I used to work in an off-license, not the most demanding of jobs i’ll grant you. we were poorly paid, and even full time staff were put on 39 hour contracts to save the company from paying us all that extra stuff like pensions, health and medical expenses.

Anyway, they always had these odd bonus schemes, most of them weren’t obtainable as they would set a target, put the item on promotion, and expect you to sell 6 times the usual amount to get close to the bonus system.

before that though they had a system where you got points based on the amount of stuff that you sold as an individual. and after a while you could select something in exchange from a catalogue. you would have thought that we would have known about it, you know from the monthly statements that we recieved at the shop.

we’ll in the end the changed the system and everyone was going to use there points until they were told that the boss had used them all and brought her sister a really nice stereo system with our points. that’s nice, what did we get???? yep nothing.”

the other day my stupid boss put an envelope in my mailbox at work. it contained pay increases for 2 others in my workplace – one whom i supervise – one whom i supervise but am not responsible for. i never should have seen #2’s salary – i trained him, i cultivated him into what he is today – he came to our staff as a young, “careless” guy…my stupid boss used to rip on him (on me for his actions) he is now working in another dept and – now all of a sudden he walks on water – mr new, careless guy’s (newer than me and all the others)… salary is so close to mine it’s sick…i’ve been with the company for 12+ years – given it my heart and soul…by the looks of it they’re trying to tell me something – obviously they don’t appreciate my committment….shame on them! shame on me for not “getting the message….”

he deserves good pay – but so do i !!!