Sunday

Wife been out with the ladies to spend her Leaving vouchers. Apparently chattign to GodBotherer wife was told that im "Sexy".... !.. i must say its one of the few times it been used to describe me.

Wife just phoned Dotty, from what i can gather she ok, but the hoped for love affair hasn't materialised. Despite it being "written in the stars".

Saturday

Yesterday evening we went to see GodBotherer, to give her some sloe gin. Chatted she seems Ok, arranged for wife and her and her sis to go out Sunday clothes shopping with the Ex-works shop vouchers.

Today we went to Wadebridge.For no other reason than i had a £25 book voucher from Mr Lecturer and i once found a good book in the book shop there. Pointless really, it was lashing down with rain all the way there and most of the time we wandered round. had good fish and chip though..

Thursday?

Quiet day, keeping son amused while wife did a friends accounts. I'm hoping to get the wife to take son out tomorrow and leave me in peace for a few hours. Feels sort of selfish of me but i need some time to mooch about and surf the net, some time to waste and use up.

day after Boxing day (does it show i dont know what day of the week it is?)

Got fed up, jetted off to tool shop bought Scroll saw. Works well and its HUGE. There's are time you get bored of being poor all the fucking time....



Round to EarthFriend's for cakes this afternoon. Some of her friends were there from her fairly rabid environmental group. On the shelves reams of paper in labled boxes, seemingly a centre for bringing down Western Civilisation if al implemented, she seems to disapprove of virtually everything. Took some Sloe Gin (running low now!)and some for Armchair and Lady Gardener who we knew were going. EarthFriend gets quiet loud when she's had a drink. Fro and Red bought their week old baby girl, wife got all broody, dangerously broody in fact. LadyGardener i noticed avoided the baby but played with their little girl in a very adult way. Im sure tonight she will be upset about her neglecting to have children.... she also is worried about her door step.Over the road is opening a exotic pet shop and she's worried that snakes will escape, cross the busy road and slither into their house, under the defective door step....she is tonto as ive mentioned before.

Boxing day

Off to see Mr and Mrs handy to deliver the sloe gin. Mr took a glass straight away and said it was nice. Quite a bit of rambling about wife,s situation etc. Still tired today, yawn.

Chirstmas day

Ive still got the cold, i seem always to be ill in some way at Christmas. Feeling tired, as our Son found that Santa have been at half past two this morning, run into our room shouting about his pillowcase of goodies, not even noticing the two huge boxes it was on in his room (Scalextric and lazer gun things) He opened everything and we eventually persuaded him back to sleep an hour latter. Im bloody knackerd and me head feels like a pumpkin. Good fun racing with our son though. I got a bizarre robot/father xmas tin plate thing, i like it but its odd.

As is out small tradition we went to the field (shooting each other with the lazer guns) and picked some dafs. Only five this year, lots in bud but a little too small to pick today. That cold weather earlier must have knocked them back, there's usually a good sized bunch on Xmas day.

Christmas Eve

Our sons in bed though not sleeping, exited as to what Santa will bring. Been bunging out Sloe gin all night, hotdog, neighbour and Tortoise lady etc... She working al through, caring for disabled in their homes.

I stoked up the stove, despite the new central heating i prefer it. A plate with two carrots, a glass of milk and a mince pie by the fire. This Christmas is better than last one for us, no deranged deceased relatives raving at us. Just unemployment and even that's not too pressing. Feels good. Feels homely.

In the morning i drove to the tool shop, just to get out on my own. Im finding it odd having wife and child round all day. There's two guys who man the till there, and older guy who seems to know a lot about tools and has a healthy DIY attitude to anything built by human hands and a young Pakistani guy. I've chatted to him and asked how he found himself down here. He's sponsored by his uncle the owner. Unusually the tool shop and the shop next door is owned by Asians, you don't see them though, just furtive figures in the back, shielded from sight by a tatty fabric print of Mecca, in full "night shirt" forage hat and long grey beard. The young guy when it was Ramadan looked sideways at his pretty tiny wife and said it was hard not eating. I got the impression it was more her idea than his. Today i looked at her a bit more as she served me, she usually scuttles off when customers are about, i presumed due to poor English or shyness with guys, maybe i was wrong as i said "i don't superpose you do Christmas" and she replied "no, not us" but i said "you get the day off and that's good enough ah" and she grined. Looking at her round face i notice she has wispy black hair down the side of the cheek. not the sort of facial hair you see on western women, but weather that's due to electrolysis or nto i dont know.

