'woman in work' rant!!!

kitschkitty

Any updates, i really want to hear if this *%£$! gets her just deserts!

azjh77

We nearly had her last week! She hasn't sent any sick notes in and she was going to get it for being AWOL, but she then got them in just in time!

Mum thought of a very mean trick we could play on her! She said that when the manager goes to visit next week he should say " we've all been made redundant, but you're safe as they can't make you redundent when you're off sick"...watch her hawl her !!! back into work then!

Should be an update next week, the manager still hasn't been able to get hold of her on the phone...(probably surfing in Cornwall or something)

ohreally

azjh77 wrote: »

We nearly had her last week! She hasn't sent any sick notes in and she was going to get it for being AWOL, but she then got them in just in time!

Mum thought of a very mean trick we could play on her! She said that when the manager goes to visit next week he should say " we've all been made redundant, but you're safe as they can't make you redundent when you're off sick"...watch her hawl her !!! back into work then!

Whats this "we" nearly had her last week,this is none of your business. Neither is the situation regarding her medical certificates, this is private and confidential information that should not be shared with you or any other co-workers.
The rest of your post stinks of harassment, both you and the employer could be in the firing line if your colleague gets wind of this, prosecutes a grievance and makes a complaint to a tribunal.

azjh77

Harassment! So telling the office my Mum is a BNP member and planting things in her draw isn't? Accusing 3 people of sexual harrassment and trying to get them sacked isn't harrassment? Getting someone in trouble for talking about cancer because it upsets her?

None of our business? - we have been carrying this women for SIX YEARS! What if we all decided we had 'stress' and opted to take our 6 months a year fully paid 'sick leave'. It is people like this that result in the policy my Dad has to work with - 'you're ill - tough..no work/no pay'. Companies bring in these policies because of a minority of p*** takers who play the system. If she doesn't want to work she should free the job up for someone who does.

barvid

azjh77 wrote: »

Harassment! So telling the office my Mum is a BNP member and planting things in her draw isn't? Accusing 3 people of sexual harrassment and trying to get them sacked isn't harrassment? Getting someone in trouble for talking about cancer because it upsets her?

None of our business? - we have been carrying this women for SIX YEARS! What if we all decided we had 'stress' and opted to take our 6 months a year fully paid 'sick leave'. It is people like this that result in the policy my Dad has to work with - 'you're ill - tough..no work/no pay'. Companies bring in these policies because of a minority of p*** takers who play the system. If she doesn't want to work she should free the job up for someone who does.

Exactly my thoughts - if this woman's behaviour is affecting her colleagues then it becomes other people's business. If someone in my office doesn't pull his weight so I do more work and more overtime, I'm going to consider myself affected and I'm involved in the situation. I would want it resolved, and I wouldn't just let it slide - it's not then just the employer's problem, it's everybody's problem.

ohreally

Any accusations you have are a matter for management to investigate not for a kangaroo court and witch hunt. If your deeply enough concerned why have you/your mother not invoked the grievance procedure and progressed through a formal mechanism both in terms of your colleagues conduct, performance and managements failure to deal effectively with the situation?
Once again, the medical certificate is private and confidential and i find it unacceptable the contents of which appear to be common knowledge in the workplace.

azjh77

You are of course entitled to your opinion 'ohreally' and were I in your outside position I would probably agree. However what 'should' happen and what is happening are two different things. If we had a decent policy this woman would have been sacked ages ago. If she wanted her medical 'secrets' kept, why does she phone one of the 'girls' to pass the details on to the manager instead of phoning him direct...because she wants people to know.

Oh she was spotted in Adsa - minus the stick & the limp!

clutterbug_2

azjh77 wrote: »

Oh she was spotted in Adsa - minus the stick & the limp!

I don't mean to stoke the fire, but if she's really taking the micky this much, cannot you not try to catch her on video on your mobile or something? Then present that to your managers. If she is lying for sick benefit, then it needs to be brought to the attention of managers and benefits people -especially if she's claiming disability benefit.

azjh77

Even our 'top' manager was sat there the other week and made the comment 'shouldn't she have a limp'...it has been noted by the highest management, but because she has notes, nothing - seemingly - is being done. We get a new manager soon, perhaps she will sort things out.

If I had a mobile - I would have caught her pedaling her bike the other week.

custardy

ive had to deal with people like this in various jobs.
have one at my work now who is genuinly partially deaf but milks it to cut down on her physical work which obviously isnt affected.
you have to work @ RM for 12 months before getting anything other that statuary sick.
after that its set time off/amount of absenses before it goes not whats called conduct code.
anyway i digress.i did work for one place that had a different approach.
at xmas you got a weeks pay xmas bonus.1 week for every year you worked there.(ive since heard its capped at 4 weeks now)so for those who had been there a few years it became a lot of money.
however for every sick day you lost 5% regardless of being genuine or not ,so okay not so good for the genuine ones but all ot took was 20 days too lose the lot.
come xmas you could see them regretting the 20 days off when people were getting 2x,3x there usual salery @ xmas.
bit of a token economy but i helped to keep sickness rates low