Soldato
Your boss is a male member or he doesn't value you. One or the other. Or both.
Am I being unreasonable to my employer?
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Yes, employess get paid for their services in which the employers gain in profits.
It's not a god given right to treat your staff like crap because you think you're doing them a favour.
I don't even think you have your own company, or know how to manage employees at all.
Soldato
MD sounds like a nob and not the kind you find on a door............
There should always be some flexibility allowed for these kinds of emergencies, and if you have been the model employee over the years then the east he could do is cut you a bit of slack. Almost sounds like a modern day Eberneezer Scrooge. His he a family man, does he have kids, if he does then he is acting like a ****. Although I can't think for one minute that someone who had children of their own would be such a bell end about your request !!
I say get a new job and tell your MD to lick his own balls
There should always be some flexibility allowed for these kinds of emergencies, and if you have been the model employee over the years then the east he could do is cut you a bit of slack. Almost sounds like a modern day Eberneezer Scrooge. His he a family man, does he have kids, if he does then he is acting like a ****. Although I can't think for one minute that someone who had children of their own would be such a bell end about your request !!
I say get a new job and tell your MD to lick his own balls
We can cover staff being off. But it costs 3-4 times what it costs for the regular member of staff to do it as they have a set job.
I also doubt any business could afford to double up on staff "just in case".
I didnt say its a right to treat staff like crap. I also don't think I'm doing my staff a favour.
However it is a 2 way street. And employees should be aware of the added stresses their absence creates.
It also depends on what sector your in.
I'd assume admin/office staff fairly easy to cover
However if a brain surgeon has a day off. The nurses can't step up.
Soldato
I never said double up on staff?
Soldato
Wife and kids come first,
Real problem is the OP leeching of MIL and sucking up to boss. Needs to man up tbh
Real problem is the OP leeching of MIL and sucking up to boss. Needs to man up tbh
How would you do it then?
Soldato
Because you're not independent.
Soldato
I've got the 1950's on the phone. They'd like your attitude back.
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With my company I take the following position -if I treat people well they work better, they are more motivated and therefore better employees. Beyond the obvious legal right I would weigh it as thus. How on earth are you going to get an alternative. Will you really find a local, CRB checked and qualified childcarer to take a child at short notice - obviously not. Would it be fair and appropriate for a child to be dumped (effectively) with a stranger with no settling in period - obviously not. Therefore, the employer has no choice to accept these things happen. If they repeatedly happened then I may offer a suggestion that they find something more permanent and dependable both for their sanity and the sake of the child's development and happiness.
Soldato
That's why they have on-call
No one is. If his kids went to a Childminder and she was sick and unable to look after the kids, how would that be any different?
Soldato
For lower level staff use a temping agency.
For management or more skilled work train some staff so they can stand in. Offer an uplift in pay for the days that are required.
It's simple stuff really. You can't run a business on a skeleton crew and no back up.
You wouldn't have to double up on staff if all the staff were centralised. However spread out your workforce so each member covers, say a county.
say those counties MUST get 20 deliveries to various businesses overnight Starting at a set time and finishing at a set time.
Getting a temp driver with the correct training and keys and clearance.
Organising that so there is a temp driver in each and every county just incase would be a full time job in itself.
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I'm sure there are a number of one man bands that run on a skeleton crew
I think it was a bit silly to take a week off just because he was in a mood, it isn't like by taking that week off he's going to be in any less of a mood - he sounds like a complete **** if staff taking short holidays stresses him... you'd have been better off being firm and stating it is for child care and you only need a day and a half.
I'd certainly look at leaving if you've got something else lined up.
I'd certainly look at leaving if you've got something else lined up.
just leave. company doesnt deserve to exist with an MD like that. make sure you try and make the rest of the staff leave too....
take this company down from the inside
Yeah great idea. Lets all hope the business folds owing loads of small companies money. That in turn also fold because they haven't been paid.
Why can't some people look at the big picture. Or is everyone stuck in their own little bubble