E-mail three
I decided that I should start asking direct questions in the hope of a response.
ME:
I had two interviews in the middle of last week. As I currently work through an agency I am not entitled to time off work for interviews, so I had to take a day's holiday. This is fair enough, albeit a tad galling. However, I do hold the company responsible for taking up some of my time prior to the interviews.
Firstly, I had to have a shave. This is not something I would ordinarily do.
Secondly, due to the 'bolt from the blue' nature of my redundancy, I was not adequately prepared. I have recently moved house and my suit was at the back of a room that was floor to ceiling with furniture etc. It took me a full hour to recover it.
Can I invoice you for one hour's unexpected suit retrieval?
HE:
Unfortunately not.
ME:
How crushingly disappointing. It's just one thing after another with you.
How about you could pay me unofficially. Like you could turn a blind eye while I steal one-hour's-work's-worth of cardboard boxes or something. Maybe some batteries. No, not batteries. I don't want those. I don't know. You think of something.
HE:
Perhaps we should have a chat.
How does 09:30 sound tomorrow?
ME:
I thought it was only a legal requirement for members of staff to have the weekly 'chat' prior to redundancy? Ie, not agency staff.
HE:
Doesn't preclude us from having a chat.
[At this point I politely declined on the grounds that we had nothing to sort out.]
ME:
I had two interviews in the middle of last week. As I currently work through an agency I am not entitled to time off work for interviews, so I had to take a day's holiday. This is fair enough, albeit a tad galling. However, I do hold the company responsible for taking up some of my time prior to the interviews.
Firstly, I had to have a shave. This is not something I would ordinarily do.
Secondly, due to the 'bolt from the blue' nature of my redundancy, I was not adequately prepared. I have recently moved house and my suit was at the back of a room that was floor to ceiling with furniture etc. It took me a full hour to recover it.
Can I invoice you for one hour's unexpected suit retrieval?
HE:
Unfortunately not.
ME:
How crushingly disappointing. It's just one thing after another with you.
How about you could pay me unofficially. Like you could turn a blind eye while I steal one-hour's-work's-worth of cardboard boxes or something. Maybe some batteries. No, not batteries. I don't want those. I don't know. You think of something.
HE:
Perhaps we should have a chat.
How does 09:30 sound tomorrow?
ME:
I thought it was only a legal requirement for members of staff to have the weekly 'chat' prior to redundancy? Ie, not agency staff.
HE:
Doesn't preclude us from having a chat.
[At this point I politely declined on the grounds that we had nothing to sort out.]