How best to react to a slash in your wages..

Raumarik

Raumarik

Raumarik

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Greetings!

Tomorrow I'll be pulled into my bosses office and almost certainly recieve a freeze in my wages for the next 4 years under the new council "single status" agreement.

Does anyone have any suggestions for amusing ways I can react? I've more or less accepted my fate so obviously violence isn't really an option - unless it'd be amusing!

I was thinking of looking annoyed, then stating "You will fail, all of you, in accordance with the prophecy."

and then stomping out.
 
Hand over a brown envelope and apologise.

Doesn't matter whats in it, but they'll think you're handing your notice in.
 
Kami said:
Tomorrow I'll be pulled into my bosses office and almost certainly recieve a freeze in my wages for the next 4 years under the new council "single status" agreement.
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For those not in the know, could you clarify this single status agreement?
 
Take a bottle of holy water and a cross and carry out an exorcism on your boss when he tells you.
 
Dolph said:
Take a bottle of holy water and a cross and carry out an exorcism on your boss when he tells you.
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This^ But maybe put some wee wee in the holy water.
 
platypus said:
For those not in the know, could you clarify this single status agreement?
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Because councils have had stupid silly payscales for years with worthless people being paid ****loads for being crap - just for length of service - they're halting payrises for the crap staff (no offence to the OP) so they can pay the good staff fairly.

Thats how I understand it, thats 100% not the way it will be implemented in the end.
 
run and jump out the nearest window, then sue them and say you slipped on a wet floor, you'll make up your pay cut in compensation ;)
 
Gilly said:
Because councils have had stupid silly payscales for years with worthless people being paid ****loads for being crap - just for length of service - they're halting payrises for the crap staff (no offence to the OP) so they can pay the good staff fairly.

Thats how I understand it, thats 100% not the way it will be implemented in the end.
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Of course not, everyone in the civil service knows that the best performers are those who have been there the longest... And thus know how to play the bureaucracy. :)
 
ask your boss for a loan to tide you over :)
or alternatively ask if he knows any of the local mr bigs in the drug trade as you need to top your earnings up
 
Single Status is a system that has been undertaken by all Scottish local authorities. It involves a panel assessing the roles/structures/pay scales for their employees, to adjudge what they deem to be an appropriate level of pay for that position (it's on a strategic basis for all employees currently, or potentially, undertaking that role - not on an individual basis). This proposal has to be agreed with the relevant local authority also.

Sadly this can mean that salaries can remain static, go up or go down. Sorry to hear you're an unlucky one dude :(.
 
I was thinking possibly along the lines of the Gladiator speech "...I shall have my vengance in this life or the next....".

That or smile, thank them and then hold them hostage for the next 6-8 hours (however long your working day is). Once the day is up you can go home and do the same on Monday, repeat ad infinitum until they reconsider why they have frozen your wages. ;)
 
Gilly said:
Because councils have had stupid silly payscales for years with worthless people being paid ****loads for being crap - just for length of service - they're halting payrises for the crap staff (no offence to the OP) so they can pay the good staff fairly.

Thats how I understand it, thats 100% not the way it will be implemented in the end.
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They have the most ridiculous pay scales around, we do a lot of job advertising and recruitment for the public sector and the salaries for posts that are almost meaningless are beyond comprehension. It seems as if 40k in the council is the starting salary these days and you are gauranteed a more than adequate rise every year for now reason other then employment length. In no way do i mean the OP is in this situation but i do agree a massive overhaul of council pay is way overdue.
 
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