Tuesday 30th June - What small DFW things will you do today?

DawnW

determined_new_ms wrote: »

I was in my probation period Bob. It's a long story...

The role had had a series of difficulties over the year I was there. When I started the charity had restructured and made redundant the previous staff (except the accountant). My manager was appointed 4 weeks before I was. He had little guidance/induction and wasn't performing well. At the end of his 6 months they dismissed him. At this point there were 2 of us left (the accountant and me) when we should have been a team of 5.

At that point I was 4 weeks off of my probation review. He had been a terrible manager so the trustees said they would extend my probation so they could assess my performance properly. For a while it was just me and my colleague for a while just trying to get by and cope. There were a series of problems over that time including discovering some of the volunteers/a pt van diver had been involved in stealing a lot of our stock so we had to do an investigation and dismiss the driver/ask some of the volunteers to leave. During this time the accountant was made the manager.

About a week before I should have been confirmed I was told by my manager that my probation needed to be extended again as due to the ongoing difficulties she hadn't been able to meet with me to agree objectives/review my performance. She told me she was happy with my performance and it was what the trustees had asked for but I would be confirmed after this. I met with the chair of trustees who reassured me it was their intention to confirm me in post.

At the beginning of May I had 4 days off sick with tonsillitis and I got a gp cert as my employers haven't been very supportive if I've needed time off and I had previously had 5 days sick throughout the year. Last winter there had been a handful if days (less than 5) I had to take off as either dgd or the childminder was sick, there have been a few days where I went to court for dgd which I always took as annual leave or a handful of times (over a year) I needed to meet with the social worker to discuss dgd's progress but these meetings were always scheduled for 5.30 so I would leave 1/2 hr early and make the time up. On the Thursday before I went on holiday my boss told me the trustees weren't happy about the amount of time I had had off.

When I returned to work last Tuesday after 6 days AL I was called into a meeting and told they weren't confirming me in post so was giving me my notice, effectively immediately and would pay me in lieu of my notice period (1 week because I was in my probation)

Sounds as though your ex employer has a bad track record for their treatment of employees DNMS

xJOJOx_2

Good afternoon everyone. Been M I A the last week. Will catch up with everything later on. Some good things to report.

~ finally got my housing benefit claim sorted including back pay yippee. No mention of council tax support but will see what happens
~ flights finally booked for Malta in August and were £200 cheaper than originally priced up so that's sat in the bank :-D
~ daughters ballet show at weekend, all outfits sorted and paid for at a good price. New tap shoes given to us by the teacher for free.
~ tips looking good for holidays spends but slightly lost count....
~ not much overtime done last few weeks but back to normal now

Need to get back into my little things list. So hopefully back to it in the morning

Bobarella

xJOJOx wrote: »

~ finally got my housing benefit claim sorted including back pay yippee. No mention of council tax support but will see what happens

That is brilliant news!:j:j:j

Bobarella

Just finished the market research interview with my business energy provider who have just paid me £30 via Paypal, so I've slashed it off the debt straight away. Only £80 to hit my stretch target for the pay period! I am feeling very motivated today.

The funny thing this week is that my son, who was collecting the bear species cards in his packs of Yo Yos has sold all 3 of his packs on ebay, for a few quid, so he's made £10 for his savings account for old tat basically. It gives me hope that we may be able to raise a few £££ ourselves if we keep pushing the comics.

Bob

MsKex

1. paid off my catalogue
2. not spent a penny
3. about to go through groceries to meal plan for the month(s)

Bobarella

MsKex wrote: »

1. paid off my catalogue
2. not spent a penny
3. about to go through groceries to meal plan for the month(s)

Brilliant progress!