Christmas Eve Eve...

Furtive wrappings of sons presents, explainings of where father Christmas gets the same wrapping paper as we have (from Asda of course to save space on the sleigh!) Son and wife sneaking noisily up stairs to wrap my present, its all very jolly and makes me smile.

Armchair and Mrs Gardener came round and gave us a card, and an invite from EarthFriend, who is celebrating having her stove fixed, and not before time , its very cold here right now.

The jackdaws on the bird table seem to like the wife's stale fruit cake too...Xmas all round!

Friday

This morning darted into town to get a magazine and something else for Santa to bring for our son. As always i drove past the grave yard where our friend is buried against her will and didn't walk the obvious way into town, which is past her old house. I haven't walked past it for more than a year. Almost involuntarily i glance down the road to see it every time.

Dropped in on Weezy on way back and plugged in the mouse i bough her months ago. Bit naughty as i have this cold, though its going now. She has to watch out for colds with her heart condition. Fuck i hope i haven't killed her.

Thursday

Ugg ive got a wretched cold today, aching arms, snot filled head etc feel vaguely sick from snot swallowed. This morning wife went to sign on a "Job centre" expecting a hard time, well she didn't get that but we cant get money, not for 12 weeks anyway, and she got a lead on a job. She doesn't have to sign on to get her stamp paid either she filled in a form.

Took wife to Asda and gave Jacks Widow a lift back. poor old lady had been waiting for half an hour for a bus in the stark white frost. She was very thankful, and kept apologising and thanking me. She also told me , as i know that she lost Jack recently (she said three weeks ago, but it was longer ago) she said "well you don't expect that do you?".....and she "missed jack in the evening" poor lady.

When in the newsagent the Uriah Heap like news agent, sidled over and opened the local news paper, and pointed at a small column. Someone had died in a car crash, who i asked and he said the guy with a car like yours...i was shocked.
He wasn't killed but his disabled wife was, and on the small street they live on. he was due to come out of hospital today he said. Poor chap. he used to corner me and grill me about my car every time he saw me. And a right royal pain he was too, sort of thick and away with the fairies at the same time, but seemingly listening for any defects in my car he could obsess on.

Wednesday

Wife's been on the blower to the DSS, appointment tomorrow. Funny how to them payment in lou of notice counts as being employed, but to the family tax people counts as being unemployed (so not eligible for the "crap employers" subsidy) I said maybe we should just say she's working her notice period, as the SS aren't going to give us any money anyway. Looks like the SS will require a statement about circumstances of leaving anyway... which will piss ArseBoss right off as they will ask him too i'm sure.

Monday

re the nudist at the window at this address tale... Driving through the town i saw the copper crossing the street and pulled up, asking him "if you got your man".. he laughed and said the station had sent him to totally the wrong address..


Wife trotted off to the Citizens Advice Bureau in big town. She got an older lady who was quite indignant at her treatment, seems that the money in lue of notice will almost certainly mean she cant claim anything for three months. She said make a claim, it'll get turned down, and we will appeal with you for it and it may work. And write a statement of the way it happened now, while the unfairness of it is still strong.


Got a card from "DanDan the Film Star Man"'s widow, so wife phoned her, she's well it seems, and hoping to come down next year to see us.

