Laid-Off
Okay, so "fired" wasn't exactly a correct term to use, as I have in fact been laid-off. How this improves my situation I don't know.
Originally they said I could work overtime on the last Tuesday & Wednesday before Christmas and also on boxing day. Boxing day pays about 3 times my normal wages, meaning that I could earn about £18 per hour for shoving things onto a shelf.
Then they told me that they had to lay me off because they've overspent on wages. Of course I was so happy to know that not only will I be unemployed again, but I'll also be able to have a reunion with some of my fellow work mates when the job-centre re-opens after this festive season. Unfortunately, being laid-off also means that I can't do Tuesday & Wednesday overtime. Luckily I can still work on Boxing day.
Well, that was the case up until the other day when they said that Boxing day counts as a new week and that working that day would totally mess up their wage system or something and make everything complicated and confusing. Which meant basically that the Sunday just gone was to be my last day. But no! It turns out that due to some reason with having to drop Boxing day, I now owe THEM 6 hours which I either work for free, or they just take it out of my wages.
Sounds to me more like they'd rather not pay me but still get 6 hours out of me than to pay me 3 days wages for a single days work.
Then they had the cheek to ask me if that was okay?!?
I feel sorry for the other 8 or so people that are also in my situation. There's nothing much I can actually do - nothing I say would allow me to keep my job or for anyone else to keep theirs. I just think that it's insensitive of Tesco to lay people off 3 days before Christmas, and with only giving them a weeks notice because people such as myself had already done Christmas shopping after budgeting expecting to still be employed and getting paid after Christmas.
So back I go, living life according to Odd-Todd but on the plus side I can ignore all the problems that Tesco have left me with by enjoying Christmas with my 5 year old brother.
Then after that, I'm spending Boxing Day with my neighbours so all in all should be good fun!
And today I'm liking the word 'nugget'.
Originally they said I could work overtime on the last Tuesday & Wednesday before Christmas and also on boxing day. Boxing day pays about 3 times my normal wages, meaning that I could earn about £18 per hour for shoving things onto a shelf.
Then they told me that they had to lay me off because they've overspent on wages. Of course I was so happy to know that not only will I be unemployed again, but I'll also be able to have a reunion with some of my fellow work mates when the job-centre re-opens after this festive season. Unfortunately, being laid-off also means that I can't do Tuesday & Wednesday overtime. Luckily I can still work on Boxing day.
Well, that was the case up until the other day when they said that Boxing day counts as a new week and that working that day would totally mess up their wage system or something and make everything complicated and confusing. Which meant basically that the Sunday just gone was to be my last day. But no! It turns out that due to some reason with having to drop Boxing day, I now owe THEM 6 hours which I either work for free, or they just take it out of my wages.
Sounds to me more like they'd rather not pay me but still get 6 hours out of me than to pay me 3 days wages for a single days work.
Then they had the cheek to ask me if that was okay?!?
I feel sorry for the other 8 or so people that are also in my situation. There's nothing much I can actually do - nothing I say would allow me to keep my job or for anyone else to keep theirs. I just think that it's insensitive of Tesco to lay people off 3 days before Christmas, and with only giving them a weeks notice because people such as myself had already done Christmas shopping after budgeting expecting to still be employed and getting paid after Christmas.
So back I go, living life according to Odd-Todd but on the plus side I can ignore all the problems that Tesco have left me with by enjoying Christmas with my 5 year old brother.
Then after that, I'm spending Boxing Day with my neighbours so all in all should be good fun!
And today I'm liking the word 'nugget'.
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