10th June – Trouble At ‘Mill

The company I work for have taken on a new manager who’s really keen to make his prescence felt.

And here we go again. New broom sweeps clean. This new manager is keen to change our working roster and has, in the process, upset everyone of us.

This manager’s predecessor, 2 managers back, also tried this. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

This all started when one of my colleagues received a suprise visit from our line manager who announced the changes he wanted to make. Totally out of the blue, with no reason.

Now, I am different to my colleagues whereas they will just moan about the injustice of the situation, then take action after the changes come in,but, rather than moaning, I rang up my company’s head office and asked the magical, all powerful question: WHY?

That question works wonders. As well as the manager realising that at least one of us was going to challenge his infinate wisdom, he also told me that the customer had “complained” (we work for a contactor).

That conversation over, I rang my colleagues at work at explained the situation. One of my colleagues challenged the customer, as he was, like the rest of us, suprised a complaint had been made.

Guess what? The customer has denied making a complaint during a heated conversation with my colleague. No suprise there then. Although the conversation did end with my colleague storming out of the office saying/shouting that “Someone’s lying around here, and if it’s not them (our company) it must be you. We’re all really ****** off with this.”

The new manager has annonuced that he’s going to implement a new roster, no questions asked. All of us, as a team, have spoken to this manager one by one in turn. The general concensus is: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Tha’s not good enough. The last time this happened, I resigned as they are forcing me to work more days (I already work 30% of my roster on days, but around my wife’s roster, so she’s always got a car)- which means my wife either has to walk to work, or have the day off if her back plays up too much making walking extremely difficult. That means less money.

Everyone of us has made plans. This new manager of ours is going to (and is Hell bent on) ruining and interfering with 5 men’s lives. Just to make a name for himself.

Know what? It’s just not going to happen.

I’ll keep you informed........