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

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waffle maker said:
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.
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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.
 
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Hibernator

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.
 
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moosesauna

I’MBUSY! said:
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.
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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...
 
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Peachy9

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?
 
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TheDragonWithAFlagon

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.
 
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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 twat . 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 fucking 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 fucking idea what it’s like for real single mothers.
She can get to fuck 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?
 
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Minky McMoneypenny

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.
 
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Marmalade Atkins

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

Dad's van.
 
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Harrybosch

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

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

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.
 
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MooBelle

Fuck 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.
 
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TheDragonWithAFlagon

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
 
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