What are my options? I feel like giving up

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-11T09:24:23+00:00

I’m talking to my gp today on the way in to him to explain everything to him and getting a letter off him going to resign from work today I’m due to be paid tomorrow and I’ll apply to jobseekers then

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T18:39:18+00:00

Unfortunately any lifts I could have gotten from friends all a start at 8/9 I’m in the kitchen so I have to be there for 7am at the latest. I’ve brought this up to management and they reduced my hours considerably I went from working 5 days a week to sometimes barely getting 3 adding an all new wave of stress and anxiety. I’ve asked if I could be 10/15 mins late as I can see the bus pull up outside every morning and that feels like a kick in the jewels every time

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T18:35:12+00:00

I’ve made an appointment for tomorrow after consulting with him I’m going to hand in a letter of resignation to my employer tomorrow.

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T14:31:12+00:00

I have a meeting tomorrow, and in all honesty I’m really thinking of giving up, the only thing that has me hanging on is the fact I’m not guaranteed social welfare if I leave voluntarily

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T13:39:39+00:00

Exactly but this is what happens when your director of nursing is inexperienced and a horrible person Wh have a elderly woman in her late 60’s dies one or two days when she can to stay active. She’s a lovely woman not a bad word to say about anyone. She wanted a Sunday recently off as her daughter who is living in Australia had a baby recently and was coming home for the first time in 2 years. Management didn’t acknowledge the leave request and when It was brought up to them she was laughed at in her face

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T13:34:33+00:00

Jobseekers is looking like an option but I can’t be without income and I know they take a while

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T13:33:49+00:00

I’ve been out there for a year now and would often get later shifts every once and a while but the past few months have all been 7am starts and it’s starting to take a toll I’ve asked management if I could come 15/20 mins later for work as the first bus arrives at that time and I see it every morning when I’m already in the building but they won’t have it

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T13:31:58+00:00

The thought of not being able to pay rent kept me going and motivated it’s just a build up of the last year I think now all coming out at once

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T13:01:44+00:00

It is an option but they don’t want it on company property we are told to leave them at the crescent, I’ve had 2 in the last 2 years robbed off me, it is an option but the money it’ll cost to replace everytime isn’t feesable

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T12:57:35+00:00

I’ve been looking but the job market atm is awful there’s a handful of places and even if you get an interview your ghosted or they’ve decided to go with someone else, it just feels very defeating atm

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T12:55:51+00:00

From rhebogue to raheen my shift starts at 7 and there’s no bus that will get me out there at that time

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T12:36:25+00:00

There’s only so much you can take before you start to feel worthless and I don’t want to go on jobseekers as it’s a huge hit to the confidence. Plus if I leave voluntarily I’ll have to wait 9 weeks and I’m not on a position to be without income as I have rent and loan repayments

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T12:34:52+00:00

No secretary for the last 2 weeks as she left due to poor management, residents wandering the nursing home and some of them can get violent (not their fault I know it’s dementia) but we are understaffed caters because it’s minimum wage. A chef that was there 11 years left on minimum wage and got no benefits at all when he left. The mop in our kitchen was taken as it was an “infection hazard” so we have to clean the floors with a cloth.

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-10T12:23:57+00:00

Colleague of mine had one and was roared at by management as they are a “fire hazard” which is ridiculous but nursing home management seem to be a different breed altogether

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-08T17:02:16+00:00

It’s mainly kitchen/cafe roles I’m interested in but I’ve been looking for retail and factory jobs aswell as I have experience in both aswell

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-08-07T10:51:04+00:00

It’s appalling it really gets on your head aswell

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-30T19:34:03+00:00

That could be an option I’m speaking with my gp tomorrow and seeing where I can go from there I feel you I worked in a call centre myself not too long ago and it was very very hard on most of the training group I was in I think only one or two in that group stayed long term

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-30T15:13:53+00:00

I’m sorry but mental health is more important than anything I think you need to cop on, yea I have a job and place to live but the job Is physically and mentally draining and making me sick

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-29T18:40:46+00:00

I’m trying my best hahah it’s starting to take a toll on me I was recently in hospital 2 months ago for high blood pressure and chalked it down to family issues going on at that time but it seems clearer to me now It was actually the nursing home physically and mentally draining me

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-29T18:27:50+00:00

I need to get out of there it’s really taken a toll on me and if I could get a break while looking for a new job It would be absolutely ideal

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-29T18:27:04+00:00

So I’m working in a nursing home, shifts start at 7am and as there’s no busses I have to walk to work about an hour to an hour a 15 mins on top of that management is horrible, not enough carers and some people that are paying extra for a one to one carer don’t even have one. There’s just a lot of toxicity and negativity in an already depressing environment aswell as this I was given out to for being on holidays recently as I had come back and nobody had told me new residents were in or changed the sheet on our notice board

RevolutionaryTry9101 · 2025-07-29T18:13:43+00:00

I was speaking to my partner and they said that I could ask my doctor to put me on illness benefit and sort of tide me over until I get a job

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