throdgrain
FH is my second home
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Yesterday I did something I dont remember ever having done before.
For the last couple of weeks I've been working at a major franchise selling commercial vehicles. This is after being made redundant from my old job back in May.
Now when I was made redundant I had cover for mortgage protection, and ppi on my bank loan, and was paid quite a few quid considering I'd only been there a three years. So I did my months paid "gardening leave" then was officially unemployed. Looked around, and decided on a job I wanted, and went for an interview. Got to the second interview and then something rather unusual happened - I didnt get the job
This is unusual because over the years of my life I've been pretty good at interviews, basically I'm just a big headed bastard who likes talking about himself
Anyway, in a state of shock I applied the job at the commercial vehicles franchise, got the job, and started on 2 July.
Straight away I was concerned. The sales manager had just left, so had one of the reps, and another was leaving on friday. I had no desk, no pc, no log in to sell finance (kind of important when you're selling £20000+ vehicles) and no idea of how thier systems worked, despite asking over and over again. I was given a brochure and told to swat up on thier products. This I did for a couple of days.
By now I'm thinking is this job right? Am I being a big girl because I've just started, and will everything be fine in a couple of weeks? I decided on the latter, and signed off the dole, thus cancelling ppi amd mortgage cover etc.
Two days later I began to think I'd made a big mistake. Still no log in, nothing.
Friday comes, and yay! I get a desk! Saturday, I sell a vehicle for cash, £17500 no less. Monday comes, "oh Mark yes we've got your finance stuff sorted, will be in August".
AUGUST?!?!? By now I'm stressing out a lot. Still no real clue how things actually work, the other saleman has now left, and I'm getting twitchy. My mobile rings, its a company offering me an interview doing my old job, debt collection. I put the phone down, stand up (from my new desk!) go over to my boss, and say hello mate, I quit. "Err. When??" "Now" says me.
And I walk out
What I've done I realise, is I've lost my entitlement to ppi etc, I've lost my dole claim, everything.
So, I'm dealing with this the best way I know. I'm going on holday tomorrow
For the last couple of weeks I've been working at a major franchise selling commercial vehicles. This is after being made redundant from my old job back in May.
Now when I was made redundant I had cover for mortgage protection, and ppi on my bank loan, and was paid quite a few quid considering I'd only been there a three years. So I did my months paid "gardening leave" then was officially unemployed. Looked around, and decided on a job I wanted, and went for an interview. Got to the second interview and then something rather unusual happened - I didnt get the job
This is unusual because over the years of my life I've been pretty good at interviews, basically I'm just a big headed bastard who likes talking about himself Anyway, in a state of shock I applied the job at the commercial vehicles franchise, got the job, and started on 2 July.
Straight away I was concerned. The sales manager had just left, so had one of the reps, and another was leaving on friday. I had no desk, no pc, no log in to sell finance (kind of important when you're selling £20000+ vehicles) and no idea of how thier systems worked, despite asking over and over again. I was given a brochure and told to swat up on thier products. This I did for a couple of days.
By now I'm thinking is this job right? Am I being a big girl because I've just started, and will everything be fine in a couple of weeks? I decided on the latter, and signed off the dole, thus cancelling ppi amd mortgage cover etc.
Two days later I began to think I'd made a big mistake. Still no log in, nothing.
Friday comes, and yay! I get a desk! Saturday, I sell a vehicle for cash, £17500 no less. Monday comes, "oh Mark yes we've got your finance stuff sorted, will be in August".
AUGUST?!?!? By now I'm stressing out a lot. Still no real clue how things actually work, the other saleman has now left, and I'm getting twitchy. My mobile rings, its a company offering me an interview doing my old job, debt collection. I put the phone down, stand up (from my new desk!) go over to my boss, and say hello mate, I quit. "Err. When??" "Now" says me.
And I walk out
What I've done I realise, is I've lost my entitlement to ppi etc, I've lost my dole claim, everything.
So, I'm dealing with this the best way I know. I'm going on holday tomorrow