We saw LoydieLoo and chatted to him, he's still a rock stars grounds man. Organising tending 16 acres of lawn. We first met him years ago when he was in some way involved with Katie the transgender public school boy. LoydieLoo was then and possibly still is a cross dresser, though a bit un-fem for that. He's quite large and balding. Always jolly though, and straightforward. His mum and dad used to be traders at the car boot, his mum made up like Alice In Wonderland, his dad looking long suffering. When only a lad LoydieLoo fell out with his mum and moved in with grandma next door, who happened to own both houses. Which she left in her Will to LoydieLoo, who never told his mum or father that he now owned their house. Latter he was offered a huge amount of money for the house, so it could be knocked down for access to the field behind which had been acquired for development, he refused, saying he didn't want his village to be like that.

Sunday

yesterday, Santa train for our son,wife, mutual friend, her daughter and the lad. Some trouble on way back with car brake down.Then mystery restart under RAC man's hand. The in evening off to wife's works do. I went and extracted her after half an hour to go to ExMP's party out in boondox. Odd to be the youngest in a house party, the wife was the youngest, slimmest and prettiest lady there, by a mile. On the table was tow bits of meat, a ham and a lump of glazed beef, both as big as an Asda economy bag of spuds, what it is the be rich! I stuffed myself with meat, only once did wife insisted on me having a roll too, for some motherly reason. It was pretty dull all round. ghastly "old" house too. Nice cold crisp night.

When i went to get wife from works do, the guy who organised it insisted she go one last time, (he sees it as part of his alcoholic xmas training regime i think).Anyway they chatted and she found out that Dim Yorkshire man is coming back to the office after xmas , which is why the wife had to go before xmas we are sure. The wife, her immediate boss and the other lady all independently told ArseBoss that he was disruptive, difficult and didn't do as much work as he told everyone he did. So ArseBoss decided to keep him on after his retirement! So ArseBoss would rather have a loud mouth bullshitter than a properly working team. Probably loose two other than wife as they both said they couldn't work with him......... what a twat.


I saw the other lady's friend, and rather wickedly suggested she tell her to take the office situation up with an industrial tribunal...i hope she does.

Friday

Sitting waiting for wife to come home. She phoned and made the arrangement to get things signed and leave officially early this morning. Now she's up there, walking back down to me.

Well she didn't walk back. I got a call to come and get her. I drove up outside the office and the office was packed with people, i didn't go in just waited. She came out carrying a huge pt of plants and several envelops. The whole factory floor had crammed into the office to give good wishes and wish her well. Only two were a bit "off" the Bullys Assistant and Mr Dull.... even ArseBoss wished her well and said if he could help her he would. The factory guys seemed very sad to see her go, they know how many times she has chased orders etc round the building and done her very best to get things, considered impossible, done for customers. In the car she opened her envelopes, xmas cards wishing her well and a card full of vouchers. and two cheques as settlement. We went straight to bank and paid them in. While she was paying in i looked at the vouchers, there was £110 pounds worth of various vouchers, George, M&S , Monsoon... she has taken up collections before and know how difficult it is to get money out of them, this is the most anyone ever got when leaving. Wife felt very very appreciated, as she should be, maybe Arseboss realises he made a huge mistake, maybe it was Mr Dull who put the knife in deep.

We dropped in to Mutual friend on way to get some xmas presents, she was there with her daughter who was having another round of mild epileptic fits. While wife and ehr chatted in kitchen i tried to talk to her daughter, she just looked at me blankly, not hearing me, she did say odd disjointed things about the Tellitubie Poo, her favourite. I hope she well tomorrow and wife and her and kids are off to "Santa train".. a steam train event.

Thursday

Off to the solicitor at eleven. Solicitors always leave me with the feeling that they don't really know what's, what, just what's usually happened in theses circumstances in the past (which i suppose is true and useful in the Uk legal system, but the Uk legal system accommodate a good new angle sometimes) Anyway the guy rambled on a bit looked at the "Agreement" sort of discussed it.

Wife started off with nervous breathless speech mentioning names of people totally unknown to the Eagle and barely known to me, and who did what etc..

