Worked nights at Royal Mail over the Christmas period.
Did so the year before, employed/paid by RM, and it was fine.

This year the recruitment and payroll process was
done through Angard, an agency set up by RM and
staffed by people from Reed. Pay rate was £1.13/hr less.

None of us were paid on time, it was over three weeks
before some of us got any money at all. This was
happening all over the country, forcing them to send
Royal Mail execs to appease us (no-one from Angard, who
were completely unaccountable from the get-go). RM
eventually had to dish out cashable vouchers to those
who'd received nothing by week 3.

One girl I worked with had no money to cover bills, food, her
dad's 50th or Christmas, and had to wait until the contract
ended (24th) before she could start to sort things out. She
was reduced to tears at points - by the last week, of twenty
or so of us recruited for that shift, only four or five were left.
Everyone else had walked.

Another colleague got this payslip after three weeks. The
account details weren't even his. Tomorrow, it's the NHS.


( Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:12, 6 replies)

NHS payroll is already pretty useless,
but at least we get paid on time. Nothing that can't be fixed by selling it off to the lowest bidder, I suppose.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:22, closed)

I worked for the NHS for six years
Sure enough, my switch from temp-to-perm
got screwed up, then my switch from assistant
to (acting) manager got screwed up. It was
18 months before I could apply for the full
manager role/benefits, by which time I'd had
enough. I've regretted leaving ever since.
( Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:31, closed)

Until I called up to correct them,
HMRC had been led to believe that I had acquired a 2nd job, and doubled my income. Local government are similarly incapable of supplying up to date information to HMRC (on the plus side, the process of sorting out my mother's tax codes means that I'm now very familiar with the workings of the tax system, and how they generate their codes - whoopee).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:38, closed)

i like* that you wrote this as a poem.
*it's a shit story though.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:25, closed)

Bad poetry
Oh noetry
( Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:31, closed)

Haha
this made me chuckle
(Sinister Carp doesn't mind the gap, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 17:30, closed)