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I reckon to get my employer to take my salary down £2 would be pretty damn hard. It's taken 4 months of my manager regularly badgering them, and they still haven't managed to take back the extra months salary they paid me back in June. I was hoping she'd forget about it, but apparently it is going to come off my November pay now. Lovely to not get paid just before Christmas.
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Well yeah, but I sort of used it to move house. I know I can't really complain, but when you've had the money for a while, you just sort of hope they'll figure that it's not all that big a deal to them.
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I might buy a new stereo, actually, and just sort of hope that my employer gives me the £3k. After all, it means a lot more to me than it does to them.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Lovely to not get paid just before Christmas.
I'll be joining you, it looks like, as I've just received an email saying that due to the "current climate" they'll be combining the Publicity Manager role and the Marketing Manager role into one, and making both roles redundant.
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So do you and the other person both have to reapply for the combined job? If so, I'd suggest a pre-emptive kneecapping. I might know a guy in the Oxford area, if you know what I mean.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Bugger. Does that mean they'll be interviewing for a new Everything Manager post? You can go for that, right?
I'm not sure. I've got a consultation on the 29th, as - presumably - has the publicity manager. There's no way she would be able to take on my job, and the owner of the company despises her, so it has crossed my mind that these are the legal hoops they would have to jump through in order to make her redundant. Conversely, I get on well with the owners, and they keep saying stuff like "You're far and away the best copywriter we've ever had". So that's a positive. On the other hand, there's been rumours for a while that the company is going to move to London, and I strongly suspect that they're just going to recruit for the position externally and get someone from That London.
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I don't think there would be a massive raise involved. In fact I imagine my 'reward' would simply be being able to keep my job.
That's a big 'if' of course. While I'm certain that they want to get rid of the Publicity Manager, I do think they see it as an opportunity to get someone else altogether in.
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I should mention at this point, mind, that I spent about 20 minutes extolling to the company owners the virtues of integrating the PR and marketing departments, when they asked me about "ideas for the future". So I may have fucked myself in the arse if they went away saying "That is a good idea. Let's get someone in who can do that."
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No idea yet. Been asked to apply for the new position; that's about it so far. Unofficial word (from the sales manager via the company owner) is that I "don't have anything to worry about", but I'm not planning any big purchases just yet.
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I'm pretty sure that if she really tries, Octavia can hold that baby in for 11-12 months or something until you're sure what is going on.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I'm pretty sure that if she really tries, Octavia can hold that baby in for 11-12 months or something until you're sure what is going on.
I was speaking the other day to someone who's just been made redundant. Works for the NHS. Apparently they're going to be booted from their job in 2012. I was just amazed. Basically, she's guaranteed to still be in her job for the whole of the next twelve months. Who else can boast that kind of security?
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Actually - Although I can't guarantee being in a job for 12 months, if I do get made redundant, I will get the equivalent of about 11 months salary so including the pay for the 30 days redundancy period, I can guarantee a years pay which is alright. And I wouldn't even have to work for most of that period to get that amount which would make me the winner.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Actually - Although I can't guarantee being in a job for 12 months, if I do get made redundant, I will get the equivalent of about 11 months salary
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Well. I get a month's salary for every year I've been at Amex. I've been here for 7 years which is about 7 months. However redundancy money isn't taxed so 7 months untaxed salary is probably about equivalent to 11 months taxed salary. Possibly.
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But... how come you get a month's salary for every year you've been at AMEX? That's more than four times the statutory rate (one week's pay for each year, and even that is capped at about £350 per week). Is that written into your contract?
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That is indeed written into my contract. Amex is very nice to its staff. (I also get 15% of my pre tax salary paid into my pension by just paying in 6% of my pre tax salary myself)
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Oh balls. Just looked into it and you've got to be over 41 to get a month's salary per year. I'd get 3/4 monthly salary per year so I'd get about 7 months pay.
Although, it does mean that if I get made redundant in 8 years then I will get 15 months pay.
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In Spain it was a month's salary for every year -- it cost me a bloody fortune to lay someone off. It nearly finished me off.
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