Karma is a bitch

[CrazyMum2020]

So I like to share something with you all.
My greedy ex husband own his business and he take in cash. He claim that he only make around £8000 a year, that way he only pay minimum child maintenance.
Before he own his business, for many years he get paid cash, so I couldn't claim child maintenance.
Now with the virus, he have to close his business and will only get 80% from the government. I am so happy right now as I am sure this would kill him. 😂😂.
There is a silver lining after all.

There must be thousands of people in the same situation too!

When I left my exh he stashed all the dc's baby photos in his car so I couldn't take any when I moved out..
The next week his car was in the garage for a repair. An electrical fault saw his whole car burned out....

Oh and he had no insurance!
double whammy (bonus)...

Must confess I've had a chuckle about this, I know a few who put minimum claims in so maximum tax credits etc could be claimed.......... Now they're going to be living off the very amount they claimed to have coming in. Minus 20%

I do feel sorry for the ones who did things legitimately tho........ The irony is in all this the poorer people aka me are the ones who are doing OK. Because they're used to having no money or are already in the system so receiving top up benefit to make up low wages. Such a bizarre situation, the world's been turned on its head by something we can't even see.

I seriously hope this will be a wake up call for large companies everywhere.

They're discovering now that the people with the higher salaries and the company laptops who can carry on working from home ... aren't the people they actually need to keep the business going.

They're in desperate straits now their customer-facing staff are self-isolating and so forth. All the people with cosy little non-jobs who are working from home are no use to them when push comes to shove.

Both salary and the likelihood of having a laptop are in inverse proportion to an employee's usefulness.

Employers, take note and do something about it!

@TheMemoryLingers Thank you for acknowledging this! The vast majority of jobs can't be done from home. It's only a privileged few who can actually work from home.

In fact it's worth starting a new thread about it. This whole thing about working from home becoming the new norm, I really don't think so. You need your support staff.

Before I decided to finish at work we were put onto A/B shifts. One of the big bosses from head office was put on our team, he usually comes in once maybe twice a week. I asked if he would be in all of our three days, and he scoffed "oh I can work from head office on a laptop"

Yea while we are expected to do the actual donkey work in close proximity to our colleagues

Someone I know has to work to keep their buisness going, but karma means no income, no claiming 80% and the buisness income is too high for the buisness grants.
The last 10 years they lorded it over everyone, but it has just come out all their credit cards and overdrafts are maxed out.

What goes around will eventually always come round. Who would have thought that it would be a bat of all things that would under any deception.

Uncover not under

Bit offensive to describe someone who is able to work from home on a laptop as having a 'cosy little non-job'.

Is being an accountant a non job? A lawyer?

Absolutely goes without saying that people who can’t work from home are many and often in low paid roles.

But why start a bun fight by saying ‘cosy little non-jobs’?

I have a wfh job in the NHS and I have spent 12 hours a day this week trying to track down protective equipment, essential IT, re-deploying staff and generally supporting those on the front line.

Yes, I am very lucky to be at home. I’d happily get put there and work on a clinical setting but that would just be one more person circulating.

Yet another divide being created unnecessarily which isn’t even that relevant to the OP.

FWIW our whole company was given laptops and told to work from home a week before lock down was imposed. That includes our customer services dept.

Nobody has a cosy little non-job and all staff are routinely permitted to work from home if they need to.