T-shirt inappropriate for work?

Jillanddy

Brie said:

Sea_Shell said

Even then, they should still be able to come to a mutual agreement of how/when leave was taken, even if just one day every few weeks, or reduced daily hours.

I can understand anxiety around being asked (expected) to take whole weeks at a time, if you feel (know) you're just going to come back to a backlog!!

Backlogs are easy to avoid with the WFH that's been done over the last year.  

Please do share. I have obviously missed the trick of how to avoid backlogs when working from home (unless I am willing to work silly hours, which I am not). My 37 hours working from home appear to have the same backlogs as the 37 hours that I used to work in the office!

Jillanddy

Misogyny is offensive - OP reported.

Sea_Shell

🎶 I'm too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts🎶

Brie

Jillanddy said:

Please do share. I have obviously missed the trick of how to avoid backlogs when working from home (unless I am willing to work silly hours, which I am not). My 37 hours working from home appear to have the same backlogs as the 37 hours that I used to work in the office!

Easy in that because you are WFH when you are on holiday you can still get online and do stuff.  Not right of course but face it - for some of us having a work computer means you can still access the interweb even if you aren't at work and someone else is on the home pc.  The temptation to clear ones emails is sometimes overwhelming.

Dakta

I think this thread actually holds some value in how not to be an employee and related discussion, OP doesn't necessarily need to be part of it

JGB1955

Brie said:

  The temptation to clear ones emails is sometimes overwhelming.

I used to be a School Administrator. Those 6 week summer holidays (for which you are only paid pro-rata) can lead to a real 'I don't want to go back to school' moment - it's not just the pupils....  Rather than turn up on the first day of term, to open 6 weeks of post and 6 weeks of bills/emails, I found it much easier to go in and deal with them a couple of times in those 6 weeks.  The relief of knowing I was going back to work, all sorted already, far outweighed any thought of 'working when I'm not supposed to'.  It meant I could actually enjoy my 6 week break!

TELLIT01

Brie said:

Jillanddy said:

Please do share. I have obviously missed the trick of how to avoid backlogs when working from home (unless I am willing to work silly hours, which I am not). My 37 hours working from home appear to have the same backlogs as the 37 hours that I used to work in the office!

Easy in that because you are WFH when you are on holiday you can still get online and do stuff.  Not right of course but face it - for some of us having a work computer means you can still access the interweb even if you aren't at work and someone else is on the home pc.  The temptation to clear ones emails is sometimes overwhelming.

I have to confess I don't understand, and never have understood, why people check e-mail, use laptops at home etc, outside working hours.  If there is too much work to complete in the allocated hours it is down to management to sort it out.  It's because people do the above that management get away without having to fix the underlying problem.

Sncjw

Jack_bauer24 said:

Sncjw said:

Like I said before just because your not employed by the place you ddi work at doesn't mean that the agency won't drop you.. I think often they ask for feedback and I hope they tell the agency you went against their dress code. 


What if you end up working in a role that has clients walking around and see you wear that tshirt. Some people can be shocked if they see you wearing that in the workplace.

There is a time and place to wear these things and work is not one of them.

I am not going to type it out but I'm thinking of a couple of things about you and you being gay isn't one of them. 

I don't care if I don't get any more cleaning work from that company, like I stated yesterday, I don't want to work for them anymore as I don't want to see that woman again, I can't stand her. So I really couldn't care less if they inform agency that I wore my t-shirt on Friday, let them crack on. Even if agency phones me up and saying there have more cleaning shifts, I am going to refuse as I don't want to see that woman ever again. 

You don't get it that you are likely to jot get shifts from the agency full stop fi you keep doing this. 

Dakta

TELLIT01 said:

Brie said:

Jillanddy said:

Please do share. I have obviously missed the trick of how to avoid backlogs when working from home (unless I am willing to work silly hours, which I am not). My 37 hours working from home appear to have the same backlogs as the 37 hours that I used to work in the office!

Easy in that because you are WFH when you are on holiday you can still get online and do stuff.  Not right of course but face it - for some of us having a work computer means you can still access the interweb even if you aren't at work and someone else is on the home pc.  The temptation to clear ones emails is sometimes overwhelming.

I have to confess I don't understand, and never have understood, why people check e-mail, use laptops at home etc, outside working hours.  If there is too much work to complete in the allocated hours it is down to management to sort it out.  It's because people do the above that management get away without having to fix the underlying problem.

I see your point. I used to do this amongst other workaholic traits for a variety of reasons, some I can explain, some are a bit of a mystery even to me. Ultimately there was a bit of a sense of duty, and also there was the need to support others, every problem we don't solve is a problem someone else has to face and due to a few reasons there was a shortage of confidence - people didn't always have people to lean on when it got stressy, and certainly a bit of take ownership of the problems the organisation faces, here to provide a service that can be flexible and dynamic to the problems and situations and not just to a script/job description  within a schedule. Also it helps people understand what you're about and have a good work ethic. Though ultimately I wanted to be there and support people like I'd hope to be if the ship went down on me.

I have changed team recently and this is no longer the case, the workload isn't generally as high, you do finish at 5, if someone gets stuck on their own the problem can (mostly) wait, absolutely no expectation to be present outside your rostered hours and you'll likely get queried if you are. Holidays get monitored and I recently got told to take some, not told when but just told to crack on with it - it's a very different sort of operating style, and initially it caused me quite a lot of adjustment problems. Particularly the workload because my role involves responding, and sometimes things don't happen to respond to. And those moments cause a rapid decline in feeling of self-worth (to put it bluntly) and increase in overall tension (to be a bit more soft about it), which not everyone seems to suffer from. It's been weird going from having a work phone on me even though it wasn't expected because things would happen and I would ended up being called on the off chance of being available or jumping in to help when you could see from teams people having a flap, to having it sat permanently off in the cupboard because it just isn't needed at all full stop.

I an not dismissing your points, but I do think it depends on the person. Whilst I wouldn't want to lose my 'I will make myself available when and where needed' work ethic I do actually think, despite the adjustment which has been quite horrible its a healthier way of working.  Just my 2p as I think you do need to be able to stop or get that work divide. So I'm more agreeing than disagreeing but ignoring the phone for example or the email when you know theres stuff to deal with can be a bit stressy in its own right.

Manxman_in_exile

Brie said:

Sea_Shell said

Even then, they should still be able to come to a mutual agreement of how/when leave was taken, even if just one day every few weeks, or reduced daily hours.

I can understand anxiety around being asked (expected) to take whole weeks at a time, if you feel (know) you're just going to come back to a backlog!!

Backlogs are easy to avoid with the WFH that's been done over the last year.  It wasn't that but the being alone that was the issue, it was an individual who needed the company of others.

Apologies if this question has already been asked and answered, but how does WFH avoid a backlog that builds up when an employee is on leave/holiday?  Why on earth would somebody be WFH when they are on holiday?  If they are WFH they are not - by definition - on holiday.