Just because it's funny...

Just because it makes me laugh, I thought I would copy and paste the email which I sent to my old manager, here for you to read. This is the email which got me prematurely escorted from the building in my last job. All names have of course been changed, as has anything which may identify the company I worked for - just incase! To give you the low down, she had sent me a very curt email saying that it was a '[Company] rule', not to reward people who leave the business.

Dear [Pigface],

Perhaps this is a '[Company] rule' but I can think of a number of ways that you could have gotten around this if you had wanted to. I feel deflated that all of my efforts and hard work have come to nothing.

I spoke to the team before I sent my previous note to you and they all persuaded me to ask you about the reward as I have worked just as hard as the rest of them for the past eight months. I will let them know that I am to receive nothing. Despite team meetings, [department meetings] and [meetings with management] emphasising the extent to which [the Company] values and rewards its employees, I am to receive nothing for my efforts and I am hugely disappointed.

I have it on excellent authority that a member of this team recently left the company before the [bonus] payments were made, but she still received them. This too was for goals which had been met. She too contributed. She too received the reward. But I will not. Does [the Company] have one rule for one employee and another for everybody else?

A personal recognition from you is one thing, but it was not what was promised when we were set the goal. I vigorously worked my accounts for a trip to Prague (or the equivalent monetary value) - not a verbal pat on the back from you!

Please note my dissatisfaction and disappointment.

Amy

***I didn't get a reply to this one. Actually, I guess I did in a way. It was - GET OUT NOW! ha ha***