The Chairman Stories
100% is never enough
WORKING IN THE LOWER TIERS OF THE FINANCE SECTOR, PARTICULARLY CALL CENTRES, CAN BE A SORRY PLOD INDEED. THOSE WHO ARE UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ENTOMBED AS SUCH MAY BE ABLE TO RELATE TO THIS LIST OF DOLEFULNESS
Low pay and unhealthy conditions
Low morale
Edwardian practice of having to account for every second of the working day
Illogical setting of productivity targets that are never in your favour and regularly being trimmed down
Being paid differently for doing the same job as the person next to you
Not being paid for all the hours actually worked
Having the 'benefit' of buying holidays that used to be part of your leave entitlements
Having real benefits taken away, such as a week’s paid leave when you got married, or a day off for moving house. And remember the extra hour or two thrown in for Christmas shopping?
Being made to feel like a fraud if you take sick leave
Low morale
Edwardian practice of having to account for every second of the working day
Illogical setting of productivity targets that are never in your favour and regularly being trimmed down
Being paid differently for doing the same job as the person next to you
Not being paid for all the hours actually worked
Having the 'benefit' of buying holidays that used to be part of your leave entitlements
Having real benefits taken away, such as a week’s paid leave when you got married, or a day off for moving house. And remember the extra hour or two thrown in for Christmas shopping?
Being made to feel like a fraud if you take sick leave
Being put on humiliating, degrading attendance plans if you dare to be sick anyway
Working in an industry where everything is only about cost reducing
Being patronised by mindless, intelligence insulting sweeteners under the guise of rewards
Giving feedback in a roundly ignored employee opinion survey
Being represented by a pretend union that never ballots its members and agrees to every decision the employer makes, and incessantly preaches about bloody partnership!
Coming to a workplace because the only real alternative is destitution
Working in an industry where everything is only about cost reducing
Being patronised by mindless, intelligence insulting sweeteners under the guise of rewards
Giving feedback in a roundly ignored employee opinion survey
Being represented by a pretend union that never ballots its members and agrees to every decision the employer makes, and incessantly preaches about bloody partnership!
Coming to a workplace because the only real alternative is destitution
Why is 100% never enough?
If you can relate your working life to any of that scroll of sorrow then you might just enjoy The Chairman Stories. It’s about the greedy, exploitative chairman of a bank whose empire reflected all the above and more. He dies one night and finds himself in Hell, condemned to do all the crap jobs his employees had to do in life, and still do. However, for the Chairman, it’s not just until the ever increasing retirement age comes around - it’s forever!
Join the miserable sinner on his seven grievance journey through Hell until the blessed chance of an appeal at the end awaits him. Will he finally get his sorry backside out of the place...?
Join the miserable sinner on his seven grievance journey through Hell until the blessed chance of an appeal at the end awaits him. Will he finally get his sorry backside out of the place...?
THE
CHAIRMAN
STORIES
Awfully funny
CHAIRMAN
STORIES
Awfully funny