look the other way or dob in?

Flyonthewall

Poppie68 wrote: »

If she left early for valid reasons then surely she should of gone to management and explained what had happened, she was obviously trying to hide it....How many times has she done it or would of continued to do it?

Maybe she doesn't realise she should say. Maybe she thought nobody knows anyway so why bring it up, the company may not be happy she left despite it being an emergency as far as she was concerned or that it wasn't something she really wanted to discuss.

That would depend on the reason, but we can't possibly know. The flexi time only just started by the sounds of it so it was probably the first time.

SandC wrote: »

I remember years ago I was on lunch break and nipped into the town close to work when lo and behold right behind me in her car was another young lady from the office who was currently off sick at the time! She saw my car and slowed right down so that I would drive away from her vehicle. I thought to myself 'okay she'll be back in work tomorrow then'. However, she wasn't!! The cheek! I decided, however, it was none of my business and didn't affect my own work anyway - and if she had seen me and wasn't too ill to be in work after all then she'd be having her own personal panic about whether I'd said anything or not, or would question her on it. And no, she didn't live there and popping out for a prescription or something - although it made me chuckle to think she'd have sat at home thinking of possible scenarios as to why she was out driving where she was! Evil me, yes but nobody got in trouble either way so... :-)

Although it's possible she wasn't as ill as she said, what was she off sick for? For example, stress, depression, anxiety...none of them are reasons not to leave the house and be driving somewhere. Can look perfectly fine and not be.

Even if she was really ill, sometimes people have to go somewhere. They may not want to go anywhere, they may struggle to do so, but they do it anyway because they have no choice. Having to pick a kid up from school if no one else could, for example.

If off sick long term they may have a meeting before starting back. They may not have felt 100%, but be recovering and be waiting for a meeting with a manager to start back.

There are many reasons to be off sick and be out somewhere and not be at work the next day other than them faking illness.

getmore4less

Just read the first post. Thoughts

Are you nuts you have no idea if they had permission or something Important.

Just when things get better you seem intent on messing things up for everyone.

Edit.

What sort of flexi? multiple start/end, core hours, averaging...

One key advantage of flexi is to manage workloads to do that you need reasonable averaging/TOIL built in.

TELLIT01

None of us know the full story, but Tygermoth says it was a manager who raised the fact that she had left early, without permission. She would / should have been aware of the potential consequences of her actions. If she had a genuine reason, and can show that she at least tried to contact a manager, it might blow over.
If she simply did it because she thought she could get away with it, it has dropped an early Christmas present into the lap of the senior boss who didn't want flexi working in the first place. If it is the latter, he selfishness has screwed things for everybody.

TELLIT01

melysion wrote: »

Snitching on your work colleagues is a disgraceful thing to do and you all now got your just desserts, particularly as the offender may also now lose their job.

Whether 'snitching' is disgraceful or not depends on your point of view regarding honest and trust I suppose. As a shift leader, many moons ago I caught one of my staff starting to roll a joint. I warned him that if I so much as caught sight of anything like that again he would be out the door. I never had a problem again, but had there been a repeat I would have 'snitched' without any qualms whatever.

fizz

Before God had a dog we just worked (more than our prescribed hours) and our bosses took it into consideration if we needed time off for personal matters. NO-ONE thought about 'dobbing' (awful Aussie term btw) us in.

OP-you really need to get a life! Whatever is going on with your co-workers is !!!!!!-all to do with you! You are not at Nursery and do not have to tell the teacher!

xapprenticex

Ive not read the replies because I dont have all day.

My response. I wouldn't grass her up if it negatively affects me (or if if it didnt).. BUT i would have a word with the offender, just say, "Oh hi, i saw you at 4:40 (or whatever) yesterday, tried to wave but to no avail".

Walk away, let paranoia do the rest of the work.

As for the bleeding hearts here. Loooooooooool.

emsywoo123

xapprenticex wrote: »

Ive not read the replies because I dont have all day.

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. Loooooooooool.

And yet time for all those "o"s. We are not worthy :rotfl:

xapprenticex

emsywoo123 wrote: »

And yet time for all those "o"s. We are not worthy :rotfl:

Always time for o's bab :money:

1886

tomtontom wrote: »

Which is what you were contemplating doing?

My sympathy is with the woman who has just been suspended a week before Christmas. I hope you and your colleague are proud

Somebody sneaked out of work early, got caught and you have sympathy for them. You'd make a great manager

Spendless

Can't you just suggest to the T/L that you get a clocking in machine?