After moving the office about 100km away a while ago my employer has now issued a formal return to office order and at a very short notice. I intend not to comply and am encouraging others not to as well. Got an interview lined up later in the week too.
Tbh if they hadn’t moved the office so far I would probably have been ok with going in. But I can’t cycle 100km so they can go fuck themselves.
So, wait, you were working in an office. Then COVID and remote work. Then fully remote. Then they move the office. Then they demand that people now return to the office?
That is constructive dismissal right there, unless you have a mobility clause in your contract. Even if you do, you could make an argument that it’s constructive if the mobility clause hasn’t been exercised before.
Seek legal rep. IMHO, IANAL, this is an offer of redundancy if I ever saw one.
If you were hoping people would quit, this is what you’d do. Time to organise, eh?
Risky if you end up with too many leaving or it’s mainly the most experienced ones that leave
Ah, but that’s assuming they actually know or care how to properly run a business.
Why think about the long term when short term profits can be made?
Then use that as an example of how they instigated change and increased profitability in the company to get an even higher paying, more powerful job elsewhere. By the time the repercussions hit it doesn’t matter to them.
Busy, but good. Oldest got a couple of offers for degree places next year, so she now has some solid choices. Got a callback for the one she really wants, so she’s happy.
All the (4) kids were part of a Stagecoach production last night - I swear someone was cutting onions in the theatre!! Got home late and lost an hour overnight so was in a rush to get youngest to a birthday party.
Cleaned out my car, after getting a £90 quote to have someone do it. I wasn’t even trying to negotiate but I spontaneously started to laugh and said “if that’s where we’re starting, we are wasting each others’ time” and then left. £90?!?! I mean, yes, kid cars get rather mucky, but come the f*** on! I was expecting £30. Took me a couple of hours and now it’s as good as new. I would have accepted £15/hour but £45/hour is a good wage so I was happy about that.
Landed a new job back at my old company (I joined a scale up turnaround and it didn’t turn-around, so lost my job and had to go looking again). It’s not 110% what I wanted to do - going back - but in this economy I know I must be grateful to have work at all.
Also, my most rage-inducing pot hole in town has FINALLY been fixed. Only took the council 4 months. So that’s a celebration if nothing else.
Hope everyone else is doing fine.
Finished building my “built-in” 3x Ikea Pax wardrobes…
Put the bed back in the room… the drawers open most of the way, but not fully… ffs.
Apart from thst, got out of the (home) office to see some colleagues at a customer’s site… I miss the days when I was doing that job…
So, all in all, a little bit down… but, hey, the clocks went forwards which means summer’s on it’s way
And how did yours go?
Good, hopefully yours too
I needed to travel for work, which I’m not at all keen to do these days. I never sleep well in hotels, so the weekend has mostly been recovering. I did get my car washed and various bits and pieces done in the garden, so that was nice.
