Quit job and have no money at all

theoretica

drod123 wrote: »

Yes, but then I will soon run out of my own savings. Then I won't have money for food.

What can you sell? The old style board here can help with ideas to eat very cheaply.

chris1973

I quit due to the amount of work that I was being forced to do and I couldn't do it.

Did you raise a written grievance regarding your workload with the Managing Director (if a small company) or your supervisor / manager / Team Leader in a larger company?.

Did they give / supply adequate training for you to be able to do your Job at the speed required?, if not, did you raise that with them in the grievance?. Did they then give you additional to training or assistance to 'speed up' your throughput to be more in line with their expectations?.

If you were going to walk out anyway, I don't see any reason for not following the usual and generally expected protocol in relation to something you feel is unfair or unrealistic, certainly you had nothing to lose and if you had something in writing then you had everything to gain. Effectively writing a grievance, would probably have taken no more time than you have spent telling us your story on this forum, and possibly may have been more fruitful.

Secondly, were you given any form of written warning in relation to the speed that you were doing your work?. If not, how do you know you had too much workload and weren't working fast enough?.

Unfortunately, there are people out there who class having too much workload as meaning that they don't have enough time to play with their phones / update facebook etc during their day and are upset that their daily 'work' is clashing with their social networking activities. I'm not, for one moment, suggesting that you are one of these unfortunate individuals, all i'm saying is that they do exist, and so by having a paper trail to stand as fair witness to the reason why you quit your job would stand up under scrutiny, not only when looking at any Benefits you could now possibly claim, but also when questioned about why you left your previous job by a potential employer in the future, who i'm sure will raise the same question as I have.

No doubt the cotton wool wrapping, head patters who haunt this place will accuse me of exaggerating the above, however the fact remains that when my employer announced a blanket ban on mobile phone use outside breaks and lunchtimes (due to the number of people he had caught gawping at their phones whilst sat at their work bench), one person immediately handed in their notice in disgust!. Whether this person was too rich or too stupid or had some kind of social network or phone addiction, the jury is out. However don't tell me, that this kind of 'employee' doesn't exist!.

Hindsight is a wonderful gift, however personally i'd have continued doing the job at the fastest speed that I was humanly capable of, (For no other reason than being able to financially survive), and then raised a grievance if anybody said anything about it to me - officially. Worst case, is that they would have found a reason to get rid of you, but it may have given you a bit of headroom and perhaps several additional weeks / months to boost your savings, and more importantly find another Job. Even if dismissed, financially you wouldn't be any worse off than you are now and you would have had dated copies of written grievances to bolster your reason for leaving, should it ever be questioned.

p00hsticks

Cerenia wrote: »

I thought you didn't get JSA if you were sacked?

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/work-comes-to-an-end/dismissal-and-benefits/ <-- Yep, don't get JSA for 13 weeks, could be longer though.

That's only if you are sacked for misconduct though, as the link you've posted says. If your employer simply chooses to sack (dismiss) you because, for example, they no longer have work for you and you've been there for less than two years so don't qualify for redundancy, then you'd usually get JSA/UC right away.