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Previously on "Doomed! Benched contractor living on food handouts from charity!"

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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Did you work in a morgue?

    IGMC
    Oi AtW, give this to MF.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    One morning the other contractor in the office was killed in a freak train accident. He still made it in by ten!
    Did you work in a morgue?

    IGMC

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Doctors and dentists are going to make a killing out of the coming recession.
    Eh? Why?

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by MrMark View Post
    I suspect there are 1000s like this, caught out by the turgid economy and the rise of bob. But unlikely to get much empathy here from the permie bogus contractor set!
    Your on the wrong site if you want sympathy. I once made it to work for six weeks with a broken leg. One morning the other contractor in the office was killed in a freak train accident. He still made it in by ten!

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Sara is keen to point out that neither she nor her husband smoke or drink, and that the family had been using vouchers from newspapers for their last few holidays. - But you still managed a holiday.Ok??
    You can have a holiday for about £20,

    Unable to claim benefits, Why? Oh because you earn to much and have assets!!!!!
    Like a house with a big mortgage?

    Nice to see these organisations exist, anyway. I doubt she would have gone to them unless as a last option, whatever you think.... typical proud English.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Doctors and dentists are going to make a killing out of the coming recession.

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  • chef
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    What's a foodbank?
    What is a foodbank?

    A foodbank gives three days of nutritionally balanced food and support to people experiencing emotional or financial crisis. Our foodbank network is mobilising communities across the UK to meet the needs of their neighbours by setting up a foodbank in their own town.
    The Trussell Trust - The foodbank

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  • MrMark
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    I suspect there are 1000s like this, caught out by the turgid economy and the rise of bob. But unlikely to get much empathy here from the permie bogus contractor set!

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    ...The experience of visiting her local foodbank left her amazed and humbled".
    What's a foodbank?

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  • MarillionFan
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    "Suddenly we had no income and had used up all our savings. Any money we did have went quickly on paying the mortgage, and our credit cards were also maxed out." - Terrible news

    Sara is keen to point out that neither she nor her husband smoke or drink, and that the family had been using vouchers from newspapers for their last few holidays. - But you still managed a holiday.Ok??

    "We cut back on as many things as we could. Our first plan was to sell the car, as it's worth a fair bit, but we couldn't. Nobody wanted to buy it." Hey? Easy to sell a car, take an offer???

    Unable to claim benefits, Why? Oh because you earn to much and have assets!!!!! and having previously donated to the Trussell Trust through her children's school harvest festival, What a ******* tin of beans! Sara eventually resorted to using it herself at the end of August. The experience of visiting her local foodbank left her amazed and humbled".

    FFS!! You're just not trying!!!!

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  • AtW
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    Is the same Sara from BBC debt diary?

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
    Exactly. I stopped reading after that line... what a twat, of course you can sell it luv, try reducing the price.
    Any cut price Bentley Brooklands going?

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  • MrRobin
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    Originally posted by wobbegong View Post
    Exactly. I stopped reading after that line... what a twat, of course you can sell it luv, try reducing the price.

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  • wobbegong
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    "We cut back on as many things as we could. Our first plan was to sell the car, as it's worth a fair bit, but we couldn't. Nobody wanted to buy it."
    She's just not trying hard enough.

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  • gingerjedi
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    There's loads of MoD work around Salisbury, I'm always seeing job adds.

    I bet he can't get passed the SC conundrum.

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