Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

My boss kept telling me how lucky I am to have sick pay at all on Friday.

We're glad to see you're not working for a complete w*nker then ... NOT!!

Generali wrote: »

.... via webcam and a question would appear on the computer screen and she'd have 1-3 minutes to answer it. There was no conversation. I love the C21st but it is a very odd place to be sometimes.

That's .... creepy. So they're watching you ...... I hate webcams. I've got a face for radio

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

Do any uk employers have a fixed number of paid sick days?

After two years, 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay.

Between one and two years is one month on both.

Before one year is discretionary (allowed if I feel the employee is a good long-term prospect), or SSP if not.

PasturesNew

I've never used sick leave ..... I feel I've been a fool all these years really

I should have been "milking" it for 1-2 days/year... even as unpaid leave.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never used sick leave ..... I feel I've been a fool all these years really

I should have been "milking" it for 1-2 days/year... even as unpaid leave.

My mother is taking 2 weeks annual leave following surgery, as the NHS are really clamping down on sick leave now.

Never mind that the incident requiring the surgery happened at work (in a large regional health centre) and she's not suing, partly as it could be related to another injury more than 25 years ago.....

Officially she gets 6 months full pay, but took the first 2 weeks as sick leave and disappear on annual leave for the other 2 weeks. Anything after this will be unpaid leave.

This is the first time in 23 years with the NHS she's taken time off, other than the annual holiday.

Generali

CKhalvashi wrote: »

After two years, 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay.

Between one and two years is one month on both.

Before one year is discretionary (allowed if I feel the employee is a good long-term prospect), or SSP if not.

Over here we accrue it like normal leave: 20 days a year (about a month) and it rolls over into the next year.

Most people also have sick pay built into their pension plan (super). After 3 months of not being able to work I get 80% of my income, increasing with inflation, until I hit 65. That's 80% of my income including super payments.

tomterm8

It's too hot. Far too hot.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Most people also have sick pay built into their pension plan (super). After 3 months of not being able to work I get 80% of my income, increasing with inflation, until I hit 65. That's 80% of my income including super payments.

You'd be hard pushed to find any pension plan paying 80% in this country wouldn't you? I thought they worked out at about 50% of pay if you spent your lifetime, full-time, in a job that had a final pay pension.

That's a system that's probably being carefully and quietly abused by somebody somewhere....

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

Over here we accrue it like normal leave: 20 days a year (about a month) and it rolls over into the next year.

Most people also have sick pay built into their pension plan (super). After 3 months of not being able to work I get 80% of my income, increasing with inflation, until I hit 65. That's 80% of my income including super payments.

Can I just ask if that's insurance, paid for by employer, or paid for by the pension provider, then absorbed into the daily running costs?

Also, just out of interest, what is the charge on the Aus super? I think that my pension charges are 1.5% on shares (HSBC), but just trying to get a rough idea of how this one works.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's too hot. Far too hot.

This house isn't hot ... nor sunny. (One of my reservations about the house I'm buying as it doesn't face the right way) .....

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

The problem comes if the rice has the bacteria .... and is left out for some hours at room temperature and/or then not reheated properly.
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It's irrelevant if you reheat it well enough, you simply shouldn't ever eat rice that has been left at room temperature for any length of time.

Rice can grow a very deadly poison that won't be destroyed by reheating it...