Jack Monroe #542 A dullard talking about Vienetta

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MavisBeacon said:
Were those animal hats actually from ASDA though? They look more like the kind of thing you'd find at a chichi coffee/craft shop masquerading as hand knitted when they actually come from China.
Do we have a straight timeline of her jobs and when she worked at asda vs when she was jobbing at coffee shops etc in 2012 and getting rapidly fired?
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Worth bearing in mind the squig might not be forensically accurate about the year she worked with Jack if she’s working purely from her recollection. Not in a deliberately lying way just in a 15 years is both a relatively long time ago and a nice round number so I wouldn’t be too surprised if it actually turned out to be 13 or 17 years ago etc way.
 
MavisBeacon said:
Were those animal hats actually from ASDA though? They look more like the kind of thing you'd find at a chichi coffee/craft shop masquerading as hand knitted when they actually come from China.
Do we have a straight timeline of her jobs and when she worked at asda vs when she was jobbing at coffee shops etc in 2012 and getting rapidly fired?
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The 2013 Guardian article again. We really need a timeline of all the various jobs she claimed to have pre-July 2012 (HH blog), because it says:

"The blog might not have happened had she not been unemployed for 18 months, and been turned down for hundreds of jobs, many of them because she was considered "too old" at the age of 24."

So, working on and off or unemployed for 18 months? I suppose it depends on which narrative 'fits' - in this case, an interview with the Guardian.

https://www.12ft.io/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jul/23/jack-monroe-face-modern-poverty
 
It is entirely possible to be in receipt of benefits whilst in work. But it might not have suited the narrative she sold to the papers.

Knowing she acts primarily out of spite, I think she was still sour about the fire service when she went to the Mirror with her sob story and that’s why she conveniently erased history. She wanted the blame to be the employer she actually flounced from.
 
Veronicaaa said:
Classic Jack. What jobs age you out at the age of 24 lol.
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Just a pathetic victim playing cry arsing baby. I wonder if the asda was one where she had the boo hoo about the other girls not asking her on nights out cos they didn't think 'her sort' would go clubbing...yeah that definitely would've been the reason. She is always so desperate to be excluded and different and tormented and marginalised as if she's not a bang average MC white girl from a nuclear family. To have still so spectacularly fucked it up with all those advantages behind her is quite the thing.
 
Veronicaaa said:
Classic Jack. What jobs age you out at the age of 24 lol.
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Child actor?

In the SEB podcast she talks about a job with the fire service fitting smoke alarms that she was offered after she had SB. I’m not sure if she ever actually was employed in that context, iirc she mostly waffles on about how she’s handy with tools (as I’m sure burger boy knows lol). It might have just been something that was suggested but she never actually did, although she might have done it for a short period. I dunno, does anyone know more than my vague memory? It could be what she was doing when she posted the hat pictures.
 
I just read the comments on that 2013 Guardian article. It's interesting how many people had the measure of her even back then.

This one could have been pulled from twitter recently:

"Just tried one of her recipes but swapped fish paste for smoked salmon. Was pretty good."

Beautiful!
 
plentyofpepper said:
I got prescribed Tramadol years ago for a bad back injury and the first time I took one of them my OH at the time had to stop the car on the way to my hospital appointment so I could vomit… 40 a day makes me feel queasy just thinking about it
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I've taken tramadol twice, once for a knee injury and once when I had tonsillitis (neither time with a prescription, which is a bit naughty, but meh), and I didn't feel sick, but I felt very spaced out and then following day felt hungover.
 
MistyWindows said:
These are from her old IG account! I was curious about them before, not sure they fit squig’s timeline as it was in 2012.
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(also reading between the lines she’s either quite dull or it’s still novel to her?)
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Hold on everyone, before the wheels come off the train totally and it derails and destroys the entire town!

I’ve grunked up to page 9 and we are going totally all in on ASDA/employment/THE POVERTY conspiracy theories and conflating too many things here.

