To take track and trace job? Wwyd?

[exhaustedbutstillgoing]

I'm currently working in a supermarket and I hate it I get terrible social anxiety but it's mainly from the way staff treat me.

Track and trace job is contracted until end of January after then it will be a 2 week rolling contract. I have worked out we will be £300-400 better off.

OH doesn't want me to take it as it's not permanent and he doesn't want to be stuck downstairs with the kids all day.

I want to take it as I'm unhappy where I am now extra money and I'm working from home.

I would take it and have a long discussion with your DH about the children being his responsibility as well as yours, assuming that they are his. Even if they are not then if he's married somebody with children and is living with them then he has to be prepared to take responsibility when it's supporting somebody bringing money into the house.

Does he mean when he is WFH as well? You do need to take it in turns to look after them of course.

I would take it. Who is it with? Council/health board or Serco? (If they still do it)

So what will you do if you are out of work again in July? The decision needs to be a joint one, with a plan in place.

Isn’t it test and trace?! Or is this a job with the Post Office?

How old are your children? Does your OH work? What would be the plan if they let you go in January?

How would him watching the kids while you do T&T differ from him watching the kids while you work outside the home?

He'd rather be occupying the office space while you're stuck downstairs? Is that it?

I’d do it .. he sounds like another one of these MN husbands that feels like the kids are ‘wife work ‘
Jeez
Btw I’ve been trying to get a job with T&T unsuccessfully. So well done

@bernadette because if she's out of the house the kids can play and make noise? Serco are really strict on background noise so the kids would have been downstairs and very quiet during work hours

Pros
It’s a much safer job
It’s more money
It’s a public service

Cons
Wfh noise issues;? Pick the most isolated spot you can and consider using a headset to reduce ambient noise pickup while on calls.
Job security: I don’t know about where you are, but getting a job in a supermarket or really any retail store is ridiculously easy where I live. They are constantly begging for staff, literally, they will have someone at the entrance asking customers if they or anyone they know need a job.

Test and trace sorry!

Oh doesn't work just me so he will have to keep the kids quiet downstairs.

I normally work 4 hours a day and he complains about that so he's crying about an extra 4 hours! Even though DS is at nursery for 3 of those extra hours so it will just be him and DD for most of it.

I have said I will take it anyway even though he's been screaming at me all afternoon.

I'd take it, can your OH not work? Because if he's a stay at home Dad he shouldn't complain about looking after his kids imo.

Regardless of whether he agrees with you he shouldn't be screaming at you! are you okay? Can he not work?

Your OH has been screaming at you all afternoon because you want to take a better paying job? Is this an abusive relationship OP? I hope you're alright.

If he is not supportive it's going to be difficult to do the job with children in the house.

He doesn't work and you are the money earner. Therefore he either steps up and looks after the children, gets a job or gets out.

@exhaustedbutstillgoing

Test and trace sorry!

Oh doesn't work just me so he will have to keep the kids quiet downstairs.

I normally work 4 hours a day and he complains about that so he's crying about an extra 4 hours! Even though DS is at nursery for 3 of those extra hours so it will just be him and DD for most of it.

I have said I will take it anyway even though he's been screaming at me all afternoon.

Tell him to get a job if he doesn't like it. Idiot (him)

Take the job. Escape from the horrid abusive people who use your supermarket (and the pleasant ones).

Sounds like you need to get away from your "DH" as much as your current job!

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat

Isn’t it test and trace?! Or is this a job with the Post Office?

I was also wondering this.

Why doesn't your OH work? And if he doesn't work he needs to stfu about looking after his kids while someone works

Take the job.

Can OH work but chooses not to? He shouldn't be screaming at you whatever the circumstances.

Kick the useless dick out.

He doesn’t work and doesn’t want to take care of the kids either??! He sounds like a much bigger problem than your job! Men like this make me so angry!

Tell him you'll take care of the kids. When HE GETS A FUCKING JOB.

You have a man issue here OP - deal with that first