Work colleagues

[BFTD]

42 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Missed a trick, there's probably a market for that sort of thing. 

I think you need a picture of the woman in question to sell along with the item.

According to a mate.

[superwell87]

One my colleagues went home "sick" today after telling the kitchen staff that "I've had enough of today already" (at 8.20am). Sitting on my lunch break, a colleague mentions that he has said on facebook he has friends from Ireland visisting. C**t.

[TheScarf]

4 hours ago, Empty It said:

The type of c***s that come in coughing their lungs up everywhere spreading whatever shite they've got making everybody else ill.

I got into trouble about 10 year ago for standing up in an open plan office and asking a colleague who was clearly dying with the flu about 30 yards away from me to ‘piss off home because I’m away on holiday on Friday and I’d rather not spend a week lying in bed coughing and shivering.’

I got a verbal warning and he was away home about 20 minutes later. Think he got jarred as well for coming into work when he was clearly going to infect the whole fucking office. Silly cunt. 
 

Edit - I’ve actually worked in places where the company website under the sickness section said explicitly to not come in to work if you’re unwell. The fact that this has to be actually stipulated is mental.

 

Edited July 6, 2023 by TheScarf

[BFTD]

4 hours ago, TheScarf said:

I got into trouble about 10 year ago for standing up in an open plan office and asking a colleague who was clearly dying with the flu about 30 yards away from me to ‘piss off home because I’m away on holiday on Friday and I’d rather not spend a week lying in bed coughing and shivering.’

I got a verbal warning and he was away home about 20 minutes later. Think he got jarred as well for coming into work when he was clearly going to infect the whole fucking office. Silly c**t. 

Edit - I’ve actually worked in places where the company website under the sickness section said explicitly to not come in to work if you’re unwell. The fact that this has to be actually stipulated is mental.

The problem is, employers can say all the right things in their documentation, then still act the c**t with their employees when they need time off due to illness. I'm sure we've all known people who ended up in the boss' bad books because of an inconvenient bout of norovirus or testicular cancer.

I get the impression that some managers/executives believe that people choose to be ill because they're weak and lazy, and are outraged by the audacity of it all.

[velo army]

6 hours ago, superwell87 said:

One my colleagues went home "sick" today after telling the kitchen staff that "I've had enough of today already" (at 8.20am). Sitting on my lunch break, a colleague mentions that he has said on facebook he has friends from Ireland visisting. C**t.

[The Moonster]

15 hours ago, Jives Miguel said:

I've never had a sick day in my life, and I've been working full-time for 6 years. Don't even remember being absent from school either, genuinely must be around 15+ years. My immune system is fucking teflon. I did have tonsillitis last year, but was able to work from home for the duration of it.

 

22 hours ago, The Moonster said:

People like this ruin the sicky system for everyone else. 

 

['WellDel]

5 hours ago, BTFD said:

I get the impression that some managers/executives believe that people choose to be ill because they're weak and lazy, and are outraged by the audacity of it all.

Had a boss years ago who loved ripping folk a new one for absences, and at 'Return to Work' meetings positively loved moving you up a level on the disciplinary scale. 

Hypocritical cnut as his own absence rate was fucking shocking, including once when another manager let slip that he was actually on a weeks tour of some prestigious links golf courses. 

[itzdrk]

I'm in the health of my life workwise, was temping hoping to be kept on which I was but doing something else and have been which means I'm on probation by the time that's up unless something drastic happens I'll be 18 months without a sick day . 

Tbf I've had days where I've simply just not worked or just taken my laptop to bed but that's no the same as an actual sickie.  I do think working from home reduces the enthusiasm for just sacking it off a little though.  

 

Edited July 7, 2023 by itzdrk

[RuMoore]

We have this work chat thing where it's meant for folk basically letting off steam or chatting about non work related stuff, generally just filled with people asking what's for dinner or moaning about their jobs, there's this one girl who's been off with anxiety for about 6 months who is chatting away on it all day, recently someone was moaning about being back to back workloads and she posted a massive spiel about how reading this stuff heightens her anxiety and if people don't stop moaning she won't be able to return to work. This chat is on a work laptop that she's choosing to look at to wind herself up. It's almost impressive. 

[FK1Bairn]

29 minutes ago, RuMoore said:

We have this work chat thing where it's meant for folk basically letting off steam or chatting about non work related stuff, generally just filled with people asking what's for dinner or moaning about their jobs, there's this one girl who's been off with anxiety for about 6 months who is chatting away on it all day, recently someone was moaning about being back to back workloads and she posted a massive spiel about how reading this stuff heightens her anxiety and if people don't stop moaning she won't be able to return to work. This chat is on a work laptop that she's choosing to look at to wind herself up. It's almost impressive. 

Attention seeking at its finest

I've been off sick with depression for 6 weeks now. Apart from day 1 when my boss asked me to log in on my work laptop and put my out of office on, not once have I been tempted to open it since and I've left the team what's app chat until i return. Sod reading work stuff when you're off sick! 

