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  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Iron shooting
    942·
    1 year ago

    This is absolutely true. My former employer (a big box retail company) reduced my pay while I was on holiday. I had been there for years and accrued a bunch of pay rises - but the company got bought out and the new owners thought they could strip me of these because they felt they were temporary and non-contractual.

    I got some legal advice that basically said they can’t do that sort of thing and had a meeting scheduled with HR. I went in with my notepad, I stayed calm - pleasent even - no angry shouting or slamming tables with fists, I just politely asked them questions and wrote down everything they said, then read their answers back to them to confirm thats what they said. I had about 6 questions prepared and by the 4th they were visibly uncomfortable, it was an amazing feeling making them squirm like that. After I got done asking my questions, I dropped the legal advice I had been given on them and it was obvious the answers they gave supported my case very heavily. They panicked and reversed all there decesion plus I got back-pay.

    But if the first thing I had done is charge in making accusations and quoting the law I know nothing constructive would have happened.

    See the goal is to bury them in their own words.

    Edit: predictably the company went bust the next year. So long Office Outlet!

  • The_Mike_Drop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•You’re stuck in here with me
    18·
    1 year ago

    Hello Metal Detectors perhaps you can help me: I’m into all sorts of music and I’ve listened to modern day metal.

    What confuses me is that Led Zeppelin has also been described as Metal and Heavy Metal. I listened to Led Zeppelin 4 and it has accoustic folk songs on it.

    So I guess my question is when did todays metal start to sound like metal? Is there any connective tissue with Metal in the late '60s / early '70s and now?