On Monday, our head office (which is run by an Australian media magnate now resident in the US) sent round someone from HR to make a bunch of people redundant.
My job was one of those that they wanted to take away, leaving me without gainful employment, though there was the suggestion that I could find employment elsewhere in our generous benefactor's business empire.

This morning I took my manager aside for a chat before work began and she agreed that it might be better all round if I remained in my current position, doing the same work as I am doing now, for the same salary. And that she'd sort it out with M******'s HR department.

All that time I spent reading Game of Thrones really paid off, I guess.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:28, 17 replies)

You work for Rupe?
And there was I thinking you were a happy-go-lucky independent media operative / pornographer.

Words cannot describe my disappointment.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:31, closed)

I had a day job working for a small part of the dirty digger's wider empire
...and I still do. 'Cause basically, I'm indispensable.

The pr0n and the feature-length movie that's getting a cinema release later this year is all off my own bat...but until that happens I gotta pay the bills somehow.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:33, closed)

Did you have to cut anyone's penis off?
Or shag her? Or did she give birth to a black cloud in some sort of visual metaphor for thrush-infused queefs?

You know that as soon as you turn your back on her she'll shoot you full of arrows while putting on a Bradfordian accent.
(squigbobble existed, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:35, closed)

I was fully prepared to shag her
Or indeed, cut someone's penis off...but (as we all know) the best character in the whole series is Littlefinger, who never has to resort to such measures to get what he wants, relying instead on his knowledge and usefulness to gain power and influence.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:38, closed)

hahaha bless
You really don't understand how redundancy works, do you?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:54, closed)

Yes, of course I do.
They say: "We've decided to make your position redundant."
I say: "I think the best course of action would be for me to continue doing the same job for the same salary."
They agree and nothing changes. That's how redundancy works around here.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 17:57, closed)

Alright, Albert.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 18:11, closed)

This makes no bloody sense.
Murdochs don't become Murdochs by failing to make people redundant when making them redundant.

Are you saying that they were doing that thing, whereby they test the water to see who is likely to go without any kind of complaint, and who is going to press for some kind of independent audit, and then they redundancify the wusses?
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 19:55, closed)

He was obviously envious at all the attention liemallow was getting last week
so he's attempting to copy the same 'trick'.

And you don't make people redundant. You make positions redundant.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 20:05, closed)

you insufferable lying prick.
i hope your house catches fire with you trapped in it.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 21:55, closed)

whoa now
what about the poor fucks in the other slum bedsits?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 22:43, closed)

I read and enjoyed the first three books
Was kind of indifferent to the fourth after the amazingly long wait and couldn't be bothered after that. His heart obviously isn't in it anymore and his characterization has gone right down the pan
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 11:33, closed)