{"id":310,"date":"2005-02-25T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2005-02-25T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T11:28:00","slug":"bloody-landlords-and-slimy-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Blood(y) landlords and slimy diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The landlord of the building where I work has just fired the security guard (technically he hasn&#8217;t renewed his contract). Apparently he has a tendency to hire a guard on contract for 3 months, then terminate the contract on very short notice (in this case Monday is the last day), and avoid paying UIF etc, even though it is clearly a permanent position.<\/p>\n<p>The slimy landlord cliche can be annoying, especially as I&#8217;m a landlord too, but it&#8217;s deserved way too often. Luckily this time there&#8217;s an attorney willing to get involved, and with a number of us watching the outcome I&#8217;m sure he won&#8217;t get away with this. Apparently the landlord is fairly notorious in the diamond industry (a dirty industry I refuse to support &#8211; hence Anique shouldn&#8217;t hold her breath for a diamond ring!), but that&#8217;s all heresay. Perhaps an expose in one of the papers once the details are out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landlord of the building where I work has just fired the security guard (technically he hasn&#8217;t renewed his contract). Apparently he has a tendency to hire a guard on contract for 3 months, then terminate the contract on very short notice (in this case Monday is the last day), and avoid paying UIF etc,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood(y) landlords and slimy diamonds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}