Bob’s no good to anyone dead. From the US perspective, any Civil Service job with decent pay and standard benefits would be better.
As others have said, sell the house, talk to the wife and fam about cutting back and taking more of the financial weight on themselves.
Management will never figure out what the real problem is. When faced with evidence contrary to their mindset, they will deny the evidence, and keep the mindset. Typically, this approach works until it doesn’t work, and then Circuit City, Borders Books, TWA, Enron, et al go out of business.
Be careful about that. A “perfect plan” doesn’t always end up so well in the end.
Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money…and a woman…and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?[RIGHT]Walter Neff, Double Indemnity[/RIGHT]
OP, once Bob is securely in alternative employment at another organisation, it would be great if he would be prepared to give a hint as to the name of his current employer, just to make sure another schmuck doesn’t accidentally end up applying there. Or indeed holding its stock, should it be publicly listed. I’m pretty sure I don’t work in the same field as Bob so it’s unlikely to affect me personally, but it would be nice to be sure.
Just to be clear, Income Protection Insurance of the sort “Bob” probably has covers involuntary loss of income, such as redundancy. More comprehensive coverage is prohibitively expensive. Getting legitimately fired may not be covered, so you need an Employment Disputes Tribunal ruling to show that the dismissal was unjustified to get a payout. So you need to be able to survive until that point.
It isn’t as easy as “get deliberately fired”. And I suspect that such a course of action isn’t in “Bob’s” nature.
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Almost every UK park and public space has an anonymous deposit box for such donations. I’d wear a single glove to make a withdrawal, and discard it, though.
But Bob would be getting fired for taking his scheduled leave. Pretty sure, that’s gonna be considered covered as Bob definitely has a case. There must be rules about employers and leave in England, I should think.
We can do a lot of yap, yap, yap but this is pretty much the bottom line. If Bob is not willing to take a stand because mortgage, bills, hard to find another job etc. then he gets what he gets. Also Bob needs to ask himself what’s going to happen to the car, house etc if he dies or is incapacitated due to the workload. The bank will take them back and all his equity is lost. All he’s doing right now is marking time until he collapses emotionally or physically.
He’s making a bad bet. Bob is going to lose one way or the other in this job unless he changes the job or his working conditions.
