I've recently taken over as GM of a local pub. There were some younger people working over the summer holidays under the previous guy in charge, and they all left once school started up again in September. All of them were given their P45 (UK document given to people when they leave employment for tax reasons), so they officially have left the ( Read more... )

Now,don't get me wrong. Some volunteers and community service people are wonderful. In the case of community service they were sentenced to xx hours of service for whatever they might have done wrong. We've had some GREAT people that way, hard workers who later, in fact, became staff members ( Read more... )

I've never posted here before because my job and the ever-present sucks that come with it are so convoluted and difficult to explain. These two, though, just got under my skin ( Read more... )

My collegue W is not exactly known for being tactful or keeping her mouth shut. Mostly, I'm used to this and ignore her when she goes overboard.
But I very nearly tore her a new one the other day.

I'd gotten several personal calls at work. W noticed and asked what was going on. And I was stressed out enough to be honest and told her: My aunt was ( Read more... )