He pointed out that they had used "Mutually agreed termination" which he said would cause problems with out mortgage insurance. So he noted down to ask to change that and wife pointed out the "agreement" didn't make not of her holiday pay owed or two weeks of odd bits of overtime. Wife had only started noting it down in last two weeks, previously id never known her finish on time and she never claimed it. Also we raised questions about the quality of reference they would give to any prospective employers. He said that the employer had to pay him to make it an "equal agreement" which is bollox as we would starve pretty quick if we held out against them... so id argue that its not in fact an enforceable agreement as it is by its definition adopted under duress (which makes and agreement nul and void... but i didn't say that to him)..

So we were sent out while he phoned the company, ArseBoss was known to be out all day, so he got the dull and unimaginative accountant. Who it seems got a bit arsey about being told to change things by the legal Eagle they were paying for (at £150 an hour!) So he wouldn't be drawn on the reference thing, saying that company policy is not to issue open references, only to employers (to which wife said maybe we should get a friend to offer to employ her just to get sight of one reference, the Eagle seemed amused and agreed that might be a good idea one day if she had problems)Agreed to put over time in (so we screwed an extra £37 ish quid out of them) and take out "Mutual" bit and put in just bald "terminate" which might be viewed more like redundancy buy mortgage insurance company. Mr Dull wouldn't put "made redundant" "As that wasn't the situation".(but as i pointed out the wife has NEVER BEEN TOLD WHAT IS THE SITUATION!.. which might cost us £250 a month, cunt.

I asked weather it might be better to talk to ArseBoss tomorrow morning and see if he will change it rather than talking to the "Oily rag" today...but i got sort of ignored and overruled. Latter the wife got upset that isn't what we asked to happen.

We went back and wife signed it after school, take it in tomorrow.


What was interesting was the Eagle agreed with us that if wife had been incompetent they would have had to come up with instances etc of that failing and went through proper channels of complaint and they hadn't. So therefore all this was for some "unspecified" reason most likely they feared her taking them to a Tribunal. And he pointed out that what they offered was exactly what one would expect there anyway.

He also pointed out we could take them to court if wife was injured from employment as that cant be signed away, and the agreement didn't contain a "gagging" clause, on bad mouthing the firm after she has left, but did specify she couldn't tell work collogues about the amount of settlement, other than with close family and legal advisor's.(the Eagle rambled a bit about this and the mortgage insurance etc who knows what he meant though) Which is stupid as she had not sight of this "contact" while in possession of the knowledge of the settlement! So that's pretty unenforceable isn't it.

Soon after we both got a bit upset by it all, walking back to the car, it is all so unfair.

Wednesday

in the last few minuets the local copper and lady copper have been... im on joking terms with the copper, so i said "does it take two of you to drag me away" and he sniggered... apparently a young paper girl has complained to someone that when every she's delivering papers there's a nude man in the window....the copper seemed nonplussed as the window onto the road is always covered with a curtain, as i dont like people peering in as they pass by, i almost never cavort round the front room nude, preferring to fall into my clothes straight from bed. And he knows me (so he seemed to have the attitude anyone he knew wouldn't be a flasher!).. they went off to investigate number 40...we are number 14

Odd indeed... off tomorrow to see the solicitor. Wonder if he can shed any light on the situation!

the other lady from the office just rang to see if the wife would be in at all. yes she will be dropping the form in , friday after the solicitor has had his say. She was glad as she's organised a whipround and got the wife a leaving present!The wife is well pleased and said to her..."see its only the management who are crap"

Tuesday

Sons xmas play. Went on a bit to be truthful , but the kids seemed to enjoy it.

Chatting about the "situation" the wife revealed that ArseBoss said that she's not to tell anyone about the offer, yesterday. Which is a bit late really, im sure he cant hold her to anything retrospectively lol. Chemical Ali phoned, angling for an invite round. God he's a bit tiresome, terrified of being alone with himself he attaches to people and talks about crap. Also he's so shot through with the Company he thinks the wife has done something wrong. Which she hasn't.

