Being threatened with court and possible sue!!

Tartanbill · May 23, 2007

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noelg24 said: ↑

so its not a case of I couldnt be trusted...it was a case of they saw my potential and gave me the opportunity to show them what I can do
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From what i've seen at my work I don't think it's so much a case of being trusted or not being trusted, more that this is just how things are in financial services.

What sort of firm was your last job?

noelg24 · May 23, 2007

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I was working for an IT company who outsource IT support to companies up and down the UK and covered alot of the North East...SGUK knows who they are and what they do...

JonnyMX · May 23, 2007

Tartanbill said: ↑

lol not at all
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JK!

Crito · May 26, 2007

zebulebu said: ↑

Its not a question of work ethics. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of employers that have been honest and up front with me about the roles I've had with them. If they hadn't lied to me, I might feel a bit more upset about leaving them in the lurch - in fact, on more than one occasion I have worked longer than my notice period simply because I didn't want them to be left high and dry.

However, I have also had jobs where I have been treated, basically, like shite - both by an employer and by an agency. On those occasion I had no qualms whatsoever about leaving before the end of my notice period, and would do so again if I was in a similar situation.

The laws regarding employment rights for employees have been eroded away almost to the point of nothingness in the past thirty years in this country. I have no sympathy for the vast majority of employers - lets face it, the reason most of them use agency staff in the first place is either because their finance department went a bit mad with the redundancies last time round or because they want a workforce that has no rights whatsoever working for them.

As for agencies, my heart weeps for them every time they lose out. Their commission rates are ridculous, they do nothing more than word match from CVs and regularly treat you like dogshit once they've got their commission out of you in any case.

Let me give an excellent example of why employers suck. A few weeks ago the DBA where I work resigned as he'd found a job with another company (a multi-national, extremely well respected) that nearly doubled his salary. He gave his notice, had his exit interview and got a start date. A couple of weeks later, he received a letter from the company stating that they were withdrawing the offer because the parent company had decided they wanted to use agency staff instead. So he had to come cap in hand back to us and basically beg for his job back (how embarrassing that must have been).

The days of decent employee relations are over. I will give my absolute everything to an employer - in fact, I regularly work 16 hour days, and am often up until 3:00 in the morning fixing & tinkering. However, when it comes down to it, I could care less about any of them and, if I wanted to leave, I would. No threats from lawyers will stop me.
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Well said zebulebu, I couldn't agree more. There are more two-faced liars in IT consulting than any other field. On the one hand (or side of their face) they're giving speeches about professionalism and not burning bridges, on the other they're firing people with no notice on Friday @ 3:30PM.

Respect is a two way street and my dignity isn't for sale. Even Bill Gates doesn't have enough money to buy that.

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