Boss forgets to fire me, so I get paid for doing nothing.

This story is from June 2012, a couple of months or so short of 12 years ago.

I've generalized my exact work for anonymity.

This story takes place in Australia where we have very stringent laws around employment,

firing, hiring, redundancies, maternity,

and all the other jib jab.

A little bit of background, I'd started working for this particular company in March 2011.

I was hired basically on the spot once I demonstrated my knowledge of the product that I'd

be working on, and I started two days later because of a

deadline that had to be met. I had a very specific contract for what I did. I was thrown in the

deep end, a sleepless seven days followed, but by the end I managed to do a decent job on the

first of many products. Two months after, my direct boss, the general manager, was let go and not really replaced properly, but a consultant took over their responsibilities.

I should also add that the majority of operations were in Australia, while a smaller team operated in the UK, which is also where the CEO was based, despite 80 to 90% of products coming out of our office.

Towards the third quarter of 2011, the CEO's contract ended and was not renewed.

So the hunt began for a new CEO who was eventually found and began working also in the UK

location. After a very busy 2011, hiring approximately 30 new employees

and launching a bunch of new products, business was booming. Until the second week of January 2012.

By this point, upper management couldn't stay on top of everything, bringing in the C.O.

of the parent company to oversee operations in Australia,

because we had a lot going on, but the CEO was based in the UK and knew. At that point,

we had a group meeting where we learned the future of the company and that operations in Australia

would cease on June 30, 2012, which is the end of the financial year in Australia.

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