So then… in OD

I know, I know, I have a lot to catch you lot up on.

But, unsurprisingly, there’s only one thing really on my mind right now.

So, more information. From what the union rep told us on Friday, we’ll find out before the end of the year if we are being kept on or not. If not, our last day will be the 3rd of January (why then when the 4th is the Friday I do not understand) then we will get gardening leave, whatever the hell that is (one month for me).

Now, this has been rumoured for a while. Telephony basically found out first. This is because of CMC’s telling them they’d been told that they would be dealing with people somewhere else.

Oh, and apparently, that place has been phoning to gloat about it.

Classy.

The mood in work on Thursday was, unsurprisingly, stunned disbelief. Added to that was some humour.

I missed the original meeting and found out when one of my colleagues joked that I might get systems access and work maybe one case before it shut down.

(This, by the way, is my main concern. I still don’t have systems. In fact, in the time I’ve been there I’ve only actually done 4 days work. On telephony. Which I wasn’t supposed to be on and was assured in my interview I absolutely would not be doing. When they are deciding who to keep, how can I be sure that they won’t look at my record, not bother to contextualise it, and decide that as I’m lazy I can go?)

People aren’t bothered about hitting targets cos, let’s face it, what’s the worst they can do?

On Friday, it wouldn’t be fair to say that morale was low. Only cos there was no such bloody thing.

Well, there was anger.

Turns out that there were people from Barclaycard in work end of last week/beginning of this week and someone asked them if they were learning our jobs because we were going to lose them. They were told no.

Then there’s things like my manager reassuring us a while back that payments would be safe until March at least. (Though, I don’t blame him. He was probably told that by Firstsource.)

So, that’s where we are. I’m adopting an attitude of hope for the best, prepare for the worst. I’ve updated my CV and am back on the job hunt.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

I’ll finish with this song. I’ve been hearing it a lot which I don’t mind, cos it’s good.

Will

<img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="ht
tp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f395/williamthebloody1880/photographer-steve-550×398.jpg” />