Man of Honour
Can you afford a pay cut ? Maybe take a full time bar job to to see you over until the switch to Essex with the Desmeister ?
Daft jokes like the one above aside Piggy, I really know how you feel. I will give you the scenario.
I used to do a lot of tech service work around the country, mainly in the Scotland, London and Home Counties region. While in Kent, I used to stay in a hotel called The Overcliffe, a nice place overlooking the Thames. It used to cost £59 a night and I would stay there regularly.
I helped, along with the sales rep down there to secure a contract worth about 40-50k. The contract was just outside of Aldershot and some of the lads from the company gave me a lift to the train station afterwards as I did not have a company car, a distance of about 15 miles. As a thank you, I bought the lads a pint each ( 4 ) and put it on the company tab. The sales rep I was with had left by this point.
I later, when I payed the bill at the hotel, discovered that I had been placed in a slightly better area of the hotel and it was £79 a night. Again, this was on company expenses. The company secretary books the hotels and she made a small error this time.
On my return, I put my expenses claim in and a couple of days later, I was phoned up by the managing director who blasted me down the phone accusing me of taking the **** with expenses and I could not even get a word in before he slammed the phone down on me. This was a Friday and to say that it ruined my weekend was an understatement.
Anway, from then I was blanked, shunned and treated like dirt by him. At the rest christmas party, I was with a group of about 4 people standing with me an he offered drinks to them but not me. The MD's brother, who worked there also and was his pet snake and spy in the place, even took my tech and research and development book to him so he could pick faults or maybe look for an excuse to get rid of me.
That was it. ' **** you ' I thought and I embarked on finding a new career for which I was successful a few months later. The day I got the job, my immediate supervisor and the Technical Director were away on business so after phoning them out of courtesy, I took my resignation letter to the MD, which he read with a pale face.
' By the way ..... I said.
' Going back to the expenses incident. I did not take the **** and a little digging would have shown you that your secretary made the booking error, not me. And 4 pints for the sound lads who gave me a lift was small change compared to a premium rate taxi fare which would have cost you even more ......
' Don't ever question my integrity again '
With that, I walked out and I debate whether I have felt as good in my life.
Daft jokes like the one above aside Piggy, I really know how you feel. I will give you the scenario.
I used to do a lot of tech service work around the country, mainly in the Scotland, London and Home Counties region. While in Kent, I used to stay in a hotel called The Overcliffe, a nice place overlooking the Thames. It used to cost £59 a night and I would stay there regularly.
I helped, along with the sales rep down there to secure a contract worth about 40-50k. The contract was just outside of Aldershot and some of the lads from the company gave me a lift to the train station afterwards as I did not have a company car, a distance of about 15 miles. As a thank you, I bought the lads a pint each ( 4 ) and put it on the company tab. The sales rep I was with had left by this point.
I later, when I payed the bill at the hotel, discovered that I had been placed in a slightly better area of the hotel and it was £79 a night. Again, this was on company expenses. The company secretary books the hotels and she made a small error this time.
On my return, I put my expenses claim in and a couple of days later, I was phoned up by the managing director who blasted me down the phone accusing me of taking the **** with expenses and I could not even get a word in before he slammed the phone down on me. This was a Friday and to say that it ruined my weekend was an understatement.
Anway, from then I was blanked, shunned and treated like dirt by him. At the rest christmas party, I was with a group of about 4 people standing with me an he offered drinks to them but not me. The MD's brother, who worked there also and was his pet snake and spy in the place, even took my tech and research and development book to him so he could pick faults or maybe look for an excuse to get rid of me.
That was it. ' **** you ' I thought and I embarked on finding a new career for which I was successful a few months later. The day I got the job, my immediate supervisor and the Technical Director were away on business so after phoning them out of courtesy, I took my resignation letter to the MD, which he read with a pale face.
' By the way ..... I said.
' Going back to the expenses incident. I did not take the **** and a little digging would have shown you that your secretary made the booking error, not me. And 4 pints for the sound lads who gave me a lift was small change compared to a premium rate taxi fare which would have cost you even more ......
' Don't ever question my integrity again '
With that, I walked out and I debate whether I have felt as good in my life.
