Court sees Morissette Meter flip out as Oracle assumes anti-arbitration stance in pay dispute

To me, Oracle will always be ...

The compagny that, 2 hours into a critical service call with about 10 000 users affected, asked "why should I help you with your problem?"

I went to court against an NHS trust.

I had been sacked and at the tribunal rather than fight it they settled for the maximum legal amount (in those days about £24000) which of course was reduced by the salary that they paid to me in the mandatory "gardening leave".

No particular surprise there. But as the new chief executive had arbitrarily sacked me when re - applying for what was my old job I had a bit of fun.

At the time it was merely sufficient to prove that they had broken the HR rules and should have given me the job automatically.

But two years later when she was coming up to be re-appointed I sued again - in the small claims court of the county court. And claimed that since it had already been agreed that I had been unfairly dismissed then my compensation should have been based on the salary I should have had, not my previous salary.

This lead to the solicitor (poor sod) on their side claiming that you couldn't have two bites at the same cherry. When the judge for the 3rd time explained that he understood and decided the law I felt it was not going well for the poor sod. They settled for a rather larger fee than the original compensation not to set the precedent. And they sacked the chief executive who sacked me. (That was my only non negotiable point (Oh, and giving her a bottle of gin to help her on the way to the gutter)). But to be fair, I paid for the gin myself.

And the point of this, who would have expected English law to be easier to manipulate that that of the US. And having comprehensively fucked on the NHS, it is just a small pity that I never got to do the same to Oracle; nor that is as simple and effective in high cost high pressure law in the land of the free and the slave.

Isn't it Alanic, don't you think?

(although in this case, "ironic" is actually (ironically?) apposite).

IANAL but I think forced arbitration is a perversion of justice. Still not siding with Oracle though.

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What the ... is a Morissette Meter?