Mark - Complete and utter millitant bastard
A few years ago we employed a guy called Mark as a web programmer. He had previously worked for a large well known web company and was also the cousin of a very well liked and valuable colleague so we thought he would be a good guy to employ.

From about day 5 it became fairly clear that he was crap at his job and couldn't programme for toffee. From about day 2, it became clear that he was an utter bastard. He would come out with all sorts of socialist and anti-capitalist bollocks like the fact that anyone owning any land is morally wrong etc. The most bastardy thing he every did was laugh his head off when we were watching thousands of people die on 9/11. We had it on the tele in the office and he thought it was great that so many capitalist pigs were dying. No matter what your views on capitalism or America, laughing at that just makes you a complete bastard.

After a few weeks he told me that if he didn't take his lunch hour, he should be allowed to go home at 4.30. I also saw emails on his computer to friends saying that he spent each afternoon just mucking about until it was time to go home.

I realised that it was not really going to work out so I had a chat with him and he agreed that the job wasn't for him and he would work out his notice and all would be good and happy.

The next day he stormed into my office and demanded that we pay him his 4 weeks notice but he shouldn't actually have to do any work at all. I, naturally, disagreed and he started ranting about how he was going to take me for everything I had, that everyone thought I was a cnut and that I was "lord of the manor" and stormed off to speak to his union. Yes, he was the only web programmer on the planet who is a member of a union.

Funnily enough, the union told him he didn't have a leg to stand on and so off he sulked into the rain and I have thankfully never seen him again.
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 14:16, 1 reply)

Unions
Believe it or not, I'm a web programmer, and we have a union here. Not a web programmer union as such, but as we work for a finance company, it's a finance union.

OK, that's pretty dull shit for a Friday. Apols.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 25 Jan 2008, 17:01, closed)