Too cold to work?

SkidMarkKing

SkidMarkKing

SkidMarkKing

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Hello. This may sound silly but im a little confused. The heating at work has been broke for 2 weeks now and where I work they take forever to get things sorted. The lift has been broke since it was opened (it was a different company before) and this is still not fixed and we have to work deliveries and stock up and down stairs. Im pretty sure it is against health and safety to do this. The heating packed up two weeks ago and it is still not sorted. Also the male toilets have also broke and we have to use the female ones. These were broken over 6 months ago now and nothing has been done.

Im pretty sure I have the right to refuse to go in to work as it is way below 13oC in the warehouse and not much warmer on the shop floor. Im just a little annoyed that they take so long to get things sorted.

This job was a job I had when I was studying my btec national in IT but with the lack of IT jobs available im stilling working there. (also applying for other places). The thing is I don't get over 16 hours a week so im on job seekers allowance so if I lost my job it wouldnt even effect how much I earn't because my JSA would go up (not if I voluntarily left though).

What are your views? Yes it is a rubbish company (a big company) but a rubbish reputation where I live.
 
troops said:
I feel so sorry for you, try working on building sites with minus temps.
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Yeah. Its the fact that if I wasn't even working there it wouldn't effect how much I took home a week. I did have another retail job but it was a temp contract so im back on just the one job now which means I have to go on JSA :/
 
Abraxaz1 said:
Where the hell do you work? Syria? It sounds like a really bad 80`s sit com.
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Yeah I do wonder if I walk through some sort of teleport on the way to work. Main thing is its annoying because im working for nothing basically. It was so good when I had two jobs and wasnt on JSA. Ahh well I can't leave because my JSA won't go up because I voluntarily left. Ile just have to wait till some more work becomes available somewhere else.
 
Abraxaz1 said:
Well you have there options, look for a new job, get your self some qualifications and get out of retail ( non retail is worlds better) or put up and deal with It. I bet the aircons knackered so in the summer you'll be sweating Bullocks. But the company probably trying to run the business with minimal overheads hence the time taken for repairs, tell you some rubbish about repairs but never actually doing any
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I have qualifications mate I worked hard for them. Merits/distinctions. I did a BTEC National in IT and because that I did a OCR National in business and BTEC First in IT. Struggling to find things to apply for but I managed to apply for 2 IT jobs last week. Just waiting to hear back.
 
-Mike- said:
I was outside in minus 3 the other morning.... I should have quit there and then!
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Yeah but thats probably more than minimum wage and a propper job. Not a few hours a week which I don't even keep the money really or should I say if I wasn't working there I would still have the same money as I do working there as my JSA would go up.
 
steve45 said:
I was running a radio rebro on the top of a hill for 8 hours, in minus temps yesterday, in the snow, with a landrover with no blowers, you know what i did? i got on with it!:)

keep yourself warm, be more active, put underarmour style thermals on, thin comfortable and discreet, but for the love of god dont winge because its ~13degrees or maybe slightly below that:rolleyes:
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Wouldnt be so bad if it was a propper job with more hours but because everyone apart from the manager is part time and half of them are kids they don't say/do anything. Also I work in a retail store I shouldn't have to go in dressed like an army soldier :/
 
malfunkshun said:
Now, a stall with a door within a room is not considered a room itself, unless said stall has walls from floor to ceiling, and even then it would be difficult to successfully argue that each is a room. Assuming, from your use of the word 'cubicles' that each stall does not have walls and a door extending from floor to ceiling, then the door into the room itself should have a lock on the inside, which would not prevent two people of opposing gender inadvertently using the stalls at the same time. I assume that there are not more than 25 people working at any given time?
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There is now one room with 2 cubicles. Both sexes go in to the same room but there are 2 cubicles which DO NOT have walls going from the floor to the ceiling. No there is only ever 7/8 people working at once
 
-Mike- said:
Actually mate, the cushty primarily office based job I had came to an end due to the companies god awful finance management. I took the first job I got offered and got on with it ;)

It isn't through choice, but its money!
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Dude, its not money for me though. I work under 16 hours so im on job seekers allowance. If I lost my job my JSA would go up and I would be earning the same. :/
 
-Mike- said:
You seem rather hung up on it not being worth working! If others are complaining of the temperature have a word with the boss as a group perhaps?
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Well basically like ive said they can't give me over 16 hours to get me of JSA so whatever I work I have to tell the JSA in which it then comes out of my JSA.
 
Its not a few stairs either. Too rub it in there is actually a lift there they just cant be bothered to sort it out. It was meant to be fixed 2 years ago, lol. Im on the dole even though I do work there because they can't give me over 16 hours. Kind of sick of repeating it all now....
 
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