the maoster:
Winseer:
I’ve been offered an unpaid assessment IF I turf in a Covid form, whatever that is.
I’ve asked for a written explanation - but not got one.
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That couple of sentences alone speaks volumes about you. I have no doubt that it would speak volumes to any prospective employer too. The sad thing being that you’ll not grasp in the slightest what I’m alluding to.
Oh, whilst we’re talking you seem to have developed (yet) another obsession that out there some unscrupulous employer is claiming your 80% and pocketing it rather than giving you it. My advice to you is to look over your left shoulder, then look over your right shoulder. Do that quickly and repeatedly and that is called giving your head a shake. That’s what you need to do if you seriously think that any employer is going to be stupid enough to attempt to defraud the Government at this time. They’d nail them to a tree.
You think?
I have little faith in human nature when it wears a suit. If it is possible to rip someone off without consequence to oneself, then that opportunity does and has been taken up at every and any opportunity by those insufficiently regulated employer people ranging from Mike Ashley in the real world down to Fagin in the fictional world.
Would you call off your entire stack of either money or your life itself - if it were even 1% possible for you to lose?
“Risk Management” by these people who don’t actually know how to “Gamble” - is instead an accountancy exercise in “reducing one’s legal liabilities by getting rid of wised-up people that you can’t push around without taking damage”. An actual business entrepeneur, used to taking calculated risks though? - I continue to live in hope that one day I’ll be working for such a paragon of proper business acumen: A boss who judges their staff by how much they make for the firm minus how little they cost the firm. NOTHING ELSE! Keep politics out of Business - or you end up employing a lot of popular 9-points-on-licence types, whilst snarling at zero-points people like me for “clocking up hours” that they should be patting me on the back for ffs…
All a business has to do to rip off the taxpayer - is do something out of sight of those in government and/or council at that moment, and pre-get rid of any whistleblowers such as myself that know where the bodies are buried, so to speak. When someone refuses to sack me in writing, but then tries to keep all further communications with me away from their own logged system - I am naturally suspicious as to their motives… It is a “poker read” if you will. They offer me an unpaid assessment, and I unexpectedly say “Ok”… Then a previously unmentioned “form fill” is needed before I can carry on… Hmm… I requested an explanation to what a Covid form is - to be blanked, and told “It cannot be explained except over the phone”. BULL! I’ve now set-up my answerphone to record incoming calls. If it can’t be said “legally”, then don’t bloody well bother trying to say anything to me at all! I won’t be party to any perceived firm’s shenanigans trying to rip off the taxpayer - not ever!
Take Branson for example: The public are already fuming that he’s even asking for government monies, even though he’s closer to getting granted some than I would be… He’s attempting to use Ltd Company protections (now obsolete in this new era we’re coming into…) to shield his personal fortune from the bust-out that his airline is going to make of him personally if he cannot extracate himself from his failing company liabilities… I expect at the end of this, he’ll go the same way as Freddie Laker, barely able to keep hold of a fraction of his personal fortune, and remembered with disdain by history. Meanwhile, we taxpayers on the left of Financial matters - are hoping that this particular “Captain of Industry” - goes down with his bloody ship here! 
He brags that he “never took money off the NHS” - no, but his companies under his instructions bloody well did!
Our mainstream political parties have been rather too nice to so-called “Business”, too soft on “Regulation”, too hands-off with “punishments”, and too slow with “open and shut moral hazard cases”. THAT is why people like Farage - cannot make headway against them in Parliament. The one thing that Unites our establishment - is “not letting upstarts climb the greasy pole” as has already happened in other countries around the world.
It isn’t the fact that I’ve been offered zero furlough money that so much gets my goat - it is the fact that my peers are already back at work, and I’m effectively “shadow banned from site for life” - just like I was at RM.
NO honesty to do it properly, but instead a socially engineered stitch-up, cos they know damned well I’d litigate successfully again if they put a foot wrong in getting rid of me in a legal manner that would indirectly put them foul of some government rule or other… Yeh, I’m a troublemaker alright - but only when up against this office politik bull time and time again.
Let’s see who’s still around by the end of this year, because as I posted earlier “I’ll just be sitting on a proberbial window ledge getting my popcorn out, watching high-ups fall past me” in future. I’m a survivor. For those others who cannot see where I’ve been coming from - I wish you luck, 'cos you’re all gonna need it in the next six months in particular. If I have to go on silent running now to ‘dodge the bullets’ - then so be it. 
You have your own coms - don’t say you were not warned of what is coming. “Belief” or lack thereof isn’t any good once “Black Swans” become the new NORMAL. 
