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ok so WTF just happened?
Sep. 19th, 2012 04:27 pmWhat a ruddy emotional roller coaster. Ok, let's start from the beginning. You guys know I have had my reservations about NW for a while now. The sub-par training, the racism, the "screw everyone you can" attitude...it really got to me. What made it worse was that there was nobody I could go to about it; hard to speak to a supervisor about how them making gay or Indian nasty jokes offends you when that supervisor was involved in the original actions. There is a guy there named Layne who is openly gay and a cross-dresser. I personally liked him very much; he was funny, smart, happy to be himself and also very helpful. But the SHIT people laid on him for being who/what he is was just unbelieveable. And always behind his back. Rachel in particular was just...out of line. But the thing is, she's a protected species as she is the daughter of one of the bosses. As is Sam, who acted like a total twat half the time. No managerial skills at all. The best way I can describe her is a "blocker". You'd have a concern or a question, and she'd "block" you. Tell you you don't need to worry about it, or she'd do SOMEthing on the screen to fix it but wouldn't tell you what it was she had done so you never actually LEARNED anything. Tom was good in letting me dispatch, but Efy and the others...yeah no.
The last load of shifts really made me question staying there. Not only because of the way they had screwed me with the roster, but also because of the behaviour displayed toward staff who were forced into it. The last straw was when Rachel told me I had the personality of a pot plant. That was just...*shakes head* who SAYS that to a work mate? Esp one who has just worked 5 12 hour shifts in a row and is in the last hour of that load? Clearly tired, clearly not interested in your bogan bullshit discussion about why all immigrants should be deported if they can't speak English to an University level (which god know she certainly couldn't), I was WORKING. Quietly dispatching away. And because I didn't add anything to the convo, because, you know, I was like WORKING, I got THAT.
I hopped onto Seek.com and typed in Dispatcher next day off. First one that came up sounded good so I whipped off my resume. Got a call about 30mins later from Karen asking if I could come in for an interview. That was the STUFF I mentioned the other day. Went and had interview a couple days later which went for TWO AND A HALF HOURS! Place is called Green Light couriers. I will have a team of about 18 or so drivers. Good. I like the smaller teams, much easier to get to know them etc.
Went back to work the next day and had a performance review. It went really well. They said they were happy with me and could see I was developing every day. My KPIs were awesome and my knowledge base building VERY rapidly. All good. Only complaint was I wore grey pants instead of black. :/. Because that is SUCH a huge deal when 3/4 of the others came in dressed like $2 whores, ripped clothing and hungover... I was like, whatev's, I'll get black pants with next pay. All good.
Came out and continued to work the rest of the shifts. The I got a call yesterday from Sam saying please come in. I asked why. She said "there's no point going into it on the phone, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Sam, this is freaking me out. Please at least tell me what this is about"
"No" *click*
Wouldn't answer my calls or texts. I called Leah and asked if she knew WTF, she was as confused as I was. She managed to get out of Sam that it was regarding my review. So I went in and was told that I was "not up to standards" and had not passed my probation period. Which ended next day i.e today. I asked um, what standards? Show me the standard. They couldn't show me even one. I said um my KPI's are better than most of the others in there, I'm never late like half of them are, I've had TWO who shifts off (one because my tooth broke at work, the other because I had gastro from hell and was throwing up like no one's business), the teams worked for me very well, and I hardly needed direction any more. They just said no you don't meet standard and kept blocking me. I was like WTF, fuck you. Got up and walked back to the coms room and wrote Kate a quick note, which Sam was VERY upset about; she wanted me GONE. She basically pushed me out the door and down the steps! Kate went pure white when she saw it and quickly sent me a text.
And you know what Sam's parting words to me where? "We won't release your final pay until you return the two polos to us."
"Are you serious? That is all you have to say to me?"
"Well what else is there to say. We expect the shirts back or we won't release your wage"
I stood there for a moment staring at her and said "Sam, you really need to learn how to talk to people, you should really consider doing a management course so you don't act like the Boss's Daughter and treat people the way you do." and walked out.
Craig had driven me, thank god. I didn't shed a single tear but GOD were we mad! We'd be ok for a few weeks with savings, but it would have been VERY hard. I spent most of yesterday firing off a million emails/resumes. Then this morning as I was trying to work out WTF I was going to do with my day, my mobile rang. It was Karen from Green Light. She scared the shit out of me, sounding like they didn't want me, then said she was prepared to give me a go but I'd better realise there were no RDO's etc. I almost burst out laughing. For the past ten years or so I have worked 12 hour shifts, weekends, public holidays, Xmas, you name it. Now I will be working 8:30am to 6pm. Monday to Friday only. No public holidays. For the moment they are not very far from my last work, but in December (I think it is) they are moving to Rowville...not far from where Kings is! LOL!!!!! She knew all about Kings too, said they are going swiftly to shit. She also knew Nationwide and even before I said anything she said "I take it you are leaving there due to their attitudes and behaviours towards their staff?". :D
I start tomorrow morning at the luxurious time of 0830. I have 3 months probation. And paid a tiny bit more than I was at NW. Ahhhh. The best form of revenge, my friends, is success.
And yes they do know about the wedding/honeymoon next year and are fine with me taking that time off. At this stage I will most likely go back to work on the Monday and Tuesday after the wedding. We fly out on the Tuesday, so will prob work a half day or similar since we don't fly out til very late evening.
So there you have it.
