Re: Hate Thread
So I'm now officially unemployed.
The saga from the beginning started about a month and a half ago, when the company I work for's major contract announced that they weren't going to renew the contract, opting to take it overseas where they can pay people significantly less for a significantly less well job done. Their stupid business strategy, not ours.
Now, we still had work until the end of June by the very contract they're not renewing. But they stopped sending calls to us. We get paid based on how many calls we take; if they don't send us calls, we don't get paid. We went through about 2-3 weeks of less and less calls coming through to us, the final week of which we were averaging 1 call an hour each and getting sent home after a few hours because we, the staff, are paid hourly while the centre is paid per call; they simply couldn't afford to keep us on.
Finally, we were sent on a 3 week unpaid break because there was no work for us, but were told we'd have work at the end of April. Sure enough, on the very Wednesday they asked us to come back, we began training for a new job roll; working in account administration for their business accounts. The first two days rolled by at a usual training pace, but things started to show wrong on the friday, when we spent the entire day reviewing the stuff we'd done to death on thursday, because we didn't have the access we needed to do the one part of our job we were missing.
Monday was noticeably worse, and people were clearly beginning to get worried, as we repeated Friday's activities. Late Monday, we were told that we still hadn't been sent the access codes we needed in order to actually do the job; which were now over a week late and my company had been told they'd arrive on Thursday now. (A.k.a today)
So, two more unpaid days later, we get into work once again. Around half an hour of standing around chatting near our desks before we're seperated into two groups (being fulltime and casual employees; basically casual employees can be fired more easily. I am still Casual because I haven't been there long enough) At this point, we're all pretty certain news is not good.
Once again, our client the Telco has not produced the essential login codes for us to do the job that they totally want us to do for them, apparently. Now, they're saying it'll be there on Monday. The boss of my centre, however, is not so optimistic. And so all casual employees, and even some fulltimers apparently, have been laid off until they actually have work for us. As per law, I'll get paid for 3 hours of today because I turned up but after an hour of being at work today I was asked to hand in my passcard, my security token and my headset. Assuming that this business accounts job never actually comes through, it'll be somewhere between 4-8 weeks before they get new campaigns in at which point they said they'll call us to re-hire; which I do genuinely believe because I can see they've fought to try and keep us employed. A lot of others have been outright fired during all this turmoil and chaos.
But yes. Unemployed.
Now, you may or may not recall, I need to find a new house to live in. Obviously, this lack of employment makes it all the more difficult to do so, although I do have sufficient savings to last me a while so hopefully potential landlords are willing to overlook things. Heck, technically I've still got a casual bar job, so that's something I guess. But still, I'm up shit creek right now; I just happen to have a paddle.
