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big scary monsters posted:There was a guy at my work who just left his phone and ID card on his desk one Friday and vanished. His family called the company because they didn't know where he was, he hadn't been in contact with anyone, and frankly after a week or two we thought he'd probably offed himself. A couple months later the police tracked him down through his bank account withdrawing money from an ATM somewhere in France, and since he was apparently still alive and it is perfectly legal to leave your entire life behind and move abroad without telling anyone that was the last we heard of it. We only even heard that much because the family wanted his nearest colleagues to know. ...if all the evidence they have is 'cash out of ATM machine' I would wonder if he's in a shallow grave somewhere after his kidnapper beat his PIN out of him 
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Work disappearance chat. My manager disappeared one day in 2018 and we still don't know why. He left his desk uncleared, which stayed there for like a year. There was even a bottle of orange juice that sat there for the entire time. He was downing 5-6 Monster drinks a day, was a massive fat body builder type frame of a person, so we thought initially could have had a stroke or such. But the company wouldn't tell us. One of my team even went to his house, rang the door, and even though they could see movement no one answered. Rumors are is that he had a complete mental breakdown due to one of my team being antagonistic to higher ups and he was defending him. But gently caress knows still.
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May 19, 2022 18:12
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Beefeater1980 posted:And anyone leaving voluntarily usually has to give notice so it’s not that sudden. Idk, my employer is happy to let people resign with immediate effect if the long term plan was to manage them out anyway. What's the point in someone staying in a job for over a month when they don't want to be there and the management don't want them there?
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May 19, 2022 18:20
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Beefeater1980 posted:Only time I’ve ever seen someone get pushed out the door unceremoniously like that was when a sales colleague who was already on thin ice for bad decisions got angry with a customer who was closing too slowly, and started yelling first at them and then at the department head. Otherwise it’s always been “congratulations, now you’re on a Performance Improvement Plan.” I volunteered for a stint offshore, and was rather worried to learn from my prospective new boss that "out here, we work hard and we play hard", my least favourite forms of those activities. Then the team had a massive drunken party where they trashed several hotel rooms the night before I flew out. So while I was on a plane the company was getting their ducks in a row to literally sack every single member of the team I was going out to work with, including the senior manager. When I got there it was surreal, there was one other staff member who had flown out the day before me (and so was on the plane while the party was happening) who landed to discover everyone acting super weird, and then getting a call from HR in the afternoon telling her she had to confiscate everyone's work IDs and personally escort every single one of her colleagues back to the hotel to pack their bags. I landed the next morning, and just had a bizarre first day where I had a strange sense that asking where everyone what was going on would be a Bad Idea. Back in the UK the staff were placed on leave pending an investigation. The company was mad enough to refuse their resignations so they could officially fire them for gross misconduct.
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May 19, 2022 18:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMebtm-x0l0 The Thatcher Egg Guy has been warned by the police. And £10 an egg. loving worth it.
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May 19, 2022 18:24
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Jedit posted:Oddly though, advertising the return of N-Dubz wasn't. Surely Dappy is middle-aged by now and balding?
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May 19, 2022 18:32
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feedmegin posted:...if all the evidence they have is 'cash out of ATM machine' I would wonder if he's in a shallow grave somewhere after his kidnapper beat his PIN out of him Nah they have CCTV inside ATMs these days recording who takes the cash out.
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May 19, 2022 18:33
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happyhippy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMebtm-x0l0 Fined for anti social behaviour? I thought there was no such thing as a society?
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May 19, 2022 18:40
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feedmegin posted:I mean I live in Ilford, broadly speaking, it's not exactly posh round here either ;p I'm Woolwich-adjacent, so not so much posh or un-posh as crammed with Army leftovers and remnants of Empire. Every bloody street and quite a few houses named for battles, battleships and/or military twats. Some very nice Nepalis and Sikhs around though.
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May 19, 2022 18:59
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Comrade Fakename posted:Surely Dappy is middle-aged by now and balding? Judge for yourself. Dappy isn't yet 35 though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61479235 Looking this out for you I also learned that Vangelis has died. 
