Working extra hours (salaried)

nicechap

TELLIT01 wrote: »

"The manager then emailed the person who went to the Union (no one else) and said that they did not need to attend outside of contracted hours"


If the only person contacted by the manager was the person who went to the union, what other interpretation could be put on it?

Of course, only the OP can answer accurately but that doesn't say the union told the manager who it was.

And unions don't generally act on behalf of non-members so why would any one else be told? But there's nothing to stop the person letting colleagues know of the union advice.

It remains to be seen whether the meetings go ahead anyway and whether there will be any come back.

Doshwaster

JReacher1 wrote: »

Do not get a job in IT. These days it is all meetings, I have to attend about six daily stand ups every morning!

Sounds better than having to work for a living. I'm happy to get paid to sit (or even stand) in pointless meetings.

Actually, daily stand-ups can be a good way of managing projects but only if they are done properly otherwise they can easily be a waste of everyone's time. Six every morning is certainly excessive.

TELLIT01

Doshwaster wrote: »

Sounds better than having to work for a living. I'm happy to get paid to sit (or even stand) in pointless meetings.

Actually, daily stand-ups can be a good way of managing projects but only if they are done properly otherwise they can easily be a waste of everyone's time. Six every morning is certainly excessive.

I promise you the novelty quickly wears off. When I worked at DWP we had a daily meeting at 10 am whether or not there was anything to discuss, and often it would be a case of the manager saying "Has anybody got anything to discuss" followed by silence and the manager then ending the 'meeting'. It's disruptive to workflow apart from anything else.