Monday

Just past nine, delivered son to school and wife to her "former" work, for her "meeting" neither of us are sure what the meeting is about, probably for ArseBoss to satisfy his own psychology, he doesn't want to see him self as the kind of guy who gets rid of people just before Christmas, but that just what he is. I'm waiting for wife to phone for a lift back, its raining. She is so much a better person than me, she actually was going to work till the meeting. But on the way past to the school she craned her neck to see if anyone was sitting at her old desk, we couldn't tell. I think i persuaded her not to work but to just ask fro the meeting, go through it , and say goodbye to anyone she wants to. The firm has this thing they do when people leave. They actually escort them off the premasis, like a disgraced soldier. If this happens ive told her to ignore it and carry on as if it wasn't happening or to say it is ludicrous.

Right now im fairly tense....


Well, wife arrived home at half ten, grinning, carrying a big envelope. At least some things are becoming clearer. In the envelope is a " Compromise agreement", which i find out is an agreement not to take them to court. Not only that but they have told wife to take it to a solicitor AT THEIR EXPENSE, and have it signed that she has sought legal advice, and they will pay £300 for THAT! So that crystallises it, they are shit scared of being taken to court over bullying. So they struck first (as they thought) and offered what she would get from a court. I expect they are thinking that they did the right thing, but fact is the wife wasn't going to take them to court, indeed hadn't taken any moves in that direction, but had vaguely looked at the local newspaper for jobs, that's all.

The "meeting" was "interesting" with ArseBoss expressing a slight change in that he really respected wife for working last week and showing her immediate boss the job etc.. maybe it slightly dawned on him that he had fired a loyal hard working conscientious worker. And maybe it also dawned that she wasn't actually going to take them to court. That he had wasted the company's money. Also he was taken aback by the wife's joy at the offer and the opportunity to leave. The big mystery is why didn't they change the office? Preferring to keep the office as it is a bullying sexist place than to change it to an amenable place to work. The big problem with this is the other lady in the office now knows exactly why the wife left, and if anything she has a better case against them..........one can only hope she takes it up, wait with glee.

The wife didn't get escorted off the premasis, she wandered round (sans the obligatory safety boots!) saying good bye to people. Only two people knew she was going in the company, ArseBoss and Mr Dull the irascible and fairly incompetent company accountant who runs the morgue like office upstairs. Two were a bit odd in their reaction. The Bully, said "its what you have been working for"... which is an odd thing to say indeed, as he was the one shouting and screaming at her; at least until she told him to stop bullying her. And the Bullys assistant, im sure you know the type, pale sickly but stands at a bullys shoulder enjoying the reflected tormenting. Everyone else seemed shocked. Upset even, the temp was almost in tears. The guys on the shop floor who knew what the wife did to chase up things for customers were "gobsmaked" And so she walked out, paid till the end of this week, and then three months beyond as "notice" and then three months pay (without stoppages) as an Exgratia payment to keep quiet and not sue them....


We went to pick up our son, i left them in the park and they walked down past the office, the temp (sitting in the wife's old seat) saw them passing and waved, then the rest of the office waved as the wife happily waved back and then carried on home.....



Mr lecturer phoned, his specialist says he's "Stable" ie not about to die in this eight week block of time...

Saturday

This time last year we were dazed by our friends death and the betrayal of her and her son by her family. This year the wife is made redundant. Im wondering what else will happen now.

Friday

Wife's been to work for last time.Snuck all her pics etc. into her bag at dinner time so no one saw, said "bye see you all Monday...." and left. Her immediate boss despaired of how he's going to cope come Monday and said he is sure he will be looking for a job in a month. Wife got a lift home from the other lady in the office (im sure as she had noticed something going on with wife this week)and confessed to her that she was off, poor girl dam near had a breakdown right there in the car. She's two income new mortgage one wage going in mortgage and desperate for kids, her life is buggered already if you ask me. And now she's stuck in a hostile office on her own too. maybe she should have supported wife more then....


The more i consider this the more i cant see any other way of this happening than that the firm thought wife was going to have them under employment law. I think that my grumbling within ear shot of people has got back, possibly garbled to the ArseBoss that she was well on the way to walking and hauling them up for constructive dismissal and they thought that jumping before pushed looked better for them.

