I HATE my bosses! Some of you may know my firm was seeking redundancies in various departments. We got sent a load of bumf to say that, if a certain area had more people wanting to leave than management had asked for, they might consider moving staff from other areas to cover the gaps. but that it would be decided once we all knew who was going.
Today we had the announcement of who was going. One department got more redundo applications than they'd asked for, which is surprising because they have the cushiest gig out of any of us. Better hours, less shite. My department didn't get enough people applying.
But instead of asking us to apply for one of the vacant cushy jobs (as they'd said they would in all the bumf they sent out at the start of the process) they have just shoe-horned one of their fave pets in. She gets the job - and none of the rest of us were even given a chance to say if we wanted it, or ask to be considered for it.
I COULD FECKING SCREAM
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Are you in a union?
Have you taken advice on this?
Have you taken advice on this?
Demantoid 
They are a bunch of complete and utter shiteheads hun. I wish the job market was more buoyant so that you could shove their crappy job up their chocolate whizzways
They are a bunch of complete and utter shiteheads hun. I wish the job market was more buoyant so that you could shove their crappy job up their chocolate whizzways
I am in a union, and we'd voted to strike if there were any compulsory job losses. But to be honest I think they'll just be glad to be able to avoid that, and not care too much about anything else.
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Demantoid They are a bunch of complete and utter shiteheads hun. I wish the job market was more buoyant so that you could shove their crappy job up their chocolate whizzways
That made me snort - thanks 
They're "rationalising" working practices here, which means more job losses again in a few months, probably. Bollox to the lot of them.
Why not put thiese issues to your union and let them decide the rights and wrongs of this decision about their favourite pet
its why you pay them - after-all
its why you pay them - after-all
I might email them, when I'm a bit less boiling mad and can be trusted not to fill my message with words like "wankers", "feckwits" and "bare-arsed crooks" 
whatever happened to equal oppos?
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whatever happened to equal oppos?
It went Orwellian - some are more equal than others, in this place. Particularly if they like kissing management arse.Reference:
It went Orwellian - some are more equal than others, in this place. Particularly if they like kissing management arse.
tis the way of the world, sadly
I detest the inner workings of the workplace Toid. Where`s the support, the good will, the commaraderie?
It`s disappeared..GONE!
I`m self employed, not making loads but comfortable enough. I`d rather be skint than have to go back to that teeth grinding dog eat dog atmosphere.
People are shoits sometimes...I`ve never really understood why.
Try not to be so angry Toid (easier said than done, I know) it`s not worth it...it really isn`t.
It`s disappeared..GONE!
I`m self employed, not making loads but comfortable enough. I`d rather be skint than have to go back to that teeth grinding dog eat dog atmosphere.
People are shoits sometimes...I`ve never really understood why.
Try not to be so angry Toid (easier said than done, I know) it`s not worth it...it really isn`t.
And.... breathe. Thanks, Scotty 
Please do not get me started about work.....
Yep, there are plenty of toads here...
Wassup, Trollop?
Who is she bonking?
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Yep, there are plenty of toads here... Wassup, Trollop?
Please dont get me started.....I'll never stop....I'm trying to feel grateful I've still got a job!Reference:Bojangles
Who is she bonking?
No-one as far as I know. She's just thick as thieves with management and already did my head in, even before this.
ive been in trollops office, he looked really small behind his big desk with his big files 
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Please dont get me started.....I'll never stop....I'm trying to feel grateful I've still got a job!
You too? I'm exactly the same.Reference:
ive been in trollops office, he looked really small behind his big desk with his big flies
Oh aye..? 
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ive been in trollops office, he looked really small behind his big desk with his big files
You turned the receptionist all lesbian if I remember correctly 
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You too? I'm exactly the same.
Unfortunately, I cannot shake the feeling that some employers enjoy the recession just so they have an excuse not to be fair and reasonable....
Thanks, Scotty, you're dead right. 
Although I can't stand Gladys Knight ~runs away fast~
Although I can't stand Gladys Knight ~runs away fast~
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Unfortunately, I cannot shake the feeling that some employers enjoy the recession just so they have an excuse not to be fair and reasonable....
So, SO true. The subtext is: be grateful you've even got jobs, peasants..
awww Dorothy 
deman.....trollop was doing Dictation too
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Gladys has a spiritual affect.
Given her mortgage is paid I'm not surprised she can afford to give off infectious spiritual feelings.....grumble grumble grumbleReference:
deman.....trollop was doing Dictation too
Digital dictation if you dont mind! Reference:
deman.....trollop was doing Dictation too
.. just take down a few particulars..Reference:
So, SO true. The subtext is: be grateful you've even got jobs, peasants..
Exactly, its not even myself I'm pissed off for, I get a good salary but ffs....people work hard they should be rewarded not bunched together with people who dont pull their weight because 'we cant be seen doing something for one and not all'...And if I hear 'dont people see the news and know whats going on out there' again I'll lamp someone
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Thanks, Scotty, you're dead right. Although I can't stand Gladys Knight ~runs away fast~
"loses spiritual feeling..trips up Toid" Reference:Trollop
And if I hear 'dont people see the news and know whats going on out there' again I'll lamp someone
Oh yeah. "Don't you know there's an economic downturn on?"Riiight... so you'll be giving up that massive Chrysler gas-guzzler in the carpark then, boss?
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"loses spiritual feeling..trips up Toid"
Don't - I've already fallen over once today. Still got faint mud stains..
I was made redundant in August and the way the company treated my colleagues including myself was disgusting.
They lied to our faces and advertised our jobs down south without even telling us we were being made redundant.
Well pleased I'm out of there now.
They lied to our faces and advertised our jobs down south without even telling us we were being made redundant.
Well pleased I'm out of there now.
I agree with Scotty, if there is anything you can do on your own then do it. I couldn't stand being ordered about by automatons so I walked. I get nothing like the same amount of cash but retained my sanity. 
Lacey
The more I work for other people, the more antisocial I feel.
The more I work for other people, the more antisocial I feel.
.........and then they bring in a bunch of Management Consultants who come out with guff like 'Our People are our assets'!
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Oh yeah. "Don't you know there's an economic downturn on?" Riiight... so you'll be giving up that massive Chrysler gas-guzzler in the carpark then, boss?
Oh Deman, my Boss is the same...top of the range Audi Q7, full spec everything in it...was skiing in january for 6 weeks, then to the South of france for 3 months this summer, as well as a week here and there dotted inbetween. She's back in france soon, looking for an apartment in Chamonix to BUY outright....and i can't have a small payrise....her favourite words are 'credit crunch'...I get ALL her bank Statements and manage most of her finances as she has a ÂĢ180k apartmant here in Bolton as well as a place in Brittany and one in Ireland...she tries to tell me she's not spending....makes me sick, why lie to me when i know for a fact she is spending 3 times my wage on supermarket trips & restaurants....oh, and not forgetting the flights she booked to malaga last week (and Hotel), incase she felt like going away, which she didn't ÂĢ350 wasted!!!!....her money but I wish she wouldn't lie and say she's not spending....and breathe......
Devil!
I'd find it very hard not to sabotage her accounts in some way...
I'd find it very hard not to sabotage her accounts in some way...
