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

[Anonymous One]

My take is still that she was a total nightmare at work and they couldn’t wait to get shot of her after she resigned. Those jobs are well paid because they are hard and demanding and not suitable for everyone.

I laughed at the point in the podcast (still listening in short bursts due to both women being quite boringwhere she’s going on about how she’d ‘go back in a heartbeat’ whilst simultaneously explaining that she decided not to apply to go back last year.

She was also appalled she didn’t get the other jobs in the fire service. They had better candidates than Jackie McMonroe?! Surely there weren’t applicants with more than 4.5-7 GCSEs, qualifications relevant to the job and career experience? She’s the definition of entitled.

 

[Hibernator]

She has NOW said on the SEB podcast that she went to the food bank ONCE, there was a woman there
who knew her mother, so she realised she'd have to tell her parents that she was short of money. She told them
and they came round with bags of shopping.

That is her new updated jackanory story.

Her new updated Jackanory story would be a brilliant thread title!

EDIT - snap @PhilHardingsHat

I really can't add anything to the excellent posts on here. It's so telling that she can write paragraphs and paragraphs about how hard everything was for her, but only one sentence on her actually resigning, which is totally devoid of any responsbility-taking at all. Followed by a whole heap of her basically saying her employers were meanies to not take her back. It's also totally fascinating to me how often everything has a backstory to it, everything has events that mean Jack was really the victim. Every time she insists there was more she won't go into, what I think she really means is she'll embellish it whenever suits to get the most sympathy possible.

 

[moosesauna]

I think we might find that the book chapter will soon be further edited after she reads the comments about her writing on here.

You're welcome, Jack.

Imagine having to constantly go back and re-edit sections of your life like it's a huge encyclopedia of barely-concealed drifting, yikes, what a tiring life...

 

[Nahhh]

Sorry if already posted!

 

[Peachy9]

She was also appalled she didn’t get the other jobs in the fire service. They had better candidates than Jackie McMonroe?! Surely there weren’t applicants with more than 4.5-7 GCSEs, qualifications relevant to the job and career experience? She’s the definition of entitled.

Exactly-she wanted a role traveling to people's homes to install fire alarms...despite the fact she can't even drive
What was she going to do? Travel on the not very reliable and wholy expensive bus routes of Brentwood, with a bag for life filled to the brim with alarms?

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

Imagine having to constantly go back and re-edit sections of your life like it's a huge encyclopedia of barely-concealed drifting, yikes, what a tiring life...

She reads here to keep up with her own lies and bullshit.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

She's writing a book just for us! I feel so special!

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I don't think anyone disputes that Jack was a call handler.

BTW when, exactly, with all this drama going on in 2011 was Jack hitting the gym for hours every day and getting super buff in a bid to become a firefighter?

There are probably photos knocking around somewhere of me on a float at Pride. It didn't make me a doctor or nurse, it made me a union member having a laugh with my mates who worked at the same hospital, people who worked at other hospitals and failing spectacularly to cop off with anybody. Same way wearing a dolphin costume for kids' parties when working in a pub didn't make me the Head Chef or a critically endangered cetacean.

Just looking at the photo shows it's not a firefighting crew. It's a bunch of women, mostly middleaged, mostly a little larger, having a works jolly. One of my mates has similar photos - because they remind her of fun days compared to the usual stuff she deals with. She's also got what is laughingly described as a 'masculine aesthetic' - as in she has short hair and wears her call handler uniform to work. Doesn't make a blind bit of difference to her husband, though.

 

[ThriftStoreLeCreuset]

Uh oh, Graeme didn't do a very good job.

 

[Cactusflower]

I actually can’t deal with her at the moment.
I am a single mother, a real one. My daughter’s father is a twit . I have no help from him whatsoever. He pops round to see her when he feels like it and regularly goes off grid. He was abusive towards me in the relationship and I only tolerate him because he’s her father.
Jack has no bleeping idea. I went back to work when my daughter was 6 months old. I worked 13/14 hours including night shifts & often stayed up all day looking after a baby .
It was such hard work & I was exhausted but I chose to have a baby .
I wish I’d had the level of support she had. She no bleeping idea what it’s like for real single mothers.
She can get to duck with all her moaning. She takes the piss with her use of the NHS & now she’s going after the Fire Service. I hope they see her tweets. She’s making some serious allegations.
Sorry She’s just really pissed me off recently. She has so much, how much more does she need to make her happy?

 

[Minky McMoneypenny]

I don't have children, so could someone help me understand what's so wrong with the attitude "why didn't you think this through?" please?

I appreciate its not very empathetic or kind (be kind!!) but it's a job, your managers aren't there to cuddle and reassure you, you work, they pay you. They do a reasonable amount re adaptations to make sure you can perform your role, you do the same.

Am I being cold?
(I am autistic remember, so if I am it's not my fault anyway and don't be mean because I'm special)

You are spot-on. You always hope that your employer will be flexible for when the unplanned things happen around caring for kids (I've been very fortunate in that way) - and employers tend to be more open to this when you are a good/valuable employee where they would rather lose a few hours of your labour than lose you altogether. I don't think that you can ever plan for all of the eventualities before deciding to 'go for it' and have children - you will never have enough time/funds, but you hope that you will make the right decisions when any problems arise.

