Well, I didn't get to tennis this morning ......... OH and I went to B&Q to buy some timber first, giving me plenty of time to get to tennis afterwards ... but we reckoned without a B&Q assistant's migraine which somehow caused her to make various mistakes which had to be rectified with the help of a manager who was unavailable for quite some time ... the poor girl did look very ill and I said that maybe she'd be better off resting, but she said she'd already had the two sick days that she's allowed this year!!!???
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Crikey, that's hardly anything! I suppose she's allowed to be off sick but won't get paid.
We went to the Wok place for lunch. It's buffet style. Take what you want for one price.We were a bit shocked by the couple on the table next to us. They took six plates of food and when they had eaten they calmly got out a plastic bag and put the rest of the food into it to take home!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
2 days sick leave allowance is ludicrous. Colds, flu, bronchitis, some kinds of food poisoning all take longer than that to clear and shouldn't be transmitted to colleagues or customers.
People always eat or take more then they need at a buffet Busy but that does seem a bit excessive and rude.
We now have a polytunnel! With shading! Just need to get in there and spray the weeds that have come up and then decide on a path down the middle and get planting. OH has done it all on his ownsome except for help hauling the shading fabric over and clipping it on. Clever boy and avoids divorce proceedings.
I have potted up pots with fuchsias for the north side of the house and planted the cabbage plugs in window boxes to keep them going till a bed is ready for them. Now I need to go shopping for more compost.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Of course, I only have her story but she was not unintelligent and it was certainly her understanding. She said more than two days and she'd be called to a meeting with HR and management ... purporting to be supportive, but not She said she has medication from her GP, but it doesn't always help. She said she's looking for another job but they're not necessarily that easy to find ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
HR are never there to help the employee but to help a company get the most out of its staff. Or get rid.
I always found HR people a bit odd from when I was studying Marketing several decades ago and there were parallel HR courses to when I was in computing and we had performance reviews twice a year and so on............ Only met one I like and she didn't work for our company so was a friend, not a colleague.
The builder's just been to see if July is OK for our shower room project. Yes, but first I need a tiler to finish the floor in the annex so I can move stuff out of the room he'll be breaking. He's gone off to sort that out and find another tiler.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The last place I worked at, management were absolutely fed up with constant "sickies". So, rather than state how many per year a person could have, they stipulated that if a person was off more than twice in a month, they would need to speak to them to see if the job was not good for them.
I know of one person who worked elsewhere and was allowed a generous ten days a year, taking ten days off in a day here and a day there, to use them up even tho he was never sick!
I know that around this area, a lot of people are afraid of working hard.
Well sort of but I think it would possibly be more accurate to say HR are there to stop the company being sued by its employees. The rights and wrongs of that one are pretty circular.
Lots of women have a migraine every month and usually a migraine is 2 days. And lots of people take the 'p' and are 'off sick' roughly every other Monday. The latter make life intolerable for the former by forcing companies to take action again malingerers and ending up with genuine cases having to work when they really should not. I've sat on both sides of this problem and it's a whole bag of worms
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The situation today was obviously wrong ... the poor girl was in no way fit to be at work and was making mistakes which were costing the company money to put right and annoying their customers. There has to be some use of common sense, especially if someone has a recognised condition, doesn't there?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello, not been on for days as my encounter with the euphorbia became a bit of a drama.
In view if the heartbreaking g events my problems seem slight there are no words for such evil
Happy Birthday Punk! What's for dinner?
am trying to read back but vision still very blurred so apologies for net mentioning everyone and please excuse the typing screen brightness has to be very low so I can't see it anyway!
beware of that b..,,y euphorbia I am teaching g many specialists about it and am worried that no o e knew what it was My eye is now ulcerated but it can be fixed!
goi g to try and read back
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
I agree Dove, but then HR step in and say 'you can't make things up as you go along, the Rules have to be consistent for everyone'. My old boss fought very hard against having any HR department - he said 'they breed - you get one, soon you have ten and they are all just overhead, and they produce red tape which costs even more money by making fee earning staff less productive while they deal with the red tape.' If everyone was honest and fair, it wouldn't be necessary. There is a significant minority on both sides who are neither so things are just that bit worse for everyone as a result.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Well, I didn't get to tennis this morning ......... OH and I went to B&Q to buy some timber first, giving me plenty of time to get to tennis afterwards ... but we reckoned without a B&Q assistant's migraine which somehow caused her to make various mistakes which had to be rectified with the help of a manager who was unavailable for quite some time ... the poor girl did look very ill and I said that maybe she'd be better off resting, but she said she'd already had the two sick days that she's allowed this year!!!???
