Just got an info pack from British Gas, look at the starting date and it says 14th July. Every piece of communiction - letter, email and phone call etc has clearly stated the starting date of 7th July.

I've handed in my notice to end on the 4th July. I've been in touch with Recruitment centre and and the training centre, the Recruitment Centre is insisting I start on the 7th and the Training Centre is insisting I start on the 14th. Contact the Recruitment centre again and told them of the situation again and they have said "Well it must be the 14th then..."

FFS I've done everything possible on my side to make sure I'm ready to start work on the 7th July, this includes handing my notice in to finish my current job on the 4th July. Now it means that I am effectively totally unemployed and more importantly, unpaid for a week due to some idiots clerical error! For them to just shrug it off as if its my fault as well has really annoyed me

Just can't believe it, how friggin hard is it to get a date right, I'm getting quite p!ssed off with this. If this is the sign of things to come I think I'll look for employment elsewhere and not bother with British Gas. What a f*cking joke!!

 

Give Npower a ring mate. .

 

 

Mate, (you may not be able to do the same thing, but) in situations like this I always remember back to points in my life that make the situation today look like a Stelvio vacation. Such as;

• Sierra Leone where I met people in the Army who hadn't been fed in 4 days (or their kids in a week)
• Had their legs chopped off because they were in a different rebel army
• Watching kids root through steaming skips of crap to find something to eat
• Being mobbed for a bar of chocolate
• Being threatened with an loaded AK47 (a few times)
• Watching the rebel army officer beat their troops with a big stick because they couldn't count past 5
• Mates getting killed in the Falklands when I was there

That's not supposed to be heavy, but I look back and think life could be a damn sight worse!!!!

It'll be OK on the night chap... these things happen. Just turn up on the 7th and see if they squeeze you in.

If not, take a week off.

 

r hey calm down, calm down. Look at it as an extra weeks holiday

 

Its not an extra weeks holiday though as I do not get paid and I am also aware that theres always someone worse off but at the end of the day, its not just bad luck, its someones stupid mistake that shouldn't happen. Like most people I too have outgoings that need to be paid and regardless of the situation, the bank is not going to accept "Oh it was a mix up with my start dates" when I have two months worth of outgoings coming out of one months pay.

I've spoken to my current manager, he's happy to let me stay on for another week which helps but really, is it that hard to get a date right. This is what the recruitment staff get paid for, end of the day it is important to the people wanting the job as they have to sort their own lives out to adjust to the change and to get it wrong and then just just "oops, oh well" really isn't acceptable. I don't mind mistakes so long as something is done to sort them out.

 

Get used to it rich they are rubbish at sorting EVERYTHING out I got told when I was going to do my acs (CORGI registration) five years ago that I would be doing it in leeds.....went there "sorry you aint doing it here" rang up head office guess where I would be doing it.......scotland!!

 

lmao.....try and work for the NHS....we stink even more!!!

chill mr man, if all else fails get on the temp agency for a week of daftness!!!

 

I can back ya up on that one, the NHS is awful to work for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well I've had a call back from the manager at recruitment centre, they have admitted responsibility for the mistake and will pay me for the week. Luckily enough I can still work for BMW for that week too and pull in an extra bit of money that way too.

As I said last night, it was unwillingness to accept the responsibility of the mistake and the attitude of the people I spoke to that really got me mad.

 

and calm

 

Foo pee me!

 

What did I say?

Now look.. from no pay to double pay in 24 Hrs...

Lovely. Beers on Rich then?

 

Top idea Alan,, i'll have a Magners over ice please Rich...

 

2 Magners please.........and a sambuca ta very much

 

Sambuca....

Bad experience on them in Dubai few years ago....

 

Must admit ive not faired to well on the buca,threw up in the back of a taxi few years back,ruined my white Lee jeans and had to help mr taxi man the next day to get rid of my chunks and chilli sauce out of the upholstery......smelly

 

Better to blow out the flame before drinking boys

 

White Lee Jeans ???? must have been more than a few years ago

 

Wasn't that the 80s?
Whiskey for me please

 

think they were in my march 1986 issue of glamour mag