Mog and Chips

So, you sling around “We’re going to sack you if you don’t do as we say.”

How fucking dare you?

This isn’t my work btw, it’s Paul’s =P

You get someone to cover your shift and they don’t turn up? Bah, you come over and do it right now or we’ll sack you.

Haven’t filled out a form we didn’t give you? Your job’s on the line! … … oh, oh wait, our mistake. You did fill it out. Nevermind that. Or the stress you get when you read “If you’re on this list you may get sacked.”

And they’re one of Britain’s top 100 employers of the year?!

No. You do not sling around “I’ll sack you” as blackmail. Because that’s what it bloody well is.

I desperately, desperately want to ring them and yell at them. Which is something, because I hate calling people =P Also, that would probably endanger his job, which isn’t ideal because it took 6 months to find one in the first place.

Goddamnit why can’t I call on behalf of people. I’d be so much better at it than calling on behalf of myself - in the latter case, I’ll be sheepishly reaching a compromise, while in the former I’ll probably be able to yell. Which is also something I hate doing and am not particularly good at.

I’ve got a bone to pick with a certain financial company, who said “Give us this downpayment, and we’ll set up a plan. Oh, wait, now you’ve given us it, we can’t accept the monthly plan. But we arrange a new monthly plan, which we can see by your budget sheet you sent us you blatantly can’t afford, if you give us another downpayment.”

Fuckers. The fucking nerve.

So far all I’ve been able to do is email the employer’s head office to ask, confidentially, if they have a confidential staff advice/complaints line, which a lot of big companies do. And download the guidelines of the OFT and have a good, nerdy read.

2.6b Pressurising debtors to sell property, to raise funds by further
borrowing or to extend their borrowing

2.6f Pressurising debtors to pay in full, in unreasonably large instalments,
or to increase payments when they are unable to do so

Oh. Oh. OoooooooH SNAP!

Of course, we already sent that to them, and they’ve sent a silly “we’ve reviewed your situation… and want to to pay something you’ve shown us you can’t afford. Again.”

Next step, OFT complaint. Hurrah.

I think I may write one. Not because I think Paul can’t (and not that I’m going to send it off before he edits it and whatnot.) but because I’m enraged, and in such as state, I can’t do my collegework, which is due in 4 days time.

I must do something *twitch* and it’s not washing dishes, again- oh wait, it is, because some lovely employers have dragged someone in who now can’t do anything because he has to leave at 6am for uni-related trip and probably won’t get in until 4am. The idea was for a 2am-finish compromise. And damnit *twitch* I want to ring them at 2:05am on the dot and demand to know when he’ll be on the way home.

Also, my stomach, dizziness and lightheadedness is due to stress, apparently. I can’t imagine why. =P

(Actually, it does appear to be ‘fake illness’, since since the doctor on I had a discussion why, which I don’t feel like spouting here at the moment (but I’m not pregnant :P) the symptoms have mainly disappeared… … until I’m upset or angry. )

On a side note, dear lord there is going to be trouble if I’m ever a mother. On the plus side, I won’t be crusading on anything that goes wrong with Paul’s job, because I’d be too busy ripping the school/college/uni a new ass and embaressing poor kid(s).

Kalms is a ‘herbal based medication’ in the UK that, in all likelyhood is entirely placebo-effect based, considering it was something like £2 and it’s not addictive (or causing ’suicidal tendancies like certain anti depressants, wtf? ) It is, of course, placebo or not, a temporary measure until I can get my deadline done with, since I can’t get a sicknote until I talk to my tutors, which I can’t until I’ve failed by nonsubmission

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