how do i hate money? let me count the

ways....

okay, here is my rant.

Lewis told his boss - lets call him "Mr X", that he was moving to Palmerston, and that he would give him plenty of notice once he knew when etc. Mr X was a bit miffed. a week later Suckface starts asking the staff about lewis and what he has been doing at work(Mr X is very rarely actully there). Anyway on saturday Lew works at local football clubrooms from 6-12. He had been into the bar at 2 and worked from 2-5, then 6-12. he went back to the bar at 12:30 and usually if they are busy, he pitched in until they settle down and then he goes home. He waled in and the bar was dead so he said, "see you, I'm off home" Mr X had a huge go at him about not performing properly and how it was his job to stay there - blah blah blah. So lew told his boss to stick it...well, actually he didn't - he used slightly different language - hey this is a family show right! Lew was so angry as Mr X has dicked him around so much - scheduling him to work at 10am, when he had worked until 4am the next day and tellinghim to "harden up" when he complained...forgetting to pay us and having to return a LOT of groceries as the card was declined...

anyway, sunday dawned and lewis was annoyed all day. that night he said he had a meeting on Monday about this.

monday comes and Mr X announces at the meeting that he has heard Lewis is stealing. Lewis is like WHAT???? he was "stealing" free pool games.   - what actually happened was that several customers were complainging about the service, so he gave them some pool games to try and make them happier. he explained this and Mr X said that no, it was stealing and that Lew was suspended. he was stunned,

Anyway came home and I did some investigating and realised that by law you can't be suspended without pay and that we have a good case for unfair dismissal. but Lewis is so annoyed he doesn't want to pursue it. Anyway, rings a mate and gets another job. Goes into meeting on Thursday and was officially fired. So the new job starts on wednesday...well, until last night when the guy rang up and said unbeknown to him the other owner had already hired his cousin - so no job!!!!!!

rang winz this morning and they said that it looks like he will have to pursue unfair dismissla and have a thirteen week stand-down period. luckily I still get money from IRD and we have our moving money, but what a fricken mess. lew does not want to go for unfair dismissal - he wants to just move on. Personally, if it were me I'd be out for every cent i could as revenge.

Argh Liz that sucks! I agree with Shirena tho - tell that Lewis to forget his stubborn pride and take the B*stard to the cleaners!
Let me know if there is anything we can do to help!

he was really angry about me "pressuring him" to do unfair dismissal, so have decided to leave everything, until the meeting with winz - am hoping that if they say "do it or no money" then he will have to, and i get away with not being in the bad books.

AND MIL is in the shed cleaning it out and I've discovered that all the kids summer toys weren't put away properyly by FIL and are now distributed throughtou the whole bloody place, so have to go on a mission to find everything, and hope it hasn't been chucked already.

Oooo that is so frustrating! It's almost like Mr X has been looking for a way to let Lewis go without paying him, looking for faults etc etc. Have you any rights about the other job he was accepted for and then turned down on?

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does he have any holiday pay owed? How long has he been working with this employer? Here's a quick link to a problem solving website

awww cr## lizzle that relly suxs te;; him to fight for his rights

looked at everything already but thanks everyone. If we do end up going that route I am practically an employment lawyer now (who needs 4 years of uni huh???)

am thinking and lloking on the bright side - as in, have a rather large inheritence coming through in about three weeks, so that should help - just hope no-one has contested the will - and that it doesn't get delayed by anything.

Oh gosh, that sucks so much!!!

Want me to head round to Mr X's to teach him a lesson? I've got some tricks.

Good thing you are leaving... don't forget to mention it to a few people around before you leave.

Liz. Hope that whatever you end up deciding that everything will work out for you and your family. Hugs