14/08/2015 – A week has passed since I behaved against the grain and left my job, yet I haven’t found a minute to write anything for this blog to be, let alone giving it a name and getting it on somewhere in the “bloggy-sphere”. So better put something down now and pretend I am writing a blog.
How did I ever manage to find the time to work? Reality is I am fighting to get paid from the “Be Ruthless” Company; vaguely looking for paid work (bravado won’t pay the bills); in the middle of setting up a new charity and decluttering my study, ‘cause I can’t find anything. With every single one of those goals unfinished, next week is going to be a déjà vu routine.
So what of this “Be Ruthless” Company, to use their “Be…something style” that I felt compelled to walk out of? It’s supposed to have taken on the staff of the Company that employed me until mid-July but had to go into administration; all 5 of us. Only I am the only one that hasn’t quite made it onto their payroll, without as much as a reason, although I did start working (or sitting mostly) in their offices on 27th July. I didn’t just sit because I am lazy, I sat because I was not given the tools I needed to work, mainly access to their Goggle Cloud where it all seems to happen. To have access I need to be on their payroll, to be on the payroll, I need at least a letter stating they were delighted that I was joining them. And this is the crux, the other guys got their letter around 20th July and I am (was) still waiting when I decided that I had been a mug long enough.
But I can’t afford to just call this another lesson in life; at my age I have of course suffered a few, so I am less likely now to let them just be a lesson. You see, they promised to cover our July salary in full but HR won’t process a payment unless we, I, have “the letter”. So mug here has not only had a “phantom” job for 2 weeks, but has also missed on her July salary.
They are not total idiots of course and they have said that if I send them an invoice up to last Friday, they’ll pay me up to that fatal day. Now when I refer to them as “they”, I really mean the head of this new sector they have added to their portfolio. I am convinced that the layer above has no idea of what’s been going on. So on Monday, I was busy writing a very precise, sensible and measured letter to explain that they could stuff their invoice as I was an employee like the others, under a TUPE (Transfer of Undertaking) agreement (on the basis that if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck) and that I was within my rights to walk out for breach of contract, blablabla… I have yet to hear.