Sorry for the late reply for this one, but if they’re going bust, it’s going to be hard to claw back the money, especially if they’re owing a lot of money to a lot of people. You may be able to get something back. My suggestion would be to contact HR and inform them if you’re not paid, you’ll be seeking legal council on how to proceed next and see where it goes. If they don’t move, have a chat to a few colleagues, or so if there’s a Union that would be willing to get involved. Just depends on the company and how they react.
My mum had a huge issue this year with the company that she worked for. They used to be government and shifted to private, so they’ve been slowly trying to get rid of all the employees that were on the government payroll as they obviously have some pretty good pay, versus new hires that are generally from overseas. They’ve been bullying an harassing my mum, while also systematically underpaying her. She works in a elderly homecare company. Essentially they were saying that, if they arrive at a house and there’s no answer, they’re required to stay for 30 minutes before either calling emergency services or the office, depending on the situation. They also stated it’s not something they get paid for. They’d set up meetings on the weekend which staff weren’t paid for, or they changed the record to indicate meetings were mid week. Stuff like that.
My brother has contacts with a quite high up HR lawyer who assisted him, to which he read them the riot act. They still dragged it out over about 6 months despite the fact that they had zero defence. They even realised halfway through the process, that my mum had never signed the new private entity contract, to which they blamed her etc. Horrible situation but the company was savvy enough to pretty much waste everyone’s resources and time. She ended up with a payout, but it definitely hasn’t stopped the systemic underpaying of the other employees.
The coffee hasnt happened or been spoken of since and we found out who the new acting manager will be. They are adjacent to the team and had previously done the role for a few weeks last year… they were fine but it significantly weakens another part of the business.
I feel like the director has been avoiding me though im trying not to be sensitive about it. Odd that she sent her assistant to ask me something when i was sitting diagonally opposite to them yesterday.
My outgoing acting manager pulled me aside to check in and said that i have nothing to worry about from an employment perspective and she understands how completely flattening the whole thing would be.
Very random on their end. The acting manager obviously knows the situation, which is pretty shit. Safe to assume the director knows of it as well. Might be worth setting a meeting with the director in the interest of seeing why it was handled in that specific way? You can set it under the guise of wanting to know how you could do better. At the very least, you’ll be able to get a feel for the situation.
Im in a very specialised role which means im kind of stuck where I am… if i were to move somewhere else id be doing things that i have zero interest in doing
The upside of that is you can hopefully leverage more money, specialised roles are great in that regard. You can feel stuck, but on the flipside you’re very hard to replace.
Never a bad thing to sow the seeds of doubt in their mind without being unprofessional about it. Maybe do the Segecic ‘call me’ celebration as you walk past your new boss’ desk next time?
Problem with specialised roles is that sometimes management knows how hard it is for someone to move, which bad management can generally leverage.
I’ve been looking to move for a bit over a month now and the issue is there’s no really any positions at my level, or even close to my level of responsibility. There’s heaps of junior jobs which would mean a huge pay cut, just nothing else really around there.
Not to toot my own horn but if anyone is looking for a job I have a large business and know a lot of major employers so if you’re looking for a particular role chuck it in a post here and I can try to help.
Hmm… I guess it depends on what area of media and comms you’re talking about?
I know a bit about media relations in the corporate world, although opportunities there are pretty hard to come by unless you have a lot of experience.
