The new person who took over treated us like slaves. Our new employer was like a bear with a sore head all the time. He was always losing his temper, and set impossible tasks that even superman could not achieve. They cut down our wages by one third and made us work even harder. Our lunchtime was reduced to only fifteen minutes and we hardly ever got tea breaks. This went on for more then six months, each day that went by I became more and more fed up and frustrated, until I decided that I had had enough and something was to be done. I was not going to be walked over like a doormat.
I decided to organise a strike. Everybody agreed with my views, but weren’t willing to do anything about it, because they couldn’t afford to risk losing their jobs. Only about two hundred people gathered from approximately fifteen hundred workers. Our strike didn’t last very long. A maximum of about two hours. Work was in strong demand in the area we lived in and Nestlé didn’t have a problem to fill in our places. The strike did not change anything. They just fired us! When I went back to ask for my redundancy money they called security and threw me out like a piece of worthless trash. Most of my other colleagues had also been working there and they didn’t receive a penny either. They told us that the new company policy did not give out any redundancy payments. This wasn’t fair! We had all made what the company is today and why should they be getting all the benefits? We had all been looking forward to that money for years.
I had to take revenge, but didn’t know how. I was furious. I felt like a volcano with all the hot boiling lava bubbling inside me. I virtually damaged or destroyed nearly everything in the ground floor of my home. I even broke ruined my favourite possession, my Playstation and all the best games including Driver 2! I knew I had to control my temper and find an easy way to make a tremendous impact on Nestlé. I knew it would be hard, because it was a big company, but I believed there had to be a way. As they say, where there is a will there is a way.
A few days later I went down to my local newsagents to buy the Top Gear magazine, as the new BMW M3 was out. When I put the magazine onto the counter I noticed nearly all the sweets and chocolates were from Nestlé and there was only a small selection of Cadbury’s, the second biggest chocolate company, which was getting covered up by dust in a small corner and nearly reaching their sell-by date. I turned around and asked the very bored looking shopkeeper why there weren’t many Cadbury’s chocolates. He replied that there wasn’t any demand for Cadburys as Nestlé have the best recipes, and they also might get bankrupt if Nestlé keep on expanding. When I took a few steps forward away from the freshly polished counter I suddenly thought of the marvellous idea. I knew nearly all the secret recipes for Nestlé and could do whatever I wanted with them.
The next day I went to Cadbury’s chocolate factory, about ten miles away and asked to see the manger. He came in with a very depressed face and told me that the factory might have to shut up within six months and hundreds of jobs would be lost. After a lot of hard negotiating we made a deal. He will get the secret recipes and I would receive one and a half million pounds.
Six month’s later Cadburys profits had gone up by sixty five percent and were still rising rapidly, while Nestlé’s were decreasing. There were more jobs at Cadburys now, and the people who had to leave Nestlé, swiftly got a place there. They had excellent wages and were respected. I received a letter from Cadburys thanking me for their fortunes and they added in another bonus of free Cadbury’s chocolates for the rest of my life. This was like the icing on the cake, because with every bite of the chocolates I was reminded of the sweet taste of revenge. I didn’t just get revenge for myself, but for all of my colleagues as well. I found out that if you just stop and think, instead of going insane and acting like a madman you could do something small that would have tremendous effects.