loopholes and circles
As everyone hopefully knows, I attempted to hand in my resignation last night, along with 2 weeks’ notice, and was not only loudly told to finish up now, and gtfo of his restaurant, I was told all that at least 3 times in front of my peers and customers at work.
This was written up on the management diary/supervisor planner, including the fact that he’s told me to never come back, and next week’s roster’s pretty much written up without me on it anymore.
In protection of my interests, as well as the fact that he owes me 2 weeks’ pay (as per my notice), this weeks’ pay (since he’s fired me despite my intention to work it out) plus the 32.15 hours that he owes me in annual leave - all calculated at $750 per week or $19.73 per hour - I wrote up an email detailing the circumstances surrounding my resignation and therefore my termination of work last night which resulted from me giving my notice.
This email was then forwarded on to HQ and my boss, firstly to make sure i have more witnesses to my resignation than my current work place, since i don’t like putting people’s jobs on the line.
He then responded with this
Your failure to appear for work on Friday the 21/11/08 leads me to believe that you misunderstood our last conversation. At no point did i tell you your services were not required. This letter is to inform you that your roster is written up to and including the 21/12/08. Your resignation has regrettably been accepted and your last shift is set down to be Saturday the 6/12/08., as per your letter of resignation. Failure to appear for your next shift starting at 4pm on Saturrday the 22/11/08 will leed us to believe after the contents of your letter and your failure to appear on Friday the 21/11/08 that you have forfeited your position here thus forfeiting your two weeks pay. Please be aware that this may be with held from your accrued monies, as per the certified agreement.
While gleefully telling someone he’s never going to pay me out.
I am sorry, but I find it hard to misconstrue “finish up now”, “get the fuck out of my restaurant!” especially with the number of people there, the atmosphere and attitude he was using plus what was written in the management diary thereafter. Of course, he can always “delete” away the evidence on the management planner.
Further more, I was meant to be on a split shift today. I should have started at 11a.m, and Waife brought in my uniforms (so that I would be paid out) as a sign of acknowledgment that I have been fired. No one’s made a single voice of concern about why am I not working, until the email which he read at 8p.m.
Come on, no one’s stupid. it doesn’t take you 9 hours to realise that an employee hasn’t turned up to work. He attempted to call and intimidate me into not asking for my severance payout, of which i didn’t pick up as I was asleep.
He’s also voiced out to someone that he “didn’t know it would come to this! If i had known, I would have let her work out those fucking 2 weeks.” Sorry, it ain’t my fault you don’t know the laws of your land. Fact is, I did my research before I handed in my notice, going so far as to work out a new time table with my new employer so that I could fully work out those 2 weeks despite knowing my boss might be an ass to work for during those 2 weeks.
However, he told me to finish up, get out, don’t come back. With someone yelling at you while you are trying to talk and hand in your notice, and with him insisting that I have to leave, was I about to stay?
He’s now made it a hostile environment to me, so either ways, I am not returning.
aggravated
