for being annoyed that our tax is paying for people to buy wallpaper.

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I saw a post from a girl on facebook asking whether the social could help her buy things to do up her home e.g wallpaper and paint. Alot of people commented that she could get some vouchers to use on a certain paint brand and B&Q etc.

AIBU to think this girl should save some money or attempt to get a job for extra luxeries before expecting the social to foot the bill?

I'm moving house next month and the whole house will need decorating. However i am realistic in the fact i won't be able to afford to wallpaper the whole place at once, instead doing a bit at a time as and when i can afford it. My partner earns a moderate income and i'm currently on maternity leave, so money is tighter at the moment, but would never expect someone to pay for something i could manage without like wallpaper.

I completely understand people using the social to buy essential items such as a cooker or fridge, but not non essentials.

Am amazed the bay's father is not contributing to these bills, poor Joanna having to dip into her nest egg.

Or a coke dealer?

'You are at the top of your 'profession' at 22 after leaving school with some GCSES?'

Your profile says you are a duty manager at a supermarket. So I suppose it depends what you mean by ]top of' and 'profession'.
Unless it's a euphemism for something else?
Or you feel that's as far as you want to go?

Oh, store manager. Still with 24K in the bank, sure things aren't that tight?

I smell BS folks....store assistant to deputy manager in a year. Wow!

So you were deputy manager at 17 then? How did you pay all your bills and still save £24k?

Hate to say this but "I don't believe you".

Why are you struggling for money if you earn £38k a year and live like you are skint?

I believe her, she's got a lot of confidence and is both young and hard-working. Why not?

I earned £38k in the job I did too. Life was easier then but funnily enough I still had some compassion.

Read some of her other posts Goblin, something doesn't add up somewhere.

Can I replace confident with cocky please GoblinGranny? Whilst working your way up is undoubtedly good, being so full of yourself that you feel it makes you infinitely superior to others and being unable to empathise isn't so great.

I think you have done really well to save 24k when you have been earning 38k for , at most , a few years .

As someone who has worked in retail , you have also done well to compete against graduates . I didn't work in a supermarket chain , but all of our store managers had degrees and I know most retail companies have a graduate training scheme .

Can you lend me a grand to buy a huge flat screen TV?

The starting salary for the 'top of' my profession is a lot more than £38k, and I think often comes with a free mansion. In fact, my 'entry level' salary was only slightly less than £38k.

Couldn't have gotten the job at 16 straight out of school with some GCSEs though.

Pants. On. Fire.

Anyhow, am off now, DS needs to go to his football group. We have a fabulous Special Needs football team locally and he loves it. The coaches who run it are just fabulous, very understanding and supportive of all the children who attend.

Have fun all and good luck to you joanne, am sure you have worked had and deserve it, just remember that life affects people in different ways and what you can do might be beyond others with similar experiences.

Let's hope you don't have the same bad luck as I did back in 2008. joanna

November 27th driving home from my job at Woolworths where I'd been working full time for 12 years. Loved it and earnt decent money. Heard on the radio (yes the radio!) that they'd gone into administration. 5 weeks later, me and 30,000 other people had no job and were queuing at the job centre to get our redundancy pay and to sign on.

She's an under-educated 22 year old, so perhaps cocky and lacking empathy are vital skills that have enabled her to run her supermarket efficiently.
I didn't say that she sounded likeable, or someone I'd like my children to emulate.

I struggle to believe that someone with such an obvious chip on their shoulder and attitude problem has done astoundingly well in a retail role and actually manages people. It would be awful to work for someone with such obvious disdain for their staff.

I have never been able to save 24k in my life ever how is that possible on 1 wage

' It would be awful to work for someone with such obvious disdain for their staff.'

Very, very common though.

joanna as much as I hate the thought if mine and DH's taxes (DH paid £150,000 in income tax last year BTW) being spent on "undeserving causes" as you see it, your vitriol would be far better directed towards unscrupulous MPs' expense claims, the billions wasted by successive Governments on various abandoned IT projects, outsourced contracts and overseas aid, the CEO's of all the utility companies who keep putting up your bills whilst raking in enormous profits for themselves and the Bank or Building Society with whom you have your ISA who are paying you a pitiful 1 or 2% interest rate whilst giving themselves million pound bonuses. They are the ones who are ripping you off, not the young woman being given a £250 B&Q voucher.
You need to get some perspective.

Starting salary for her position is about 33-34k. Quite easy to google, not that she had done that of course. She checked her payslip .

There are some retail companies that have store managers without degrees. More unusual in supermarkets, especially for someone in her twenties .