Is It Right To Feel This Way?

[abbeylee90]

I do enjoy selco but obviously I have to leave because they have reduced my hours but I don't feel ready to leave. I definitely think more hours is out of the window now someone from another store has started on checkout 

[newmodarmy]

2 lots of 10 hours pw is a lot less than 40 hours pw, even when travelling is taken into account.

A lot of people do a full time job with a commute and then have to come home and cook a meal, do the washing and hoovering, mow the lawn, go shopping at tesco and maybe put the kids to bed.

[DDIL]

1, SELCO did not reduce your hours, you were hired on a 10 hour contract, they then gave you overtime, that has finished and you are back to your contracted 10 hours.

2. If you can't cope with 2 10 hour a week jobs (total 20 hours) how do you expect to cope with a full time job?

 

[albaqwerty]

Really tiring having 2 jobs - well, who'd have guessed!

I worked 3 part-time jobs around my school aged children.

Abbey, get a grip, either put up with your 10 hours or find a job with more hours. It's really tiring looking for a job.

[abbeylee90]

In one full time job you haven't gotta do any travelling

[DDIL]

Is there any point actually trying to help you?

[newmodarmy]

Youre deluding yourself abbey. Your hours were not reduced. Why do you persist with this claim. If you want sympathy you won't get much here given that you seem unable to take advice or make even the most basic decision and seem to live in some starnge bubble outside the real world.

But in a way it doesn't matter- you are where you are. You won't get more hours at Selco.

It's your decision whether to seek another employer.

[Karamia]

Just seen on indeed there is a full time warehouse operator job at Luno Fashion in Sully Cardiff that sounds right for you. Have you applied? 

[naomi24]

Abbey, if you want more wages you can't keep putting obstacles in the way.  You want to stay at Selci because you're happy there - which is fine - but there's no reason you can't do another part time job.  Life doesn't just fall onto your plate the way you'd like it to.  It doesn't work that way.  You have to put yourself out to get what you want.

[naomi24]

*Selco.

[pastafreak]

Well Abbey, maybe it's time to start knocking on doors. Check out all the businesses near Selco...maybe one of them has a part time position going. Then there's no extra traveling...unless of course its on different days to what you are doing now. Make sure it's a job that's not too tiring. Though I expect you will still be tired. Have you considered joining a cheap gym and building up your strength. 

[Neveracrossword]

Abbey, you really do have to start facing facts. You may say you 'enjoy' Selco, but I feel this is a similar situation to the care home - as soon as it was obvious that you should be looking for another job,  you went on about how much you liked it there! I know you are keen to move on in life, but you're never going to get anywhere if you put all these obstacles in your way.

[abbeylee90]

Kal think it says they want forklift licence

[abbeylee90]

There's also a TF solutions opening in Cardiff but can't find vacancies.

[newmodarmy]

Yes, the ones on the site below are just supervisory or combined driver/warehouse staff roles

https://www.tpplccareers.co.uk/tf-solutions-jobs

 

[abbeylee90]

Don't know when it is opening.

[abbeylee90]

Selco don't care about thier staff

 

[newmodarmy]

^ yet you still enjoy it there and don't feel ready to leave, even though you only earn around £100 a week.?

[jourdain2]

A lot of employers don't care about their low-paid staff, they are replaceable.

Serously, Abbey, you are losing sympathy from a lot of us, most of whom have had to work very hard to survive and get through in this world without all the luxuries you enjoy - like expensive hairdressers and lots of nights out.

We understand that you have problems, but to say that 2 very small jobs are 'tiring' is a bit much.

When older than you - I was working full time as a  Comprehensive Schoolteacher in a very difficult area - crime rampant. I'd get home, make dinner for my daughters, while they did their homework.  We all changed into tracksuits and I coached 2 hrs. Athletics on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 1 hr. Sportshall athletics in Winter for up to 100 kids (there was also a weekend session). All unpaid by the way.

Got home about 9.30p.m., kids finished off any bits of homework or just relaxed and began to sleep.  I'd eat something and then begin marking schoolwork and checking lessons for the next day.  Often after midnight when I finished.

There's housework on top of all this of course.

You don't have a clue about hard work.  Sorry about tirade (and I know you struggle) but you need to understand a few things.

One of them is that 2 jobs, if they add up to fewer than 20 hours a week, are not hard work.  

I honestly think that a lot of your problems stem from your not understanding what 'working hard' means.

[Karamia]

Is the offer you had before for the forklift training still an option? As you have so much free time right now that you could prob give it a go and it may improve chances if you serious that only warehouse jobs are the way to go. You turned it down before as you thought you got full time Jon option which you didn't. Why not look into it as an option? 

Does Selco have warehouse workers? Have you asked managers if you can be put on trial in there? Maybe if they know you are ambitious they will give you some opportunities? Always worth asking. Any manager would be pleased/impressed that you had at least asked about the option. You could say that reason was you need more hours - towards full time work - you never know! 

[douglas9401]

Some people need to be kept well away from heavy machinery, especially mobile heavy machinery.