I don't know if this counts as I'm still waiting to overcome
In February this year I started a contract as a site manager...it had the best rate of pay I'd ever achieved in a field that would look amazing on the cv and would secure tons of future work.

In august a few of the guys on site and I had a 5-a-side knock about football game. Forty minutes into the game something fell off the wall of the gym and hit the back of my leg - it certainly felt like that and I looked around to see what had happened. There was no sign of anything and I'm sitting on the floor with the hardest of cramp in my right calf which just faded out to numbness. Walking was interesting - I couldn't put any weight at all on the toes, so I had a flat-footed limp.

Two days after the event I'm face down on an operating table, numb from the chest down as my achilles tendon is threaded back together. Two weeks after that I'm unemployed - it's difficult to be the manager of a construction project you can't get anywhere near.

I'm finaly fit again, and last week had to sign on. I've lost somewhere near to £40,000 in earnings for a project that would have run until March 2013 which would have helped us (Me, the mrs and our three year old son) move out of this one-bedroom flat.

Fingers crossed for January....
( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 20:33, 8 replies)

Hang on ... you were injured at work and then you lost your job?
Is there something you're not mentioning here because there are a handful of employment laws that prevent that sort of thing.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 20:38, closed)

He was injured in a gym, Shambles.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 20:41, closed)

Freelance, and it was out of hours in a gym.

( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 20:51, closed)

Ah right.
The "on site" bit confused me. I'm easily confused. It's the heroin.

edit: although I still don't understand what sort of nobbish insurance-free contract you were working under that screwed you over for an injury.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 21:20, closed)

Yeah...I see how it could read
it was a football game with the guys from the site...

and it ruined me.
( Larry Death Anger Pain Fear Aggression, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 21:31, closed)

Not for much longer, though.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 21:13, closed)

Communist.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 21:38, closed)

Reading between the lines here,
you were looking forward to stuffing £40k in used banknotes up your arse but now it won't happen because you have the ankles of a girl?
( 4Q just lurking, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 22:11, closed)