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May 19, 2022 19:02
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happyhippy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMebtm-x0l0 The government overstepping and crushing an enterprising small business, not what are iron lady would have wanted 
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May 19, 2022 19:04
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Mysterious disappearances chat: About 20 years ago, a friend of my parents went on holiday - can't remember exactly where, could have been an Eastern European country - and simply vanished. Police looked for him for a few weeks with no luck. He had no family, was minister of the local United Reform church. Never been found. Company dismissal chat: Don't know if any of you rail folk were around for Project Violet? In 2003 (ed to correct the year) they carried out this mass redundancy thing where every department manager was supposed to rank their staff in order of effectiveness and the bottom 10% of each department was going to get the sack. It didn't matter if your worst performers were better than others best performers, that was just how it was to be done. Initially, there were NO senior managers listed but the Chief Exec made darn sure some went on the lists. Each region (8 regions in the country) handled it differently. We were lucky that our Director booked an individual appointment with every single person in the affected bands (whether or not they were to get the push or not) and told them individually. If they were for the chop, they were escorted to their desk to clear it and he got everyone a taxi home. Another region told staff 'work as normal and if I don't tap you on the shoulder by 330pm you're safe'. Problem was, because of the amount of damage a fired person could do to the company if they had access to the computer systems, their computer access was removed before they were told. It was surreal watching people slowly disappearing from the company outlook address book. It was an absolutely horrible day. Friends who worked in financial services told me that if you got to work and your entry pass didn't work, it 99.9% meant you were getting sacked (the other .1% was failure of the door system). Absolutely no one was given notice and allowed to come in, they were put on gardening leave and paid off immediately. When I got made redundant in 1997 (which I was extremely happy about as I was umming and ahing about quitting anyway), my boss said 'you can come in and we'll let you have time off for interviews etc' - I said "no thanks, I'd rather sit on the sofa cutting my toe nails. Give me my cheque and let me go." So I was paid about 6 months worth of redundancy pay - statutory amount nothing extra <digress>if you're going to get made redundant go in the first wave when the packages are doing the rounds, not the third round of statutory minimums!!</digress> - and was officially paid and 'on the books' for 2 months, sat around for a week (I was doing a p/t MSc at the time so not totally sitting around) and then decided to get a job, went into a job agency on the Friday and was working on the Monday so double bubble essentially for 7 weeks. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 19, 2022 |
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Another company dismissal one: We had a forced redundancy occur many moons ago, and we were told ahead of time of like 6 months. So the company wanted to set up an 'employee council' to be the negotiators of it with the execs. One of the employees said he went through something in a previous place and volunteered for chairman of the council, which he got. Turned out he knew his stuff and started to demand a lot more than was offered initially and wanted to bring in an external union to help mediate. VERY NEXT DAY he was no where to be seen. Company just said he was no longer chairman, and they placed one of their own as chairman for the rest of the 'negotiations'. The offer they originally gave was the final one too, complete sham of a thing. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 19:31 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 19:28
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I once just walked out of a job. Left my pass on the filing cabinet by the door, went home and sent an email politely explaining that they shouldn't expect to see me at work tomorrow, or indeed ever. The boss (small business) forwarded it to the company coder, who I barely exchanged a single word with, and said "YOUR DREAM HAS COME TRUE", which I know because he copied me into it.
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May 19, 2022 19:43
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I have been tempted to do that many times but never done it, always too worried about references or torching my rep in an industry that always seem to be very incestuous. Probably don't need to be too worried about the former since literally no one has ever called my references as far as I can tell haha.
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May 19, 2022 19:48
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Back in the early 2000s it was very satisfying to walk out of a crappy temp job on a whim, go straight to the agency and get a new job starting the next day. I'm guessing that poo poo doesn't fly now.
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Real life James Bond here MI5 agent used secret status to terrorise girlfriend quote:Evidence shows that he is a right-wing extremist with a violent past. I know it shouldn't be it still stuns me the amount of people in this country that are disposable. Job Chat: I walked out of a British Gas job, was one of the most satisfying experiences of my working life.
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May 19, 2022 19:54
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Years ago, the owner of my local pub was very fond of sampling his own merchandise. He got roaring drunk one night, and told all the bar staff not to bother turning up tomorrow when they suggested he calm down a bit. He woke up next morning with absolutely no memory of it, and was confused when nobody showed up for work. The entire incident was quietly forgotten. At my workplace, we had one of our teenage new hires disappear without a trace. He came back almost a year later, after spending time in witness protection as part of a nationally famous murder trial.
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bessantj posted:Real life James Bond here 
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smh at using a nice saw like that, just get a B&Q own brand special
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https://twitter.com/SoozUK/status/1527368206419378177
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Someone at one of my previous jobs got put on gardening leave for drugs misuse, except the tests they used aren't legally worth jack poo poo, so they contested it. Got sent for a polygraph. Those also aren't legally worth a drat, so they contested that too. Work didn't really know what to do with them and refused to let them come back to do actual work so they got 9 months of paid gardening leave before they came to a mutual agreement with work about resigning.
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Miftan posted:Someone at one of my previous jobs got put on gardening leave for drugs misuse, except the tests they used aren't legally worth jack poo poo, so they contested it. Got sent for a polygraph. Those also aren't legally worth a drat, so they contested that too. Work didn't really know what to do with them and refused to let them come back to do actual work so they got 9 months of paid gardening leave before they came to a mutual agreement with work about resigning. fucken sweet gig, sign me up for that Polygraphs being taken seriously by anyone, anywhere in the world, ever, is one of my pet peeves
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Barry Foster posted:fucken sweet gig, sign me up for that It was wild. A bunch of people got pinged for drugs during that test, and most of them either admitted it on the polygraph or resigned or came back to work (one of them got pinged because they had a poppy seed bagel that morning..) I assumed this person had the same thing happen, but then they rocked up 9 months later to collect their stuff and we both had a massive laugh about it.
