Just checking if I’m doing this right?! This is what I had for food yesterday and doesn’t change too much throughout the week! Just to let you all know I’m doing keto with intermittent fasting so I eat from 2pm to 8pm let me know your thoughts!
Hi everyone,
Important info: correspondence with boss on telegram as he doesn’t reply to emails & Handed in the required 4 week notice on 26/05/2026 (self employed remember..)
As above explains the general gist of what happened I’ll go into more detail here. I have been working for a reputable carpet cleaning company for around 18 months and on the Saturday just gone, I was performing my duties when a heavy machine fell down the stairs on me and hurt my back and ankle. I messaged the boss and asked if we could reschedule the follow job as I was expected to lift a 40kg machine up 4 flights of stairs, but I value my health and didn’t think it’d be wise to after Saturdays morning antics. So that was all fine, got rescheduled and carried on with my day.
Fast forward to 16/06/26, I saw on my diary the job was booked back in for me for yesterday. So I messaged my boss again saying my back is still not okay to do that job so I won’t be doing it. He then messaged me saying come to the office for HIM to determine whether I was fit enough to work or not.. Mind you it was 2 hours away from where I was working without traffic. Anyhoo I refused that and explained I’m fit enough to work but not fit enough to lift a 40kg machine up 4 flights of stairs because my back was still on the mend so I will not be coming to the office for a chat, and that was that.
I’m then packing away at a job an hour from home turn around and he’s stood behind me saying this is my last job and requested I gave him the keys and made my own way home. Bearing in mind there was no forewarning of this, he was on a power trip and wanted to do whatever he could to make my life difficult. It ended up costing me a £60, losing out on £2.5k in the lost remaining days I was supposed to be working which in turn has messed up my plan after leaving this awful company as I was due to buy a van. And I know they’re going to make more deductions on my final salary.
Now I said it’s a self employed contractor role, but riddle me this.. They provide all the equipment, all the work, we’re not allowed to do private work and we’re expected to do what they say when they say. We have to give 4 weeks notice if we want time off and the same if we want to leave. Being self employed I was ridiculed for having ‘too much time off’. They had monthly pip kind of meetings and so so much more I’m just wondering if they’re just doing a bit of the old smoke and mirrors to save themselves on tax as they turn over a considerable sum every month and now after how they’ve treated me if it’s worth reporting to HMRC?
I think I’ve covered all of the important stuff.
TIA
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.