Peach Pub Company
These bastards are responsible for months of piss-taking and two-faced lying to first mrs teddy bear and then yours truly.

On the surface this company seems to be your normal swanky I'm going to serve you 1 lonely oyster, decoratively displayed because I'm a pretentious twunt, and then lightly drizzle it with our chef's special spunk and charge you £12 for the privilage (personally I like my food cheap and dead: not sick or wounded: dead). The only reason the mrs stuck it out so long was that she would make more in tips in one shift than I would working a 16hr day.

Management were fuckwits. The whole operation is dodgy as. Each individual pub offered staff accommodation (thankfully mrs teddy bear was living with me) which comprised rooms the size of wardrobes and 1 toilet between 7 people (illegal I hear you cry?). And, staff were charged £200 a month for this shit tip.

But this is not my real problem. MY problem came when management put mrs teddy bear on BR taxrate not 647L (causing her to lose £1200 in tax which mysteriously disappeared), did not inform her she required a WRS certificate to work there (she is Estonian!) so she worked illegally for over a year, didn't give her her P60, payslips, any official contract and then reduced her shifts when I complained on her behalf. Management dicked me around for days giving me excuse after excuse not to produce these legal forms. I finally went down there to confront Oliver, the mincing little flange weasel who called himself duty manager, who then lied to my face saying they were still waiting for HMRC to produce mrs teddy bear's P60 and payslips. This is where I lost it and made rather a scene during their busy lunch hour. As a result I was forcibly ejected from the pub by the head manager. However, 2 days later mrs teddy bear was emailed all the forms. I think the threat of legal action might have triggered it.

Sorry for lack of funnies but I feel better now!
(satanstolemyteddybear Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:19, 10 replies)

No need for you to threaten legal action yourself
Report them to the taxman.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:24, closed)

^What she said^

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:25, closed)

She?
I'm pretty sure I'm a male, I've got a dick and everything.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:35, closed)

Methinks the lady doth protest too much
Now get that lovely arse of yours into the kitchen and make us some tea.

*gooses*
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:53, closed)

That means nothing these days

(Nanny Pat vote for me, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:54, closed)

Aaah, I see. It's your thing. I thought you genuinely thought I was female.

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 7:07, closed)

Did just that!
They launched an investigation. Don't know the outcome but I hope they find something. They were in the habit of employing all foreign employees who didn't know the tax system. True, it is not an employers responsibility to set you, the employee on the right tax code, but any decent employer should want to help as they pay the same tax per person regardless: it is to the individual who it makes all the difference. Unless you are putting them on BR, lying about it and making the tax 'disappear'.
(satanstolemyteddybear Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:24, closed)

Or. alternatively, he was telling the truth about waiting for the forms
and forwarded them as soon as they came through. Just a thought.

And the tax code thing happens all the time. Claim it back like the rest of us. It's not hard.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:40, closed)

If you can't supply a P45 form valid for the current tax year...
...then you [i]should[/i] complete a P46 declaring your employment status since 6th April and be taxed accordingly.

You can write to HMRC and claim a tax rebate, should take about eight weeks to process.

(edit) If the OP wants some pointers on how to do this, then please gaz me and I'll gladly assist.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 16 Jun 2010, 11:44, closed)

Thanks for the offer,
but an escalated call through to HMRC management cleared it up. Got the money back. The managers there were just a nightmare!
(satanstolemyteddybear Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:20, closed)