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  • Also what job is she going to get at lidl that pays more for less hours? Or is the implication that she'll get some extra shifts to make ends meet?

  • Isn't it that she would have to giver up doctoring to find a job with hours that suit before & after school care, while her children go to povvo school and huff tiktoks in the playground?

    30k fees on a 90k salary. Are they fucking insane?

  • Yeah... so on that. It turns out that one of the few jobs in lidl* that would actually allow you to do that is the morning cleaning job.

    In fact major supermarkets aren't these unbelievable pillars of flexibility, because it turns out other people work there too and there isn't a massive clamoir to only take the shifts with really shit hours.

    So you still need childcare or a partner to fill in.

    *lidls in the SW may vary.

  • 30k fees on a 90k salary

    That's 90k before tax. The article has a little dig that she also loses 30% of that to tax and NI.

    So (in this made up article) she's paying £30k fees out of her post tax £60K salary.

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