What do you do if you have a member of staff you want to get rid of, but you want to bypass all the rights employees inconveniently have these days?They haven't done anything wrong. Quite the reverse - they're one of your most effective, loyal, honest, hard-working and respected employees. They have, unfortunately, committed the serious disciplinary offence of treating traders and staff like human beings. How can you get shot of them without stirring up a load of legal trouble ending up in you losing an industrial tribunal case?
Make their life a misery, of course. If they need the job badly enough, like if they have a wife and children and the usual financial commitments to support, they'll stick it out. Kick them out of the job you employed them to do and stick them somewhere out of sight. Slap a gagging order on them - hell, why not extend it to their wife too? Give them the crappiest jobs and treat them like scum. For the sake of their family they'll tough it out for a while, but, if you make their life grim enough, in the end they'll quit. Problem solved.
I've just seen an anonymous comment on Whistler's blog:-
The message came straight from the horses mouth on Saturday (the horse being John Burton when he visited the Market)Well done GSM. Part one of your plan has worked. How long before part two kicks in and Ben steps off the plank?
"Ben will not be returning to Greenwich Market"
so that ends any speculation.
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ha...if I know the wife like I think I do, she'll not stay gagged for long...
I can't for the life of me work out what Ben was supposed to have done wrong. He was a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant assistant manager. Barny must have stuck the boot in. He must have made up a load of s**t. Because if he had been truthful about Ben's abilities, Ben would still be at Greenwich. But the thing is - you don't fool us Barny even if you have fooled your bosses. We KNOW the truth because we have been under Ben's management and your management and we know the difference. Bring Ben back to Greenwich you fools before you lose him for good.
Ben has done nothing wrong. Ben is just so good at what he does, he's put the others in the shade.
Some managers / heads of Depts. encourage forward thinking and excellent people management skills from those under their command and ensure they move up the ladder of success and on the greater things of their own.
Then there are those who see independent thought and the ability to get on with everyone well as a threat and do whatever they can to bugger things up for the underlings. I've been there myself (not at Greenwich or as a trader but in another "dimension") and it really hurts when those who have the ear, (and the keys to the cutlery cabinet) of the top brass stick the F'in knife in - it stinks.
Anyone know what's happened to Alex?
I too have been shafted by a boss that saw my ability to see straight through him as a threat. The result, I too was moved aside and in turn I left. If its any consolation to our lovely Ben, it made me rethink my position and made me promise to myself that I would never work for an insecure, control freak again. Good luck Ben. You deserve a whole lot better!
Maybe the massage people should play 'Shaft' a little louder this weekend..
Someone's asked what's happened to Alex. According to a comment on Whistler's blog, he was suspended for gross misconduct. He probably had the balls to object about Barmy's mistreatment of Ben.
Whatever, I've heard that Alex is back at the market today. I'll do a full post if it's true.
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