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Re: No "days" off allowed!

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After 5 years = Four weeks and 3.5 days.

That's it,that's on my holiday form.Cheers
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The half days are usually rolled over (unless you want to take it) so you get a full day every other year.
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Great my holidays are in may this year .

WTF am i meant to do in may?

just before summer starts.

Im jackin it in soon as i can sort myself out cos f**k THAT

you get the piss ripped out of u if your new .

it shouldnt be like that.
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el_cartero wrote:Great my holidays are in may this year .

WTF am i meant to do in may?

just before summer starts.

Im jackin it in soon as i can sort myself out cos f**k THAT

you get the piss ripped out of u if your new .

it shouldnt be like that.
The weathers not too bad in may. It could be worse your holidays could be april.
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baldrick wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:I'm over 5 years and can't rem what extra i got,does anyone know.
On entry = Four and a half weeks.
After 5 years = Four weeks and 3.5 days.
After 15 years = Five weeks and 1 day.
After 20 years = Six weeks.

Way Forward Agreement 2002, Section 4. Annual Leave.
Do you mean 3 weeks and half weeks for entry.
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Carew wrote:
baldrick wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:I'm over 5 years and can't rem what extra i got,does anyone know.
On entry = Four and a half weeks.
After 5 years = Four weeks and 3.5 days.
After 15 years = Five weeks and 1 day.
After 20 years = Six weeks.

Way Forward Agreement 2002, Section 4. Annual Leave.
Do you mean 3 weeks and half weeks for entry.
No, it's definitely 4 and a half weeks on entry - since the Way Forward, 2000.

Before that we used to get 3 weeks and 4 days on entry IIRC, plus 2 and a half 'priviledge' days.
The priviledge days were one day at Christmas, one day for the Queen's Birthday, and a half day for
Maundy Thursday - though you didn't actually take them on those days, and they were added to your AL.
With the Way Forward we got one extra day on entry and the 'priviledge' days were incorporated
into the Annual Leave.
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shadow wrote:
el_cartero wrote:Great my holidays are in may this year .

WTF am i meant to do in may?

just before summer starts.

Im jackin it in soon as i can sort myself out cos f**k THAT

you get the piss ripped out of u if your new .

it shouldnt be like that.
The weathers not too bad in may. It could be worse your holidays could be april.
Like mine!

Part of the reason I took this job was to help save up for a holiday with my friends next summer and I get feckin APRIL!!!!

WHAT IS THE POINT!!

Started in August and not heard a peep about holidays or anything hell am still on my bleedin trial and got called in last week there to choose my holidays and get told I can only have April then get given a sheet to pick my holidays for winter 2010 and 2011.

WTF
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Re: No "days" off allowed!

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Anyone know the "claiming your sick time" techniques?

lol mind you wont look good if i turn up with a tan after a week on the sick :Very Happy


im starting to learn thay management try to f**k with u so why not f**k back?
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el_cartero wrote:Anyone know the "claiming your sick time" techniques?

lol mind you wont look good if i turn up with a tan after a week on the sick :Very Happy


im starting to learn thay management try to f**k with u so why not f**k back?
Tell them it's not a tan it's jaundice. :chuckle
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I've got my summer holiday booked for next year, week in Cornwall, January the f***ing fourth to the ninth, my missus is over the moon, I hate bloody seniority :so there
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Pegman wrote:I've got my summer holiday booked for next year, week in Cornwall, January the f***ing fourth to the ninth, my missus is over the moon, I hate bloody seniority :so there
Don't understand , When are your other 3 weeks then. Has anyone been given there leave for 2010-2011 yet, memers in my office want to book holidays for next year but can't yet as thet dont know when there leave is, RM need to give members time to book, so they can get best deals and avaliability.
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Pegman wrote:I've got my summer holiday booked for next year, week in Cornwall, January the f***ing fourth to the ninth, my missus is over the moon, I hate bloody seniority :so there
You sure seniority exists on holiday picking? - doesn't in our office anymore. Everyone gets a fair shot at any week, if it's over booked names go in a hat.

Re days off - our days off roll round, so if your day off this week is Tues, next week it'll be Weds, week after Thurs etc etc - great as every 6 weeks you have a Sat followed by a Mon.

Odd days in annual leave are fine and you can have them when is free and apparently we've just learned that when picking weeks it does not have to be mon to mon, but can be say weds to weds.
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RoyalQuest wrote:
Pegman wrote:I've got my summer holiday booked for next year, week in Cornwall, January the f***ing fourth to the ninth, my missus is over the moon, I hate bloody seniority :so there
Don't understand , When are your other 3 weeks then. Has anyone been given there leave for 2010-2011 yet, memers in my office want to book holidays for next year but can't yet as thet dont know when there leave is, RM need to give members time to book, so they can get best deals and avaliability.
I am PT temp according to my DOM I have to accrue my days before I can book time off, that time off in January is my 2009 summer holiday, so if I want to book 10 days in the summer, according to my maths I will have to work 6 1/2 months before I can book it, by then all the weeks will have gone, same as this year, wife went on holiday with the kids minus me :sad:

He asked us all to fill in holiday forms a couple of weeks ago, but all the PT temp staff have gone to the bottom of the list
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Pegman wrote:
RoyalQuest wrote:
Pegman wrote:I've got my summer holiday booked for next year, week in Cornwall, January the f***ing fourth to the ninth, my missus is over the moon, I hate bloody seniority :so there
Don't understand , When are your other 3 weeks then. Has anyone been given there leave for 2010-2011 yet, memers in my office want to book holidays for next year but can't yet as thet dont know when there leave is, RM need to give members time to book, so they can get best deals and avaliability.
I am PT temp according to my DOM I have to accrue my days before I can book time off, that time off in January is my 2009 summer holiday, so if I want to book 10 days in the summer, according to my maths I will have to work 6 1/2 months before I can book it, by then all the weeks will have gone, same as this year, wife went on holiday with the kids minus me :sad:

He asked us all to fill in holiday forms a couple of weeks ago, but all the PT temp staff have gone to the bottom of the list
And I thought we worked for a family friendly company ;liar
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Re: No "days" off allowed!

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Seriously whats the deal with getting a good holiday ?

I just get the feeling its corrupt and some people will allways get there own way.

Imagine if ur best mates with management.

They could potentially make ur life ... very easy
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