Number change

As part of the process wherein I've given Big Nasty advice on orthopaedic
seating and torsional rigidity, I've also flung my crap Nokia corporate moby
back in their teeth, and selected a lean, black housebrick from my
collection of classic wireless telephones. If anyone wants to update their
database with my current number, email me. Hurry, hurry, limited
availability, while stocks last etc.

 

platypus wrote

Have I missed something, when did this happen?

We know quite enough about you all ready don't we.

 

Quite recently. Things got a bit lively when the client pointed out that my
departure didn't absolve my former employer of their contractual
responsibilities.

But there's more. Much more.

 

Would that involve contracting rates for you to finish the job?

 

It may well do. I had a chat with my ex-oppo today, and my absence does
appear to have been noticed.

 

Now is a good time to tell you about the contractor I know from the
large project I worked on 4 years ago.. and the fact he's still on the
books, at a quite frankly obscene hourly rate.

"It's only blackmail if they don't ask you to help."

 

What's your definition of obscene?

 

It depends on the work involved.

The chap in question is earning several times the going contract rate
for his skillset. He can demand it simply because he's the last person
left that knows the past 6 or 7 years of history in a particular niche
area where that kind of thing is important.

 

I'll see how desparate they are when this contract ends - although it feels
like one that's likely to get extended. I have, in the weeks leading up to
my departure, shared a jest with the service manager about how much might be
needed to tempt me back for a few days.

Somebody was telling me that I might have a fairly good constructive
dismissal case. Depends on whether I cn be arsed to seek advice, I suppose.

 

Me to the life. Hmm...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

It will also depend of whether you totally exhausted the grievance
procedure before you left.

If you didn't, you're dead in the water.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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I've apparently got 90 days after date of departure to do the grievance
thing. But really, I can't be doing with it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Good call. Much betterer to get a nice juicy contract out of them.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Doesn't really answer the question; 500 quid a day or 5000?

 

Even if you did and win the case I suspect that entering into this sort
of legal action could leave your career dead in the water.

 

The exact numbers don't matter.

 

Shirly you mean "when you *can't* see it" ?

 

Eh? It's me that's asking the question. I'll decide whether the actual
numbers matter or not.

 

Knock-knock.

Who's there?

Adolf.

Adolf who?

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