Well, that taught 'emSammi Evil Nice writes "I shared with two students, and it was always the same; whenever it was near to paytime, my milk *and only this* would disappear.
One of them, John, was a lovely bloke but allergic to nuts. John makes tea. Soon after, John starts swelling up.
ME: Runs, administers epi-pen. "You're going into anaphalactic shock."
HIM: "How do you know?"
ME: "I put almond oil in my milk."
What have you done to teach somebody a lesson?
(, Thu 26 Apr 2007, 14:54)
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A revenge that will never end...Well, in January, my team of telecoms engineers we put 'at risk of redundancy'. As I'd been offered another job at a mobile phone provider, I asked if I could take voluntary redundancy. 'No you can't', came the inexplicable reply. 'You can only get made redundant by the company'. I didn't think I would get made redundant, as the only person in the office who bothers to trouble herself with work.
Shocking, then, that I was made redundant based on 'quality checks' and 'lack of commitment' (I had ASKED to leave!??!). Fair enough, I thought, I got what I wanted, but quality checks? WTF? I asked for a printout, and was amused to find some wholly invented stats based on 'how badly' I was doing. Now, everything I do is audited on a computer program, so I could easily prove they'd faked the stats to out me.
They then raised everyone else's wages, to over what I'd be getting in my new job. This didn't appease most people and the majority of them quit. I was offered a job 'now there was room for me'. I decided to stay, for the money, and waited to hear how much my yearly bonus would be.
A grand short of everyone else's, that's what, because the bloody bastards based the bonus payments on the fictional quality checks (so the part time worker, a mate of the manager, got double the amount other full time workers got). Upon complaining I was told 'that's something you will have to raise with HR' and 'the payment's gone through now, so it's too late'.
As the company is so boned for staff and customers are threatening to leave in droves (this is a well known corporate telecoms provider), the company offered weekend overtime at double pay to help sort out the mess. No managers in.
For the last three months I have been going into work at 10am on a Saturday, doing a few emails (sending on a delay, naturally) and going home an hour later. Yet clocking in 6 hours at double time. Same on a Sunday. So every weekend I've been working 12 hours at £22 an hour = £264 (before tax) x 4 = £1056 extra, meaning roughly £700 extra after tax in my wage each month. And I have no intention of stopping until I have a shiny new car.
That'll teach the devious bastards.
(, Sat 28 Apr 2007, 11:23, Reply)
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