Workplace health issue

TheMidnightOwl

stebiz wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

no i dont work in a bed showroom

stebiz

TheMidnightOwl wrote: »

we don't have a work doctor.. you are right though, it's not just me being targeted. people get verbal warnings for glancing out the window. one person had a discplinary for going the toilet 3 times in 8 hrs.. and was told to bring a doctors note in. she was told the average adult bladder can wait upto 4 hrs before needing the loo..

I'll try and be serious now. What type of job is this??

TheMidnightOwl

stebiz wrote: »

I'll try and be serious now. What type of job is this??

call centre type

Bogof_Babe

ceridwen wrote: »

Hmmm....I'm now wondering if they are being deliberately awkward in any and every petty little way they can think of to all the staff?? - closely followed by wondering whether they might be hoping to reduce staff numbers by any nasty/illicit little method they can think of rather than pay redundancy money?

I reckon Ceridwen might have hit the nail on the head here. Is the firm in any kind of difficulty?

DVardysShadow

TheMidnightOwl wrote: »

we don't have a work doctor.. you are right though, it's not just me being targeted. people get verbal warnings for glancing out the window. one person had a discplinary for going the toilet 3 times in 8 hrs.. and was told to bring a doctors note in. she was told the average adult bladder can wait upto 4 hrs before needing the loo..

This requires 2 things

• Someone to stand up and tell whoever "You are making an ar5e of yourself"
• Everyone else to applaud.

Hopefully they are pushing it hard enough that when someone does the first, everyone will do the second.

Someone has to !!!!! their balloon.

edit: !!!!! = pr1ck

stebiz

TheMidnightOwl wrote: »

call centre type

Oh that changes things all together. I had a job with a large telecommunications company, and I was treated very very badly. Not only did many customers treat you badly, but the management of many of these places treat you like muppets too.

My place would not recognise unions either. In the end I went on the sick with stress, sorted myself out and then came to a mutual agreement to cancel my contract - with a pay off, and then I wouldn't take them to an industrial tribunal.

Stebiz

stebiz

DVardysShadow wrote: »

This requires 2 things

• Someone to stand up and tell whoever "You are making an ar5e of yourself"
• Everyone else to applaud.

Hopefully they are pushing it hard enough that when someone does the first, everyone will do the second.

Someone has to !!!!! their balloon.

edit: !!!!! = pr1ck

And that will fall right into their hands!! They could just sack en mass. My employer suspended me in front of everybody, on the basis they believed I had been putting the phone down on customers. It was in fact a mistake with the phones. As I said 'goodbye' to customers and placed the receiver, if they didn't do theirs before I did, it showed as 'hung up'.

This only came about after I offered to call customers back, who had been shown as 'hung up' and ask what they felt of my call - with management listening. After that there really was no way back for me...................

TheMidnightOwl

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

I reckon Ceridwen might have hit the nail on the head here. Is the firm in any kind of difficulty?

far from it.. they thriving, and taking more staff on all the time...

TheMidnightOwl

stebiz wrote: »

And that will fall right into their hands!! They could just sack en mass. My employer suspended me in front of everybody, on the basis they believed I had been putting the phone down on customers. It was in fact a mistake with the phones. As I said 'goodbye' to customers and placed the receiver, if they didn't do theirs before I did, it showed as 'hung up'.

This only came about after I offered to call customers back, who had been shown as 'hung up' and ask what they felt of my call - with management listening. After that there really was no way back for me...................

i'm very good at my job, and they have never had any cause to question my work.. i have almost the highest stats at work..but i know exactly what you mean by dropped calls.. its always our fault and never technical. i guess from what you said, it must be the type of job i'm in.. we dont seem to have any rights

stebiz

TheMidnightOwl wrote: »

i'm very good at my job, and they have never had any cause to question my work.. i have almost the highest stats at work..but i know exactly what you mean by dropped calls.. its always our fault and never technical. i guess from what you said, it must be the type of job i'm in.. we dont seem to have any rights

Yes. So did I. That is why they felt I had been dropping calls. Anyway I got a mumbled apology after my suspension. Told to come back to work. I did this for a few weeks. Felt very uncomfortable. Went off on stress - and I was stressed. I felt totally embarrassed by it all. Had panic attacks. Agreed a pay off. Best thing I ever did!!!

And yes in that kind of job, expect to be treated like crap. Totally wrong I know. But your targets will always move. Turnover of staff will be high. Wages poor.
Try looking for something else!!

Stebiz