TheLongMum #3 Life couldn't be harder, I ponder from Lake Garda...

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What on earth
 

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She’s soooooo witty 🙄 seriously Anna just duck off
 

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I'm imagining her catching this job centre bus today wearing huge shades and her coat collar pulled up to her nose. I've caught the job centre bus myself and yeah it wasn't a high point in my life but Anna is not going to deal with this well 😅 I hope she does a story. It's about as beneath her as it gets.
 
So Anna was too good to possibly travel on the job centre bus so drove there herself, and is expecting a quiet easy little office job where she can sit around and drink cups of tea 3 days a week. Why is she allergic to doing actual work? I work in an office (full time) and I wish I had time to sit drinking cups of tea all day 😂 also she was totally eyefucking herself in the phone camera and laughing and being very dismissive about the whole thing. It’s all a joke to her. Entitled bleep.
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Of COURSE she was the most desirable person for a role there but the patriarchy won’t let her work from home twice a week so therefore she can’t possibly consider the role 🙄😂
 
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GAH. I’m a single parent and claim some UC as a top up. My kids are in school/childcare and after school clubs so I can work.

She’s so frustrating. Am I doing the job I’m trained for/want to do? No. But it’s a job that works for me at the moment, and part of being an adult is realising that you can’t always do what you want, and sometimes you just have to suck it up.

She’s exactly the kind of person that people think of when they talk about “benefit claimants”. Fully capable of working, but won’t unless the perfect job falls in to her lap. Buys new clothes and has her hair and nails done all the time. I spend so long trying to change the narrative around single mothers and claiming benefits, pointing out how many people claim and work, and she just kicks dirt over all this.
 
No company is obligated to let you work from home, especially when you're new and being trained up and needing close supervision while you're learning the ropes etc. WFH is not a god given right, plus I do actually prefer being in the office as I get to mix with people. Also, people assume that if I'm WFH I can just swan off at 3pm and pick my kid up, maybe some companies let you do this but I'm on the clock until half 4 so I still have to use afterschool clubs every day even though I work part time and some days from home.

You could tell she was relieved that they didn't have any part time roles so she can go back to the job centre and say look I tried, but they were just so unaccommodating! Poor me!!!
 
She was going on about how the job is just data entry and she was by far the most suitable person for the role there, but we all know that if she did get the job she would quit in a few weeks because it wouldn’t be challenging enough for her. Working for a living isn’t as fun as wanking and mooching around the chazza shops all day apparently
 
I still don't think it's fully hit her that, by hook or by crook, she'll be going back to work very soon, and because she didn't pull her finger out years ago it'll probably be a job she doesn't want, doesn't enjoy, and she's overqualified for. Life's about to get depressing. She'll know the true meaning of juggling life, work and kids. She'll have significantly less free time, and probably less money. I can't wait to watch it all unfold.
 
She literally wants everything her own way.
I'm supportive of more flexible working practices and to help single parents, like myself, work and balance home life.

HOWEVER. It takes sacrifice on both sides, you don't get to decree you want a part time 3 day a week role, where you can swan in and out of the office and home working as you please, and what did she say, feel like she's had a lobotomy?

My company has been part of a four day week trial, and it's now on a rolling basis depending on various KPIs and there's a monthly review and it will be taken away/given back depending on audits etc.
It's great, but, we have to WORK. I have to go to the office, I have to use my brain.
WORK ANNA. It's not endless wanks, pastries and chazza shop fluffing.
 
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