Month: August 2023

Policy is no calls offs within first 90 days. I guess if you do call of you must call no later than 4 hours in advance and get a doctor's note. Knowing what I've seen so far I wouldn't be surprised If there is also a disciplinary write up, because what the hell, why not right? I'm sick. Between the extreme stress, the cesspool of germs, the no hand sanitizer or bathroom break and likely inadvertently touching my face in between customer interactions that left me in complete agony, my body feels like it was replaced with a petri dish of the local publics germs. Was having the closest I've ever been to nervous breakdown by the time I left my shift yesterday evening. Anyway. sore throat, fever, chills, headache, and general apathy about going forward in life when it sucks this hard. Obvious answer is call off, but I…

This is in UK. Is it legal for employer to include interest in maternity pay repayments if the employee does not return to work after maternity leave has ended? They want to charge my colleague 5% APR in case she decides not to return to work. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hey guys, 26M here. I work as a manager but definitely have been picking up more workload than I should nowadays because the company is expanding fast, though my job is pretty chill overall. I am so bored and tired of my job and I actually really don’t like it. I got decent work life balance and the pay doesn’t hurt but it’s not that much. I’m just so unmotivated to do whatever I’m supposed to do like inventory, and a whole bunch of other shit. I would quit for sure and I’ve been looking at jobs and am planning to interview in another company in the next week, better pay, also a managerial position but in a company that is more in line with what I want to do. Anyway the reason I feel so guilty is because my job hired me while I was on probation (drug related…

Everyone's constantly rushing me at work, for no good reason. I've got a lot of pent-up anger, so I apologise for the long rant. I'm a hard worker and I work pretty fast most of the time. I can get jobs done quicker when I have to but do not wish to be rushing at work 24/7. I'm confident enough to say that I can most stuff done quicker than most of my colleagues as well. However, one of my colleagues is always rushing me and being up my arse. She's faster than me but she's also slightly older and have a couple years more experience than me. Whenever I do something slightly slower than her, she'd point it out and humiliate me. I'm completely fine and am more than happy for people to provide advice and teach me how to do things better, but her intention is to ridicule,…

I’ll try to keep it short. Due to a clash with my supervisor at work (who thinks she can speak to people however she wants and does in fact get away with it due to seniority) and other reasons, I had become eligible for medical leave. It has since transitioned to LTD and I’m being asked to fill out 15 pages worth of information, ranging from why I can’t work to where I shop, where my doctors are, etc I have tried reaching out to my union and I’ve had zero luck with that. How specific do I need to be on this form? Anyone have any advice? Thanks

So I was given a PIP a month ago, and I have been looking for other jobs, and what would you know they're also shit. I have a performance review tomorrow and I have made a few errors despite my best effort in the past month that I have no doubt my employer will blow those nitpicks or minor deficiencies out of proportion. If my employer offers me another PIP vs severance pay, which I assume is a common offer in these scenarios, should I?: Ask for maybe 2 weeks more or another month of a PIP so that I can have more time to look for another company while I still have an “employment” status? Accept a severance, fight for unemployment and look for another job after termination.

We used to get assigned a few aisles each to look after and do various tasks and I would do them first faster than my colleagues on the other 30 isles in the store which meant that I would take a break earlier and go talk (and help) to a friend colleague on another aisle just for a little while. but over time it kind of looked like I don't work and get distracted because I'm talking to people but they don't realize I've already done all my work. Mostly my manager would spot me on another aisle talking to a colleague and say I need to get back to work but that just went going back to my aisle just to fumble around. After 2 years there I felt like I was gaslighted into being the laziest person even though I worked really hard so eventually just started hiding…