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

Just say this..

"Oh right.. I see.. I only have one thing to say about that... [FART]"
 
"We regret to inform you..." <cut him short> ".. Have you ever seen this movie called Man On Fire? Denzel Washington flick?"
 
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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I do actually agree with you here, however unlike a lot of staff who came into councils when I did so I stated that I wouldn't start at the bottom and do all this "time of service" crap. the problem is that the most institutionalised departments (I.T., Finance, HR etc) will be unlikely to be hit by this as frankly the council are scared to annoy them. I left the I.T. department to run school networks to get away from it all and work on my own, sadly this has made me a prime target, even thought I am good at my job.

I know I'm in line for a pay cut as the chap who's job was assessed (there's 10 of us in the council) does a job that's similar to mine in title only and has less than half the responsibilities. The only thread of hope I have is that he, unlike me has an assistant, although that could easily tip it either way!
 
Go into limp mode
Just sit there and dont talk, when they try to remove you just go all limp like a kid does when you try pick them up :p



OIr just chuck a huge temper tanrum and start sceeming and crying kicking legs and swinging your arms arouned while you llay face down on the floor :p
 
Reinact that bit from Fight Club, beat yourself up, throw yourself through a table, bookshelf and when the security bods turn up, be on your knees in front of him screaming, "no more, please, no more"

You never know...
 
Take he/she a cup of coffee in when your about to receive your bad news, take the news on the chin....Just as your heading out the door say "oh, and enjoy your coffee"

/cue suspicious eyes
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That or an indecent proposal of some sort, whatever your comfortable with ;)
 
Tell him that you knew the paydrop was coming so that's cool, but what your really concerned about is losing his friendship...

Then explain that you've got a jucuzzi to test out and you'd be proud for him to help you christen it
 
a 4 year pay freeze is little differnet to what many people in the private sector have had to put up with, your immediate boss probably had little or no say in this so no point making a big deal of it really
 
Rotty said:
a 4 year pay freeze is little differnet to what many people in the private sector have had to put up with, your immediate boss probably had little or no say in this so no point making a big deal of it really
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Indeed. He wouldn't have had any say it it, well I know mine didn't.
 
Grab your boss by the feet and dangle him out the top floor window. and jest with him that you're going to drop him if he slashes your pay. and let him go either way.

but seriously.

find a new job if the slash is too big.
 
FiremanSam said:
try a bit of comedy fainting when he tells you the bad news :)
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Injure yourslef as you fall and claim compensation equal to the amount of money you would have received if your salary was not being freezed. ;)
 
Tomsk said:
Injure yourself as you fall, then claim compensation equal to the amount of money you would have received if your salary had not been frozen ;)
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Fixed ;)
 
Sit there dribbling and twitching then pull your hair out and get signed off for "stress" for the next 12 months whilst you run a business from ebay,QVC or another TV shopping channel.

Loads of people(Women) around my office have done this. Not one seams to bat an eyelid when they come back from 6 months off as stress (With a Tan!) and all of a sudden they're trying to sell some carp greeting cards or some bookclub stuff or organising Ann Summer partys and the like. I work in an office mainly consisting of females. I almost feel like I'm in some kinda Two ronnies Worm has turned sketch some times when I speak out.

As far as I'm aware all you need to do is go and freak out to your doctor every couple of weeks or so and keep getting signed off.

I've caught many a "Stress absente" from my office in B&Q looking like they're going to be rebuilding bathrooms and delivering phone books on the side, but does anyone care NO !

DO IT ! Do it !
 
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