A Payment a Day -Part Seven!

lindarose287

Hi everyone, thanks boysma am trying to be organised and sort myself out so this is really useful. had a no spend day today and pad for me is £1.00. was very tempted to buy something but managed to talk myself out of it!!! don't know how long I'll be that good for but we'll see. 3rd day of no smoking aswell!!! keep watching my ebay stuff avidly and urging the bids to keep coming so far so good.

angelicmary85

Paulgonnabedebtfree wrote: »

Well giving someone a hard time due to taking plenty of maternity leave sounds very gender related from where I'm sitting. It can be difficult coverng people's jobs for maternity leave but employers are quite happy to have a rule book when it works in their favour so they'll just have to put up with it when it works against them. Tough sh*t is what I say. You have to obey the rules when they work against you so make the most of it when they are in your favour.

You know, I hadn't thought of it like that...maternity leave/being female :rotfl:

It wasn't difficult for them to get cover for me...they took someone out of another office and then kept her on full time. They wouldn't give me my shifts back (although they had to agreed to doing this before I left) incase they upset the woman who now has my job

macgirl

Hi Peeps!
Sorry I've forgot (well had no funds) to PAD the last few days, but sold a couple of books and got some scratchcard winnings so £36.06 please Green

Matt - I can't see the trout pout. Only eyes that look like they have holes in, so you could poke your fingers through and make a funny face :rotfl:

Euro - hope you feel better soon, you're in the wars this month! Time to look after yourself hun x

Angelic, sorry things are no better.:( Sterling advice as usual, from Danko and Paul.:T
If I could throw my 2 penneth in, I would personally would get my head down, be very efficient and hard-working.
I would not give them one reason to get rid of me before I was good and ready to go.
Don't make it easy by being P**sed off and slacking - even for one minute (I'm not saying you do).
I wouldn't give them the satisfaction. Hope it improves soon

angelicmary85

dankosheemo wrote: »

Sound advice from Paul there Angelic. Don't worry, your employer won't be annoyed that you had two bouts of maternity

The company I work for are a very large well known company that have quite a few establishments here and abroad (no, not burger king!) but the place I work in is unlike any of their other places. There are about 9 levels of management plus office managers and right at the bottom are the supervisors.

The higher levels of management don't know their a*se from their elbow (1 in paticular was sent away for a wee while after she was caught s*agging 1 of the 'lower' members of staff) and they have no problem in telling you exactly what they think of you (I haven't experienced this sort of verbal abuse yet but I wouldn't keep quiet if I did!) so to be honest Danko, they don't actually care about grievence procedures and doing things by the book...as long as they make it look like they are doing a good job when the boss turns up then that's all that seems to matter.

tattycath

My PAD for today is £87.95

macgirl

angelicmary85 wrote: »

You know, I hadn't thought of it like that...maternity leave/being female :rotfl:

It wasn't difficult for them to get cover for me...they took someone out of another office and then kept her on full time. They wouldn't give me my shifts back (although they had to agreed to doing this before I left) incase they upset the woman who now has my job

Sorry, it took me that long to post, that I should have replied to yours first.:rolleyes:

Anyway, there is alot of that going on at our place at the moment. It's nothing personal, but when someone goes on Mat Leave, there's a big panic to find someone to replace them. Then they do, so panic over. The person on Mat leave is then "out of sight, out of mind". Again, nothing personal, it's just that life goes on and none of us are irreplaceable, so everything settles down again.

To take someone on full time, who more than covers your job, makes you kind of surplus requirements when you return to work. But that is not your fault and your company know they have a legal duty to you - though they don't have to give you the same job as before.

It seems that this is a headache for your Manager, but again, that's not your problem. So I would take the advice you've been given, speak to someone senior and let them know now that there is a problem - not of your making.

But defo keep acting like the good little worker and don't give them any reason to get rid of you - unless they want to give you a nice juicy payoff

jenny+luke

hi, just a quick visit to say pay for 2day was £21.

had a crap day so off to bed.

night guys

SarahNeedle1872

Another crap day here too jenny! (((hugs))) to everyone who needs it!

PAD of 50p for me today

Sx

angelicmary85

macgirl wrote: »

Sorry, it took me that long to post, that I should have replied to yours first.:rolleyes:

Anyway, there is alot of that going on at our place at the moment. It's nothing personal, but when someone goes on Mat Leave, there's a big panic to find someone to replace them. Then they do, so panic over. The person on Mat leave is then "out of sight, out of mind". Again, nothing personal, it's just that life goes on and none of us are irreplaceable, so everything settles down again.

To take someone on full time, who more than covers your job, makes you kind of surplus requirements when you return to work. But that is not your fault and your company know they have a legal duty to you - though they don't have to give you the same job as before.

It seems that this is a headache for your Manager, but again, that's not your problem. So I would take the advice you've been given, speak to someone senior and let them know now that there is a problem - not of your making.

But defo keep acting like the good little worker and don't give them any reason to get rid of you - unless they want to give you a nice juicy payoff

I understand what you're saying about there being panic to find someone to cover and I know that they don't have to give me my job back but I've worked there longer than the rest of them (was something like 8 notices handed in over a period of 12 weeks or so) so I tihnk I should be treated with a bit of dignity.

I don't think I can speak to senior management. It's a very political place to work and the head of HR really doesn't have a clue what she's doing so she would run the operations manager who'd tell the chief exec (who's a nice guy but wouldn't I trust him) and before I knew it, I would have my P45. One of the managers who work in my office has already hinted at staff members being sacked for not working hard enough...you'd think I was in some kind sweat shop in a developing country the way they carry on!

Pad for me is another £1.00 please Green!

To make matters worse...I've got my weigh in tomorrow and I've just eaten half a maderia cake...very MSE though...it was the bargain price of 50p!

PurpleJellyFish

Angelic, I have been trying to cut back for fortnight now and not lost a single pound. I've bought a bag of 'Minis' which is actually mini creme, caramel and dairy milk eggs to get me through the coursework I'm meant to be writing and submitting by the morning.....