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Jobcentre Plus are useless! Almost 2 months on, and still nothing!
Mar 2nd
Just got off the phone from the Jobcentre… which wasn’t exactly worth the time at all. Over the past few weeks / months that religiously keep sending me letters with pre-paid envelopes to send them more information about my status or a new doctor’s note [etc.], but I haven’t received anything of what they keep saying I am entitled to.
Add on top of that, the fact I have about £1.80 to my name, and don’t have any food in the cupboards – life is good! Oh… if you ignore the fact that I have been told by my Landlord that More >
Now I’m just a bum spounging off Taxpayers…
Jan 21st
Today has been spent mainly organising how I will be able to survive while signed off from work. In my previous post, I explained how I was a few days short to be entitled to Sick Pay via Staples.
So today I phoned up the Jobcentre Plus ‘hotline’ concerning my options, and thankfully everything seems to be sorted for now – which is a huge weight off my mind! The down side is that I now have to wait a few days for stuff to come in the post, jump through a few more hoops, and hopefully by the end of More >
Signed off work… But now I have no money?!
Jan 21st
I have been signed off for two weeks to ‘reset’ and try to get back to normal. To ensure I don’t worry about things and start to get back on track. However, even through I have been given the opportunity to get better, already this is becoming more difficult.
I currently working for Staples in Cambridge, and without going in to vast details, it seems I am about 7 days or so away from being entitled to sick pay. Which means as soon as I showed my assistant manager my sick note from my doctor, I was not only given the More >
I’m depressed – and now it’s official
Jan 20th
Today was a new low day for me. Today, I went to my doctors asking for counselling, and hopefully beat the cloud hanging foolishly over me, and in turn I gained another title: “Suffering from Depression”.
Now, I know what is wrong with me, and I would rather not broadcast it to the world WHY I’m depressed. However, the fact I am finally able to speak about it instead of assuming something is wrong and trying to cover it up and/or trying make do is in itself is a powerful and liberating feeling.
I have not been able to sleep for days on More >
Ouch… it hurts!
Mar 24th
I have been suffering over the past couple of days with some weird symptoms, many of which I would normally put down to as a general nasty cold. However, today it hit me… hard, and I just HAD to go and get some medical help.
Firstly, I decided to call the NHS Direct helpline (0845 46 47), as I was still thinking it was some kind of cold, and didn’t want to go and waste a GP’s time. But when I discussed the situation, with aches and pains all over, and my face starting to swell – they said I really More >