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Neil.
Neil.
nuts. just totally nuts.
I think I'm speaking for us all when I say............ F@CK ME !!!!!Oh, it gets better than *that*. When we moved to Wales, I was supposed to live in the annex to that big Cwrt Llechryd house, as it was a different address and thus I could continue to claim my benefits until the business was up and going and able to pay wages. It was only once we got there that it became apparent The annex was completely unfurnished, had no utilities and was basically an uninhabitable storage space. Andrew was quick to blame the landlord for not showing him, even though Andrew had been in the house for a while before. And another thing it was clear before long that he hadn't done his homework with was grants from the Welsh government, that he expected to fall into his lap.
The upshot on this was that for the first sixteen months, I had my own room in the main house. But since he was setting up and running a business from there, I couldn't claim the benefits as planned and had virtually nothing to live on. Not only was this one more thing Andrew has never taken responsibility for, but he tried repeatedly to get me to claim as though I was living in the annex anyway - essentially, commit fraud, which anyone turning up to check the place would rumble in five seconds - and refused to get any of his own personal details involved. I refused to do that, but He always saw me as having to take some of the 'risk' in ways like this, even though it was his company.
Oh, and there was the time he badgered me into borrowing a grand from my sick Dad to pay my 'share' of the council tax, since I was in the same house. And the times, once we'd moved out and I had a place and benefits again, when he would borrow money to keep his shows going, at a point where it was impossible to say 'no' because they'd have gone tits-up if I hadn't.
You see where I'm coming from now, I trust?
I think I'm speaking for us all when I say............ F@CK ME !!!!!
This is very very bad [emoji853]
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Oh, it gets better than *that*. When we moved to Wales, I was supposed to live in the annex to that big Cwrt Llechryd house, as it was a different address and thus I could continue to claim my benefits until the business was up and going and able to pay wages. It was only once we got there that it became apparent The annex was completely unfurnished, had no utilities and was basically an uninhabitable storage space. Andrew was quick to blame the landlord for not showing him, even though Andrew had been in the house for a while before. And another thing it was clear before long that he hadn't done his homework with was grants from the Welsh government, that he expected to fall into his lap.
The upshot on this was that for the first sixteen months, I had my own room in the main house. But since he was setting up and running a business from there, I couldn't claim the benefits as planned and had virtually nothing to live on. Not only was this one more thing Andrew has never taken responsibility for, but he tried repeatedly to get me to claim as though I was living in the annex anyway - essentially, commit fraud, which anyone turning up to check the place would rumble in five seconds - and refused to get any of his own personal details involved. I refused to do that, but He always saw me as having to take some of the 'risk' in ways like this, even though it was his company.
Oh, and there was the time he badgered me into borrowing a grand from my sick Dad to pay my 'share' of the council tax, since I was in the same house. And the times, once we'd moved out and I had a place and benefits again, when he would borrow money to keep his shows going, at a point where it was impossible to say 'no' because they'd have gone tits-up if I hadn't.
You see where I'm coming from now, I trust?
I do see your point but I think you need to come to terms with the fact that the money is gone. Your chances of getting that money that's already gone is zero unfortunately. HMRC aren't going to be fighting for anything other than what they're owed. They don't care about excuses. At best case scenario you as an employee are absolutely last in the queue of creditors owed money (after the lawyers). I've been through two redundancies. Honestly you won't get any money other than what the government will give you as a bare minimum, which is peanuts. If you're a home owner you're screwed. If you rent they will pay that for you. Go figure.
Then I'm going to be perfectly straightforward... on the Friday the liquidator came to start valuing the place, I was openly speculating that I needed a miracle, and if I didn't get one they'd probably be kicking my door down in a couple of weeks to find me with my head in the oven. Income support was cut off at the worst possible time, right before Christmas, in order to shove me onto ESA instead which, given that I was involved in this to try to get off benefits anyway, there's no credible way I'll ever qualify for and no word yet on any decision. I can't 'move forward' if I literally don't have the means yet to do that *with*.
Wouldn't the fact that I was clearly taken advantage of in a criminal way make a difference?
I work 18 hours a day mostly.
How can that be true, your always on here
No. Very unlikely. Especially if he's no longer in the country. Even if he were in the country have you actually seen the state of the UK judiciary system? Focus on yourself and your next adventures.
I literally can't, while this level of sheer omnipresent panic is hanging over me through everything that's been going on with my life. Not just Andrew or the company, but *everything*, and the anxiety has only got worse and worse over a very long period of time, without any concrete help.
