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How to let your agency staff down gently - BMW

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    #11
    morning all,


    I just watched it

    I have to say, this is an insight to a world we are not part of

    and what a different world it is

    I am sorry for those poeple

    Milan.

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      #12
      Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
      morning all,


      I just watched it

      I have to say, this is an insight to a world we are not part of

      and what a different world it is

      I am sorry for those poeple

      Milan.
      I spent 12 years at Westland Helicopters and attended many union meetings just like this one, the union reps were bought off by the company and we all knew it, how else can you explain the fact they got night shift allowance (33%) without ever doing a nights work?

      Every year we went through a futile pay rise battle, we'd ask for 6% the company would say 3% and we'd end up somewhere in the middle usually whatever inflation was at the time.

      I was made redundant in the end as they shut the place, after the statutory consultation period and months of union wrangling I ended up with the standard 1 week per year minimum plus 3 months in lieu of notice, pointless.

      I'm not against unions, large bodies of people do need to stick together if they want to be treated fairly but they need to get their house in order if they’re to be beneficial to both management and worker.
      Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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        #13
        Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
        I would have stripped there and then and handed my uniform in as requested.

        But then I'm an exhibitionist at heart
        I was watching this and wondering when someone would do the same...
        ...at least, that's what I would have done.

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          #14
          Originally posted by realityhack View Post
          I was watching this and wondering when someone would do the same...
          ...at least, that's what I would have done.
          I watched both parts and there was one guy who handed the rotund lady a carrier bag and walked out shaking a few colleagues’ hands on the way, I presume it was his uniform?
          Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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            #15
            Reality Hack posted...at least, that's what I would have done.
            Good chap !

            That's 2 of us for the CUK Full Monty dance troupe at the next gathering...
            Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

            C.S. Lewis

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