Twice too many
A few years ago I had struggled to find any enjoyable employment for months upon return from travelling to Australia etc.
Where I lived only had 3 main employers one of them providing 'power' for Britain. Anyway I didn't get a job as a drone first time (they asked me how my travelling would help me in the job?!)
Anyway they must have ran out of ideas as they offered me a job anyway. Really crap work but ok money.
Two days before I'm due to start I'm given 'notice' that my hernia operation has been booked for a week on Monday. Bugger.
They did show some sympathy, but basically as all their so called full time jobs were 3 month contracts so they said I'd be terminated but once I had recovered I could get my job back.
I tried to come back after a couple of weeks which was a mistake. Suffering from near exhaustion I went to see the doctor who signed me of for 6 weeks and said I shouldn't have come back so early.
Cue a predictable conversation when phoning in where they treated me with remarkably high contempt, possibly because I was late once in the 4 days since my operation.
Anyway, my contract was destroyed again and they still said I could come back! I quit in this instance in the sense I refused to go back to such shoddy HR. I don't think this should have been suprising to me as they were notorious for timing staff's comfort breaks.
It's like squeezing blood from a stone!
(muzzvsworld, Mon 26 May 2008, 3:48, 2 replies)

toilet
ANY company that times toilet breaks deserves to be carpet bombed with gas stoves filled with shit
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 26 May 2008, 11:00, closed)

Re timing toilet breaks
I once heard of this callcentre who timed all their employees' toilet-breaks. Whoever spent the longest in the toilet had to wear a nappy to work. If I were working at that company, I'd wear a nappy to work as a show of solidarity with whoever was picked on.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 26 May 2008, 13:24, closed)