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Zero hour contract agency work nightmare

Hey, so any advise here now obviously I don’t want to work. But, with no savings I kind of have no choice. Anyway, I work for a care agency caring for disabled people in the UK and I got quite ill at the end of July/start of august and took a few weeks off and explained to them that I wouldn’t take shifts for a little bit. After that I took an open shift off their system which they didn’t really want me to do but let me anyway, and I had asked for other shifts with no such luck. I was offered one 24 hour shift but, because of my health I said I couldn’t do that. The person I would’ve needed to care for is very high maintenance and at night screams the whole time so I’d have not gotten any sleep either (I struggle with that anyway).…


Hey, so any advise here now obviously I don’t want to work. But, with no savings I kind of have no choice.

Anyway, I work for a care agency caring for disabled people in the UK and I got quite ill at the end of July/start of august and took a few weeks off and explained to them that I wouldn’t take shifts for a little bit. After that I took an open shift off their system which they didn’t really want me to do but let me anyway, and I had asked for other shifts with no such luck. I was offered one 24 hour shift but, because of my health I said I couldn’t do that. The person I would’ve needed to care for is very high maintenance and at night screams the whole time so I’d have not gotten any sleep either (I struggle with that anyway). Regardless I text and call them daily asking for shift and they just say yeah we will look and never get back to me. To the point I can’t pay the rent or any of my bills and my partner is trying to get a new job as self employment isn’t working for him either and has a trial this week. However, I don’t want to sit in the house and see my money drop down and do nothing.

I feel like they’re discriminating against me because of my mental health struggles and I have been very clear about it and communicated. But, I’ve always had positive comments from managers I’ve worked with so I am confused. I want to complain and I don’t really know what if any rights I might have or even if there’s anything I can even do.

I am looking at anything, but I feel like a failure because I have two degrees and I want to use them and am applying for roles with the use of those. But, knowing these can take months even after being offered a job I am still very stuck. I don’t know if this is the right place but I wanna stick it to these people and find some ways of making money.

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