Work and Photography

Having started work at what could be described as the best part of the season when the adults are busy nest building and the eggs are laid and then the young ones appearing.
Due to work, I was missing out on most of this. And the great weather we having was making the shooting conditions even better.

I quit my job on Thursday due tot he fact that paying for expenses, then waiting 6 weeks before getting paid was pretty annoying. Driving the vehicle they proveide with no road tax was not a good idea either. The road tax was paid and had e mail confirming this from DVLA but the boss did not make us aware the e mail confirmation was only good for 5 days.
The actual disc was sent to a previous employee who decided to claim a rebate on it. In the meantime we were driving the vehicle oblivious to the illegality of not having the disc on the vehicle window. My colleague got an £82.00 fine when police spotted it when he drove into his street to go home.
i got away with it due to having underground parking so it was not left out in the open.
The company paid the fine but the DVLA basically screwed up as they were supposed to send the disc to me. My information was provided.

Buying fuel was another expense that I had to wait 6 weeks for. Actually, 5 but they sent a check so it was another 5 days waiting for that to clear. Then we finally got a fuel card to use saving us using our own money.
The other guy quit last Friday leaving me on my own but I decided to hand in my notice as well.
Then on Wednesday, I filled up on diesel and then the card was cancelled. I had to pay again but due to leaving on Friday, I asked for deisel money to be put into my account immediately but was refused. I have slips of paper from contrators saying we did the job required and then we send them off every week.
No deisel money was in my account on Friday. So they do not get the slips.
They don't get paid, I don't get paid, and the guy who stepped in for the guy who quit wont get paid for last week.

Am I bothered?

I should have kept the vehicle keys and no one would get to work for them.
This was only a few problems of which there were many.

I worked 13 hours and only got paid 6 hours. Worked 10 hours and got paid 8. This was a weekly occurence but thought they would sort it out. And there was other stuff too.
So, I will be going to see an employment lawyer and then take a week off form working and just go out with my camera and catch what I can from the last of the breeding season.

Looking forward to retiring......