Buying a little piece of Middle England; Manifesting my way to mortgage free.

redofromstart

Glad you gave a start date.

that soil looks promising. 

Hope HR delivers the goods. Tell them that if it isn't paid by end of month then you will be contacting acas to raise an ET1 claim for non payment of wages. Ask for a breakdown of how your holiday pay was calculated too. That always gets me hyper ventilating! Bonus points if you didn't get your written terms and conditions before you started. 

debtfreewannabe321

redofromstart said:

Glad you gave a start date.

that soil looks promising. 

Hope HR delivers the goods. Tell them that if it isn't paid by end of month then you will be contacting acas to raise an ET1 claim for non payment of wages. Ask for a breakdown of how your holiday pay was calculated too. That always gets me hyper ventilating! Bonus points if you didn't get your written terms and conditions before you started. 

Very helpful -again! Thanks redo. I am going to threaten this even if I haven't a clue how to do all this 🤣

debtfreewannabe321

Morning all,
I'm feeling achy breaky today. My hip is not happy and all my muscles ache 🤣 who needs the gym when you have a garden!!
I'm not going to do any gardening today. I have kept my plans to meet an old friend from my married days. Our husbands worked together and as army life goes we moved away from one another and kept in touch....anyway, she's just moved to the same city as me! I've not seen her in probably ten years or more. The last time we were meeting all my kids were small (even the oldest was still in school!) be good to have a catch up. We arranged it last week and I was going to cancel... I just feel like hermiting to be honest but yesterday I felt the urge to go and meet her. So I will. 
Got a window cleaner coming to give us a quote today. We have two windows that are nigh on impossible to reach so I'm hoping they can get to them. And that the quote isn't ridiculously high.
DP got home so late yesterday, nearly 8 pm - this new job is a lot of hours at the moment although I think it will calm down somewhat. He's come in at the beginning of their year so there is a lot of meetings going on. Hence why he's all over the country at the moment. Later on he leaves for Scotland's meeting so he won't be back until Fri I don't think. I don't mind so much having been single for so long and married to the army for so long (like being single). I think he's more upset to leave me. 
Won't be a NSD as I'm meeting my friend so I used that to buy my supplements that have just run out (so that I can try and keep all my spends to one day.)
Need to make a nice lentil bolognaise mix later for the next few dinners. 
The black bean burgers I made were really simple and easy to make and went down a hit yesterday (so I've bookmarked that recipe as a keeper) I even think the kids would eat with no issues (well I'm talking about DD the fussy one as DS will eat anything). I've two left so I will use those for an early lunch today with the leftover jacket potatoes. 

It's grey and miserable and foggy here so I think I made the right decision to go out and have some fun (as opposed to tears) today. I'll consider it my rest day 😆

I've had thoughts about the extension and the garage we currently have. Our plans were to knock down the garage. Move it back twenty feet or so and rebuild a new one. We want a 'play room' and an office and space to put a small workshop for the tools. The space in the garage right now is adequate. If we leave it where it is though it means we can't build the extension for the house all the way across as the garage overhangs the house footprint where we want to build. I've had a thought to leave the garage, recondition it, clear it out. Make good. Insulation and electrics etc. Then build the extension long ways rather than worth ways from the house. So we still have the space we wanted but in a different way and possibly a lot cheaper (definitely actually)... So we will see ☺️

redofromstart

If it gets to that stage then I will help, but for many companies the threat should be enough to get a result. 

debtfreewannabe321

redofromstart said:

If it gets to that stage then I will help, but for many companies the threat should be enough to get a result. 

