Last day at work.....What to do...

Back when my mate was a student he u sed to work at Milletts.

One day the manager turned up in the morning to find that someone had taken a dump on the doorstep. They think it was the bloke that had been fired a week earlier.
 
I enjoy the way that a bonus these days appears to be a right, rather than a reward for performing above and beyond what your job actually entails.

If I paid you to read out something 50 times a day and you only read it out 49 times, or made a mistake in reading out just 50 words, I'd consider docking your pay, never mind a reduced bonus.

Leave quietly, only idiots go out any other way.
 
I wouldn't burn my bridges let alone give anyone the satisfaction of thinking they made me leave. Just give your most hated a big long sloppy kiss right before you go.
 
I've not bothered to read the replies but I'm sure it's been said, you'd be a fool to throw away a possible reference from a 4yr job. If you're going to leave a job in some sort of epic way, make sure it's a job you've only had for a short amount of time, so that you can leave it off your CV.
 
Just walk away. If you have to do any of that unnecessary stuff, it says more about you than it does them. Yes it seems harsh that you get your butt kicked for being a minute late but if all the 500 people in the call centre came in a minute late, went for lunch a minute early, came back from lunch a minute late and went home a minute early that's almost one full time employee lost for the day so their productivity is down. Sounds far fetched but that's how these companies operate.

Thank your stars your going to work for you old man, walk away with your head held high
 
I worked in a call centre like that, in the end I just went in and gave them back my door card and headset and said im going to go to another job. They made me write it down and then I left. Though I didn't care about the reference at all so I didn't bother giving notice. To be fair even though the rules were pretty annoying like that my team leader was a nice guy and in any other job I'd have enjoyed working with him.

Imo just walk if you don't need a reference.
 
The rules are there for a reason. But what's got to me is how they have moved the goal posts. U used to get 5 mins a day if u were late. Now it's a one minute. Which everyone seems to think is fair. But I have to put in two long passwords before I log in. And u can make a mistake and then your late. So I get 3 breaks a day. I take around about 5 mins less of my breaks.

I am leaving on the 17th. Im not walking out before. But wanted Togo out witha bang as the way we have been treated is unfair
 
You do know that if you're working for your Dad and then planning on running the business, you'll realise why your initial points are done.

If this was your company and you had a guy always taking 1 hour 10 for lunch for example, can you see how it's not too much to ask to make the time up. Loads of companies would give you a verbal warning the first time, written second and then final the third time and you'd be out.

Again being late twice in a month is an issue. It's not the hardest thing in the world to get in 5 minutes before time? If you had an employee coming in 5 minutes late a few time each month would you do nothing? As much as it's nice if you're the one who's late, the boss has to make some sort of measure to try to stop you, else it means every employee in the company can do it.

The legal statement is just part and parcel of the insurance job. It's not something your firm does just to make it annoying for you.

lol at the two long passwords :) Apart from the fact it's part of your IT Depts security protocol and/or PCI regulations, are you getting to your desk literally with 5 seconds to spare, so if you type your password in wrong you're late?
 
y2viks said:
If this was your company and you had a guy always taking 1 hour 10 for lunch for example, can you see how it's not too much to ask to make the time up. Loads of companies would give you a verbal warning the first time, written second and then final the third time and you'd be out.

Again being late twice in a month is an issue. It's not the hardest thing in the world to get in 5 minutes before time? If you had an employee coming in 5 minutes late a few time each month would you do nothing? As much as it's nice if you're the one who's late, the boss has to make some sort of measure to try to stop you, else it means every employee in the company can do it.
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You don't think this is biased ever so slightly in favour of the company do you? If you take a little bit extra time for lunch (bigger queue in the line or whatever) then that's a problem, if you fail to get in five minutes early every day to log-in to your computer then that's your failing? So effectively you should give up at least five minutes extra per day but the company will never be tolerant in return? If a company wants the employees to spend an extra XX amount of time setting up in the mornings because of deficiencies in their systems (e.g. the computers will take 10 minutes to log on to a workable state) then they should be prepared to pay for this to compensate the employee for their time or fix the problem to a workable level.

Doesn't sound strictly quid pro quo to me. I'm not saying either party is in the right in the situation necessarily but if both parties treat the other with a certain degree of respect and occasionally allow some leeway then many problems can be avoided simply by treating each other as responsible adults.

DAMO RAM80: I'd have to add my voice to that of the people suggesting leaving sensibly, although you're planning to work for your dad and you may never need another reference you don't know when you might need the contacts or what level of influence other people may hold with potential future customers.
 
semi-pro waster said:
You don't think this is biased ever so slightly in favour of the company do you? If you take a little bit extra time for lunch (bigger queue in the line or whatever) then that's a problem, if you fail to get in five minutes early every day to log-in to your computer then that's your failing? So effectively you should give up at least five minutes extra per day but the company will never be tolerant in return? If a company wants the employees to spend an extra XX amount of time setting up in the mornings because of deficiencies in their systems (e.g. the computers will take 10 minutes to log on to a workable state) then they should be prepared to pay for this to compensate the employee for their time or fix the problem to a workable level.

Doesn't sound strictly quid pro quo to me. I'm not saying either party is in the right in the situation necessarily but if both parties treat the other with a certain degree of respect and occasionally allow some leeway then many problems can be avoided simply by treating each other as responsible adults.
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Yeah course it is biased, but a few posts on where he mentions what he'll be doing in his next job and the future, he'll be the employer, potentially with employees.

From what DAMO said, he gets to his PC on time but if he types a password in, incorrectly then he's marked as late (i've presumed he's getting to his desk a few seconds before 9). Two of these and he loses his bonus. If this is that much of an issue to him, then surely coming in 1 minute earlier is a better alternative?

It just sounds to me like whining over such minor stuff that can easily be resolved by being back at your desk on time, leaving home for work 2 minutes earlier and his third point about having to do a legal obligation is literally part of his job, so I can't see the complaint there.

I'm an employee and not an employer but if these were the three gripes I had before I left, then my working life in that place hasn't been so bad to the point I would want to flame anyone or go out in a blaze of sour glory
 
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