In the week that
I am a very concerned that the ambitions of my employer don't match up with where I see myself in the next five years. I would like to be winning awards and fulfilling my potential on the world stage, leading my fellow country men to greatness. Sadly I see my employer wallowing around being the second or third best company in its field. I have been lauded as having the potential to be the best in the world, to be one of the greatest of all time even.
Some have describe me as a foul mouthed thug, a mindless violent abuser. Granted I have a temper, I have a wandering eye, I love women and have been known to pay for their company....hell they need their pensions topping up so why not. O.k maybe the fact that my wife is at home looking after my new born child but you know what, she's always out doing her thing, out with her mates at some party or another, wearing another new dress she got out the catalogue. She cant complain I am a good dad to our kid, anything it needs it gets.
She does complain about me being out with the lads though, " You think more of them than you do of us" she is constantly going on, but I tell her I have to, its work. Come to think of it I do spend most weekends with them and we get to go away on work trips mid week, some times to the most fashionable cities in Europe. I even went away to South Africa in the summer for the world cup but when I came home early I got a right slating, I thought she would have been happy but no.... just cant seem to please some people.
Anyway my boss keeps calling me, he seems to want to know what's going on in my head, he says he's worried about me but I think he's more worried about what people think of him. He used to treat me like a son, all protective and stuff, "Hows ma' champ doin'?" " Every one, Listen to ma' boy here", "He's a special talent that we need to nurture". But thing have changed, he told every one I couldn't come in the other day cos' I had hurt my leg but there was nothing wrong with me, he just didn't want me around. When I did go back in he even gave me some crappy job to finish off that some-one else had done. I have seem this before, when he fell out with his last Golden Boy, he even got violent and verbally abused him in front of every-one at work, then started chucking stuff at him. He has got a temper though and we think he has a drink problem but you cant say anything or else you have had it. I think he's trying to push me out, but I don't care, I want out!!
Can you believe that after all these years of service, the millions of pounds I have made the company and the physical and mental abuse I have taken they treat me this way. I had a talk with the directors the other day, I told them straight "Pay me more or else I'm off", they said they would "Think about it".... Cheeky bastards, they dont deserve me, I made this company what it is today, without me they are nothing. I have had a chat with some people who know some people who run a similar company not far from here and they are more than interested in giving me a job. Word is they will give me the same position with a pay increase. A guy who used to work here went to work for them about a year ago and he's doing great there, so will have to wait and see, depends on what they offer!
............Just had a call from the boss, sounded like he had had a a drink or two, but said that he had just come out of a meeting with the directors and they were willing to give me another chance..... I didn't even know I was on a disciplinary!! They said that they didn't want any more negative stuff going on and if they increased my pay to £180,000 a week would I stay..........
HELL YEAH!!
In the week of benefit cuts, increase in stealth taxes and all round belt tightening unlike never before, how can one man be paid such an immoral amount of money for playing a game! ......
It makes me ashamed to be a Manchester United supporter
