Sister is in the middle of doing a 2 week trial period for a company, running with a 1 day notice period. She's done a week.
She realised over the weekend that the role isn't for her at all (it wasn't the job she went for originally), and it turns out the owner of the company is a complete cock. One of those bosses who orders people to make coffee for him, shits on them if they don't heat the mug up, etc, etc. All in all, it's been a banal and unpleasant experience.
So, today, she went in to give her one day's notice to work out the rest of the day. The owner of the company appeared, initially, to be very understanding, but then dropped this bombshell:
"I know that you're only contracted to serve out a day's notice, but I would suggest that you work out the rest of your trial period. I know you want a career in this industry in the future, and I am a big player in this industry, so it really would be in your best interests to leave my company on a good foot"
She was really quite taken aback, but decided that she wasn't going to be blackmailed by the threat of a tarnished reputation, and went back into him very politely and explained that after consideration, she would be unable to do that as she is currently commuting from our place (4 hours a day) and she needs to focus on finding a place of her own and a new job.
He told her she was unprofessional, leaving them in the lurch (she's not, she's completed all the work given her), and that she would never work in his company ever again. He told her to "get out of my sight" and "have a nice life".
She is now extremely worried that he's going to bad mouth her to anyone in the industry who will listen, when she's done absolutely nothing except give a job she wasn't certain about the benefit of the doubt, and fulfil the contractual obligations as set out by the company itself.
If they were a larger company, she says she would have gone straight to their HR department after the initial threat to force her to stay, but they don't have one and she now feels that legally she hasn't got a leg to stand on if he decides to move forward with his promise of making it difficult for her.
What can she do?
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NoWayNoHow · 27/02/2012 14:43
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