Oh my life. What a ridiculous couple of days it has been! Considering that I have not even been working for these guys these last two days, they have managed to make a real mockery of the terms 'director', 'business' and, indeed, 'boss'.
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that as a freelance worker you worked the time and then you charged for the time you worked? Not so if you work for these dicks! I got a phone call yesterday evening from 'Boss' number 2 (he is MOST DEFINITELY number 2!) asking if it was alright for me to "not charge them for some work that I have done"! I reeled back. He's a pretty weedy fart, this guy, and I could hear in his voice that he'd required a trip to the pub and an awful lot of courage to ask me this, so I did his worst nightmare and said: "I'm sorry. Could you say that again please?" He squealed the words out again, this time with even less conviction. What could possibly be the excuse for them asking this of me? I was gasping in horror. Was this company seriously asking this? Not a very professional way of running things, now, I don't think. I told him that I would definitely be charging for the work carried out and that was that. Soppy loser.
I may have mentioned before, but my job involves the running of a short project for young people. The company have taken a lump sum payment to run the project and then pay their staff from that. Since the company is non-profit making neither of the directors are allowed to take anything like a dividend at the end of a financial year. They are, however, allowed to reward any member of staff with a 'bonus' if they like. There. That's it! That's the reason they don't want to pay me too much for doing the work that needs to be done! The money is running low now and me being at work eats into their bonus!
Moving on to 'Boss' number 1, I got a phone call today. I was working elsewhere at the time so I ignored it. He left a voicemail (in which there was a total lie!) and I called him back. Because I couldn't be arsed to speak to him for long, I popped outside and stood next to the noisy road to ensure the call would be as short as possible. It worked and I carried on with my (more important) work towards other things. Another half an hour passed and he called back again! I was pretty annoyed by now: I'd worked Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday for him and it had taken until Friday for him to get his brain into gear to ask me to do something! I ignored the call again and called him back a few minutes later - I just love making him leave voicemails like a bitch! This time he had a job for me. No, not any new work, just something for me to do there and then for him while I was working for someone else. Twonk. No idea how it works, I tell you!
I sat around for a bit before making the calls he needed me to make and then just text him the results of my call. Maybe I am too nice? Or maybe I have my sights set on receiving this last pay packet before disappearing off and never talking to them again? One thing is for sure: I am going to name and shame this wretched hole of a company in the not-so-distant-future. This pair of chumps need all the advice they can get...
I may have mentioned before, but my job involves the running of a short project for young people. The company have taken a lump sum payment to run the project and then pay their staff from that. Since the company is non-profit making neither of the directors are allowed to take anything like a dividend at the end of a financial year. They are, however, allowed to reward any member of staff with a 'bonus' if they like. There. That's it! That's the reason they don't want to pay me too much for doing the work that needs to be done! The money is running low now and me being at work eats into their bonus!
Moving on to 'Boss' number 1, I got a phone call today. I was working elsewhere at the time so I ignored it. He left a voicemail (in which there was a total lie!) and I called him back. Because I couldn't be arsed to speak to him for long, I popped outside and stood next to the noisy road to ensure the call would be as short as possible. It worked and I carried on with my (more important) work towards other things. Another half an hour passed and he called back again! I was pretty annoyed by now: I'd worked Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday for him and it had taken until Friday for him to get his brain into gear to ask me to do something! I ignored the call again and called him back a few minutes later - I just love making him leave voicemails like a bitch! This time he had a job for me. No, not any new work, just something for me to do there and then for him while I was working for someone else. Twonk. No idea how it works, I tell you!
I sat around for a bit before making the calls he needed me to make and then just text him the results of my call. Maybe I am too nice? Or maybe I have my sights set on receiving this last pay packet before disappearing off and never talking to them again? One thing is for sure: I am going to name and shame this wretched hole of a company in the not-so-distant-future. This pair of chumps need all the advice they can get...
2 comments:
It almost sounds worthwhile working for these w**kers so you have some funny stories to tell in the coming years :)
I would agree, on the basis that I've spent a fair part of the last year working with a team, all of whom feel the same as I do about them; but it's the meetings with just them that I dread, the seemingless endless sitting there with drivel coming out of their mouths. It always leaves a sour taste in my mouth!
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