Thank you. I do feel like they're trying to palm me off and I said as much yesterday in my email to HR after payroll fobbed me off ... It may well be that the SM has put my hours through I just wanted them to be checked before cut off date but no one wanted to help. You'd think the profit is theirs to keep and they do whatever they can to palm off paying people. If it were me I'd go out of my way to help the lowly paid employee get what they deserve (the pay for what they worked!) but most don't seem to share the same view it seems in that company. Feeling a bit peeved they had me in tears again yesterday at the frustration of it all. Grr. 
Anyway I am trying to focus my energy on what I have planned - new job, building works etc as that's how I'll move energetically from here to there. If I need your help I will let you know I really appreciate everyone's wisdom on here (that I lack in matters like this!) 💕 

ruby_eskimo

Great news about the start date for new job and really hope you can finally get somewhere with the missing pay!  I'm very intrigued to find out who this company is as have my suspicions...🤔

Oh and great progress with the garden.  We have bindweed as well and DH's been doing bits and pieces to tackle it but I've told him the focus is on the inside of the house till after Christmas.  Might be nice to try and get some bulbs in the front garden though but no idea when we'll have the time!

debtfreewannabe321

ruby_eskimo said:

Great news about the start date for new job and really hope you can finally get somewhere with the missing pay!  I'm very intrigued to find out who this company is as have my suspicions...🤔

Oh and great progress with the garden.  We have bindweed as well and DH's been doing bits and pieces to tackle it but I've told him the focus is on the inside of the house till after Christmas.  Might be nice to try and get some bulbs in the front garden though but no idea when we'll have the time!

Oh I will totally out them....In the training they actually have a thing in there though saying no SM posts etc...I can see why now! One of the managers training us was like- well we saw an old guy who worked for us on his fb, he was wearing a totally homophobe t-shirt in his profile picture, bam, he was sacked the next day. And he laughed. Then he told us about several other instances where colleagues had spoken about the company in a not nice way, bam, sacked, I was pretty gobsmacked at that tbh but ya know what could I do.......if the company is not working well, why shouldn't we have our say! I want my wages first though :j:joy:

I am starting on the garden now because 2 gardens ago now (haha I suppose I should say 2 houses ago but ya know what I mean), we had a blank slate whereby no one had gardened in 40 years. They didn't even have a side fence or gate, they used the garden to drive cars on to and work on them.......I could have built an engine from all the parts I found buried but one of the nicer old neighbours was so happy to see we were going to bring it back to life that he brought over all his tools, rotivators etc and told me when I had to do stuff...he said you must do this now even though the house needs work because the trees, those plants, bushes etc need to go in in autumn. I wouldn't have known otherwise but I recall him always coming over every autumn to see if I had done all the jobs that needed doing. He helped me landscape the whole garden too before he passed away. And he always said, start the garden in Autumn, that's the first real season to plant. So I am just trying to get these bits in that I have in temporary pots so that they stand a chance of growing next year and I don't miss that window. But if I were to show you inside the house you would be like, umm what are you doing it is a mess, get on with that :l:lol:

I feel like I am learning all over again now though in the garden as every garden up to this one has been revolved around kids playing in it. And they're both old enough now (and one moved out) that I can have the herb/veg/fruit garden I always dreamed of having, I'm super excited but also a bit of a noob to this type of garden, I have always just had hardy, pretty ones before (good for footballs etc lol).

KajiKita

I’m glad you are going to meet up with your old friend, it will do you good 😊

Creative thoughts about the garage / extension foot print. It will be interesting to talk that over with DP and see what he thinks 😊

Oh, and don’t worry about the house v. garden, aka the Green Gym. Take whatever good weather comes to work in the garden as there are always plenty of wet days in this country to use to work on the house! 😉😂

KK

pennywisepoundstupid

Glad you have got your start date for your new job, nothing worse than being in limbo.
Terrible behaviour from your last job and i hope you get the money you are owed soon. xx

debtfreewannabe321

KajiKita said:

I’m glad you are going to meet up with your old friend, it will do you good 😊

Creative thoughts about the garage / extension foot print. It will be interesting to talk that over with DP and see what he thinks 😊

Oh, and don’t worry about the house v. garden, aka the Green Gym. Take whatever good weather comes to work in the garden as there are always plenty of wet days in this country to use to work on the house! 😉😂

KK

This is too true it was foggy cold and wet here today so I wouldn't have fancied it much anyway. DP wanted to help today as he feels guilty for going away for the rest of the week. I told him it was fine but he was insisting so I told him the kitchen still needs to be sanded as I only did five cupboards out of twelve...so in between work today he's sanded down a few more for me to paint 😁 rather than doing the garden.