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May 19, 2022 20:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Don't know if any of you rail folk were around for Project Violet? In 2005 they carried out this mass redundancy thing where every department manager was supposed to rank their staff in order of effectiveness and the bottom 10% of each department was going to get the sack. It didn't matter if your worst performers were better than others best performers, that was just how it was to be done. Initially, there were NO senior managers listed but the Chief Exec made darn sure some went on the lists. Ah, stack ranking. Places like Microsoft did the same at the time, but have now stopped, because turns out that kind of kills morale and the guys you want to keep, leave for somewhere less loving toxic!
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Miftan posted:A bunch of people got pinged for drugs during that test, and most of them either admitted it on the polygraph or resigned or came back to work (one of them got pinged because they had a poppy seed bagel that morning..) "Your piss came back positive for morphine" "yes i bought it at boots because i have the shits, is there an actual problem with my work or do you just need to see the receipt?"
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Oh I have a worse company disappearance story. A friend of mine works as IT support in a secondary school, the school is an academy and equips every student with a laptop as a way of getting students to sign up. So while they do equip all the kids with a laptop, they budget gently caress all for IT support. So my friend's job is : child walks in saying "all the keys fell out of the keyboard" - they did not, but he has to fix it and field calls from the parents complaining that Tarquin's laptop has been in the 'to fix' pile for month, etc. On average 3/4 of the kids have a working laptop at any given moment, it's a big school. Makes organising digital lessons a nightmare. Anyway he had a manager who was a software expert whose job is to image the machines with the OS & look after the network. Frankly at this point you can probably fill in the rest of the story yourself from here. So after three days unexplained absence, his boss turns up, looking worried and says he is working late. The next day he is gone, and so have all the hard drives in the server cabinet. Turns out the police had picked the guy up for other sexual assault acts, kept him two days, had not looked up his job role, his home computers, nor contacted the school, then let him go. He has not been heard of since, and has presumably left the country. And...that is the story of how my friend got promoted to senior IT support, they have not backfilled his position, he now works alone - he hates his job. Oh yeah, all the laptops had a built in webcams. Didn't even make the local papers.
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Theres more jobs than people nowadays apparently so there might be a lot more people just walking out hell I ha
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Job I had years ago, there was a guy who'd been there close to a year when I started. I sat with him at lunch a few times and he'd mentioned he was looking for a new job but didn't seem too unhappy about the current one. One lunchtime he just vanished though, and our manager seemed a bit shocked. It turned out later that he'd waited until the manager was at lunch then he'd put a post-it note on her desk saying something like "Sorry, I resign." and just gone home. She found it when she came back and thought it was a joke until she realised nope, he was really gone.
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Perhaps a daft question, but how does that work with jobs where there is a contracted notice period? I used to work for An Orange Supermarket and I had 4 weeks in the contract. Could I have just walked?
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I believe if you do not give your contractual notice period they can take you to court for breach of contract, but whether or not they would bother I imagine depends on the industry and how much they were paying you.
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And how much of the reason why they want on public record.
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Jeherrin posted:Perhaps a daft question, but how does that work with jobs where there is a contracted notice period? I used to work for An Orange Supermarket and I had 4 weeks in the contract. Could I have just walked? So yes, you can just walk. Fill yer boots. All this is modulo the circumstances of course. If you're some big actor or name-brand C-suite wanker with all sorts of triggers and penalties in your contract then yes, there might be a problem, but if you're like 99.9% of people in neoliberal work hell, then yes, just go. And it works the opposite if it's the company that wants to let you go: make sure you get your gardening leave, PILON, etc. Only Kindness fucked around with this message at 00:43 on May 20, 2022 |
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I worked for ford once and just said gently caress that and hosed off. Like others say, if they want to bring up why I did that in a court at their expense then fine. But lol they didnt.
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Another good bit by Kemper but it's always weird seeing her portray Dorries with visible cleavage. Real "stupid sexy flanders" tier of "please no" mental imagery
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Jeherrin posted:Perhaps a daft question, but how does that work with jobs where there is a contracted notice period? I used to work for An Orange Supermarket and I had 4 weeks in the contract. Could I have just walked?
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I love that the line from the media is that “Boris is so lucky he got no more fines, otherwise he’d have to walk”. He already got fined, and didn’t walk, and the media decided for no reason that the line would be if there were more fines. If there had been fines, and he still didn’t walk, they’d be saying “if he gets even more fines then he’ll really have to walk!!”
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Comrade Fakename posted:I love that the line from the media is that “Boris is so lucky he got no more fines, otherwise he’d have to walk”. He already got fined, and didn’t walk, and the media decided for no reason that the line would be if there were more fines. If there had been fines, and he still didn’t walk, they’d be saying “if he gets even more fines then he’ll really have to walk!!” It's like public opinion is being engineered in some way, through the mass media. Been racking my brains trying to come up with a snappy way to describe it. Could be a book in it!
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