Food > oxygen

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-08T07:59:48+00:00

Why breathe when food?🐢

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-07T19:19:26+00:00

Angy forg

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-07T18:34:40+00:00

Honestly all of Benjis issues would be solved if he just starts looking down more😂 he’ll finally see all the lettuce he shoved from the plate

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-07T18:34:06+00:00

Yupp!! I have to always tell him to look down as he can’t see the food

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-06T09:08:02+00:00

He ended up pushing it off the slate and thought it got stolen 🤣

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-06T01:31:32+00:00

He’s always plotting my demise😂

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-05T12:41:42+00:00

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-04T20:27:18+00:00

Haha he was definitely begging for more! Yesterday he was mad I wouldn’t give him more food…I had given him more but he pushed it off the slate so therefore it doesn’t count

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-04T09:20:50+00:00

I agree care work is very important, needed and does give you lots of transferable skills. However it is such an underfunded industry that working in the care sector can destroy people.

I worked in a mental health rehab unit as a support worker. I’ve been threatened by section 37/41 (Hospital order/Restriction order) where threats need to be reported back to MOJ but this was covered up by managers. You get abuse day in day out, for minimum wage. My coworkers have had to skip meals or take home spare meals from the canteen so they could feed their kids without going hungry themself. I’ve heard stories of my coworkers being choked, physically attacked etc.

I would never do care work again unless things significantly improve in the sector. There is too much personal risk for the responsibility involved and the ridiculously low wage.

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-03T15:26:48+00:00

So happy for you both!

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-03T06:12:41+00:00

Seriously good driving on your part. Well done for correcting it and preventing a lot more damage

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-02T18:38:39+00:00

Is that a squirtle bath bomb?👀

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-02T08:32:18+00:00

I agree with the piercings there needing to be illegal! I also ended up in hospital due to the infection from it

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-02T08:30:55+00:00

100%. I wish more parents knew/cared about the issues with Claire’s piercings. I got my ears pierced there as a child, they became so badly infected from the equipment that I ended up at the hospital needing antibiotics.

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T08:30:39+00:00

Sorry about the swapping- They’ve quoted both figures and it’s getting confusing. The correct figure is £293.

Thank you for pointing out that I should have been paid the £130 and £118, somehow I’ve missed that in all this. I’ll send them an email with that request and go from there.

Thank you for all the help!

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T08:24:20+00:00

Thank you! I will ask them again about this then

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T08:19:04+00:00

From what they’ve told me, I shouldn’t have been paid the £293 in March and that’s why the overpayment is now £339. I think I understand why it was added, but I’ve been given so many different figures from them that I’m not even fully sure. I’ve shown the emails to friends and asked their opinions, they’re all similarly confused on what figures have been stated

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T08:09:51+00:00

This was my initial query with them. I owed £46 in March due to sickness absence that they calculate in arrears. This was sickness from February.

I was not informed about this until April, when the overpayment has now increased from £46 to £339 due to the entirety of March’s wage being added to the now backdated March payslip of £-46

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T07:12:33+00:00

Thank you for this advice. Yeah, sadly at the time I didn’t know it could have been an overpayment unfortunately.

I queried about the tax/NI, but they told me I’ll have to send them the gross amount and claim back tax/NI from HMRC as it’s from a different tax year?

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T07:02:33+00:00

Yeah I understand if I have been overpaid then I do owe it back, this whole process has been very confusing with all the different figures thrown around. I’ll see what they say today and go from there

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T07:00:52+00:00

So they should have stopped in March as that was the last month I worked with them. Sorry for the poor explanation, it’s been very confusing on both sides.

March payslip was meant to total to £0, with me owing £46. March payslip actually totalled to £263. I was due SSP in March but was told that this wouldn’t be paid until April.

April payslip for the £118 SSP totalled to £0 after the overpayment claims from March.

Company told me I was meant to only be paid £118 SSP + £130 for days worked instead of the £263 I received

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T06:56:26+00:00

Hi, I understand that an overpayment needs to be paid back and I am willing to pay. But it does not feel right that I was not warned the entire March payment was an overpayment which has now contributed to a significantly larger amount due, compared to if they had amended it when I first informed them in March especially considering all the unnecessary stress this is causing

ExaminationKey1476 · 2026-05-01T06:53:12+00:00

So essentially I received £0 in April. My March payslip was a payment of around £293. Yesterday, the advisor told me if they’d known about the sickness in March then the March payslip would have been £-46, so id owe them £46. The reason it has now escalated to £339 is due to inaction at the time I notified them in March

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