Got The Sack

[pisces]

Legal advice over 2 days pay?

Dont make me laugh mate.

Why? I would do the same if I was being ripped off.

Money is money. Banks will take you to court for few pence if you leave it owing long enough.

[Ardesco]

If you are on ~£500 a day I would invoice them for the full 4 weeks notice and the 2 days and take it all the way, after all we are talking about £11,000 here!!!

A day in court will be well worth the time off and if you can get another contract starting in the next week or so you are quids in. No point going back and doing work for them, if they are threatening to not pay you for past 2 days they will probably just try and set you up even more and squirm out of paying you the extra as well. Get you lawyer on the agency now would be my advice, we aren't talking pennies here!!!

[SallyAnne]

all the best zam.......

its tough to be down and having such a stressful time.....one thing that i found to help, was to ring up all my mates, and repeat my woes to them....and upon the 7/8th repeat...i felt much better!!

probably didn't make me very popular...but then this year was the first time that i felt so stressed that i needed to moan......

as churchill once said: "when going through hell, keep going."

Who knew our lovable mut was so wise

[vetran]

Sue, Sue , Sue

AIUI They are screwing you over, make sure they don't get away with it.

Obviously don't get obsessed about it though.

Nothing wrong with your work, the design meeting was the right place to deal with muppet questions so long as you did it politely then you have no worries. If his feathers got ruffled he needs to get a life, if you had done an MF (stretched him over a desk and called him a F***wit, punctuating every syllable with a fist) then maybe he has a point.

Any decent IT director worth his salt would reply to any polite unsolicited email from the troops copying it to their line manager suggesting 'its probably better if you deal directly with the line manager' or have a quiet word if it smelt fishy. Last thing proper managers turn down is relevant information.

At a guess someone has convinced them they can finish / manage without you and they are trying to get out of the notice period.

Go for gold and the whole notice period. IR35 isn't only dependant on notice periods for MOO so it may make no difference to that. The fact you can refuse work has an impact as well.

Get sensible advice, John Antell or the PCG advice line make sense. Remember tell them the whole truth (write it all down and review it a few times first).


IANAL etc!

On a personal note I have also worked for companies like this, they drove some of my friends to mental breakdowns, they are scum and no reflection on you, just think of them as that friend that was always doing you down because they were jealous. Sad muppets.

[messiah]

Seems like a bunch of small minded idiots in a small company ..

Seems like a bunch of small minded idiots in a small company ..


Lets get this straight, there were some Requirements for project that were deficient in some way so you wrote to the IT director requesting for more detail or additional requirements either from him or from a business analyst .. and then the IT director got upset by this ?!?!?!?!!

I think the term "funny b*gger" or "bunch of funny b*ggers" springs to mind.
Even if it was put forward in a slightly forthright manner .. the IT director should recognize it as a business need that needs fulfilling !

Forget about it, its a sh*t firm, it sounds like you've been setup, surf the net or fall asleep - the place is a joke, let their egos delude them into oblivion.

Now references ... tricky one ... if you haven't been there long just either say you've been on a long holiday and/or emphasize your last job's references. Or you could nick the companies headed note paper and write one up yourself from mysterious manager employee "Mr. X".

[bobhope]

I find it very rarely actually gets to court (I have only been twice out of numerous disputes).
Usually, they'll roll over when they see a solicitor's letter or a copy of the court papers that you're about to send.

[cojak]

Zamzummin - you know your UML from your XML, then Darlin'?

PM me.

(Zamzummin only btw - I'm not interested unless I know you... )

'Things are never as bad or as good as they first appear'
-Anon

[Lockhouse]

If you're a PCG member call the free legal helpline.

My own opinion is not to go back under any circumstances.

[Ivor1]

Any chance of a name and shame of the company involved ?

From what you say and I maybe wrong sounds like your in HR IT, is that right ? If so when I worked in HR IT I found it very small minded, they made a big deal over nothing issues. A stab in the dark does the IT directors name start Jawiad ?

[cojak]

No. Don't name and shame Zam.

Things like that have a habit of back-firing.

Let us just have fun guessing...