Friday

I'm a little tense this morning. Wife's last day at work and its back to the natural environment for Thatches children, the dole..been a good run, 12 years of employment. She has resolved to go in do the work, slip all her pictures off the desk at dinner time when no ones about. At five just say bye and slip out..... and go back Monday for "meeting" with her ArseBoss... she wouldn't even go with my suggestion to wander in on Monday about half ten in jeans. She wants to go at nine...

Im am really tense, quite upset.

Thursday

Still puzzling about wife's "redundancy" the only explanation i can come up with is that they genuinely thought that wife was preparing to take them to an Industrial Tribunal for "constructive dismissal and to pre-empt that they offered her what she would get there anyway ,without the fuss. She's debating whether to finish tomorrow at five. or as the ArseBoss wants to come in Monday to "discuss" how the weeks been. I favour tomorrow, clear cut just bay bye and leave, maybe have that "meeting" in their time.Ask when the money is going to be in the account and fuck off for good.

Is Arseboss so thick he thinks she wants to stay? he is a staggeringly bad judge of people. Anyone he's bought in has been a bullshitter and two faced git, and he seems to only respect Bullshit. How someone like that can be the boss i have no idea, maybe its an advantage? Mr Handy maintains that all of industry is awful and they compete with awfully run competitors so its Ok...

Wednesday

We went at dinner time and blagged some more filter film from the scrap bins at wife's work, they only throw it away anyway, the guys in the factory are happy to see it go to a good home.

Chemical Ali came round, he's still very upset but the wife's "redundancy" I don't think he can fathom it out either, kept saying that it had been a "harsh decision" maybe that ArseBoss had dreamed it up to get wife working harder. Well if that the truth, he's in for a shock, as the offer to leave was made in front of a witness and the wife IS going to take it. On Monday ArseBoss kept saying he didn't want to loose her etc.. makes one wonder what was going through his head. I think that was a face saving thing, he doesn't want to think of himself as giving her the bullet, that it's HER fault. Well he can fuck off. Fact is he presides over an Office that if anyone makes a mistake, they try very hard to hide it or shuffle it off onto other people, they really are like a pack of dogs.

Tuesday

Been down to FiveMum and fixed her computer with the help of Dell help line.

There sitting like a ghost at the party was Germangirl. I've seen her before in the company of her boy friend, a guy who had fled Uk under a charge relating to braking a coppers color bone they said when he had left. When asked what i thought of him id told FiveMum that he looked a danger to me, having the immobile face of a a psychopath and heavy drinker/drug user. GermanGirl looked like a thin wasted Heroin user to me. Anyway she was there, and after a while she left. Fivemum told me she has spent the night there as she said the Boy friend had beaten her up, dragging her round the caravan, something he'd done before. He never remembered doing it afterwards. This guy is more dangerous than i thought. he will end up killing someone, or being killed.

Monday

Wife went off to work with great apprehension this morning, and i sat by the phone waiting for her to call wanting to come home. Eventually i phoned her and she was fine, cheerful even. When she came home she had had a morning interview with ArseBoss, about how glad he was that she had "decided" to come in for this week. And how he hoped she "made it" and could indeed do the impossible job and that 12 years experience was very valuable etc and all that crap. He actually thinks she's working hard to "save" her job! In fact she going to leave at the end of the week no matter what but if ArseBoss asks her to stay it would be sweeter to tell him to fuck off. She's much more mellow now wanting the rest from the bullying and crappyness of the office.

Sunday

As things appear, things get more clear and somehow more muddy too. Last week the wife immediate boss was told that by Arseboss "that there was no question of anyone loosing their jobs..." This was after the directors must have decided to get shot of my wife. Its also be said that the factory guy, disapproves of women working...at all! This is the guy who would shout at the wife, and who she told to stop bullying her. The wife is still resolved to go back and work next week. Which should be interesting, its a transparent device for appearing to try to solve the bullying etc to any industrial tribunal, not enough though im sure. We don't think we will take that far, but its amusing to think of it.

