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I'm at my wit's end...
12 years ago
News from the Cookie's jar
I had to renew my transportation yearly subscription last month. Here in Brussels, that costs 499 euros for one year.
When i arrived with the proof of purchase at work, they told me "ah, but we don't cover that"... It's always been covered by all my previous employers...
That was a blow.
Then i learned that half of the holidays i HAVE to take (it's mandatory in my country to take your hokidays, or you have to pay back at the end of the year the money you are getting for them, even if you didn't take them and therefore didn't get money) will be "unpaid holidays", because i was in interim last year and therefore, the holidays were paid, they say. They also deducted 200 euros from this month's salary to cover for those holidays that i haven't taken yet..
I also received 3 invoices that weren't expected: a "regulation" gas bill: 250 euros for last year's gas, a plumber invoice (i had to have a faucet changed in order to be able to take warm showers.. just wasn't expecting it to be 240 bloody euros!! Thieves!) and a tax bill of 85 euros for yearly trash removal.
A friend lend me a hand last month to help me survive (pay my rent)... i can't thank her enough for that.. but it seems that i'll be in the same shit this month...
I dunno what i'm gonna do... Sold one bust from my star wars collection.. trying to sell others.. But they're worth what? 40 euros a piece? And i have only 2 of them...
I thought that i'd be able to make a bit of cash by selling glowsticks at EF, as every year (my main source of profit every year).. but now it looks like i won't be able to even afford buying the stock in advance..
Sometimes i think i'd better be off... not being here anymore.
I'm lonely, fed up, and tired of fighting.....
When i arrived with the proof of purchase at work, they told me "ah, but we don't cover that"... It's always been covered by all my previous employers...
That was a blow.
Then i learned that half of the holidays i HAVE to take (it's mandatory in my country to take your hokidays, or you have to pay back at the end of the year the money you are getting for them, even if you didn't take them and therefore didn't get money) will be "unpaid holidays", because i was in interim last year and therefore, the holidays were paid, they say. They also deducted 200 euros from this month's salary to cover for those holidays that i haven't taken yet..
I also received 3 invoices that weren't expected: a "regulation" gas bill: 250 euros for last year's gas, a plumber invoice (i had to have a faucet changed in order to be able to take warm showers.. just wasn't expecting it to be 240 bloody euros!! Thieves!) and a tax bill of 85 euros for yearly trash removal.
A friend lend me a hand last month to help me survive (pay my rent)... i can't thank her enough for that.. but it seems that i'll be in the same shit this month...
I dunno what i'm gonna do... Sold one bust from my star wars collection.. trying to sell others.. But they're worth what? 40 euros a piece? And i have only 2 of them...
I thought that i'd be able to make a bit of cash by selling glowsticks at EF, as every year (my main source of profit every year).. but now it looks like i won't be able to even afford buying the stock in advance..
Sometimes i think i'd better be off... not being here anymore.
I'm lonely, fed up, and tired of fighting.....
Without that, i can't take the bus, and.. without bus.. how do i get to work??
Though I am sorry your newest employer chose not to.
But here they exploit a loophole in the regulations of small companies (we have only 4 employees) that says that the refunding of the subscription under 5 employees is "at employer's discretion"...
So we can forget it.
Other than that, ^bigfluffyhuggles^
I'm so angry and powerless...
I hope you manage to get your glowstick stock somehow. You've been very good at selling them every year!
*warm long bathugs*