I was hoping to be able to keep my head down and let the two parties involved legally duke it out to the inevitable conclusion, but the last straw that finally got me to speak up was that after the liquidation was leaked, Andrew - who was ****ed off I hadn't been forthcoming with him about it - rang me up the next day or so with the finance company on his back. He was furiously demanding to know where all the pinballs had gone; he was looking for any reason to go after the Scandinavians for 'theft', wanting to know if and where anything else from the unit would be stored, certain that I was going to tell him since other belongings of mine would be in the same place, and threatening to get the police involved if he felt I was covering up or complicit in any wrongdoing. In that instant, I realised he'd just given me a snapshot of what the next six months would hold if I didn't put a halt to it right then and there. And now he's messaged me, I guess after what everyone tipped off to the TWIP article, saying we should meet tomorrow because "throwing him publicly under the bus isn't doing anyone any favours".
It doesn't matter if this was his intention or not, but the fact is I'm absolutely terrified.
How would you feel about a go fund me type page being setup up, get you on your feet possibly for a bit?
As someone with a little brother with autism - this bolded part made me physically angry.You're not seeing the point. Altogether I've been diddled to the tune of a six-figure sum based on what I was promised to come on board at the very start and help get his show on the road, and like **** am I going to let that slide if, as I expect him to, he uses my Aspergers as a justification, explaining it as he's tried to in the past as a form of 'therapy' by giving me a 'hobby'. He did that with the HMRC the moment they started getting on his case, and immediately got me on the phone to pressure me into backing him up, because 'we' - not himself, he always said 'we' - would get into serious trouble. And NOBODY up and moves to a company being set up in another part of the country for the sake of a 'hobby'.
In this case 'not ending well' means 'forcing me to reveal where the bodies are buried'.
Do not meet with himI literally can't, while this level of sheer omnipresent panic is hanging over me through everything that's been going on with my life. Not just Andrew or the company, but *everything*, and the anxiety has only got worse and worse over a very long period of time, without any concrete help.
I was hoping to be able to keep my head down and let the two parties involved legally duke it out to the inevitable conclusion, but the last straw that finally got me to speak up was that after the liquidation was leaked, Andrew - who was ****ed off I hadn't been forthcoming with him about it - rang me up the next day or so with the finance company on his back. He was furiously demanding to know where all the pinballs had gone; he was looking for any reason to go after the Scandinavians for 'theft', wanting to know if and where anything else from the unit would be stored, certain that I was going to tell him since other belongings of mine would be in the same place, and threatening to get the police involved if he felt I was covering up or complicit in any wrongdoing. In that instant, I realised he'd just given me a snapshot of what the next six months would hold if I didn't put a halt to it right then and there. And now he's messaged me, I guess after what everyone tipped off to the TWIP article, saying we should meet tomorrow because "throwing him publicly under the bus isn't doing anyone any favours".
It doesn't matter if this was his intention or not, but the fact is I'm absolutely terrified.
How would you feel about a go fund me type page being setup up, get you on your feet possibly for a bit?
I literally can't, while this level of sheer omnipresent panic is hanging over me through everything that's been going on with my life. Not just Andrew or the company, but *everything*, and the anxiety has only got worse and worse over a very long period of time, without any concrete help.
I was hoping to be able to keep my head down and let the two parties involved legally duke it out to the inevitable conclusion, but the last straw that finally got me to speak up was that after the liquidation was leaked, Andrew - who was ****ed off I hadn't been forthcoming with him about it - rang me up the next day or so with the finance company on his back. He was furiously demanding to know where all the pinballs had gone; he was looking for any reason to go after the Scandinavians for 'theft', wanting to know if and where anything else from the unit would be stored, certain that I was going to tell him since other belongings of mine would be in the same place, and threatening to get the police involved if he felt I was covering up or complicit in any wrongdoing. In that instant, I realised he'd just given me a snapshot of what the next six months would hold if I didn't put a halt to it right then and there. And now he's messaged me, I guess after what everyone tipped off to the TWIP article, saying we should meet tomorrow because "throwing him publicly under the bus isn't doing anyone any favours".
It doesn't matter if this was his intention or not, but the fact is I'm absolutely terrified.
I agree - do not meet, it is best to break off all direct communications.Do not meet with him
He is an abuser. It is very emotionally hard to deal with abusers on any terms, not only their own terms, and you've told us you're in a dark place right now.
Only bad things will happen. Either you may do something that will make your position worse, or he will manipulate you further.