My dodgy boss is trying every trick to get rid of me!!

bendix

Sadly, none of the things you say they wanted surprise me, Pete.

As I say in another thread, the UK is currently dominated by a "I want me entitlements' culture . . . .

pelirocco

Pete111 wrote: »

Fair enough Bendix

Your orginal comment seemed to imply that all WFH arrangements were fundamentally bad thats all - Totally with you on some people taking the mickey re this, as you say I deal with it reguarly.

On the flip side, and in a previous role, we moved some field based staff from officially being based in the office to operating from home - ie they did office work there and could drive to clients etc using their home as a formal base. We put in company paid for broadband etc too.

We thought, as the main office was many miles away from where most of them lived, that they would be absolutely over the moon but it was incredible, we got a list of demands from these guys demanding amongst other things, tea and coffee allowances, subsidised electricity, lightbulb allowances and (and this was my favorite) a 'carpet wearing out' subsidy.

You couldn't make it up!!
P

I hope you changed your mind and made them go in the office after all !

pelirocco

Wolf1000 wrote: »

Hi, has anyone got any advice please, a few years ago I stood up to my boss at work because I found out he was paying me less then my equals!! I !!!!ed him off so bad that he has been trying to get rid of me ever since.

He had tried to make me redundant in the past but backed down when I got on to ACAS.

He is trying it on again - the situation at the moment is this -

I work for this company from home 2 days a week and have been employed by them for 9 years as their employee. My job is updating their website and basically he is trying to get rid of me so he can give the job to his nephew who also works on the website.

He as asked me to do some other type of desk work so that he can make me redundant from that position.

I've told him that I am happy with the job I do thanks! and that he can't make me redundant and then give my job to someone else, so I'm not sure where he intends to go with this but he wants to see me next week as I am on his "at risk" list oooooohhh!! I'm really scared mr big fat bossy chops!!

Any advice please would be appreciated though Im not sure I need it as from where im standing the big fat loser hasn't got a big fat leg:rotfl: to stand on!!

Fancy a bet on this?

i8change

Originally Posted by bendix
You work in HR, Pete, so you know that there are some employees who just try to take the p**s all the time. Everything is their right, yet assume very little responsibility in turn.

I know the type. Usually playing on the internet in works time! :rolleyes:

Kay_Peel

I reported the Usual Suspect for an abusive, offensive contribution posted in the early hours.

woody01

Wolf1000 wrote: »

Hi, has anyone got any advice please, a few years ago I stood up to my boss at work because I found out he was paying me less then my equals!! I !!!!ed him off so bad that he has been trying to get rid of me ever since.

He had tried to make me redundant in the past but backed down when I got on to ACAS.

He is trying it on again - the situation at the moment is this -

I work for this company from home 2 days a week and have been employed by them for 9 years as their employee. My job is updating their website and basically he is trying to get rid of me so he can give the job to his nephew who also works on the website.

He as asked me to do some other type of desk work so that he can make me redundant from that position.

I've told him that I am happy with the job I do thanks! and that he can't make me redundant and then give my job to someone else, so I'm not sure where he intends to go with this but he wants to see me next week as I am on his "at risk" list oooooohhh!! I'm really scared mr big fat bossy chops!!

Any advice please would be appreciated though Im not sure I need it as from where im standing the big fat loser hasn't got a big fat leg:rotfl: to stand on!!

You sound like you have a stinking attitude, so i am not suprised your boss wants shot of you.
Sooner or later he will succeed in binning you off (i hope for his sake).

Pete111

pelirocco wrote: »

I hope you changed your mind and made them go in the office after all !

Nope - But their demands were not um...acted upon

(and I got a faintly amusing HR anecdote so all good really)

doobiesis_2

What a horrible sounding person. I'm out of work at the moment looking for a job! Maybe if you don't like or even need it you should let it go to someone who does want it.

juliescot

Wolf1000 wrote: »

Sheesh, what a total over reaction some people have had to my silly comments!!

Listen I have worked for this company 9 years, I can truly say that I have been one of the hardest working members of staff the whole time while employed by this company, in your opinion having always addressed the bosses with total respect at all times, until the first post on this thread worked until midnight at the office, plus weekends and often for free working until I was 8 and half months pregnant because the needed me. Could you not manage to get the work done in office hours or was the place so understaffed that the business couldn't cope with the workload I certainly have not been taking the mick at any point. I one day saw a list of everyones salary including the management because it was stupidly left on my desk by the owner of the company. I saw that others who happened to be the 'male workers' were being paid more then myself and other females doing the exact same job at the time. I respectfully challenged the boss about this who said that instead of giving me equal pay, said I could work from home instead updating the company website. Does this mean that other female workers were and are still be discriminated against because of their sex? He knew I had children and would be pleased about this because I had to commute 30 miles to work each day. I know he can't handle the fact that I know everyones salary including the management. In what way can he not handle it?

Now frankly I only do two day a week for this company and work 25hrs freelancing for myself making very good money. I don't need this job but I am not being turfed out because he doesn't like me and wants the job for his nephew. I do a very good job for the two days which creates a lot of revenue for the company, but I don't care if I lose the job whatsoever, but some bosses think that they can treat their staff badly and get rid of them when it suits!! This boss once got rid of a lady because she was too fat, so trust me he is a nasty piece of work!! This another example of the total respect?

I'm not bitter at all, I am a very happy person with a wonderful wonderful life with my kids, hubby and my freelance work, this is about principle and nobody has ever stood up to this guy in his life I think, until the little Wolf came along!!! Its fun, trust me, great fun to watch him squirm!! And how are you making him squirm?

See you guys around E

You are quite right to stand up for yours, and others rights. (If that is what you did)
However it may be that you, or more accurately your post, do not fit into the business model your employer has for the future.

bendix

I don't want to open a can of worms with a male / female discussion, but am I alone in noticing that the vast majority of these type of threads in which people have some kind of over-inflated idea of their value to a company - with accompanying bad attitude - are generally posted by or about young women employees?

What is that all about? A new socio-economic phenomena of some kind?

This reminds me of the lengthy debate about someone's wife being made redundant elsewhere in this forum.