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I ****ing hate my job. I am thankful that I am still working as I know many have and will loose their jobs but I still hate it.
I had my notice printed and ready to hand in for just before Easter but this viruses thing has shut down the other work I had lined up. As I said greatly to be still earning but light at the end of the tunnel snatched away.
Add you moan.
I'm self employed and have no income.
I feel slightly hungover yet didn't drink anything last night.
There is no justice.
Still breathing, roof over my head, food in my belly and a wife by my side. I got nothing to moan about.
I got nothing to moan about.
Get out of here with your positive outlook.
My work kind of laid me off, kind of didn't - no idea if I am meant to do any work or am going to get paid.
Looks like I won't get to see my girlfriend for 6 months. Gonna be like Spud in Trainspotting - watermelons!
watermelons
Don't leave it in the microwave for too long....
I’m self employed and have no income.
Have you checked out https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-coronavirus-covid-19-self-employment-income-support-scheme
There will be a lag for the cash to come through (takes time to set up a scheme like this) but may help?
I’m self employed and have no income.
Have you checked out https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-coronavirus-covid-19-self-employment-income-support-scheme
/a>There will be a lag for the cash to come through (takes time to set up a scheme like this) but may help?
I know that Kayak is fairly recently self employed - I think so long as you've one years worth of returns you're in with a chance of something - its described as 'the average of the last three years' but that can be the average of one year if you've only had one return in that period. Another possible lifeline might be the Arts Council or Crafts Council. North of the border here they're both parts of the same agency and as of this morning theres a fund for 'Bridging Grants' for the creative sector. So expect similar initiatives to appear through channels such as arts bodies, local enterprise funders and the like.
The support so far has been very broad brush - the furloughing and sell employed equivalents function for the majority of those effected and are relatively simple to apply- the people who fall through the gaps: such as PAYE Freelancers (the film industry is hit hard in this respect with many grades/roles paid PAYE even through they're not in a 'job') and one person companies are both fewer in number and more difficult to administer to so its just going to take longer for assistance to be devised and delivered to those people.
Keep an eye out locally for grants if you have a premises and are on the radar for business rates.
You have internet connection, so its unlikley you will end up with water mellons 🙂
I held my tongue at the guy who had two uncontrolled dogs chasing me & barking at a horse and rider when he said "they don't like bikes" as he stood on the regularly used bridleways. Good job I couldn't let myself get within two metres of him. I think the look on my face and my complete silence may have got my message across though.
Trivial I know but if this happens in week 6 of lockdown my reaction may be different
If this was just us coming up to November and wiped out Xmas spend for once rather than my favourite time of year springtime, daffodils, buds popping, wild garlic, bluebells,cherry blossom etc
I started showing symptoms of the virus on Friday.
Wife is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in A&E.
She made a few calls on Friday and was told that I should be tested today, as per their guidelines. That way if I was negative she could go back to work rather than staying off for 2 weeks.
Call to her from HR just now and basically I’m now not being tested as the ‘guidelines’ have changed over weekend.
So they now say 48hrs after symptoms start which means I’m a day too late... ffs.
Not bothered for me but means she’s now off for 2 weeks, leaving big holes in the medic rota as she was already covering for staff who are off.
Given how I feel there’s a good chance it would have been a positive test and she’s have been off anyway but it would have been good for both her and the department to make sure...
We work with lots of NHS entities and have been very busy in the last few weeks. We have given lots of time for free (and have built free add-ons for websites we manage) however there is other work we need to charge for but, even though clients are not too busy to ask for work, they all seem to busy to provide the POs we need in order to be paid.
If this was just us coming up to November and wiped out Xmas spend for once rather than my favourite time of year springtime, daffodils, buds popping, wild garlic, bluebells,cherry blossom etc
I was thinking similar. I appreciate this is reasonable timing for the survival rate so won't moan too much but I had plans for spring and summer that involved getting out in what will almost certainly now be fabulous weather.
First world problem, BandQ are only doing click and collect on essentials which I fully understand BUT my conservatory is now looking disaster as I can't order paint to cover the freshly filled cracks in the plaster of all the walls.
If only Mrs M hadn't had paint-choice-gate and demanded I order a range of trial pots that we were waiting for rather than Nordic Blue that I liked, if you think I'm bringing this up with her............
Well I suppose that means more riding time....oh wait........
but light at the end of the tunnel snatched away.
Know how you feel - If the sale of Mrs dB & her ex's house hadn't been thwarted by CV (due to complete on 24th March) we'd be mortgage free by now 😭
Ouch! Freedom so close you can taste it!
I'm day 16 of a probably c19 infection. I feel shite and can't do much without feeling dizzy. My lungs are wheezy and have been for two weeks. And I'm being furloughed on wednesday so I have to tie up a months worth of work in two days. I've got a bored teenager and a bored 9 yr old and an angry wife all in thr same small 3 bed house. I'm not well enough to go for a ride and I've just totally failed in my attempt to re-dish a rear wheel.
How's about that for a moan?
I’m self employed and have no income.
If you haven't done so put your claim in for Universal Credit; if you are subsequently awarded a grant then it is just treated as income. See below.
https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/self-employment-income-support-scheme-faqs/
I got sent home on full pay when they closed the office. Felt really bad at getting paid but not having a laptop to be able to work from home like some of my colleagues
Just come to terms with it all and my life of restricted leisure, and now the bastards are sending me a laptop
Daughter 2 has had her outpatient appointment postponed, it's a follow up from an eye op, no big deal.
Daughter 1 has had her psych appointments converted to telephone consultations, for G.A.D. and mutism.
It was my daughter's 12th birthday today, and I'm living in a house across the road due to work and she is in the shielded cohort. I've 3 girls and this is the first in 42 birthdays where I have had to video call in morning and tonight I had birthday cake sat on the garden wall. She was incredible, and I hope I looked equally as brave.
Daughter registered on Universal Credit but the company verifying her identity couldn't verify, apparently next step is an appointment but as you can imagine no appointments. Telephone doesn’t answer and no email or postal address. Anyone any thoughts on next step here?
And feel for ‘the brick’ and others on here that are currently high and dry.
Your daughter's ID appointment will take place by phone, but she needs to call to make that appointment - it will be answered eventually.
I saw my 76 year old FiL at the butchers, he walks up to me, past the "maintain a 2m distance" signs and wants to rub elbows before laughing in my face as I'm trying to remind him about social distancing.......
The butcher didn't know whether to laugh or be mortified.
What is it about some old people?!?!?!
I'm into week three of home working, been redeployed to help coordinate volunteers in the community, did all the work that was requested last week, had a clear direction, put processes in place, was all gearing up quite nicely, or so I thought. This week the goalposts seem to have moved massively, there appears to actually be no strategy, no multi agency approach or interlinking, and we're currently on course to decrease the quality and quantity of provision for the vulnerable. I've fired some shots up the chain and am awaiting a response.
Fortunately I'm on full pay and home is a farm, so I'm quite grateful.
Have not long (about a month) started seeing someone though, she lives 30 miles away, was all going great and progressing quite quickly, happily. Not sure how such a new relationship will stick months of not being able to see each other.