How to let your agency staff down gently - BMW

[Alf W]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UwVR...layer_embedded

Love the bit about "for those of you unable to return your uniform today..."

NSFW unless you've got headphones and your back to the wall.

[DimPrawn]

Bloody disguised employees!

[dinker]

Good job they are contractors and have piles of gold bars stashed away at home.

[thunderlizard]

Bloody disguised employees!

They aren't disguised. They are agency employees.
(unless you were just being sarky and knew that already...)

[threaded]

I love the way the management have thought this through. The redundant staff have to hand their passes in immediately or their is a surcharge on their wages, but that means they can't get changed to hand in their uniforms which are also required immediately otherwise there's a surcharge, or retrieve personal belongings, or get their bikes out of the bike sheds.

Also the paid leave is a bit hollow, they all work a week in hand so the 33 hours write down means they actually lose money, shirley?

[gingerjedi]

That's it... I'm not going to buy an overpriced, impractical, girly runabout...

Solidarity brothers.

[thunderlizard]

I don't think they do work a week in hand - I think the bit at the beginning about fixed holidays means that they all go home today, and get paid what the lady calls "a week's pay in lieu" (although in fact it's payment for a holiday that they are already contracted).

So the ones who owe up to 33 hours just get it written off. (BMW obviously familiar with the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard).

I could be wrong on both these points. My HR-consultancy days are long past, thank heavens.

[spongebob]

I've got a parable.

[Bear]

I've got a parable.

Best see a doctor, quick!

[Board Game Geek]

Love the bit about "for those of you unable to return your uniform today..."

I would have stripped there and then and handed my uniform in as requested.

But then I'm an exhibitionist at heart