my last day at work is Wednesday. Due to "contractual implications" I can't be kept on longer than 11 months. I've asked them about this before and they've never told me my last day. Until just now.
Cunts. I'm fucking so angry. I'm actually shaking with rage.
Is there actually a Contract where you can read these
obligations? If not, you could take them to a tribunial.
If there is I haven't seen it.
That might not work.
"Red light? If there is I haven't seen it!"
"Oh well, off ye go then ma son... NOM NOM".
has anyone ever
not seen a red light. out of interest
Arsene Wenger.
Failed his driving test on the first 13 attempts.
Thats
the greatest thing i've heard today
And presumably he took it in France.
Not to harsh or anything but having seen French drivers I'm guessing there's some latitude goes on in their testing.
laxity?
:-(
Post the managers direct line and mobile number.
We'll bombard him with abuse.
Oh Jesus
I'm so sorry.
Is this because I didn't fill in that Adecco form?
Soz boz x
Sorry to hear that.
Usually companies get tetchy just before 12 months because contractors and temps start to incur the same legal rights as permanent employees and they get a bit uncomfortable about it.
Could you talk them into making you perm? You could do it for a bit until you find another contract?
Sounds dodgy.
Very bad form on their part. I'm a contractor at the moment and I have to badger people to get updates on what's happening with mine.
They probably just aren't
over insured against being sued - see above. The two together would make sense.
:(
wow, that sucks
I'll keep my eye out for anything new...
JESUS
I feel so bad, fancy a drink tonight?
I really fucking do.
thank you.
Goose?
Cool.
I have to go in a min so I'll text you and stuff.
:(
i'm so sorry tom, let me know if there's anything i can do x
thank you. x
That's bad...
really fucking bad. Sorry to hear that...
that's shit :(
come and work for Directgov Tom
there's loads of work here and youre a central government type aren't you?
Contracts for temps are disgusting - make sure you sue.
*hug*
Oh Tom.
You should draw penises in whipped cream on all of their desks and then smear jam over their screens.
That's really pretty bad. We're looking for an intern. I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm seriously tempted
to fill my desk drawers with eggs/fish and throw away the key.
Whipped cream penises is also good though.
^i wouldn't recommend it either
Sorry I recommended it to you
I thought we'd grown up :(
Not so good at last.fm anymore then? :(
wtf
this is really really shitty.
also, i dread to think what is going to happen to the livers of you and richard come friday.
Not that this will be any consolation
But I just brought you replacement goblets.
Your employers make no sense and are obviously massive knobs.
I didn't even know the goblets were gone!
But that is consolation, thank you.
I'm pretty sure they're legally obliged
to inform you of this at least several weeks before your leaving date.
Ask for a meeting with someone from HR or speak to your union.
Although if you're on a temporary contract you may have no rights at all. Isn't employment law great?
Laughably
I work at the Government Department responsible for employment rights.
there's a newspaper story in that one
I'm writing to my MP. No joke.
They will have to forward it on to this Department, and the Minister here will have to reply.
I look forward to the outcome.
I did actually laugh when I read that.
Sorry Tom.
Jeez
That sucks a fat one. Sorry Tom :(
...
No doubt because after 12 months you get rights. They do that at the Guardian as well.
Yep, it is because of that.
Has Gordon Brown finished up his rights for temps stuff yet?
I'm trying to imagine you temping for the Guardian...
...nope. Can't do it.
I've just gone through the same sort of thing
Apart from I've got a month left.
There's been talk of going permanent with the company I'm currently temping with, only in a different area, doing a different job role.
Only thing is, my boss has just been promoted as of next week and I don't think he cares too much about filling his current role at the minute.
Up side is, I still had holiday left so I've just booked two weeks off starting next Tuesday.
Oh shit. Only just saw this.
This 11month temping malarky happened to my mate, though I think it was more like 23 months when it got her.
LOAD OF SHIT!
Had a meeting today about it
after I sent quite a long, angry email to our directors.
I've never seen them so on the back foot. Just amazingly cowardly.
anything good come of it?
Not really
but I got my peice in. Which made me feel mildly better. They apologised for letting me down, etc, but I said that didn't really cut it and they agreed at least.
I can't wait to leave this dump now.
:(
I don't understand how they could just give you two day's notice. If they knew first thing Monday, surely they knew last thing Friday? You could've spent the weekend job hunting.
Even worse.
They knew on Thursday.
:( who do you work for?
do you want them hurt?
Department for Business.
And staggeringly, as I mentioned above, this covers employment rights.
is that british gov?
Do they do this often do you know?
Yep.
And yep. Temps get screwed over all the time here. Other places I've worked haven't been as bad as this, but still.
Now don't get me wrong, this is rubbish.
And as someone who's temped in the past and been screwed over and left in financial trouble, I know how shit it is.
BUT, i'm concerned with the reactions of some people with all this talk of getting the Trade Unions involved etc.
It's the nature of the beast; the whole point of temping is that the employer can shit on you, but similarly, you can shit on them and just leave when you want. It's not nice, but that's the way it is. If you (and I don't mean you personally Tom) don't like it, then get a permanent job and the rules of the game will be changed to something more to your suiting.
If job security is an issue for you, don't temp. Emplyers don't owe temps anything, they're not obliges to keep an employ on, and, dare I state the obvious, they are called 'temporaries' for a reason.
Abandon reply
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Ahem: Employers evidently DO owe temps something, as evidenced by the rush of some companies to get rid of their temporary workers before they have to start treating them like their fellow permanently contracted employees.