[Anonymouse]

It was a stupid preventable accident on my part. As part of the job we had to load an empty trailer with scrap appliances, to be taken to the vast Telford depot to be recycled. These include tall fridge freezers - but the trailers are double-deckers, so you have to load the top deck, raise it and load the bottom deck.
But some fridge freezers are too tall to be left stood up because they'd be crushed against the roof when you raise the deck, so they have to be laid down. The usual procedure is just to push the thing over and let it fall, and I did.
But there was another bloke ahead of me, I think he was placing a shorter freezer. At the moment I pushed the f/f over I swear he wasn't there, then suddenly he was, and the falling appliance caught his lower leg. Thankfully he only sustained bruises and soft tissue damage.
But the company's view was that I didn't pay due care and attention, which of course is a health & safety issue, and that was classed as misconduct.
They're right, which is why I decided not to appeal. It was a stupid mistake brought on by a moment's inattention. But really my only regret is that someone accidentally got hurt; I was seriously thinking of leaving anyway for a variety of reasons. All this did was remove the element of choice.

As for the commute, well, yes, it is wearing, but I've done a similar long haul before: from Bolton to Crewe. I'll manage, plus there's that transfer possibility. Until then, I'll just slog on.

Anyway, having a job with a dreadful commute is better by far than spending 35 hours a week looking for work, which is the primary criterion for Universal Credit. It's ridiculous in this day and age of mostly online searches; you can't spend 35 hours p/w doing that because it simply doesn't take that long. But it's that or fail to qualify, so...

At least this time I was only out of work a couple of weeks; last time it took me a few years to get a steady job.