Jack had three jobs in 2012 (four if you count the weekly “the newspaper” column she got given mid-year as a result of all her pompous old fart🌟STAR LETTERS 🌟)

She LEFT the fire service in November 2011 and went on benefits (she’d moved into the luxury Mews flat for £725 the month before). According to Jack’s “usual” timeline this is when she changed her name.

The earliest now-deleted blog posts from her are from March 2012 by when her name is already Jack Monroe.
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Then at the very end of March 2012 she got the pub job where she “wasn’t exactly using her degree”. She LEFT that mere weeks later, because the shifts they needed her to work meant she couldn’t claim top up benefits. She then went back on benefits for about five minutes (literally, days/a week or two at most-I’ll have to check).

In early May 2012 she even more briefly had a job in a folk music art coffee and cake shop, working 24 hours a week. That one was even more short lived as they put up with her for oh, about 24 hours and then told her never ever to darken their doors again, bewildering her as she’s so amazing she couldn’t understand why they fired her. She then went back on benefits.

In July 2012 she wrote Hunger Hurts then a couple of weeks later in August 2012 she “sold everything she owned”.

In Autumn 2012 she, again very briefly, got a job in a shop (which is where @MistyWindows hats are from). This one’s timeline is a bit more vague thanks to all the blog deletions, but again it was incredibly short-lived. I also remember @colouredlines posting about it.

By late November 2012 that job was long, long over with, she was back on benefits and she’d already launched “Bread And Jam” the tit craft business and subsequently (in/by early December) decided to come off benefits to be self employed and make that her full time job.

In late December 2012 she appeared in that ridiculous article in the NATIONAL “the newspaper” where she was “eking out a tiny income from her craft business.”
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Then in February 2013 she got the trainee journalist job at the Southend Echo, by which time her self employed business Bread and Jam was long long forgotten (never mentioned again after early January).

From what Jack has said elsewhere, her ASDA job was when she was a teenager.

There’s not some giant conspiracy theory that turns out Jack was working throughout THE POV. In fact, THE POV is almost entirely self inflicted because, by her own choice she moved to a far bigger and more expensive flat than she needed, then within weeks flounced out of her Fire Seevice job (having already been signed off sick with stress) THEN she kept going on and off benefits for an entire year to do these short lived jobs she couldn’t handle (or they couldn’t handle her!) or in a frankly bleeping ridiculous decision to become self employed off the back of a few hideous dresses and amateurish cross stitch and cufflinks purely because she’s not a Jeremy Kyle watching scumbag but wants to show her son that “Mummy Works”.

She’s moaned multiple times about her benefits “kept getting mixed up”. Well that’s exactly why.

One last thing- we are so desperate for new Jack content that we are jumping in with both feet when a year ago we would have been far more cynical. That “Asda person” on Xwitter could be totally making up ever working with her but we are just deciding it’s true.

It would be easy for any of us, if we were so inclined, to claim we’d worked with her and that she was a lazy twit and a nightmare- and when asked where list one of the dozens of jobs she’d claimed. “MY NAME IS DARREN AND I WORKED ON DEBENHAMS HOTPLATE WITH JACK MONROE!” “I FLIPPED CHICKEN ON HARVESTER GRILL WITH JACK MONROE!” “I FIRED JACK MONROE FROM THE FOLK MUSIC ART AND COFFEE AND CAKE PLACE!” “JACK MONROE FAKED HAVING A DEGREE IN MY PUB!” “I AM OLD CHIEF!”

(Edit to add ss of blog post with name already changed)
 
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Valiofthedolls said:
Hold on everyone, before the wheels come off the train totally and it derails and destroys the entire town!

I’ve grunked up to page 9 and we are going totally all in on ASDA/employment/THE POVERTY conspiracy theories and conflating too many things here.

