Make me redundant!!
A few years ago I was employed by a pharmaceutical company to do some research in a hospital. The hospital paid some of my wages and the pharmacomp paid the rest.

The boss in charge of my lab was employed by the hospital, and was not really in charge of me. However after he realise what a useful and naive labtechy type I was, he gradually assigned me more and more work not related to the research that company was paying me for. I ended up not doing any research at all.

Part of my new duties was to enter research data into the hospital database, and as I became more familiar with the data I was handling, it dawned on me that the lab boss was not only using me for free, but was also using the hospital resources, people, computers, lab equipment, reagents etc, for his own private consultancy work (the Hospital didn't know this angle).


I decided that I needed the job very much, so I kept quiet. Anyway, long story short, I found out on the pharmacomp grapevine that the pharmaceutical company paying me was about to go out of business and I'd be out of a job within 2 weeks.


I had a quiet word with my lab boss, pointing out my understanding of certain inconsistencies of his accounting. I also pointed out that there was a University post grad course I wanted to apply for and that an involuntary redundancy package of a few months would cover the costs. Also that studying a post grad course in another part of the country would keep me far too busy to worry about hospitals for at least 3 years. I left it at that and let him invent an or else bit himself (I wouldn't stoop to blackmail after all, cos that is jail time and immoral and stuff).

A week later I was made redundant, with a nice settlement.


The result is that I ended up with a PhD and a very nice research position thankee very much.


Result.
(DrTeeth, Wed 28 May 2008, 15:29, Reply)