Jack Monroe #151 A morally destitute and blatantly mendacious fraud?

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Ha “quietly furious”
Her pharynx was closing! I wouldn’t expect much sound at all in this instance apart from rasping breath sounds. Sorry if my medical hot take is now lukewarm, or worse still at the temperature of that tea in the slow cooker.

<Kermit x Lipton gif>

As you were, meine Damen und Herren
 
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How dare people comment on her story, without knowing her or asking her about it.. LOL. You've sold your story and all its versions for years luv. No one asked.
Also it's like, which version are we/aren't we allowed to comment on? The previous one which you've basically hinted was a fabrication? Or this new story that you've only just decided you can tell?

This is pathetic and desperate at best.
 
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Didn’t Essex girl say when she was on here that Jack had resigned and then tried to rescind but the Fire Dept refused? Could it be that Jack is reacting and adapting her story because of that?
 
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Yes, she said that she got calls from the nursery saying that no one collected him, that she was 30 miles away...
Pst - none of the above happened
It just so outrageous to say that about your family and friends!! I mean her parents were foster carers wonder did they ever forget about the kiddos in their care or was it’s just family members. Sorry to be so flippant, I’m just in awe of how one person can be so utterly unlucky(*** readers I am not in awe, in fact her never ending story of woe is beginning to grate on my tits )
 
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I feel for SB, when older he is going to have to listen to the Tales of Poverty Woe again, and again and again, and I can imagine he will join the dots and feel like it was his fault. Jack will never stop telling this tale.

Jack is like Uncle Albert "during the war poverty..."
 
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She never questions why these things always happen to her. So many more stories to tell (for anther day, got to keep them guessing) The one common denominator is herself. Why would they want to get rid of her if she was so good? Why would they not employ her in other daytime rolls that she was qualified for? Why did they not just redeploy her into the suitable rolls that were being advertised? Why did they refuse to rescind her letter of resignation? Why did all these things happen to her?

Because she is a nightmare to work with, obviously.

The union said she had a good case for a tribunal. On what grounds? She resigned, they accepted her resignation. No case. A case of constructive dismissal would not have had a cat in hells chance of succeeding, otherwise she would have taken the unions advice.
 
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Quite. Very early on in these threads we had a poster who was what I (as a self-confessed) middle-class woman would class as wealthy. She spectacularly described her family life in great detail, yet she insisted to us that she wasn’t wealthy. It’s all relative isn’t it? I’ve genuinely been shocked reading about how some other posters on this thread have grown up/lived in actual poverty, as opposed to JM’s poverty cosplaying.
 
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but sure y only authorised people could pick him up, and the nursery would have their contact details and would call them first? Who is she throwing under the bus for failing to collect her child and not answering their phone?
Totally. And if it did happen as she describes (I know, I know), I get why that must have been - briefly - worrying. But, as apparently with everything in her life, it precipitated such an over reaction from her.

Drama, drama, drama.
 
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Did anyone finish those books? Honestly I started when I was young teenager, borrowing village bible sized tomes of a fellow nerd son of my mums friend, got to about 8 maybe and then felt like every time I started a new one I needed a catch up. I heard he died before he finished the whole thing (which is how I see GoT ending if I’m honest). I should wiki them to see what actually happens.
On topic - yes she is totally like that apart from the badass sorcery.

ETA the author died, not my book loaner
 
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I had no idea Jack was allergic to tomatoes. Why is she rinsing off hoops then? Seems dangerous if one of the ingredients could kill you.
This is where I’ve been going wrong all along! I should’ve known all I had to do was rinse the peanuts out of peanut butter, silly me!
 
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Another podcast! Listened to it. Made notes as I went. These are the bits I don't think have been mentioned.
Military rota for childcare - which didn't work!
CCJs still on credit report from that time - so how did she get a mortgage for that flat she lost the deposit for when moving in with Allegra? Was it not a deposit but the whole lot? I know you can get mortgages with bad credit but they tend to be more expensive and need a good income. This would also have been when the borrowing rules tightened, so the checks were more detailed. [Total OT, my mortgage interview was at that time, took 3 hours, I lost a stone in nervous sweat, and was only borrowing about 60% of what they offered!]
Applied for a fork truck driver role - which makes sense if you get confused at roundabouts.

Lots of mentions that it's cheaper for the government to look after kids at the time than repair the damage later - seems to me her new line as used on the SEB pod too.
 
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She wasn’t a single parent though. She was a co-parent. There’s a massive difference. I have friends whose dad takes them for a few hours on a Sunday.

who would take a shift job 30 miles away without a car anyway. I could understand if they moved her. But why do it in the first place.

I found the years when children are tiny difficult and expensive but in some ways easier. They are more adaptable and happy to be in childcare for hours on end. I had more trouble with an 8 year old and zero holiday support and no wrap round with school.
luckily I had a great childminder for school but I had to quit when I couldn’t do a 7 week school holiday cover as Prince Lumpy was too busy/working abroad.

for £27k job she could have found more adaptable childcare than just nursery. In an area like Southend I imagine there are nanny shares and childminders who do overnights (mind did for a nurse). Or use his bloody dad!

honestly all the ‘I work a 20 hour day’ makes me think she has no idea about what an actual working day is and is bone idle. I can imagine her sick record in the fire service also wasn’t great.
 
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So she’s saying she resigned when her son was 19 months old, and had been back at work a “good few months”. In something quite recent, I swear she said she went back to work when he was six months old.

Trying something for a few months and finding it difficult, especially childcare juggling, is nauseatingly bloody normal.

Working four days a week, with tonnes of family support, should not be enough to cause a person a breakdown. There were clearly underlying contributing MH factors (if the breakdown happened). I don’t think that working four days a week, with family help, should be considered overwhelming circumstances. Especially with a good salary and low childcare costs.
 
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so this is like the intro to what appears to be titled "jack monroe's book of thrifty household management". a perfectly normal sounding, if full-on, routine for a single working parent which caused her to have a breakdown? which then will lead into "i was POOR" and so on until we reach table salt in a stolen milk bottle for your baths and mussels with pears for your tea

also, jack babe, no one's allowed to sit on hospital beds. not even inexplicably not-busy psychiatrists. infection control, not completed it mate
 
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I’ve genuinely been shocked reading about how some other posters on this thread have grown up/lived in actual poverty, as opposed to JM’s poverty cosplaying.
Some of us are still in poverty. Lol.
I got a job last march, before Covid, i was chatting to my new line manager. He asked about Universal Credit and what it's really like.
I said to him...
"How many of your bills would £900 cover?"
He said, after a minute, about 3, I'd be £1500 short on everything else.

Someone earning £2k a month will seem wealthy to someone existing on £950. TBF it has gone up £80 a month since then.. as had electric bill, food bill, water bill, etc
 
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At one point she says she paired up with someone who did her nights and she did their days,
 
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