'I quit well over 10 years ago': Worker gets called in to work a shift at the fast food place they left 10 years prior

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    Posted by u/Bumwungle Phoned to come in on a shift for a job I quit well over ten years ago I was told this sub may be a place to share this. I used to work in a large fast-food establishment in the UK. I left this role after uni in the 00's!! i hated this job and the management were all wankers. This establishment is renowned for hiring young staff and with a large staff turnover.
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    Anyway around 8am I received a call from an unknown number (not withheld just not known to me), I answer and I'm met with, "Hi xxxxxx, it's xxxxx from xxxxxxx, we want to know if you can come in do a few hours today? (Polite and amiable enough). Stunned silence from me.... Finally i managed to ask what he was on about (genuinely mind blown this was happening) and he repeated that they were short and could I pitch in even though I wasn't on the rota.
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    I explained I don't work there and haven't for years and that my career has moved on and I live 250 miles away...and I was then met with stunned silence..... eventually he managed a "....really??".... then a "sorry to bother you" and hung up...no explanation why they still have me on the system. I will probably email them next week. And that was that....
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    OKflyboy I was an Parts Sales Manager for an Auto Parts Store for 7 or so years. Left the company, moved to a different state. About a year after leaving I got a call from the alarm company that the store alarm was tripped and they couldn't get hold of the Store Manager and I should probably head down to the store to check if everything was OK. I told them I didn't work for the company anymore and I lived about a thousand miles away now so it might be a little difficult for me to check on the st
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    Mommagrumps Had the same thing happen to me, also UK, worked for a supermarket where every little helps, 6 years after leaving got a call," please can you come in we are desperate "I told them you must be considering I had to leave 6 years prior due to becoming disabled and there probably wouldn't be room for my mobility scooter behind the till! The girl was shocked but the best part? I knew her outside of work, she had just forgotten about me leaving and my medical problems! So careful, they li
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    emmjaybeeyoukay Holding data (name/number) way past any reasonable use point. Potential GDPR issues. I'd raise a query with their HR department and make it clear that <branch> is holding data on you and you want it scrubbed. Point out GDPR in retention of information outside a reasonable or statutory duration. 197 Share GenXWaster Yeah, I would be asking for the contact to send the Data Access Request to and look out the process for reporting this to the ICO. 32 Share
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    TheSameButBetter Worst example I've had of a similar situation is when 10 years after leaving a company they - for reasons best known to themselves - re-registered me as an employee with the Revenue Commissioners (Irish tax agency). This had the effect of shifting all my tax credits to them and taking them away from my current job which meant I was paying emergency tax (52%) for that month. My employer had no leeway in this matter, they had to charge me whatever tax Revenue told them to.
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    After a few frantic calls to the Revenue Commissioners they sorted it out and sent a order to correct affairs to my old employer and fined them.€2k for making incorrect submissions. Still had to wait a month to get the overpayment repaid to me. I also made a complaint to the data protection commissioner who fined them another thousand euro. 245 Share
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    Finsceal I worked behind the counter in a pharmacy for a number of years, I eventually left for a new job but they kept me on the books and I did a shift a month when they needed a hand. My old manager moved on and I heard nothing from the new guy for 6 months. He texted me short notice asking for me to cover a Friday shift, I said no, I didn't hear from him again. 5 years go by.
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    I got an email from HR at the Pharmacy head office saying that they had never closed off my employment record and would I mind submitting a letter of resignation dated 5 years ago. I said no, I never resigned, I was made functionally redundant because I was never offered any more shifts. The HR lady rang me and said I either had to send them a backdated resignation for
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    their records, or let her know what days I was available to pick up shifts. I politely told her I'd be doing neither but that was apparently a big issue for her because it up their paperwork. I politely told her that wasn't my problem and if she didn't stop calling me I'd be looking for all the holiday entitlements I was probably due for being on the books for 5 years. The calls stopped after that. 81 Share
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    D . KnaprigaKraakor - 2 yr. ago "I can come in, but as I currently work as an IT contractor, and this would be an emergency callout on New Years' Eve, you would be paying not only my Out of Hours rates, but also the Emergency/Unsocial hours multiplier, from the time I start my journey to the site, until the time I get home after finishing the requested work.
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    Are you SURE you are authorized to, and want to, pay me £400 per hour for me to make a 500 mile round trip and spend a few hours flipping burgers or taking orders from -faced punters? No? Didn't think so... but let me know, because if you are willing to authorize that then I am ok with it." 212 Share
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    Suicidal_Cheezit Recently had a nightmare where this happened to me. My previous job called me up and said they needed me to come in. Couldn't find a company shirt and went in. Couldn't remember how to clock in and then they put me on the register where I couldn't remember item codes. Woke up panicked, then the wash of sweet relief came over. 96 Share
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    bstrauss3 Seven years after I left a project, I got a DM on a board asking if I was the <myname> who wrote program FS17 for <customer> as it had blown up in prod last night. FS17 was a program I had written to solve a critical problem. Over a weekend. With a blender, a pint bottle of rum, a tray of ice cubes and two bananas.
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    As I still worked for the consulting company I replied, "sure, send me the dump and I'll take a look..." Whereupon my tormentor had to admit that /a/ he was just punking me and /b/ FS17 had NEVER blown up in the 8 years since I had written it. Best code I ever wrote 113 Share
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    bofh One of my former employers sold a system I wrote for our HAL mainframe right back to HAL. It was a lot less robust than your code, shall we say. How they got the nerve to sell it or why HAL purchased it is a huge mystery to me. 31 Share bstrauss3 Because it was better than 90% of the code that IBM wrote. The best code (essentially the earliest generations of "open source") were on the GUIDE and SHARE tapes. 19 Share

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