Some bosses need to take a kindness pill!

NikNox

Dunroamin wrote: »

I'm so glad that we have people with your high ethical standards working for the NHS.;)

I sincerely hope your comment is tongue in cheek!

NikNox

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

He's already been working longer than he needed to and the boss' response to the favour was to tell him to get stuffed [hence this thread] so that doesn't exactly work in practice does it?

Precisely. He's been starting work at 8.30 every day for the past few years, & if you add that up he's worked more overtime than anyone else. Clearly his efforts aren't appreciated or recognised. Let's face it, he can't be sacked for working according to his contract can he

NikNox

K_P83 wrote: »

What i was getting at was that before all this he may not have gotten many favours, but he may have gotten SOME - one in a blue moon.

Working to rule will result in literally no favours whatsoever, not even the smallest most trivial of ones.

My experience of working to rule is that the employee never wins.

In 6 years he's never been granted any favours & has bent over backwards to accommodate a tyrannical boss, so I can't imagine favours, however small, will ensue anytime soon. Working to rule however will be a favour, from my husband to himself.

NikNox

K_P83 wrote: »

How does hubby feel in a morning?

Does he dread going to work? Ok most of us would rather not go to work & would rather do whatever we liked. Some of us really enjoy the job we have (lucky ones!), but if your husband dreads it then it says it all really.

Money may be good, but if he's miserable...! Can you afford to take some degree of a pay cut?


ATEOTD, it's easier to look for a job while you have a job, than to look for one when you don't.


Oh & i'd also strongly advise hubby becoming a member of a union too if things are the way you say. He may be needing them!

He quite enjoys his job in some ways, finds it challenging & he uses his brain so he enjoys that, so he doesn't dread dread going to work per se. He puts a lot into the job and works hard. But, he is looking & wouldn't leave unless he had a job to go to. We can't afford a pay cut, particularly as I've agreed to no pay increase for 3 years.

The ideal, for him, would be to make it as a musician, as I'm sure it is for all artists. Today could have been the break he needs. I'm of the opinion his boss knows this, hence his rather childish green-eyed reaction!

nearlyrich

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I can see that my ideas seem strange and out of date, so be it. There are however many jobs where it would be wrong if not dangerous to have a mobile phone on. Anyone working with the public for instance in a caring capacity or in a hospital, people who drive for a living etc.

I'll leave it there

I work in a sales role out and about with customers and from home with only a mobile phone for contact, it's on a hands free kit in the car but if it was switched off I probably wouldn't get any business.

I think bosses who treat people well get far more out of them especially in roles where sometimes 9 to 5 doesn't get the job done.

I also feel for the OP's husband and hope he gets a chance again soon and that he also gets a new job with a more human boss

sniggings

NikNox wrote: »

He quite enjoys his job in some ways, finds it challenging & he uses his brain so he enjoys that, so he doesn't dread dread going to work per se. He puts a lot into the job and works hard. But, he is looking & wouldn't leave unless he had a job to go to. We can't afford a pay cut, particularly as I've agreed to no pay increase for 3 years.

The ideal, for him, would be to make it as a musician, as I'm sure it is for all artists. Today could have been the break he needs. I'm of the opinion his boss knows this, hence his rather childish green-eyed reaction!

you know this now but I will say it anyway, why the heck did he ask for the time off! he must of known his boss was a tw*t before asking.

but TBH though, best he did as I bet his boss would have got to hear about it anyway.

I hate bosses :mad:

Torry_Quine

nearlyrich wrote: »

I work in a sales role out and about with customers and from home with only a mobile phone for contact, it's on a hands free kit in the car but if it was switched off I probably wouldn't get any business.

I think bosses who treat people well get far more out of them especially in roles where sometimes 9 to 5 doesn't get the job done.

I also feel for the OP's husband and hope he gets a chance again soon and that he also gets a new job with a more human boss

That's very different and you surely know that. However I would say it should be a phone just for business calls and only called by family in emergency. Some one who drives but not needed to be instantly reached such as a bus driver wouldn't need the phone on surely.

NikNox

sniggings wrote: »

you know this now but I will say it anyway, why the heck did he ask for the time off! he must of known his boss was a tw*t before asking.

but TBH though, best he did as I bet his boss would have got to hear about it anyway.

I hate bosses :mad:

Hindsight's a wonderful thing isn't it! But, the boss would have found out - after all, my husband would have been on national Radio!! If he'd thrown a sickie for it then he would have been dismissed, without a doubt, as it would have been considered gross misconduct.

I guess he thought asking was the correct thing to do. However, if there's a next time he will phone in sick (unless he gets advance notice and can book a day off accordingly), which I know sounds contradictory but like someone else said, he can always say he recorded the session on a weekend!

Snuggles

This sounds to me like it's nothing to do with policies, covering shifts etc, it's just one person enjoying having power over another and being a jobsworth.

If one of my staff came to me with this request, a chance to pursue a dream with potentially life changing consequences, I would cover the shift myself if necessary rather than deny them such an opportunity. No one is indespensable, and workplaces have to manage when someone is off sick with no notice, so the notion that the employer couldn't possibly allow time off at short notice for a one-off situation is just a demonstration of counterproductive inflexibility on their part (especially as the OP states the office was fully manned on the day in question). Of course, the boss had every right to refuse the request, but he could instead have behaved like a decent human being, granted a day's leave and wished his employee well.

OP, I can imagine you and your OH must be gutted by this and i think you have every right to feel extremely disappointed by his boss's attitude.

NikNox

Thank you Snuggles. My husband is absolutely devastated to be honest, so much so he feels physically sick. This was the opportunity of his lifetime & it lay in the hands of his boss. It's so unfair that something so important was decided by a third party, albeit someone who had the right to 'play god'. Are we not masters of our own destiny? Apparently not.

I've been out this evening with my colleagues & big boss for a work meal, and she was appalled & said she wouldn't have hesitated to give the day off, and said that if today hadn't been my day off she would have allowed me to go with him & take the day off at short notice. So, there are some nice bosses out there who think more of their staff than just a body in a seat churning out work.