How to let your agency staff down gently - BMW

[Board Game Geek]

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...

[gingerjedi]

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?

[realityhack]

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.

[gingerjedi]

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.

[milanbenes]

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.

[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

[Bear]

I've got a parable.

Best see a doctor, quick!

[spongebob]

I've got a parable.

[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.

[gingerjedi]

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

Solidarity brothers.

[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?

[thunderlizard]

Bloody disguised employees!

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

[dinker]

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

[DimPrawn]

Bloody disguised employees!

[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.