'Serenity'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Even if they didn't accept your decision on "Professional Clothes" it doesn't justify taking the money back! That is just all kinds of wrong.
(Thinks about what I wore to work today. Orange shorts, tropical shirt, sneakers. Professional enough for me. I wore a bra.)
tatterdemalion
Ooh! Good word!
A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing; a ragamuffin.
They said, we're giving you a Christmas bonus, and we want you to spend it on professional clothes. A conditional gift. Also they're saying that they're within their rights to ask for it back, since it wasn't a gift but a company expenditure of funds for a specific purpose.
A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing; a ragamuffin.Who shops at Thrift Town.
I'm taking a wild guess here that you might not want to go back in January under a new job title for this employer. I am just stunned.
KB, that's hilarious. Which is to say, I'm very sorry about the whole job mess, because you don't need the stress of being unemployed, but I'm glad you're not working for the Idiot Bunch anymore.
I found out last night that my uncle died. A WEEK AGO. My mom just doesn't tell me things.
I'm so sorry, ChiKat. (I found out about my great uncle's death by my mom ending a completely frivolous phone conversation with "Oh, I have to go -- I'm on my way to [great uncle]'s funeral." WTF is wrong with parents???)
KB, I'm stunned. I...stunned.
I have Thai food. It is helping me recover from the strike-induced commute from HELL.
Wait, so presumably you have already worn the clothes, and they weren't up to these standards you were supposed to understand with your psychic powers... which means you can't return the new clothes you bought, and are now in the hole. Because they're batshit crazy.
That's... I... wow. They need to be killed.
Egad. Just...egad.
Repeat after me: Never volunteer information to people who have any authority over your life. Unless withholding it is worse.
So sad, and yet...I cynically find myself agreeing with Hec.
openly and notoriously
I love this phrase. I want to do something openly and notoriously.
I was given a Christmas bonus. For professional clothes. Then they decided I'd shopped incorrectly at stores I had no permission to go to, so they asked for the $ back. So I wrote them a check and walked away. I have here a letter from them saying that I should have the maturity to explain myself, and would I please come back in January under a different job title?
This whole story is just...INSANE. Completely bizarre and INSANE. Frankly, i would find being given a bonus for to get "professional clothes" kinda insulting. But then to be told I had to give it BACK? WTF??? If they were THAT concerned, why not give you a gift card to a "proper" store? And taking the money BACK?? WTF??? That cant' be legal. And what's the wanting you back with a different title? (Would you have to wear clothes from the "proper" store??)
This poor woman, now 8 months pregnant has lost her husband, her father, and her father-in law.
Oh how awful. I'm so sorry.
Has anyone seen a jaw around here? I seem to have dropped mine.