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Exactly. Different personalities. Also,
Was in a locked, private office by the way.
You didn’t consider leaving?My old job I was forced to work copious amounts of unpaid overtime because of too much work and too little staff, the ones we had either kept quitting or being put off (went through nearly 100 in just over ten years).
Threatened to go to the Unions and was told by a manager that said company doesn't like workers joining Unions as it would be seen as rocking the boat and that would have consequences! "You will not join Unions!" I was threatened.
I had a calendar on the wall in the office some years back which had in blue ink, the paid hours I worked and in red ink below, the number of hours each day I'd worked unpaid overtime and was ordered to throw the calendar out because it could paint the company in a bad light if anyone saw it!!
One girl, who was a Labour Hire worker, had been forced to use a vacuum that was obviously faulty and kept sparking, she threatened to go to Workplace Safety and she was let go the very next day, another was deemed by the same manager to be too fat to fit behind doors to clean them and was let go.
It was absolutely incredible.
We had others stealing from the place that were moved on, others caused nothing but trouble, others only turning up when they felt like it - trouble was the company wouldn't bother to get fill ins or replacements and if we wanted to go on holidays, we would have to find our own replacements, get them to sign up with this Labour Hire company, bring them in for an induction and then hope to God they were any good! Usually it was the same manager who started employing her own friends and relatives and allowed them to get away with all kinds of stuff.
Had one that had the same relatives dying over and over (so had to stay home that day), had the front window in her house blow in eight times, had a terrible attack of gastro on the bus, just as it was getting into town and so had to go back home again (usually 5 minutes before starting time) about 20 times.
Later on we had one Labour Hire worker come in, who then started bringing her daughter in law in to help out, had to sign her up as well, then brought in her own daughter who was literally the dumbest individual I've ever had the misfortune to meet and she started making up her own rules and telling the others what they can do and don't have to do!
When she got pulled up on it she got very nasty, eventually she bullied her daughter and daughter in law into making a harrassment complaint against me after finding out I'd gone much, much higher to complain about their behaviour, their constant claiming of working fradulent hours when they weren't even on site, refusal to do jobs they'd been instructed to perform, then I'd have to deal with the inevitable complaints and try to do these jobs myself in my own lunch breaks.
Seven month investigation in which I threatened to sue the company, the Labour Hire firm and the three individuals for damages, company wouldn't deal with it and put it out to some so-called "independent umpire" (who was paid by the company mind you).
What a hatchet job that was. Mistakes and deliberate fudging of facts left, right and centre.
I later found out several others interviewed by this so-called "independent umpire" had also had several issues with sloppy mistakes bordering on blatant misstyping of what they'd said.
On more than one occasion it was said to me, it seems like this guy's trying to frame you as guilty before we even answer a question and if he doesn't get the answers he wants, he rewrites it to appear that way anyway!
I then had to go back and work in that place at a different time slot as I wouldn't work with anyone after that as, as I said to them at the time, who protects me? I can order someone to do a job, they don't like it, they claim harrassment against me!
On top of all of that, they paid me for a 5:30 to 12:15am shift instead of the 11pm to 5:45am shift I was forced to work on.
What a ******* nightmare! I could write a Thesauras on the shit I went through with that place!
Local Council!
No wonder my health went so bad, I almost died from a stress related illness a year ago.
Every single day.
I hear ya and I understand.My old job I was forced to work copious amounts of unpaid overtime because of too much work and too little staff, the ones we had either kept quitting or being put off (went through nearly 100 in just over ten years).
Threatened to go to the Unions and was told by a manager that said company doesn't like workers joining Unions as it would be seen as rocking the boat and that would have consequences! "You will not join Unions!" I was threatened.
I had a calendar on the wall in the office some years back which had in blue ink, the paid hours I worked and in red ink below, the number of hours each day I'd worked unpaid overtime and was ordered to throw the calendar out because it could paint the company in a bad light if anyone saw it!!
One girl, who was a Labour Hire worker, had been forced to use a vacuum that was obviously faulty and kept sparking, she threatened to go to Workplace Safety and she was let go the very next day, another was deemed by the same manager to be too fat to fit behind doors to clean them and was let go.
It was absolutely incredible.
We had others stealing from the place that were moved on, others caused nothing but trouble, others only turning up when they felt like it - trouble was the company wouldn't bother to get fill ins or replacements and if we wanted to go on holidays, we would have to find our own replacements, get them to sign up with this Labour Hire company, bring them in for an induction and then hope to God they were any good! Usually it was the same manager who started employing her own friends and relatives and allowed them to get away with all kinds of stuff.
Had one that had the same relatives dying over and over (so had to stay home that day), had the front window in her house blow in eight times, had a terrible attack of gastro on the bus, just as it was getting into town and so had to go back home again (usually 5 minutes before starting time) about 20 times.
Later on we had one Labour Hire worker come in, who then started bringing her daughter in law in to help out, had to sign her up as well, then brought in her own daughter who was literally the dumbest individual I've ever had the misfortune to meet and she started making up her own rules and telling the others what they can do and don't have to do!
When she got pulled up on it she got very nasty, eventually she bullied her daughter and daughter in law into making a harrassment complaint against me after finding out I'd gone much, much higher to complain about their behaviour, their constant claiming of working fradulent hours when they weren't even on site, refusal to do jobs they'd been instructed to perform, then I'd have to deal with the inevitable complaints and try to do these jobs myself in my own lunch breaks.
Seven month investigation in which I threatened to sue the company, the Labour Hire firm and the three individuals for damages, company wouldn't deal with it and put it out to some so-called "independent umpire" (who was paid by the company mind you).
What a hatchet job that was. Mistakes and deliberate fudging of facts left, right and centre.
I later found out several others interviewed by this so-called "independent umpire" had also had several issues with sloppy mistakes bordering on blatant misstyping of what they'd said.
On more than one occasion it was said to me, it seems like this guy's trying to frame you as guilty before we even answer a question and if he doesn't get the answers he wants, he rewrites it to appear that way anyway!
I then had to go back and work in that place at a different time slot as I wouldn't work with anyone after that as, as I said to them at the time, who protects me? I can order someone to do a job, they don't like it, they claim harrassment against me!
On top of all of that, they paid me for a 5:30 to 12:15am shift instead of the 11pm to 5:45am shift I was forced to work on.
What a ******* nightmare! I could write a Thesauras on the shit I went through with that place!
Local Council!
No wonder my health went so bad, I almost died from a stress related illness a year ago.
That's bullshit man. They're a bunch of criminals.
