for the previous owner i informed her that with how the business takeover would run it counts as continuous employment i quoted the exact law and code that backed me up she asked for a NUMBER_TOKEN-minute break in the meeting to let me think about her offer she went to call her lawyer when she came back she informed me that since she was firing me for gross misconduct she didn't have to give me any notice at all if i wanted to remain and move to the zero hours contract i could do that today but if i didn't then she would have to fire me but because she was nice she would give me the two weeks notice i asked for a couple of hours to go home and think about this she allowed this i knew the reason she wanted me to remain for at least the two weeks was because one of our few remaining bigger customers were set to have a product delivery from me in that time they would only work with me the owner had tried sending other staff in my place on several occasions and each time there had been problems it wasn't the staff's fault it was just a very difficult delivery for a very specific customer which needed to be perfect as a result of this customer would only deal with me i called the office and spoke to the owner i declined the offer of a zero hours contract and said i would be leaving she then said she was giving me my two weeks notice i declined her offer of two weeks notice i informed her that if i was being fired for gross misconduct then surely i cannot be relied upon to safely deliver the product therefore it would be best for everyone involved if i didn't return to work she panicked and said that she needed me for those two weeks i feigned ignorance and let her know that i was just thinking about what's best for the company after all you can't have unsafe staff delivering your product to your customers however if she wanted to rethink the gross misconduct accusation then i would work my NUMBER_TOKEN weeks notice they were her options NUMBER_TOKEN weeks or NUMBER_TOKEN. she chose NUMBER_TOKEN. for those NUMBER_TOKEN weeks i worked the same way i had for NUMBER_TOKEN years i didn't coast i didn't slack i didn't badmouth the company on my way out i continued to train new staff i continued to deliver the product in my own personal exceptional way i also got in touch with another lawyer who was a specialist in employment law for those NUMBER_TOKEN weeks the owner barely spoke to me she resented the fact that i knew my legal rights and didn't just believe her lies she hated the fact that i could defend myself she was petty she accidentally dropped my mug in the kitchen breaking it most petty of all she paid for every member of staff in the office to have a spa day except me i was asked to work my day off to answer the phones whilst everyone else was being pampered nobody knew i hadn't been invited until they arrived at the spawn i wasn't there here's the thing i'm a big fat bearded guy i have no interest in a spa if she had offered it to me i would have thanked her and declined the kind of offer but by pointedly excluding me she was making herself look terrible for the last two weeks i was training up my friend to basically take over from me at the end of the NUMBER_TOKEN weeks my final day came around the owner
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