Month: March 2022

Hi all, I recently (Oct ‘21) joined a law firm as admin, gaining access to medical records for RTA claims. I’ve become pregnant in December/January and have suffered with major HG, and so by advice of my doctor, took some time off. I was off sick between mid Feb and remain until early April. I’ve received my payslip including SSP, as I’m not entitled to regular pay, but noticed a large chunk deducted, leaving me with £150 to last me through the month. When I asked HR, I was told the chunk was deducted to cover 6 days sick leave that exceeded my 5 days contractual sick leave. I’ve provided a sick note from my GP since the very first day I was off sick.. is this normal or should I be taking further action?!

Idk maybe this belongs in showerthoughts but every time I see “competitive wages” instead of an actual amount I know this job is gonna be a real drain

My company doesn’t give us company phones or pay allowances, and created an “emergency group chat” So far it’s been used every day and including weekends, for something as simple as simple as not connecting to a server. What do I do about this?

I was supposed to meet a client with my team, and the client sent over a meeting link to me a few weeks ago. I forwarded the invite to my team to ask if they were going to come as well, and received no replies from them. Because of this, I did not book the meeting on my calendar as I was waiting for their replies to see if I needed to reschedule the meeting. The meeting ended up slipping my mind and I completely forgot about it, and woke up to calls from my manager asking me why I wasn’t in the meeting yet. Apparently no one else could make it other than me. I joined the meeting 15 minutes late in a state of shock and panic, and luckily it was a short meeting and I did not take up too much of my client’s time. This was…

I just left round two of interviews for a school system job. It’s an entry level position in the equivalent of a school supplies warehouse. It pays $12.07/hr. As I was leaving this interview, the interviewer mentioned that there will most likely be another round of interviews. Why is this necessary? I’m just so frustrated with the whole thing.

Employers should let their employees work from home to save gas. Maybe the US would have more reserves that could then be used to help Europe avoid buying Russian gas. After Covid, everyone has figured out how to make WFH work, and it should be relatively easy to continue. Not to mention, employees very much want to continue working from home.

Hear me out. Whenever there is issuance of new debt (bonds, fixed income), there is an initial “retail period” that gives individual investors the opportunity buy into the issues before the “institutional period” where the institutions (blackrock, vanguard) come and sweep up everything. This allows individual investors with less buying power to actually get in. Why shouldn’t the same go for housing? Yeah this will be a short term hit for current homeowners but it will help the housing crisis. We’re getting locked out of the housing market by our lack of cash buying power. We literally can’t compete with blackrock. Think about it. If every single family home going on the market had an initial 30 day period where it could only be bought by an individual, not a corporation or investor, then after those 30 days it’s released to be picked up by corps/investors….It would straighten out the…