His word is worth shit
After spending one Saturday night through to Sunday morning replacing network switches and consolidaing servers scattered across the building into a properly air conditioned server room, it transpired that the rather tasty financial deal I had with my boss was null and void and that I was going to be given time off in lieu. Nothing in writing, his word is his bond and all that...

This rather pissed me off, I go to work not because I find IT interesting, but because I need the money.

Sadly for my boss I hold grudges, so three weeks ago when the lonely Citrix server decided it had had enough of this world, my boss was quite surprised to find me a tad unwilling to go back into work at 8pm on a Friday night to fix it.

I think the words I used were someting along the lines of "you can stick it up your arse". He did rant a bit, and the machine was left down until Monday morning leaving those that rely on it (only a handful of people but the company runs 24/7) screwed.

First thing Monday morning was I left to resolve the problem? Oh no, I had to justify my actions the my boss and the HR manager.

I mentioned the previous overnight work I did and were surprised that I wasn't happy with the time off arrangement. After a review of my contract, it seems my contracted hours are from 9:00am through to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch, and whilst they had put a clause in to ensure that they can bog me off to the back of beyond to deliver a fucking Blackberry that could be DHL'd, there was no clause about working out of hours.

I'm still holding a grudge, only it's worse now...
(zebby wasting irony here on, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 14:28, Reply)