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Originally Posted by egg&chips
You are right Accyman. It's probably not hard to find a way to get rid of a part time teen who is about to go to uni anyway, and it will be extremely easy to not find that person any holiday work when he is back here.
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The pen truly is mightier than the sword.
I learned very quickly that when you are 17 there are any number of unscrupulous managers (more often than not deputy managers) who will screw you over at the first opportunity. I was duped over my hourly rate, my holiday entitlement and eventually what we used to call 'time owing' where you worked extra for hours off rather than overtime.
Two little words in a letter usually got the ball moving very quickly indeed and I was only ever part-time at this company for seven years: Head Office.
It took me almost a year to start fighting back through that stupid English trait of not kicking up a fuss. If he's going to university I suspect he'll be erudite enough to string a decent letter together. No need to be abusive but state your case in a letter and copy it to the General Manager with the threat of a copy to Head Office.
If that doesn't work I'll be extremely surprised. Most of the deputy managers and supervisors I ever worked for had less backbone than something in a tide pool. I'm self-employed now and don't have to answer to anyone like that ever again - damned hard work but immensely satisfying.