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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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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 ill0
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My advice is to delete this thread, before someone senior gets wind and you find yourself answering to a manager.
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:0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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.
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.
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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 happy0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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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 Spirits0
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