Being contacted by work whilst on holiday/term time etc

Tiddlywinks

dori2o wrote: »

I've never done term time before so I'm not sure what the situation is, plus this is the first non-working week I've had since I started the Term Time working on 5 January this year. It may be a coincidence but I found it rather odd that the first time I am off they decide to contact me about something quite trivial that can be dealt with next week when I'm back 'on the clock'.

You have to stop seeing your managers as the enemy.

It was one email - which is far less intrusive than phoning you.

You always seem to go on the attack - I'd hate to be your colleague as you seem quite confrontational.

dori2o

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

You have to stop seeing your managers as the enemy.

It was one email - which is far less intrusive than phoning you.

You always seem to go on the attack - I'd hate to be your colleague as you seem quite confrontational.

You know nothing about me at all or what I've been through at work in the last 24 months.

For your information all my colleagues get on with me. I'm one of the most experienced on the team and one that many of the team look to for help/support.

I see the management of where I work for what they are.

gettingtheresometime

Whenever I've had to phone my boss when he's been on holiday I've always done everything in my power to find the answer before phoning him.

I would imagine that phoning someone when they were 'not on the clock' wouldn't be the first solution so it wouldn't bother me at all

getmore4less

How many weeks are you working how many are they paying you?

If this is a new situation then you need to accept transition and between you learn to make sure that in the off weeks you have proper cover so don't need to communicate.

Term time is often not good for business not related to term time.
(staff want school hols off and they are not spread out much with a big gap in the summer.)

you may have good reasons to go that way(not read the full thread) but often for business working holidays and having regular weeks on off can be better fit.

Takeaway_Addict

Charlotte17 wrote: »

There are lots of places including where I have worked where the internet was banned and no access to it unless you were on your lunch break which was unpaid so we couldn't look at the net in paid company time. The same goes for calls out for personal reasons.

Some companies only work one way so there is no give or take.

So are you saying there is no idle chat at all and you worked 100% of the time for the hours of work....

I doubt it.

googler

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Sometimes it takes give and take on both sides. It's called being in a team.

No, it's not. The OP is 'in a team' when he/she is on the clock at work.

Not when they're on their own time, they're not. Unless you think none of the OP's time is their own?

mrs_greenfingers

Alter_ego wrote: »

This sounds like a school job to me. Do you really think you are not being paid during school holidays?

Teaching staff are salaried but support staff are only paid for 38 weeks a year, ie term time, and wages are spread out over 12 months.

lisa110rry

I have been contacted by my firm whilst lying in a hospital bed with wristband on and arrow pointing to operation site.

I have been contacted by the firm's bank whilst cruising on the Broads.

Come to think of it, I've been asked, while having a pub lunch on the Broads, if I could catch a flight that evening to South Africa. (The answer was no, but I'll get tomorrow's flight.)

Doesn't really stress me, though sometimes there's an inward groan when I see the number come up on my phone.

The down sides are out-numbered by the up sides and I'm deemed to have signed the working rule agreement in any case. I'm currently sitting at my desk reading this, waiting for someone to bring me lunch!

stugib

Undervalued wrote: »

There has be a bit of give and take.

This.

By all means be completely uncontactable, work to rule, hold up things that might be going on when you're not there to make a point. Just don't be surprised when next time you need a bit of flexibility on their part they take a similar approach.

BoJangles_2

To contact somebody whilst on holiday would be the very last resort in any situation (where I work). But when it is unavoidable it would be regarding work that the person on holiday had been responsible for and due to not supplying a proper handover prior to their holiday, contact is then required. Not sloppy management...