has to be about my erstwhile employer. No, I haven’t been sacked, I’m talking about the twerps I used to work for 🙁
I was made redundant in Feb 04. In April 04 I received a bonus relating to my work prior to that redundancy. I did not receive any paperwork other than a letter about it, and neither, it would appear did the tax office.
This fact is making the tax office unhappy. I haven’t properly filled in a tax return, because I don’t know how much tax was deducted at source. I’ve now been trying to get this information out of the anti-personnel dept for over two weeks, weeks which have been utterly stressful in other ways, and therefore I could really do without all of this.
I called them earlier this week to ask where the promised statement of earnings was. I was grovelled to when it became apparent that the guy who had made the work request had made it incorrectly, and it had been dropped rather than forwarded. (The only minorly amusing factoid about all of this is that the application he will have been using sounds an awful lot like the one I worked on the entire time I was employed there. It isn’t difficult to use, and it’s very difficult to accidentally drop something rather than forwarding, it’s a completely different option. Unless they’ve changed it since I was there, which is of course possible.)
So they grovelled and resubmitted it to high priority queue with the promise it would be with me by Saturday.
It arrived a day early. I was momentarily impressed – until I read it and realised that although it *said* 2004-2005 at the top, they’d actually sent me the figures for the preceding year. Sad geek that I am I recognised them, and rang the tax office both for confirmation and to let them know that the saga is still ongoing. I spent quite some time being passed around switch boards and transferred to different countries and having to ring them back as they couldn’t transfer me to the dept I wanted and I’m still not sure that they are now going to send me the right thing.
After all that I was exhausted, and retired to bed with a stinking headache, where I stayed all day. I slept for a couple of hours then spent the afternoon reading – found a Megan Lindholm, The Windsingers
, I’ve been saving. It was worth it. 🙂
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