Admittedly, it is easier when there are two parents to share the 'burden', but if I was a young woman planning a pregnancy as a single parent, I'd have looked for a non-shift job first and moved from the fire service to that, then stayed in that job until at least the minimum requirement for maternity pay kicked in, then put pregnancy plan into action.

I've got many friends (couples) who have been like passing ships in the night for many years because they have juggled childcare with work shifts (police, croupier, NHS workers). They knew that was how it would be when they signed up for parenthood.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

Exactly-she wanted a role traveling to people's homes to install fire alarms...despite the fact she can't even drive
What was she going to do? Travel on the not very reliable and wholy expensive bus routes of Brentwood, with a bag for life filled to the brim with alarms?

And a ladder because she's only 5'1.7" tall.

 

[ThriftStoreLeCreuset]

That's included in the interview. Jack says that she had her parents, two friends and Johnny's father doing the pickups but they forgot!
How she got to work is beyond me, Essex Fire & Rescue Service isn't easy to get to, it's just off the A12 in Witham.

Dad's van.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Uh oh, Graeme didn't do a very good job.

Graeme's not a miracle worker. A polished turd is still a fossilised tit, even if you do call it a coprolite.

 

[Harrybosch]

She's writing a book just for us! I feel so special!

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I don't think anyone disputes that Jack was a call handler.

BTW when, exactly, with all this drama going on in 2011 was Jack hitting the gym for hours every day and getting super buff in a bid to become a firefighter?

A cacophony of photos. I can't stop laughing.

Sorry i know its just a small query but how could she be prescribed beta blockers so easily?
As i've mentioned on a previous post my gp voiced concerns over my irregular heart beat and i was booked in for hospital appointments and then they told me i had a problem with the aortic valve and then i had open heart surgery and if was only after having surgery than i was prescribed beta blockers which along with a low dosage of aspirin (to thin the blood) i will have to take for the rest of my life?
I could be wrong but if she is talking about having heart problems surely (as in my own case) only a cardiologist can diagnose the actual technicalities of the problem i.e what is causing it which area is affected and the need to prrscribe the right medicine based on pinpointing the origins of the problem?
I've never heard of a doctor just handing out beta blockers for a heart problem no the authority for that comes only from a cardiologist.
Unless beta blockers were prescribed for anxiety?
If they were then i don't really understand does she have a heart condition or not?
An irregular heartbeat is a cause for concern (thats what my lovely gp picked up on and got the ball rolling for further tests?) but as far as i'm aware the gp cannot prescribe beta blockers just for having that symptom alone (i could be wrong but as i said it is not in keeping with my experience)?
So where is the follow up from this then?
Heart problems need to be professionally evaluated you can't just throw it out there that you have a heart problem unless a cardiologist has made a diagnosis?
Its not a triffle or of little important its a life/game changer?
10 years ago i needed surgery i will need surgery again in the future for a valve replacement i have to take meds for the rest of my life.
When i was pregnant with my daughter (after having surgery) i had to be closely monitored and looked after by specialists?
During lockdown i am in the high risk category?
She (imo) needs to be more clear about the state of her health and not just use emotive language to up the ante and basically guilt trip people into taking her statements as the gospel truth or last word?
At the very least that is very irresponsible in my opinion?

I got beta blockers prescribed because I was nervous about taking my driving test. Took 2 minutes to get that prescription.

 

[hollowhusk]

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.

How odd that we were talking about a tribunal the other day, and now all this has come up. I doubt very much she'd bother going to one, as too much would come out, but I suppose if she makes the right noises she can pretend she's in the right.

There's a 3 month time limit for starting claims to an employment tribunal, if she had a union rep they would have told her that. I know a little bits about the internal workings of tribunals and they are not held publicly, you are not named in the papers (in the official records the complainant is now by initials). Maternity discrimination is exceptionally hard to prove even if there are real grounds for it.

 

[TitsMcGee]

Please, someone, make it make sense

 

[Harrybosch]

'Cacophony of photos...'
WTF?
Is English her second language?

I think it's common restaurant parlance. The likes of us wouldn't know.

 

[Minky McMoneypenny]

Please, someone, make it make sense

SHAN'T

 

[MooBelle]

She's writing a book just for us! I feel so special!

BTW:

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I don't think anyone disputes that Jack was a call handler.

BTW when, exactly, with all this drama going on in 2011 was Jack hitting the gym for hours every day and getting super buff in a bid to become a firefighter?

duck sake woman, you literally just said you needed a photo taken at Pride because you knew it was the only one taken of you in PPE.
I could've gone along to that open day, paid the donation to dress up and VOILA here is a picture of me dressed up as a firemanlady.
You were never, ever a firefighter. You were barely around long enough to be a call handler.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Exactly-she wanted a role traveling to people's homes to install fire alarms...despite the fact she can't even drive
What was she going to do? Travel on the not very reliable and wholy expensive bus routes of Brentwood, with a bag for life filled to the brim with alarms?

I had a visit from the Fire Brigade for smoke alarms when I rented a council flat. He turned up in uniform, in a marked van (so as not to risk vulnerable tenants letting in conmen) and then he reached up and fitted the alarm and a CO detector in about thirty seconds flat, as he could reach the ceiling without needing any equipment. Just as well, really - he had three blocks of flats and about 120 of each of the things to fit that day.

She'd have still been struggling up the hill from the bus stop with three supermarket trollies full of them and the drill, screwdriver and leaflets by about 4.30pm