Working for Free

[Thorby Bislam]

we have a hardcore of staff who come in regulary early even though job and finish is effectivally finished in our office.

Same here. I hoped they would change their ways once job & finish ended, but no, they still come in a half hour early.
And it's still a minority of us who take a proper twenty minute break. Most have five minutes sat on their frame with a sarnie and a cup of coffee from the machine. The managers use the canteen everyday though, (as they're entitled to do).

[vamparicmale]

I went to work last week as normal only to find come thursday's pay slip that I'd be working 3 days for nothing. Thanks to my Line manager AND dom totally f*cking up my annual leave up early in the new finacial year apparrently I'd taken 3 days too much.

Normally this would have been fine and dandy, but for the fact that I'd rang up and changed one of my holidays to look after my daughter when she had chicken pox, both my line manager and DOM said this was fine after 2 hrs of going back n forth. I went into work the week that i was initailly meant to have off and was sent home due to them saying i was on holiday. although I told them i'd taken that holiday 2 weeks earlier they said that they had it down as a holiday so to go home but ring in tuesday to make sure. Which I did and was told the same thing that i was on holiday and they don't remember me taking the holiday off prior to this.

Come august time when I actually had holiday booked I just happened to go in n check that it was still booked and they said that i'd previously taken an extra holiday earlier in year and this one had been taken off to replace it. When I questioned this and pulled out my lastest annual leave print out they said that the only way i could keep my august holiday was to pull my january one forward. I wasn't in mood to argue so accepted.

Now when I put my notice in last monday it sparked up that I was in actual fact 3 days over on annual leave thanks to my manager not remembering my holiday switch and then without telling me cancelled my august leave to cover when he remembered what had happened.

Needless to say I went in Friday morning to have a word but they just told me there was nothing they could do even though it was their mess up. So i told them they either rectify it or i'd walk out there n then instead of working my final shift. Which ended in me starting work at 7am and I was home by 7.45am thanks to them refusing to rectify their mistake.

(hope this made sense)

[dvbuk55]

bit slow at the moment unfortunately so it looks like i am at rm for a bit longer.

If you print your own T shirts maybe you should go for the Christmas theme now - something perhaps a little more risqué?

[BELIAL]

bit slow at the moment unfortunately so it looks like i am at rm for a bit longer.

If you print your own T shirts maybe you should go for the Christmas theme now - something perhaps a little more risqué?

Could do "We're all Okeys now"

[riverdale]

IF YOU COME IN EARLY.........

1/2 hour a day ........... 3 WEEKS WORK A YEAR FOR NOTHING ! £900 approx

1 hour a day.............. 6 WEEKS WORK A YEAR FOR NOTHING ! £1200 approx


:lfo DON'T THEY JUST LOVE YOU LOT :cfo

[lifesentence]

In our office we work 5 weeks on 1 week off,
it's my week off next week, and as i'm short on funds i asked about the possibility of working it for overtime,
i was told theres a strong possibility as we have a lot off next week (our office is screwed when we have a full compliment of staff, lol)
i asked how many hours i would get, i was told to come in for the usual hours (6.00 - 14.00) but i would be paid for 7 hours a day
when i replied that was an hour short, i was told that was how it is when people work their week off
needless to say, i changed my mind and now intend to put my feet up for the week,
but of course we still have the regular mugs who accept it, they are literally throwing +/- £60 down the drain.
more fool them.

I thought this 5 weeks on 1 week off was made up. It can't be true.

[BettySwollocks]

I thought this 5 weeks on 1 week off was made up. It can't be true.

Why shouldn't it be true ?
We work a 6 day 48 hour week, get paid for 40, those extra 8 hours over the 5 weeks pay for the week off,
other offices prefer the 5 day 40 hour week (no week off).
to be honest, i'd consider losing the week off if RM offered us a 5 day week but with saturday as the day off, but as it stands, offices who run the 5 day system, have rotating days off, monday 1 week, tuesday next, wednesday .... etc

[lifesentence]

Hi. I understand how it works as some of ours were thinking about it. And the temptation of 8 more weeks of a year, but as has been mentioned... some people if they work the week end up with 12 weeks without a day off. Where to fit in a day now and again does not do the same damage. But whatever floats your boat, and good luck.