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Aladinsaneuk · #1 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:06 pm

I fear i will be absent from the aprilia meet at yaxley

I booked the week end off several months ago so was all sort - I had even decided to clean the bike as well

as some of you know, I was seconded to work in wisbech for a few months - that ended on monday with a phone call telling me I was needed back at lowestoft

no worries, home I come

Now, my fucking great fat bitch of a non nursing boss has turned round and said I have to work it - because other people had asked for the time off while I was away - and therefore - i have a 13 hour shift on the saturday

not amused

and it gets worse

apparently my week off at the end of july, she is planning to do the same thing.... methinks not

gutted

Samray · #2 Post by **Samray** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:41 pm

Sometimes life just stinks.

HowardQ · #3 Post by **HowardQ** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:01 pm

I'm not sure that was a PC description of your boss Pete, you've obviously missed out on some of the "important" training courses recently, but I liked it!

Put across with real feeling.
I'm due on an "equallities" training course this month, you can take my place if you want!
Or you could try "Dealing with Stress" or "Time Management".

Funny how senior management "suggest" you must go on these courses when they cause all the bloody stress and give you too much work to manage in the time you have.
Had a better thought we could arrange for your bitch (oops sorry BOSS) to go on Equalities Training, so she could handle staff better.

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:19 pm

What!

So you've booked it off and since then others have booked it off but you have to cancel yours .... am I missing something?

So what would the fat cow do if you happened to be sick? I'm not suggesting you should conveniently be sick but surely any half-decent manager would realise that sickness absences are a fact of life and have to be coped with - which is no easier than dealing with people wanting leave (that has been granted). The goodwill generated by letting them take time far outweighs the effort in sorting out the solution and the discontent in people not being allowed the time.

Aladinsaneuk · #5 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:30 pm

am going to see what shifts i can swap around when I go into work on monday - even if i get the afternoon off that will be enough to pop along for the evening

and best of it is - she thinks I am going to run the other unit which has a problem with its head of department getting too stressed to work as a nurse so she shambles around with her unsupported sagging breasts around her knees doing sod all monday to friday, 9 till five while the rest of us get to do all the unsociable hours....

(My deputy rang me to tell me - and the final icing on the cake? fat fucker put saggy tits in for a nurse of the year award! )

Alkydale · #6 Post by **Alkydale** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:24 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:am going to see what shifts i can swap around when I go into work on monday - even if i get the afternoon off that will be enough to pop along for the evening

and best of it is - she thinks I am going to run the other unit which has a problem with its head of department getting too stressed to work as a nurse so she shambles around with her unsupported sagging breasts around her knees doing sod all monday to friday, 9 till five while the rest of us get to do all the unsociable hours....

(My deputy rang me to tell me - and the final icing on the cake? fat fucker put saggy tits in for a nurse of the year award! )

LMFAO

sidestand · #7 Post by **sidestand** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:12 am

'Fraid I can't make this one now.......came off me BM on loose gravel on sunday.......bust me collarbone

Samray · #8 Post by **Samray** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:16 am

Oops ! Sounds painful.

Hope you heal quickly.

Nooj · #9 Post by **Nooj** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:08 am

surely any half-decent manager would realise that sickness absences are a fact of life and have to be coped with

You're just not management material, are you

Aladin, can't you dose her tea with rohypnol or something, take the day off, then turn up the next day and act like nothing happened? "What? yes, I was in yesterday, no I don't know why you can't remember it, must be stress, have a month off."

Broken collarbones are crap. The Missus did the same thing about three years ago. Hers is still broken as she's to stubborn/stupid to go and get a bone graft.

Aladinsaneuk · #10 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:20 am

i could dose her up - but I do not carry sufficient stock for an elephant size dose.....

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:15 am

Nooj wrote:
surely any half-decent manager would realise that sickness absences are a fact of life and have to be coped with
You're just not management material, are you

... well, it's how I manage my department and it seems to work ....

HowardQ · #12 Post by **HowardQ** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:40 am

D-Rider wrote:
Nooj wrote:
surely any half-decent manager would realise that sickness absences are a fact of life and have to be coped with
You're just not management material, are you

... well, it's how I manage my department and it seems to work ....

Yeh but you don't work for a Health Authority or a Local Authority, where these days you don't have enough staff to cover the job when everybody is at work!
Nothing to do with Pete's situation. Just a comment about how difficult it is to cover holidays and sickness and keep a service going.
Situation is even worse now the Goverment are forcing all kids to have their family holidays out of term time. Try scheduling that if most of your staff have young kids and like to take them on holiday!

Pete's boss just F***ed up by ignoring a pre-booked holiday!
Plus she is taking the P*** by taking his July week off herself!

D-Rider · #13 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:26 pm

Don't have enough staff to do the job under normal circumstances ... welcome to the real world !

It makes it even more important to foster goodwill in the staff you have if you want any chance of retaining the good ones and getting them to put in effort above and beyond the call of duty

HowardQ · #14 Post by **HowardQ** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:26 pm

Yeh but eventually they become immune to the bullshit!

D-Rider · #15 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:04 pm

HowardQ wrote:Yeh but eventually they become immune to the bullshit!

Not if you don't bullshit them