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.

I wouldn't have to check my payslip to say what my salary is. I could even tell you what DH's salary is and I've never seen his pay slip.

Nonetheless, it shows both a lack of aspiration and understanding of the retail industry if one imagines supermarket manager to be 'the top'. I'm pretty sure there are several layers of management above that. Area manager, for a start.

Joanna,

A landlord has a legal responsibility to rent habitable houses the way they do some of this is by providing these vouchers so the tenant can do the work themselves, these are funded from rental income.

Rental income comes from the tenants when they pay rent.

These vouchers are not a benefit and they are not paid for by tax payers unlike your maternity pay.

They also cannot be used to buy scatter cushions again unlike your maternity pay.

And the vast majority of the people on this thread actually giving information regarding these vouchers are employed people,ones who have been for a lot longer than you who earn a lot more than you because they left school with more than just a few gcse's. quite a few of them even have housing and benefit related qualifications and work within that field I've even noticed a few higher rate tax payers but of course none of them would be quite so rude as to boast about 24k because it would be silly to do so,rather childish and shows a very limited understanding of what 'setting ones self up financially' actually means.

Yes, there is probably some truth that has become exaggerated. But the rest of it exposes her general ignorance no enormous attitude problem.

The thing is, the rest of us know that supermarket managers will be aware of quite how many layers there are between them and 'the top'. It's those lower down the company hierarchy who are likely to believe that the store manager is right up there. And, even then, I'd imagine the vast majority of retail staff know all about head office.

I worked my way pretty close to the top of a retail company before going into teaching. To be a store manager at 22 is very impressive and a sign that you could be heading for the top. Although in reality it isn't because most of the people who make it to the top are studying for a degree at 22.

The company I worked for had a very different profile to the one this poster works for, but I can't imagine that at the "top" there are many people without degrees .

I suspect the poster is at the top of where she can get to , which is something to be proud of. I would be worried though if I had got as high as I could at the age of 22.

I have to check my payslip to know my salary . I am a bit rubbish with money though.

I agree that it sounds like a shame. It sounds like misplaced anger at vulnerable people, from someone who is probably quite vulnerable themselves.

I applaud Joanna for working her way up to store manager after leaving school with a few gcses. I don't think that needs to be mocked tbh.

Still doesn't give her the right to talk out of her arse.

Hah! When I moved into my house I was given £125 to decorate. We had bare floors, and we had to put in a claim to another department to pay for carpets. Turns out I was only entitled to have one room comfortably carpeted. It had nothing to do with comfort, it's not safe or healthy for a toddler to live in a house with bare concrete floors.

I don't think anyone is mocking working one's way up or trying to make something of one's life; it's more the 'I'm better than all of you, and particularly those feckless scroungers' attitude that is being mocked.

Part of that is realising that for some people, what she counts as 'wild success' isn't much at all. And that some people will look down on her for her choices, just as she's looking down on others. For example, Xenia could come along to explain that one is utterly worthless unless one is earning in excess of £150k a year...

(Not that I agree with Xenia!)

I think the OP has been very reasonable in her responses to some very unpleasant and ridiculous posts. The OP's opening post was a bit, umm, misguided but she had REPEATEDLY acknowledged that she hadn't realised that some council houses were left in such a poor state. She has admitted she was wrong ! I don't know why she is still getting a bashing.

OP, . I would hide this thread as its not going to get any better.

Congrats on your baby

Ummmm, Joanna is not the OP?! Thanks for your input though

Bash the rich they are a more sensible target. But wtch it, they do have lawyers

The rich are, of course, difficult to bash. Especially if they live behind high walls and security cameras.

Lets all put in for a trebuchet.

believe her, she's got a lot of confidence

confidence and total disrespect and no empathy isn't the same thing imo she is rude there is a difference

Whatever. (as the kids say)

Actually.
I think its a shame.
Genuinely.
She sounds quite angry and upset.
I know ^^ that sounds insincere but it isn't.

I believe you are sincere she does come across as very angry and her anger is misplaced still rude though

And for what its worth the actual op has still failed to understand that tax payers are not paying for these vouchers nor are they a benefit.

Sockreturningpixie - just to ask where does the money comes from?

Flan it comes out of rental income, and that is always the tenants liability nobody else's.