to do something about it. One thing is certain, if you don't sooner or later it will bite you and you will end up in a downward spiral.

dizzyrascal

Uncertain wrote: »

To some extent....

In addition to answering the employment law questions you asked I also pointed out running your budget that tight was not a viable situation.

A number of people have made suggestions, some better than others, about how you might attempt to make a modest salary go a little further.

Only you can acknowledge the problem and takes steps to do something about it. One thing is certain, if you don't sooner or later it will bite you and you will end up in a downward spiral.

At no point has the OP asked for help with planning their budget. As you have made people aware, there is another board for that.

You need to get off your high horse and start listening to people.
It stikes me that the OP is doing fine with their budget but was extremely upset about a situation that should never have happened (and not caused by lack of planning or buying huge TV's)

If you have never tried to live on 16k (and had to buy a lot of petrol at the current price) then please stop preaching.

Uncertain

dizzyrascal wrote: »

You need to get off your high horse and start listening to people.
It stikes me that the OP is doing fine with their budget ........

Well I sincerely hope the OP doesn't listen to you!

If your idea of "doing fine with their budget" is being in a situation where he cannot buy the fuel necessary to get to work if part of his salary is paid a couple of days late then you are severely misguided.

We are talking of about twenty quid here to at least get him to work for a couple of days to sort the salary problem out face to face! God knows what would happen if the car needs a £100 repair as he apparently can't get to work and earn a living without it.

The problem needs addressing, not people like you saying "there there".