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I'm hoping not to find out how my employer deals with sicknesses. I select its better than average though. Have taken up the private healthcare too.
I'm (hopefully, at some point) more likely to be taking advantage of my employers relatively generous maternity package. Plenty of things to get offhanded before I need to worry about anything even remotely along those lines though!0 -
Tomorrow our daughter is running the 10K Race for Life for Cancer Research UK. She is doing this for K who died last year.
Good luck to Miss Spirit - hope she doesn't get too hot, too!It is because it is a particular bug bear of mine....terms and conditions packages that are cash heavy...fab when the employee is flying high, leveraged in a greater return to the company...and all the risk on the employee when life happens...or transferred to the tax payer ultimately.
IMO..there needs to be a good balance of incentivising the right things and 'insurance'. Dangling high cash shows a lack of imagination and/or a belief that teh cash rich employee will self insure for all rainy day possibilities...when most will not.
It's just normal if you are self-employed, though - you have to make sure you have savings stashed against such eventualities, and private insurance, too. No sick pay, maternity pay, pensions - nothing unless you organise it yourself.Pet hate words 'partners', coined for some sort of nod to joined up government but now used by the police, LAs, NHS trusts etc to imply that whilst something should be / should have been done it is almost certainly the responsibility of this group of partners - ie some one else.
"Stakeholders" are worse than partners - although I agree with you that partners are annoying as anything, too.
I see I'm not the only one to have been prompted to thought of "stakeholders", though!5 young ladies? You had your hands full then.
How innocent that sounds, yet so Rolf Harris.
The Rolf Harris thing is so awful; does nothing remain of childhood heroes?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Fir and I just in. Yes I'm tired and sore. But ok..
Sounds great, and very much like you made the right call? hope you don't have anything to pay for it tomorrow, and thus are able to accept further such invitations
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I'm hoping not to find out how my employer deals with sicknesses. I select its better than average though. Have taken up the private healthcare too.
I'm (hopefully, at some point) more likely to be taking advantage of my employers relatively generous maternity package. Plenty of things to get offhanded before I need to worry about anything even remotely along those lines though!
Humph. The only maternity package I got from work was a babygro flower set! <very nice of all my colleagues in Chambers, no complaint against them at all>
Small babies learn to smile before they learn almost anything else. THis is a self-defence mechanism - if you are going to wake people up regularly all night long, every night, it pays to be appealing to those people so you don't get evicted at 3am one morning:
Smiley Kermie:
Brotherhood:
The baby does sleep sometimes:
...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Aww
......“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
How did the day work out?
Well I hope. Or at least better than expected.
Much better than expected, thank you. I have a stonking great hangover this morning and don't live nearly close enough to a Nandos, which is what I want to eat for breakfast.
It was prizegiving and sports day at DS's school. It's a big deal with marquees and gazebos. I ended up ordering food from a local tea room and we borrowed a bench from the cricket pitch.
I had a terrible blonde moment. The bench had names and dates on it. I thought some family had children with some kind terrible congenital heart problem. Brother in law pointed out it was much more likely to be the dates they attended the school
Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Lovely pics NDG. Isaac is certainly a caring and handsome big bro too.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Doozergirl wrote: »It was prizegiving and sports day at DS's school. It's a big deal with marquees and gazebos.
We didn't have prize giving "in my day", but I do remember sports days at Junior School. There were no gazebos ... just us kids, some sacks, spoons, eggs etc - and parents standing round the running lanes painted on the grass in a hurry. I didn't ever win at sports day, I do remember doing the three legged race and I might have even done a sack race once. And, of course, the standard running race.0 -
I've done my first bit of drilling With my new drill (with a bit of tuition and supervision from a responsible adult)
I now have a towel rail over the radiator in the bathroom.
:T:T:Tin 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.
But in fact a lot of employers are much more generous that the statutory requirement. Take my employer for example - an independent school, so not public sector money. If we're off for more than a week, we need to get signed off so the school can claim SSP, but they don't pay us the SSP rate - we carry on getting our normal salaries. (I'm not sure how long they go on doing that for, but it's a long time, I think. I've certainly never met anyone who's been off for long enough to stop getting their full salary.)
In cases of serious illness there's a lot more to it than that. One of our staff, the housemistress of a boarding house, got cancer a few years ago. I'm quite sure they paid her a lot more than SSP for months and months, although naturally I don't know the details of exactly how much they gave her. She was off quite a while, and then wanted to come back to work "a bit" but wasn't capable of doing anything reliably because her health was up and down a lot. So they created a job for her. Not in a boarding house, but in school. She did all the cover duty for the hall where younger students go when they have a free lesson, or occasionally whole classes whose teacher is absent if the teacher's department isn't able to find somebody to teach the class instead. This hall cover duty would normally be done by a rota of teachers, but during that period it was done by the teacher with cancer, when she felt well enough, or by the rota teacher if the sick teacher didn't feel up to it that day.PasturesNew wrote: »I hate the way it's used today in relationships.... so much easier when somebody's a boyfriend, a fiance or a husband. It's misused to mean anything from "bloke I've been seeing for 2 weeks" through to "somebody I've lived with as husband/wife for the last 30 years".
But sometimes you need a word to cover all those possibilities, and either sex too. Such as "all staff and their partners are welcome at the staff quiz night".Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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