Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
So someone wants to retire (not me you understand, I am FAR too young for that, and skint ) but they want the payoff they would get if they were made redundant. In my case, that will be a year's salary.

So what would HR do if the bloke comes to them and says I want to retire but I want a package? If they say no, the bloke can take the piss until they have to get rid of him and pay him anyway, no?
I asked our head of HR if she could look at redundancy when I was leaving London in 2002 after 14 years of working for them. I knew they had no real plan to replace me locally instead absorbing a lot of my work in our other offices.

She laughed and told me to fúck off. Literally. She was Irish of course so we were able to speak freely with each other.

How we laughed that night at the leaving drinks in The Chapel.