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I hate that in Tesco you don't get paid for the first 3 days off sick!

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  • *Kat*
    *Kat* Posts: 1,829 Forumite
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    Googlewhacker - I enjoy my job, I didn't realise it was a standard thing. Good to know, but it's kinda annoying when you can't get any more hours to bump the time you've been ill :(
  • Outpost
    Outpost Posts: 1,720 Forumite
    edited 7 May 2011 at 11:03PM
    momoyama wrote: »
    My advice is to delete this thread, before someone senior gets wind and you find yourself answering to a manager.
    For what exactly?

    Putting aside the fact that I have some pretty serious doubts that anyone from Tesco would somehow be able to track an MSE username back to a particular member of staff in a company employing 26,000ish people in the UK, what would they want you to answer to? Using the internet while ill?
    :cool:
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    Outpost wrote: »
    For what exactly?

    Putting aside the fact that I have some pretty serious doubts that anyone from Tesco would somehow be able to track an MSE username back to a particular member of staff in a company employing 26,000ish people in the UK, what would they want you to answer to? Using the internet while ill?

    For slagging the company off. Regardless of what you think of it, it does happen. And yes, they could trace the handle back to an employee.
  • niccinotts
    niccinotts Posts: 117 Forumite
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    I used to work for tesco.They are terrible to their staff regarding time off for illness. More so when you go back and face and interview regarding your time off ratio. Fair enough if its regular sat morning sickness after a heavy friday night. But i've known staff be reduced to tears coming back after having legitimate illness that even required hospital stays.
    I'd never work for them again.
  • Outpost
    Outpost Posts: 1,720 Forumite
    momoyama wrote: »
    For slagging the company off. Regardless of what you think of it, it does happen. And yes, they could trace the handle back to an employee.
    Could you point me in the direction of some cases where this has happened? I don't mean the usual occurrences of people's Facebook accounts carrying their name being read by their bosses, but rather an essentially anonymous message board user being traced back by their company and disciplined.

    For example I'm able to discern from Kat's profile absolutely nothing of consequence since there are no contact details available. With just a
    scant username to go by how would a person pinpoint her amongst tens of thousands of Tesco employees scattered across goodness knows how many superstores, metros, locals and so on?

    I'm genuinely interested how that might be done assuming a manager of a company even happened upon a particular post that they felt aggrieved by.
    :cool:
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    IP address.

    And two cases, both me. In the most recent one I slagged off the weekend manager of the leisure centre that I hire space from. Their manager wasn't happy
  • paulwf
    paulwf Posts: 3,269 Forumite
    *Kat* wrote: »
    Eh, I dont care if I die, I care about paying my rent lol

    I probably "mother" my staff a bit and keep urging them to put £10 a week aside so that they will build up a pot if they are off ill and don't get paid for a few days. It falls on deaf ears but in your case now you know the rules plan ahead for next time and set up your own "insurance fund" by putting a little to one side each week. It isn't easy when working part time but try and save what you can.
  • birkee
    birkee Posts: 1,933 Forumite
    *Kat* wrote: »
    lol, you guys are funny! :) You can be ill and type...lol, and why would I be pulled up by a manager? lol

    Just called up work and apparently 2 other people have called in with a sick bug so that makes me feel a bit better about calling in. :)

    I think the point is:-
    that whilst you may be in that condition and ABLE to type, there is no way you would want to sit at a computer doing it.
  • GothicStirling
    GothicStirling Posts: 1,157 Forumite
    *Kat* wrote: »
    Eh, I dont care if I die, I care about paying my rent lol

    Then go to work.

    And yes, I've gone to work with 'flu' and one instance with diahorrea.

    I find it strange that your too ill to work, but can conduct an argument on MSE.
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Or look at it another way. What customer wants to see staff sneezing all over the fruit & veg?

    Surprised they do not offer overtime though. A friend who used to work for Tesco was forever being telephoned to do extra hours.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
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