Got the WORST tension headache right afterwards. Went to the horses and did a huge clean up of the paddock but that didn't help at all. Came home and took many LEGAL drugs and had a hot bath. It's still lingering but it's under control. Paddock looks good but :D Going to have to fit in mucking out on weekends now instead of RDO's during the week. Prob get down there an hour or so before due to ride and do as much as I can. Thinking at this stage dependent on weather conditions, will probably move my horses out of the private paddock when we do go to Europe. Give it a good rest, and hopefully mean Melissa won't have to do ANYthing at all bar check on them for me and perhaps feed if she thinks they need it. Ah the day to day worries of the jet setting class ;P
The last load of shifts really made me question staying there. Not only because of the way they had screwed me with the roster, but also because of the behaviour displayed toward staff who were forced into it. The last straw was when Rachel told me I had the personality of a pot plant. That was just...*shakes head* who SAYS that to a work mate? Esp one who has just worked 5 12 hour shifts in a row and is in the last hour of that load? Clearly tired, clearly not interested in your bogan bullshit discussion about why all immigrants should be deported if they can't speak English to an University level (which god know she certainly couldn't), I was WORKING. Quietly dispatching away. And because I didn't add anything to the convo, because, you know, I was like WORKING, I got THAT.
I hopped onto Seek.com and typed in Dispatcher next day off. First one that came up sounded good so I whipped off my resume. Got a call about 30mins later from Karen asking if I could come in for an interview. That was the STUFF I mentioned the other day. Went and had interview a couple days later which went for TWO AND A HALF HOURS! Place is called Green Light couriers. I will have a team of about 18 or so drivers. Good. I like the smaller teams, much easier to get to know them etc.
Went back to work the next day and had a performance review. It went really well. They said they were happy with me and could see I was developing every day. My KPIs were awesome and my knowledge base building VERY rapidly. All good. Only complaint was I wore grey pants instead of black. :/. Because that is SUCH a huge deal when 3/4 of the others came in dressed like $2 whores, ripped clothing and hungover... I was like, whatev's, I'll get black pants with next pay. All good.
Came out and continued to work the rest of the shifts. The I got a call yesterday from Sam saying please come in. I asked why. She said "there's no point going into it on the phone, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Sam, this is freaking me out. Please at least tell me what this is about"
"No" *click*
Wouldn't answer my calls or texts. I called Leah and asked if she knew WTF, she was as confused as I was. She managed to get out of Sam that it was regarding my review. So I went in and was told that I was "not up to standards" and had not passed my probation period. Which ended next day i.e today. I asked um, what standards? Show me the standard. They couldn't show me even one. I said um my KPI's are better than most of the others in there, I'm never late like half of them are, I've had TWO who shifts off (one because my tooth broke at work, the other because I had gastro from hell and was throwing up like no one's business), the teams worked for me very well, and I hardly needed direction any more. They just said no you don't meet standard and kept blocking me. I was like WTF, fuck you. Got up and walked back to the coms room and wrote Kate a quick note, which Sam was VERY upset about; she wanted me GONE. She basically pushed me out the door and down the steps! Kate went pure white when she saw it and quickly sent me a text.
And you know what Sam's parting words to me where? "We won't release your final pay until you return the two polos to us."
"Are you serious? That is all you have to say to me?"
"Well what else is there to say. We expect the shirts back or we won't release your wage"
I stood there for a moment staring at her and said "Sam, you really need to learn how to talk to people, you should really consider doing a management course so you don't act like the Boss's Daughter and treat people the way you do." and walked out.
Craig had driven me, thank god. I didn't shed a single tear but GOD were we mad! We'd be ok for a few weeks with savings, but it would have been VERY hard. I spent most of yesterday firing off a million emails/resumes. Then this morning as I was trying to work out WTF I was going to do with my day, my mobile rang. It was Karen from Green Light. She scared the shit out of me, sounding like they didn't want me, then said she was prepared to give me a go but I'd better realise there were no RDO's etc. I almost burst out laughing. For the past ten years or so I have worked 12 hour shifts, weekends, public holidays, Xmas, you name it. Now I will be working 8:30am to 6pm. Monday to Friday only. No public holidays. For the moment they are not very far from my last work, but in December (I think it is) they are moving to Rowville...not far from where Kings is! LOL!!!!! She knew all about Kings too, said they are going swiftly to shit. She also knew Nationwide and even before I said anything she said "I take it you are leaving there due to their attitudes and behaviours towards their staff?". :D
I start tomorrow morning at the luxurious time of 0830. I have 3 months probation. And paid a tiny bit more than I was at NW. Ahhhh. The best form of revenge, my friends, is success.
And yes they do know about the wedding/honeymoon next year and are fine with me taking that time off. At this stage I will most likely go back to work on the Monday and Tuesday after the wedding. We fly out on the Tuesday, so will prob work a half day or similar since we don't fly out til very late evening.
So there you have it.
Got the WORST tension headache right afterwards. Went to the horses and did a huge clean up of the paddock but that didn't help at all. Came home and took many LEGAL drugs and had a hot bath. It's still lingering but it's under control. Paddock looks good but :D Going to have to fit in mucking out on weekends now instead of RDO's during the week. Prob get down there an hour or so before due to ride and do as much as I can. Thinking at this stage dependent on weather conditions, will probably move my horses out of the private paddock when we do go to Europe. Give it a good rest, and hopefully mean Melissa won't have to do ANYthing at all bar check on them for me and perhaps feed if she thinks they need it. Ah the day to day worries of the jet setting class ;P