Met Gaylord in local cheepjack shop, he greeted the news of us with a suggestion that we fly out to Madagascar on the money. We must go visit him again when wife's free, though we have to make sure we don't interrupt his busyness activities! (wanking off guys under pretext of a massage)

Saturday

Dropped an invite in to Mutual friend, our sons xmas party. Her daughter was there and the lad and her friend and her daughter. Poor Mutual friends had a hard week, her daughters spent the first three days in hospital high dependency ward,after a very bad epileptic episode. She seems as Ok as ever now though, still got that piercing scream! She mentioned the Bastards in passing but i requested she not talk of them as i didn't want to know how evil people can be, i added that i hoped they died soon... she understood.


The more we think about the wife's work the more it doesn't make any sense. I mean if Arseboss thinks she cant do the job, or can only partially do it, that is surely better than no one doing it? Unless he has someone lined up already, and even then they will have to be trained for some time before they are up to speed. I guess that the employment of the guy a few months ago was part of a plan to get rid of the wife. But he recognises that he couldn't do the wife's job in the time either and he's in fear of his job too. Apparently there was a "meeting" last week of the directors and we surmise it was then Arseboss convinced then to get shot of the wife. All in all she's glad to be on the way out of it. Though she is resolved to go back for next week, its an extra weeks money for one, and she needs to sort out the payment of the company health scheme for her back treatments. And grab some things from the scrap bin!

Friday

Some days your life just goes into orbit round the planet Zanusi and don't seem to want to want to sling shot back to Gods Clean Earth. The wife has recently had some "troubles" A few weeks ago she had a terrible back thing, struck overnight, two weeks off, lots of terrible sobbing and screaming laying on the floor. Emergency doctors, heavy drugs and more sobbing, weeks of Osteopathy etc etc..any way she in this office that's so bitchy its unbelievable. And she committed a cardinal sin, she left a weeks worth of paper on her desk, intending to file them the next day. So the other woman (who wife recently collected for a wedding present for) took the opportunity to moan and complain about her to the "Big Scary Boss" henceforth known as ArseBoss. Who is the managing director. Ever since ArseBoss has been on her back, taking away access to email then accusing her of not acting immediately on his email etc. Both the Chemical Brothers have indipendantly said that ArseBoss is a very bad judge of character and they are right. The wife works very hard for them for no wages and no appreciation.

Anyway yesterday she came home with an envelope..and sad pissed off face. She had a "disciplinary meeting" this afternoon. With ArseBoss and her immediate boss (who has a very high opinion of her, quiet rightly) Well, she and I expected a carpeting... But what she got was, bearing in mind she's worked there for 12 years, doing clerical stuff, was an offer to leave. With 3 months pay in lou of notice and 3 months extra. (one assumes as a sweetener not to take them to an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal, they said as she was the "bread winner of the family" condicending twat)

Well this is very odd, she been bullied and shouted at, accused of not doing her impossible to do job and now given money to go. She has assurances of positive references too! Arseboss is really stupid. Wife is relaved as she was looking for another job to escape anyway. She has to get a job of 30 hours or more to qualify for family tax credit and therefore to get paid exactly the same as now. And no one shouting at her..... I don't know what to think about all this, its weird.

Even more bizarrely ArseBoss said you can either go now, or work next week and proove you can do the job....even more strange the wife WANTS TO WORK NEXT WEEK! she says to "sort things out"... My reaction is just FUCK EM and the only reason to go back is to place one of my super magnets on the side of their server to really screw them up. But she more responsible than I.

She phoned the Chemical Brothers in turn, first Chemical Ali, who's a real gossip and was dyeing to know what had happened, he was really upset, more than us. Kept saying hwo awful it was for them to do this. How bad ArseBoss was at judging people Doctor Glue was really pissed off, and he's very mild mannered and they are lucky to have a very well respected chemist like him, he said after Christmas he would be contacting the agency that has found him jobs in the past and screaming "get me out of here"...


So there we are, stunned....wife gets run up to xmas off. Looks for any easy job after. I cant imagine how the office is going to survive.... i mean impossible job and new person to do it? fuck em..i hope it all goes belly up i really do.

I suggested she take the money and go to an industrial tribunal anyway, mostly just to shit them up..