Who can see the slight flaw in that system?
Who can see the slight flaw in that system?
At least 90% of emails have no need to be sent anyway. People just filling in their day fabricating the illusion that they're busy.
Stop describing me you bastard.
In a buying/selling job, most emails are pretty necessary.
Chase-up phone calls, on the other hand...
Giggles might just be the great mind of our time.
One of the bints has decided to come back to work and implement social distancing like she’s just thought of it.
Just got called into the MD's office, he tells me the company are 'very appreciative of my efforts', but he can't guarantee there will be any bonus available at the end of the year so he's convinced the chairman to allow up to 10 days' holiday to be paid rather than taken.
Trying to work out if that's as good an offer as he says it is; having taken 1 day's holiday in 2020 thus far, I suspect the answer is no.
I'm sure I'm being stupid here. Are they saying they'll pay you extra for holidays you won't get to take?
Take all ten of them now and find out.
Yeah, take the ten days essentially at double pay and also book ten days of your actual holiday.
They're saying they'll pay me the time (so double I guess) instead of being able to take up to 10 days of my existing holiday (I have 16 left to take + 3 mandatory at Christmas).
So if I took them up on this I would have 6 days off available this year but a bit more money (payable in December).
I think I'd actually take the days off out of principle.
Yeah. Fuck that.
'You get no bonus this year, but at least you get less vacation days!'
Deal of the century.
He was offering it to me quite earnestly as a really generous deal, so good to know I'm not as gullible as I might be.
It never works out as much as you'd think, either.
Someone at my place did the same and came back to me asking if I'd made an error, as the extra pay was hardly anything.
Given I'll end the year with about 247 days of annual leave left over as will most others, you can see the sense behind it.
Can’t you carry it forward?
I'm a twit
You can never carry anything forward here, it's use it or lose it. The chairman is from another era and just doesn't like the idea of anyone being off work, he also 'doesn't believe in' working from home even in the current circumstances.
I can only carry forward 10. Thankfully that's been eased due to COVID so I will be semi-retired next year.
Yeah, I have about forty days to use by next year. On fucking what?
I can do that at work.
We'll now you can do it at home for a bit of a change of scenery.
19 days left to take, sadly with the house needing doing and my holiday down the shitter any time off taken will be me doing DIY I imagine.
Drill yourself silly.
I've got 5 days left. I was thinking about booking them in but I've had so much time off already with furloughs and 4 day weeks. I can carry them over and then might sell them in February. Or book in a three week SUPERHOLIDAY somewhere in 2021.
I just heard one of the warehouse people come into the manager's office and ask to borrow money because he's skint. Is that a thing? Surely not. People really are useless.
People being skint is a thing, yes.
Yes people get advances on their wages all the time.
I've never heard of that and I've been in some skanky places. Shows what I know.
I've heard of it, but I've never known it happen.
Unprecedented times. I've not seen it happen.
One of my mates at the same company got it because he was needing a final push for his house deposit (so he got his annual wage upfront and just lived off commission).
Another pal needed an advance to save him from a payday loan. Happens much more often than you think.
For what it's worth I'd never engage it as it's embarrassing and hard to turn around.
I'm taking part in a web-seminar today with an MP but I have to use Zoom for the first time. Does anyone know how I can connect my microphone via Bluetooth on a laptop as talking into the laptop itself sounds distorted and crackled?
Oh, there's an app for the phone?!
I've figured it out with the app. Thanks, guys.
My question is going to be:
It's been selected out of a fair few hundred as we only get to ask ten. OOF! Bring it on.The hospitality industry is the sector with the most new starters excluded from Rishi Sunak's schemes with HospitalityUK placing the number at nearly 500,000 but there is estimated to be between 1.6 to over 2M excluded from the Job Retention Scheme, I am but one of them. March was the last wage I earned, April I received nothing from the Universal Credit because my payment from the job HMRC couldn't prove was mine wiped all of out it. Since May I have received just short of £400 a month thus leaving me nearly £4,000 in debt. With accommodation refunds over £35K and £25K winter debt, my employer was able to furlough some staff but not others due to the RTI cut off but then she was refused the CBILS loan after a four week wait and she did not qualify for any grant as the rates are over £51K. As a result she has had to personally borrow over £107,000K to be able to reopen so together we can contribute to the economy whilst retaining jobs that many are going to lose. The schemes are great, we know this, they have helped many out, including some of my team mates but why have they not helped me or my employer?
Good luck.
"And that's all we have time for today".
Of course they would, it means they've got them by the balls.
I couldn't connect my mic so the host asked my question.
BBC News at 6pm and 10pm if anyone wants to see the sort of stuff I've moaned about.
Work would be the last place I’d ever go looking for a sun for exactly the reason SvN said. You’d be better off with some lad after your knees.