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Crikey, that's hardly anything! I suppose she's allowed to be off sick but won't get paid.
We went to the Wok place for lunch. It's buffet style. Take what you want for one price.We were a bit shocked by the couple on the table next to us. They took six plates of food and when they had eaten they calmly got out a plastic bag and put the rest of the food into it to take home!
2 days sick leave allowance is ludicrous. Colds, flu, bronchitis, some kinds of food poisoning all take longer than that to clear and shouldn't be transmitted to colleagues or customers.
People always eat or take more then they need at a buffet Busy but that does seem a bit excessive and rude.
We now have a polytunnel! With shading! Just need to get in there and spray the weeds that have come up and then decide on a path down the middle and get planting. OH has done it all on his ownsome except for help hauling the shading fabric over and clipping it on. Clever boy and avoids divorce proceedings.
I have potted up pots with fuchsias for the north side of the house and planted the cabbage plugs in window boxes to keep them going till a bed is ready for them. Now I need to go shopping for more compost.
Of course, I only have her story but she was not unintelligent and it was certainly her understanding. She said more than two days and she'd be called to a meeting with HR and management ... purporting to be supportive, but not
She said she has medication from her GP, but it doesn't always help. She said she's looking for another job but they're not necessarily that easy to find ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
HR are never there to help the employee but to help a company get the most out of its staff. Or get rid.
I always found HR people a bit odd from when I was studying Marketing several decades ago and there were parallel HR courses to when I was in computing and we had performance reviews twice a year and so on............ Only met one I like and she didn't work for our company so was a friend, not a colleague.
The builder's just been to see if July is OK for our shower room project. Yes, but first I need a tiler to finish the floor in the annex so I can move stuff out of the room he'll be breaking. He's gone off to sort that out and find another tiler.
The last place I worked at, management were absolutely fed up with constant "sickies". So, rather than state how many per year a person could have, they stipulated that if a person was off more than twice in a month, they would need to speak to them to see if the job was not good for them.
I know of one person who worked elsewhere and was allowed a generous ten days a year, taking ten days off in a day here and a day there, to use them up even tho he was never sick!
I know that around this area, a lot of people are afraid of working hard.
Well sort of but I think it would possibly be more accurate to say HR are there to stop the company being sued by its employees. The rights and wrongs of that one are pretty circular.
Lots of women have a migraine every month and usually a migraine is 2 days. And lots of people take the 'p' and are 'off sick' roughly every other Monday. The latter make life intolerable for the former by forcing companies to take action again malingerers and ending up with genuine cases having to work when they really should not. I've sat on both sides of this problem and it's a whole bag of worms
Last edited: 24 May 2017 15:52:36
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The situation today was obviously wrong ... the poor girl was in no way fit to be at work and was making mistakes which were costing the company money to put right and annoying their customers. There has to be some use of common sense, especially if someone has a recognised condition, doesn't there?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello, not been on for days as my encounter with the euphorbia became a bit of a drama.
In view if the heartbreaking g events my problems seem slight there are no words for such evil
Happy Birthday Punk! What's for dinner?
am trying to read back but vision still very blurred so apologies for net mentioning everyone and please excuse the typing screen brightness has to be very low so I can't see it anyway!
beware of that b..,,y euphorbia I am teaching g many specialists about it and am worried that no o e knew what it was My eye is now ulcerated but it can be fixed!
goi g to try and read back
A A Milne
I agree Dove, but then HR step in and say 'you can't make things up as you go along, the Rules have to be consistent for everyone'. My old boss fought very hard against having any HR department - he said 'they breed - you get one, soon you have ten and they are all just overhead, and they produce red tape which costs even more money by making fee earning staff less productive while they deal with the red tape.' If everyone was honest and fair, it wouldn't be necessary. There is a significant minority on both sides who are neither so things are just that bit worse for everyone as a result.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”