Jack had three jobs in 2012 (four if you count the weekly “the newspaper” column she got given mid-year as a result of all her pompous old fart🌟STAR LETTERS 🌟)

She LEFT the fire service in November 2011 and went on benefits (she’d moved into the luxury Mews flat for £725 the month before). According to Jack’s “usual” timeline this is when she changed her name.

The earliest now-deleted blog posts from her are from March 2012 by when her name is already Jack Monroe.
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Then at the very end of March 2012 she got the pub job where she “wasn’t exactly using her degree”. She LEFT that mere weeks later, because the shifts they needed her to work meant she couldn’t claim top up benefits. She then went back on benefits for about five minutes (literally, days/a week or two at most-I’ll have to check).

In early May 2012 she even more briefly had a job in a folk music art coffee and cake shop, working 24 hours a week. That one was even more short lived as they put up with her for oh, about 24 hours and then told her never ever to darken their doors again, bewildering her as she’s so amazing she couldn’t understand why they fired her. She then went back on benefits.

In July 2012 she wrote Hunger Hurts then a couple of weeks later in August 2012 she “sold everything she owned”.

In Autumn 2012 she, again very briefly, got a job in a shop (which is where @MistyWindows hats are from). This one’s timeline is a bit more vague thanks to all the blog deletions, but again it was incredibly short-lived. I also remember @colouredlines posting about it.

By late November 2012 that job was long, long over with, she was back on benefits and she’d already launched “Bread And Jam” the tit craft business and subsequently (in/by early December) decided to come off benefits to be self employed and make that her full time job.

In late December 2012 she appeared in that ridiculous article in the NATIONAL “the newspaper” where she was “eking out a tiny income from her craft business.”
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Then in February 2013 she got the trainee journalist job at the Southend Echo, by which time her self employed business Bread and Jam was long long forgotten (never mentioned again after early January).

From what Jack has said elsewhere, her ASDA job was when she was a teenager.

There’s not some giant conspiracy theory that turns out Jack was working throughout THE POV. In fact, THE POV is almost entirely self inflicted because, by her own choice she moved to a far bigger and more expensive flat than she needed, then within weeks flounced out of her Fire Seevice job (having already been signed off sick with stress) THEN she kept going on and off benefits for an entire year to do these short lived jobs she couldn’t handle (or they couldn’t handle her!) or in a frankly bleeping ridiculous decision to become self employed off the back of a few hideous dresses and amateurish cross stitch and cufflinks purely because she’s not a Jeremy Kyle watching scumbag but wants to show her son that “Mummy Works”.

She’s moaned multiple times about her benefits “kept getting mixed up”. Well that’s exactly why.

One last thing- we are so desperate for new Jack content that we are jumping in with both feet when a year ago we would have been far more cynical. That “Asda person” on Xwitter could be totally making up ever working with her but we are just deciding it’s true.

It would be easy for any of us, if we were so inclined, to claim we’d worked with her and that she was a lazy twit and a nightmare- and when asked where list one of the dozens of jobs she’d claimed. “MY NAME IS DARREN AND I WORKED ON DEBENHAMS HOTPLATE WITH JACK MONROE!” “I FLIPPED CHICKEN ON HARVESTER GRILL WITH JACK MONROE!” “I FIRED JACK MONROE FROM THE FOLK MUSIC ART AND COFFEE AND CAKE PLACE!” “JACK MONROE FAKED HAVING A DEGREE IN MY PUB!” “I AM OLD CHIEF!”

(Edit to add ss of blog post with name already changed)
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But...if she left the fire service in Nov 2011 and wrote HH in July 2012, how does she fit 18 months of unemployment in the space of 7 months?!

Posting this quote from the G article again: "The blog might not have happened had she not been unemployed for 18 months, and been turned down for hundreds of jobs, many of them because she was considered "too old" at the age of 24"

(Unless it was before the fire service, and she forgot to mention that. Who the duck knows at this point)
 
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