Docking my pay
Back in the day (aka 1995) I worked several nights a week at a shop stacking shelves.

Vicky was our supervisor and a bit mental.

One evening, we were all shelf stacking and loading our rubbish (empty boxes, etc) on to a roll cage to be taken away. Now you do this as you work, so that at 8.20 it only takes a few minutes to pack up and go.

Not Vicky, she built the biggest pile of cardboard ever and when it got to 8.30 and everyone else had packed up and was ready to go she decided I should stay and clear her mess too.

I #might# have been tempted had I not had a bollicking off her earlier for not tidying up as I went...

So with a cheery wave and a chirpy goodbye, I refused and left. All I could hear behind me was her yelling "I'm docking you 15 minutes pay for this!"

Seeing as that was about 50p and it would take more than 15 minutes to tidy her mess, seemed like a fair deal to me to leave her to it. I was also interested in how exactly she would justify to this large mulit-national company's pay department taking 15 mins out of my wages because I wouldn't tidy her mess.

Turns out she didn't bother and had to leave due to emotional problems a few weeks later. What a shame.
(Wooden meal is. Or is he?, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 13:21, Reply)