That's it for me , I'm out.

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presta

Legendary Member
How can getting older at a rate of one day of ageing for every 24 hours be consider a policy change? What planet do these people come from?

The renewal documents come with a list of the information you give them when the policy started, along with a warning that your policy will be invalid if you don't tell them about any changes. As it said "Occupation: Independent means" and I'm now living off independent means + state pension I assumed that I'd better tell them.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
My insurance plummeted when became a pensioner.
 

simongt

Guru
Location
Norwich
My insurance plummeted when became a pensioner.
When I get my insurance quote through, I trawl through the 'Check the Meercat' website and then contact my broker for a 'discussion'.
What was interesting was that they were the only ones to give me a 'retired' discount - ! ^_^
 

presta

Legendary Member
About 20 years ago I was phoning around for motor insurance quotes, and when one asked my occupation I told them I don't know whether I count as retired or unemployed as I'm not working, or drawing benefits, or getting a pension.

"So which is it?"

I explained that I was living off my savings.

"So which is it?"

I pointed out that I'd told her honestly and fully my circumstances, and that if she didn't know which of their own categories that puts me in, how am I supposed to know.

"So which is it?"

This was the gist, but in actual fact, the conversation went on in a similar vein for about five or ten minutes before I just gave up and put the phone down. I suspect a recording of the call did the rounds of the insurance industry for training purposes after that, because since then they all seem to have an "Independent Means" category now. :laugh:
 

simongt

Guru
Location
Norwich
THis sounds a bit like a conversation I had with my last departmental manager before I left the company.
I'd refused to do certain shifts with, as I argued, good reason. The conversation went round and round with him saying that if I refused, 'there would be consequences'. I asked what would be the consequences - ? He kept asking was I refusing to do the particular shifts - ? and I kept asking what would the consequences be - ? :dry:
This went round and round for ten minutes or so, getting nowhere and I never found out what the consequences would have been as I handed my notice in two days later - ! :laugh:
 

grldtnr

Über Member
THis sounds a bit like a conversation I had with my last departmental manager before I left the company.
I'd refused to do certain shifts with, as I argued, good reason. The conversation went round and round with him saying that if I refused, 'there would be consequences'. I asked what would be the consequences - ? He kept asking was I refusing to do the particular shifts - ? and I kept asking what would the consequences be - ? :dry:
This went round and round for ten minutes or so, getting nowhere and I never found out what the consequences would have been as I handed my notice in two days later - ! :laugh:

Seems a little like constructive dismissal to me, i.e they didn't give you a reasonable choice of shifts, presumably you were taken on a basis that you would be working a fixed shift.
Failure to accommodate your preference, then threaten you with unspecified consequences ,is not a fair treatment.
But you resigned, so resolved the situation, to their satisfaction!
But you might have wanted to go anyway, I did the same thing myself, giving them plenty of notice I was leaving , and quite shocked when they said we didn't think you were serious, ! This was about a week untill .my resignation, I didn't feel obliged to stay on, as quite frankly I had enough of them whittling away my terms &:conditions, just dumped my Uniform and equipment and left !

Most satisfying!
 

simongt

Guru
Location
Norwich
But you resigned, so resolved the situation, to their satisfaction!
Ahh, but MUCH more to my satisfaction - ! :okay:
The management had become more and more autocratic in their approach to any staff who weren't either bum lickers or just kept quiet. I was neither and nor were any of the crew I'd been working with.
The week I left, the company were taken over by a bigger company and I found out recently that the manager who had been in charge when I resigned had just resigned himself. As we were all aware that 'dodgy dealings' had been going on for years regarding reporting results, I did wonder did the manager in question jump, or was he pushed - ? :rofl:
 

grldtnr

Über Member
Ahh, but MUCH more to my satisfaction - ! :okay:
The management had become more and more autocratic in their approach to any staff who weren't either bum lickers or just kept quiet. I was neither and nor were any of the crew I'd been working with.
The week I left, the company were taken over by a bigger company and I found out recently that the manager who had been in charge when I resigned had just resigned himself. As we were all aware that 'dodgy dealings' had been going on for years regarding reporting results, I did wonder did the manager in question jump, or was he pushed - ? :rofl:

As long as you got your entitlements , pensions, paid leave for holidays due , that sort of thing,
When your employers are playing silly beggars. It's time to raise the customary Churchillian gesture and leave.
Seems to me you did the right thing
 

simongt

Guru
Location
Norwich
Seems to me you did the right thing
And to this day and ever beyond, I don't regret that decision for one second. ^_^
And more important, I had the GLWs full backing on my decision. :okay:
 

presta

Legendary Member
THis sounds a bit like a conversation I had with my last departmental manager before I left the company.
I'd refused to do certain shifts with, as I argued, good reason. The conversation went round and round with him saying that if I refused, 'there would be consequences'. I asked what would be the consequences - ? He kept asking was I refusing to do the particular shifts - ? and I kept asking what would the consequences be - ? :dry:
This went round and round for ten minutes or so, getting nowhere and I never found out what the consequences would have been as I handed my notice in two days later - ! :laugh:
I had a boss who started off when he arrived by interviewing everyone for their own jobs.

Some time later he called me into the office and made it clear that he wanted the job done his way without actually saying so.
"Well, you're the boss you can have the job done however you want"
"Oh, no no, it's your decision"
And then he went back to making it plain how he wanted it done, so I carried on doing it my way. I don't mind being responsible for my own decisions, but I'm b*ggered if I'll be the scapegoat for his.

At one time he summoned everyone into the conference room. It was a quick meeting, he just said "It's been noticed who goes home at 5pm. Anyone who doesn't work until at least 7pm will go to the top of the redundancy list". There were just two going home at 5pm, me and a guy who was a couple of months from retiring. I worked until 1am and then came back in at 7am once, but not for someone like him.

He was a ladder climber who only stopped on a rung long enough to reach the next one, so he was gone long before me. The rumour was that he came to ours to be closer to his fiance, and that he'd been offered a seat on the board at her family's shoe factory after they were married.
 
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