Clarks employee who worked at same shop for 68 years sacked with two days notice

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1. >A pensioner who worked at Clarks for nearly seven decades has been let go from the shop she dedicated her life to- after being given just a week’s notice.

   I thought it was two days, given the headline.

2. So 30 weeks redundancy pay plus 12 weeks pay in lieu of notice, and she’s complaining?

3. Sounds about right for UK. I don’t do anything of value now. NOTHING.

   Absolutely no point in today’s age.

   Quickly replaced etc

4. She was too old to continue working but they didn’t have the heart (or legal grounds?) to sack her, so they shut down the store instead.

5. So she’s angry that she was only given 1 weeks notice that she would be served her full legally required notice?

   Nonsense article.

6. But I guarantee if SHE wanted to leave with all benefits and goodwill with his employer intact, he’d have to give 2-4 weeks notice. Fucked up.

7. So she was made redundant because the branch closed, she wasn’t sacked.

   Still a shame for her and others involved but hopefully she’ll get a decent financial package and, seeing as she seems to be well known and respected in that community, if she wanted to continue to work another shop on the high street may take her on.

8. Different rules for different stores, Clarks is such a shitty backwards company. They’ll give one store two months notice it’s closing and the next just a week. They’ll also let you go for tearing your acl

9. Very misleading headline. She wasn’t sacked the store closed there is a big difference.

   I am sure she will be ok it’s more sad for the younger workers at the store losing their jobs, younger people in general tend to have more financial burdens than those of retirement age.

10. The story is quite misleading (the media being misleading, who would have thunk that!). She only worked part time, 1 day a week, she was told the shop was closing 2 weeks before her job was terminated, which works out to 2 working days but in reality is 2 weeks notice however saying it’s 2 days notice sounds better and makes a meatier story.
    Also she was a part time employee on a zero hours contract so wasn’t actually entitled to any notice, going from a full time employee to part time was her decision, again this was all left out of the story , add to this the fact she wasn’t sacked she was actually made redundant like everyone else who worked in that shop due to the fact the shop was being closed and the story gets even weaker.

11. Its a total non story. Shop closes, staff can’t be moved so get redundancy and PILON. should be on r/slownewsday

12. Don’t devote your live to someone else’s capitalist venture I guess.

13. She postponed her honeymoon to go on a training course and raised her son in a playpen on the shop floor?! Each to their own but this is way too much commitment for any job, let alone working in a Clarks shop. And I say that as someone who used to work in a children’s shoe shop.

14. What do people expect when they work at a shop for decades, that they then own the shop? And they make the hiring and firing decisions?

    Erm, no. You’re still just an employee.

15. Heading says 2 days, article states 2 weeks. Also she’s in her 80’s FFS, it’s time to retire

16. Do the right thing Clarks, this woman needs a dream holiday.

17. So, a pensioner who enjoyed 68 years of job security gets made redundant, and that’s a story. But who knows how many people are now being fired at will in the first 2 years of employment since 2010 when the tories quietly stripped everyone of any right to job security… That’s wierdly, not a story.

    Have i got that right?

18. Clark’s are massive arseholes, how they keep their cutesy middle class image is beyond me. They hired me when I was 18, didn’t schedule me for 2 weeks (after about 2 months of working for them mind) and then fired me for not turning up for those same 2 weeks. The manager was a control freak who insisted shoes needed to be thumbs width apart on the shelves (but specifically her thumb), and the pressure to upsell was ridiculous. To top it, the quality really isn’t even that good any more.

    Doesn’t surprise me at all, it’s just your typical soulless high street money maker now. Good luck to the lady, some people need a purpose no matter what it is.

19. Let’s be honest it’s a non-story, the title is also misleading it’s not exactly a sacking. Most people will click into the link looking for some evidence of her stealing birthday cards or something.

20. She’s had a right result , made redundant at 82 after years of employment, that’s a dream situation for most I would think , an extremely nice golden handshake , off to retire now , nice 👌

21. Shit clickbait headline. She wasn’t sacked. The store closed. She was made redundant. Huge difference.