Been offered a job, WIBU to turn it down and continue claiming benefits?

[Stevenson100]

Really struggling here. I am a single mum to 3 gorgeous boys - I've been in remission for a while now and could easily work. I do need the money and I want to prove to my boys that even if you get knocked down (cancer) you get back up again and build something for yourself. I have qualifications and used to be a chef for a really great hotel company.

I was offered a job role just before Christmas and I need to let them know by the new year, I'll have to cook live lobsters. I am so not keen on this. I don't have an issue cooking with meats, etc. but to be a part of the killing process? There is no way I'd be comfortable with that and I think that would cause a massive problem. WIBU to turn this job down because of that? I'd obviously be looking for other work and finding whatever comes up and going for it.

There are plenty of people recovering from serious illnesses who are expected to work and to take whatever job is available. The OP says she is well enough to work and presumably that is why she has been applying for jobs. It isn't that people are heartless they just can't fathom why a chef would apply for a job in a seafood restuarant and not want to work with live shellfish. Surely any chef would realise that seafood restaurants deal with live lobsters etc. Just like if you are a vegan it wouldn't make sense to apply for a job cooking at Nando's and then complain that you don't want to cook chicken because it doesn't fit with your morals.
If OP had started the thread saying that she wanted to turn the job down because she was revoveringb from cancer and didn't feel well enough to work yet then the responses would be very different but the thread isn't about her being unwell it is about one aspect of a job which she is by her own admission physically well enough to do.

Turn it down that's a most vile evil process that is!.

Sham on the bastard's that do it and the cunts that eat there may they spew their guts up in hell!.

Your right newbrummie it doesn't matter if this woman gets £73 per week in benefits or not - except it might make a difference to her if she gets sanctioned for refusing a job. The job centre are quite brutal about sanctioning people.

Turn it down that's a most vile evil process that is

Do you have much experience of the farming and food production industry?

I'm afraid to tell you that cooking lobsters is quite humane compared to many practices - I assume you're a non pet owning vegan?

expatinscotland

I'm craving seafood now

Is there ever a time not to crave seafood?

Justaboy

Sham on the bastard's that do it and the cunts that eat there may they spew their guts up in hell!.

If that's your view of the staff and the customers at a seafood restaurant what do you wish on those who harm their fellow members of our species?

You only have to see the film I, Daniel Blake to know the harsh realities of not having a job and having to claim benefits

'Is there ever a time not to crave seafood?'

Not really.

No, I'm OK with eating meat, but you kill the animal humanly first, not boil the poor creature alive!

I'm OK with eating meat, but you kill the animal humanly first

I'm sure telling yourself that makes you feel better about meat consumption despite all the widespread evidence to the contrary. Have you watched any PETA videos?

If we're going to compare the two - What about quality of life? A wild animal such as a lobster has a far more natural life than an intensively reared farm animal which never sees daylight, is penned in crowded conditions and drugged to avoid infection that would make it worthless. Personally, I prefer eating wild game and sea fish as I believe they have lived a far more fulfilling life.
But - each to their own - we all have our own values to help us get through life.

Is there now a humane way to be killed then?

YABU - I'm not a chef, but I can dispatch a lobster.