Month: October 2022

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I'm IT Manager and the only programmer at a kids attraction I work at I the UK. My background is in childcare and management; so I have experience in HR, payroll, law, selling, policies. Sort of jack of all trades. I'm really happy just having programming, in charge of tills but I understand and am willing to step up to help in other areas if need be. Well in August our supervisor and HR hooked up and quite. Leaving us with no one to look after our 60 under 18 (we employ 14 to 16 year olds) and HR had done no paperwork for months. So I get asked to sort it, fine no problem there. Child employment is fixed, train up some other staff to supervisor level. All good. Then I get asked to advertise jobs and arrange interviews. Also fine. It'll help me in long run. I get…

As is commonplace in my industry, company paid for my pre-employment medical. But one over-zealous doctor wanted me to get more testing done, at my cost, in the form of: 1. Stress Echocardiogram because of a family history of heart problems. I am young, fit and have no heart problems myself but still get annual checks for peace of mind. 2. MRI on my wrist for an injury earlier this year that my previous employer cleared me to come back to work with. 3. Log from my CPAP machine. I've had sleep apnoea for a couple years and had more than one pre-employment for medical with sleep apnoea and no other doctor saw it as a problem. All these cost me $1000 all up and HR informed me they won't cover the cost of this. I'm tempted to talk to my direct report about this once I start, because there's…

My company has switched to soft phones (no desk phones—calls are made on computer or through app on cell). We aren’t provided company phones and there is no plan to reimburse anyone for the use of their personal phones for work. To get through a normal day a typical employee is going to have to use the app on their phone to communicate with clients, customers and internal people. I’m in the US. Is this allowed? My cell plan isn’t exactly cheap. I feel like it’s a chipping away at my total compensation to have to provide a personal device to do my job.