I just reviewed the timeline for what I was talking about in my emails as I was curious whether it really was that bad or I had skewed it. Well it was. Basically (after a bunch of examples of really bad management, shouting, blaming, threatening etc)
Month 1 mysteriously don't get called into work anymore, not too worried, work is seasonal anyway. Just mopped up the big annual job that has everyone buzzing.
Month 4 (yes we're talking months here) offered some paltry work on another site, which I accept, no answer,
Month 5 email HR to find out what the strawberry float is going on as my job has seemingly disappeared after over a year
Month 6 follow up HR, eventually get a reply saying it's been looked at.
Month 8 struck off staff payroll because no wages due because of no hours worked. So email EVERYONE, which one of those people forwards to top of HR as kinda sounds bad I guess...
Month 9 get a phone call with assistant head of HR (as it would have been too expensive to travel to a meeting if Iwasn't getting paid, obviously), finally an apology and some recognition this was all total bullshit.
Present: old friend who replaced me with hmmm I wonder what happened there is still doing my old job. Posts videos on Facebook of them and manager on the bants. Oh and they hooked their friend into the "team" as well. Both already worked (and continued to work) under other positions, i.e. cliquey as strawberry float.
Yeah strawberry float that. When I saw the signs of shitty behaviour I was told by an old friend/staff who I knew YEARS before the new department I was working for was formed, that it was probably malpractice from manager, and sounded like bullying so make a diary etc and tell HR, but I was too anxious and depressed about it to speak to HR. So I got royally shafted in the end. Never any kind of formal dismissal or complaint about any work I ever did, which as far as I know, was perfectly fine.
And all under the financial stress of having no guaranteed hours and a long and expensive commute. Really physically demanding work as replacing a team of what used to be several people.
They just had no idea how to work with their resources/people at all and were shockingly rude, I saw them making fun of colleagues behind their back multiple times. This guy basically came in, hoovered up all the salaries of formally made redundant employees and treated the new zero hours people (me) like shite, and the other one left after a week (I later found out it was because they were spoken too terribly as well, but they had another much more prestigious job at the same time, so they were literally doing the job with me for kicks/extra money, as they were ex staff and wanted to help I guess. Wish I could have done the same but needed the money).
There's nothing worse than feeling imprisoned by a job where you're sub-human. This idea that people out there need to be sharks to do the big management jobs and treat everyone else like gooseberry fool, I don't understand how they survive. Is it credentials (I.e. How effective they are at being shitty to others and "getting results")? Bullshitting skills? I don't know.
Anyway they apparently got a talking at by this assistant HR person who should actually care, and hopefully (although I'll never know) that shot a rocket up their arse. Unfortunately they're still working there so I feel sorry for anyone under them.
I was literally told to do this whole big HR email thing after the fact by an NHS mental health practitioner so if anyone wants an idea of how bad, health-wise, being managed by a banana split can get then there you go. Combine that with zero hours practice and you've got one toxic clusterfuck. Never ever go there. If you have no real contract, and you're treated badly, within a week just leave; don't get the idea in your head that it'll get better or there'll be some reward as that's how it's exploitative. You don't just lose your job, you loose your will to live. Thankfully I didn't give up and just turned attention to my business and taking care of myself around the same time, as the sense of betrayal really messed me up and has badly coloured my expectations of working anywhere now.
And that isn't my last bullshittery story either, I got dismissed for no reason again a year later. Although that was independent contracting which has its own barrel of laughs with regards to how others treat you. The difference in my favour was I got paid about 4x as much, daily. Funny it was the same sector (creative arts skills in education) so maybe I should just avoid that forever. My agent didn't understand how that happened either. There's no explaining people being gooseberry fools, they just are.
And people wonder why I'm self employed because my industry skills are top notch