Trying To Relocate, Work Unhelpful, JSA?!

bcky

I understand the current job climate is still in a state so leaving a job you currently have is possibly the worst thing you can do.

All my family live 200 miles away and my Dad (whom I lived with) has recently departed to join them.

I work for one of the big supermarkets and they're being extremely unhelpful with getting me a transfer up there. The HR managers usually do it for you but they're telling me I have to do it all, I have to phone up, I have to drop £60 on a weekend away to go and see one of the stores for not even 15 minutes and basically tell me I was awful and unemployable as I had been off ill 3 times in a year. They're absent procedure is awful, truly awful but you cannot be around food if you're sick!

Anyway getting back to my point, I'm extremely unhappy in general being where I currently am. I'm always made to feel like nothing I do is ever good enough, I bend over backwards and work stupid hours and get no thanks. I really do try my best and it isn't ever appreciated.

I'm currently off work atm and up here with my Dad (I came to visit one of the transfer stores as mentioned above) and was told by my HR department that the interview would be fine and that I was sure to get it. I was barely in there 10 minutes and the manager asked me all the things they'd already emailed over (hours I already work/what I'm trained on etc) and told me I'd have to wait and see but the things she was saying and the way she said it basically told me it wouldn't be good because of my absence, which is generally good. I'm only every off if I have to be.

It has since come to my attention that since being off this week my work department seem to think I'm not coming back. I've been taken off the schedules and the rumour mill is rife with things about me leaving. I told no one about this as it wasn't a dead set thing and I wanted something in stone before I said anything so this can firstly have only come from the HR department and I was under the impression that those things were supposed to be confidential.

Either way everyone up here keeps telling me to work for a few more weeks (if they don't think I've left already) and save up some cash and then relocate. Living situation at home is not ideal I'm living with a 'family' member who doesn't help with my depression and really would rather I wasn't there. It's not possible for me to live on my own just yet.

So I just wondered where I stood with moving away and JSA etc. I've worked for 7 years and so I am really at a loss. I would be frantically applying for jobs up here as I saw a couple but obviously I won't be able to get up here for interviews. I've already haad to pay £60 out of my own pocket for a 10 minute meeting where I was instantly dismissed and I really am at a loss of what to do, please help!

kloana

Unless you have a very serious and genuine reason for walking out of your current job, the actual ££ you receive in JSA could be sanctioned for up to 26 weeks, as you could be classed as having made yourself intentionally unemployed. Do you have anyone up in your desired location who'd support you financially for this period? If not, you could set yourself up for a bit of a fall, so be careful.

bcky

I'm currently living off a sofa as my house is now up here but I cannot live here if work are refusing to transfer me. All the while splitting a family up.

mountainofdebt

In fairness (and I don't mean to sound harsh) but its not your employer's fault that your family have moved such a distance away and caused you problems with your living arrangements .....though I do appreciate how annoying it can be to spend all that money for apparently nothing.

Can you perhaps find a spare room to rent in the meantime rather than live with your non-helpful relative.

bcky

I understand that but work guaranteed me that I would get this else I wouldn't have put it in for a house so far away.

miduck

Have you been told you have not got the job, or are you assuming because the interview did not go well?

Are you planning to live with your dad, or have you found a property on your own?

bcky

They told me I'd have to wait and see they were most unhelpful and had a couldn't care less attitude. I'm just trying to see where I stand on things currently.

I will be living with my Dad as he has the house on the pretence that two people will be living here.

miduck

bcky wrote: »

They told me I'd have to wait and see they were most unhelpful and had a couldn't care less attitude. I'm just trying to see where I stand on things currently.

I will be living with my Dad as he has the house on the pretence that two people will be living here.

In that case you really are jumping the gun, both by writing off the job and by taking on a tenancy without confirmation you have the job.

With regard to JSA, I agree with the other comments - you are likely to be sanctioned if you give up your job. Given the current climate, I would strongly advise against resigning.

bcky

But it was a house swap work knew the situation and told me it would be fine as they'd do everything they can to help when they really aren't.

I think I'd just have to save up enough money to get me by for 6 mths and then see what happens.

I can't stay here.

miduck

bcky wrote: »

But it was a house swap work knew the situation and told me it would be fine as they'd do everything they can to help when they really aren't.

I think I'd just have to save up enough money to get me by for 6 mths and then see what happens.

I can't stay here.

Why can't you stay where you are?

The fact that you found a suitable house swap is irrelevant.

bcky

Because I have no one here and it makes my depression a whole tonne worse. I need to be around my family, they keep me going.

This is like the whole chicken/egg thing. I can't get a house transfer because I need to know that I have a job first. But I can't apply for a transfer unless I have a house because they want people to start within 2 weeks.