Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Spirit, your pm box is full.

Thank you..sorted

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

Thank you..sorted

Thanks. Michaels must be busy, because he hasn't filled it up yet.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

I've been in an unfortunate position where I've been too ill to work and too well not to work.

The position I've found myself in is typical in Aus: you have a sick leave entitlement and once that's done and you've used your holiday then you have to wait for your insurance to kick in after 3 months.

in the UK the rules are (used to be?) that after 2 days off sick your employer can put you on SSP of about £80/week.

In every country in the world the story is the same: if you're the breadwinner, don't get very ill. If you do you're FUBAR'd. It's life.

My company actually has some pretty good sick leave entitlement in the contracts, it increases every year and at this point I'd be entitled to 6 months on full pay and another 6 months on reduced pay before statutory minimums kicked in.

Hopefully I'll never need to use it though.

CKhalvashi

DD's asleep, just sat down on the balcony with a glass of red and plate of khinkali. Heaven!

Spirit wrote: »

faced with hardship if I did not, and I could not let my family down.
(suggested alternative post)

I feel that this is good way to word this, too.

We're lucky enough to have a brilliant team behind us, and all four managers willing to take a step up to run the company whilst I was off, but I'm in the lucky position of knowing that if the money's there, I get paid.

I really think your current employer is wrong on this. It is a first world business and overall supporting you would have made beggar all difference to their immediate bottom line and had they a bit more foresight helped them in the medium term.

When your boss was being sh!tty whilst you were still in treatment I hoped they got a first hand experience of Karma. They have earned it.

I thought this at the time (last part), but didn't feel it was my place to comment.

IMO in this situation, it should be for the employer to guarantee 75% (or something similar) of the wage for the first 13 weeks, then the government to step in for the next 39.

My opinion, and Bugs' opinion (as employers at opposite ends of industry) will probably differ greatly on this, however.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks. Michaels must be busy, because he hasn't filled it up yet.

Give me a chance, I was taking 5 young ladies to dinner followed by a movie.

At my work I think we get a few weeks of full pay followed by forever at 70% via an insurance company.

Edit: predicted 1:0 on the Argentina match, just need this one to finish 1-1 and Holland win on penalties...

GDB2222

5 young ladies? You had your hands full then.

How innocent that sounds, yet so Rolf Harris.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Social anxiety strikes again. I've managed to sabotage my own day tomorrow

How did the day work out?


Well I hope. Or at least better than expected.

Spirit_2

Tomorrow our daughter is running the 10K Race for Life for Cancer Research UK. She is doing this for K who died last year.


She is not worried by the lack of preparation due to the increasingly hypermobile joints...just happy that she has a pink Tutu to wear. This garment is so out of character and her normal comfort zone, but very K in a girly way.


OH has made a placard for us to wave.


To mark the occasion she has asked for sausage sandwiches for lunch.

zagubov

DD was at the Wireless festival yesterday where everybody got hacked off at Kanye West, who got booed for stopping singing and wasting fifteen minutes telling everybody what his opininons are bout this and that.

Been going over my finances and realised that due to takeovers and mergers between companies, my endowment policy's toured more of the world than I have, spending time in Australia and Switzerland amongst other places.

I need to travel more and visit more of these places before this much-travelled policy ever pays out on me.

lostinrates

Spirit, good luck to daughter.

Fir and I just in. Yes I'm tired and sore. But ok. After supper we left our hosts house with out coffee to go to one of the guests place to see his work ( artist) I loved three of his pieces and loved the way he works I. Other pieces. Fun, fun, fun.

We talked about art and colour and life and stuff. Was fun. I know have very blood shot eyes, swollen legs and pain but had fun. Night night.