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More payThat was interesting read mid gen. How are they more productive than us, I know when I play hearts of iron 4 they have better production and can make tanks a lot quicker?
More payThat was interesting read mid gen. How are they more productive than us, I know when I play hearts of iron 4 they have better production and can make tanks a lot quicker?
@Vexr - don't reply to all those multi quotes... they'll just grow exponentially, trust me!
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Not at all.Well it seems to me you're a do-gooder towing the party line of turning a blind-eye to anything in case it could be construed as antagonistic to someone of protected status, collateral damage and everyone else at the same level in the organisation to be disregarded.
So?Things have evolved in the company I'm working for, and much to the credit of the lady at the centre of my concerns when making this thread, she's only had 1 day off sick in the last 2 weeks, which is phenomenal attendance compared with her previous record.
It's not a hate crime, it's just being a dick.I could refer to my own record of 1 day off sick in the last year due to a non-fault car accident, or mention other stellar previous colleagues who rightfully bragged about not having a sick day in 6-10 years, but of course that's a hate crime.
So a colleague is suffering, and you've decided it's all about you having to slum it down in public health services... Great. Be sure to put that on your CV, yeh?As it stands, massive mismanagement has prevailed over other issues (including this one), and I'll almost certainly be handing in my notice and returning to the NHS very soon. I'd like to see the virtue signallers twist that as me being evil and in the wrong, going from a FTSE 250 company to the NHS.
Sorry, what positions are these?But yeah, I've given my all and had more than enough. I have a few more phone calls to make to secure the transition, but I can't help but reckon I'll be wary of such HR-ish issues in the future (even though that has little to do with the positions I've held).
Not at all.
But instead, having had a measure of experience with pregnant women and knowing what some of them can be like, what I am saying is that there are often many elements to this you may be unaware of, and that with only mere suspicion rather than any actual proof that she's BSing, you seem quite desperate to chuck her under a bus... It comes across more like jealousy of either her condition and/or the leniency afforded her in order to accommodate her sicknesses.
Hell, you clearly know **** all about what being pregnant might actually be like and you've just gone round other women asking how many days they had off sick. Try reading before you start pulling triggers.
So?
You still have suspicions, right, so why start giving her credit? She's pregnant and you have to pick up the slack because she can't be around. Get rid of her. How DARE she get pregnant and have it make her sick..... If you're going to be a **** and take a draconian Victorian approach to this, why not just kick her in the belly, abort the child and then force her back to work? It's not like you have the option of getting pregnant and taking time off work too, right?
It's not a hate crime, it's just being a dick.
Some people get more sick than others. I've not had a sick day in almost 15 years either, but I'm not bitching about it when others with weaker consititutions suffer with their flus and their colds and whatever... Just because you don't understand this doesn't make you a better human.
So a colleague is suffering, and you've decided it's all about you having to slum it down in public health services... Great. Be sure to put that on your CV, yeh?
Sorry, what positions are these?
Are you supposed to be someone special, or something? Are you a physicist, neurosurgeon, test-pilot, and 80s rock musician, by any chance? Can I join your Blue Blaze Irregulars?
Are you asking me, or telling me what I'm saying?So what you're saying is under absolutely no circumstances can a pregnant woman possibly be malingering to get out of work because she's has a get out of jail free card.
Where the **** have I said anything even remotely resembling that??!!Apparently you think women are too ignorant to recognise their protected status
OK, now it just sounds like you're projecting your own assumptions. Stop reading womens' magazines for ammunition and worry about your own life...and their isn't a single woman out there capable of thinking '"well sod work today, I'm going to pretend to be ill, and there's nothing anyone can say or do about it because I've got a bun in the oven. And afterall, don't I deserve this?"
Well, it just sounded like the sort of thing you were wishing were a viable option to you, y'know...Kick her in the belly to abort the child? What kind of twisted idiot are you to project that idea on to anyone?
Given the very minimal degree of insight you've exhibited thus far, I'd say your reasoning needs a lot more development.For some reason you strike me as someone who hasn't even worked in 15 years.
Extremely unlikely, since I rarely use any of those terms myself and really have no care for whatever those generations may or may not value. I am governed by my own, not theirs.Possibly you're a silver-haired 'woke' manchild pretending to have what you think are the Gen-Z/millennial values of virtuosity.
Oh, deflection now? Good idea, but too late and too trite. Your skills at psychoanalysing complete strangers are really off and it shows in the tactics you select to try against them.Funny you say that, as before she got pregnant the common complaint about her was that actually "everything isn't about her".
Thinking does not make it so.Personally I don't think I have this problem.
So no problem, but a problem, but it's not a big deal, but it's such a big deal that you're untouchable by virture signallers... So highly qualified virtually no-one else in the world to do your job, yet readily employed by the NHS with only a couple of phonecalls... Yeah, OK.The problem I had with the NHS is that I was a private contractor, which was cracked down on and I found myself jumping ship too regularly for my liking with no job security, which was causing all sorts of havoc.
Assume away, you're wrong on every count. The point still stands, Buck, as does the joke at your expense.No, nothing special, and as you're banging on about the 80s and 'Blue Blaze Irregulars', which I assume is some sort of anachronism, it lends credence to my above post about you being a silver-haired social justice warrior who should really know better.
Yeah, you can **** off an' all.... You certainly belong on a thread like this, though. You two related, perhaps?^^^^ @Vexr I did try to warn you
That was interesting read mid gen. How are they more productive than us, I know when I play hearts of iron 4 they have better production and can make tanks a lot quicker?
Higher productivity = Higher economic output for each hour worked.
From my experience I would say that is largely down to
1) employers in skilled industries accommodating the needs of parents by offering part time work, even in senior roles.
2) Working conditions, tenants rights, employment rights being such that workers are more comfortable, happier, less stressed, and more productive as a result.
Oh and despite the Germans being big drinkers, they don't have the same British culture of going out on the smash in the week and turning up in a hungover mess.
That's strange, when I lived and worked there for 5 years, there were 'after work parties' and happy hours most evenings and plenty of hangovers in the morning. All sorted out with a nice and perfectly acceptable weissbier breakfast.Oh and despite the Germans being big drinkers, they don't have the same British culture of going out on the smash in the week and turning up in a hungover mess.
That's strange, when I lived and worked there for 5 years, there were 'after work parties' and happy hours most evenings and plenty of hangovers in the morning. All sorted out with a nice and perfectly acceptable weissbier breakfast.
What part of Germany probably makes a different though, where are you talking about?
The team I'm in is experiencing a massive issue with an employee who is off sick around about 33%-40% of the time. Very rarely will she be well enough to work a full week. She's now in her second trimester.
Realise this thread is quite old, but just to weigh in as the partner of someone who suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum, "morning sickness" doesn't even come close to describing it.
At its worst, my GF will be sick every 5-10 minutes 24/7 - literally every time she has a sip of water or nibble of a biscuit, it will come straight back up. We unfortunately had to terminate at 12 weeks earlier this year, as, after being hospitalised for rehydration ~15 times, and trying every single possible medication available, she started showing signs of early kidney and liver failure, with no indication that there was any chance of the sickness letting up.
Not saying the girl in the OP is necessarily in the same situation, but to dismiss her inability to work as just "morning sickness" may not be entirely fair...
Lol, this post is shocking! Every pregnancy is different, As long as she is getting signed off who cares - Unless your her GP you can't be certain what she's going through.
Secondly, The fact you brush off Depressions/Anxiety from a female colleague shows you've clearly not experienced this/Don't consider it an illness.