[MEADOWXI]

1 hour ago, itzdrk said:

I'm in the health of my life workwise, was temping hoping to be kept on which I was but doing something else and have been which means I'm on probation by the time that's up unless something drastic happens I'll be 18 months without a sick day . 

Tbf I've had days where I've simply just not worked or just taken my laptop to bed but that's no the same as an actual sickie.  I do think working from home reduces the enthusiasm for just sacking it off a little though.  

 

100% the ability to WFH reduces sick days. Been at this work for just over 2 years and had only a couple of days sick. Other days where I would have been unable to attend the office (Covid, gout and knackered back to think of three), I have been able to  WFH without time loss. If I can't work I won't but the flexibility of WFH is good, and my work is good for other things like if you say I have a delivery due, can I WFH, savings having to book holidays for stupid days off for deliveries or engineers etc.

[hk blues]

20 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said:

...the manager coming in to relieve him... 

[BFTD]

58 minutes ago, RuMoore said:

We have this work chat thing where it's meant for folk basically letting off steam or chatting about non work related stuff, generally just filled with people asking what's for dinner or moaning about their jobs, there's this one girl who's been off with anxiety for about 6 months who is chatting away on it all day, recently someone was moaning about being back to back workloads and she posted a massive spiel about how reading this stuff heightens her anxiety and if people don't stop moaning she won't be able to return to work. This chat is on a work laptop that she's choosing to look at to wind herself up. It's almost impressive. 

You have to watch those things. At an old job, we had a WhatsApp to discuss shit that was happening ("watch out folks, mini-Hitler's been in this morning") and let off a bit of steam. It fell apart when the twisted wee arsehole who owned the place started routinely going above the manager's head to dress us down in private, and loved to slip in a few recent lines from our WhatsApp, just to let us know one of us was feeding it all back to him.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, BTFD said:

You have to watch those things. At an old job, we had a WhatsApp to discuss shit that was happening ("watch out folks, mini-Hitler's been in this morning") and let off a bit of steam. It fell apart when the twisted wee arsehole who owned the place started routinely going above the manager's head to dress us down in private, and loved to slip in a few recent lines from our WhatsApp, just to let us know one of us was feeding it all back to him.

Aye there is definitely a grass in our workshop WhatsApp group but everyone knows who it is.

[BFTD]

14 minutes ago, Empty It said:

Aye there is definitely a grass in our workshop WhatsApp group but everyone knows who it is.

We didn't, which made it all the more disturbing. Everyone seemed pretty sound, but someone was clearly copying him in on literally everything that was said.

[GordonD]

25 minutes ago, Empty It said:

Aye there is definitely a grass in our workshop WhatsApp group but everyone knows who it is.

Lee Wallace works in your place?

[scottsdad]

Someone got in touch with me as I am apparently leading three themes of our Athena Swan - two related to student recruitment and one to do with maternity.

I got back to them saying I knew about the student recruitment ones, but maternity? Me? I think they got the wrong person.

Nope, I'm told, the spreadsheet says it is you. So now I am to set up a maternity working group. Me. A middle aged man leading our maternity activity for our Athena Swan, which promotes gender equality in higher education. Something is wrong with this picture!

[Richey Edwards]

4 hours ago, RuMoore said:

We have this work chat thing where it's meant for folk basically letting off steam or chatting about non work related stuff, generally just filled with people asking what's for dinner or moaning about their jobs, there's this one girl who's been off with anxiety for about 6 months who is chatting away on it all day, recently someone was moaning about being back to back workloads and she posted a massive spiel about how reading this stuff heightens her anxiety and if people don't stop moaning she won't be able to return to work. This chat is on a work laptop that she's choosing to look at to wind herself up. It's almost impressive. 

Back in 2017 I was off sick for eight months with depression and suicidal ideation and the very last thing I wanted to do was go on a work-related chat and read about work-related activities. I left all work group chats because they were nothing to do with me at that time (I did not even know if I would ever be back), and deleted my social media.

[TxRover]

33 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Someone got in touch with me as I am apparently leading three themes of our Athena Swan - two related to student recruitment and one to do with maternity.

I got back to them saying I knew about the student recruitment ones, but maternity? Me? I think they got the wrong person.

Nope, I'm told, the spreadsheet says it is you. So now I am to set up a maternity working group. Me. A middle aged man leading our maternity activity for our Athena Swan, which promotes gender equality in higher education. Something is wrong with this picture!

No, something is very right! This is obviously an excellent example of gender equality by your workplace, and is only enhanced by the fact they will have to allow you loads of time to properly research the matter and upscale your knowledge to assist in leveraging the paradigm into the future in a holistic manner.

[RuMoore]

6 hours ago, BTFD said:

You have to watch those things. At an old job, we had a WhatsApp to discuss shit that was happening ("watch out folks, mini-Hitler's been in this morning") and let off a bit of steam. It fell apart when the twisted wee arsehole who owned the place started routinely going above the manager's head to dress us down in private, and loved to slip in a few recent lines from our WhatsApp, just to let us know one of us was feeding it all back to him.

 

6 hours ago, Empty It said:

Aye there is definitely a grass in our workshop WhatsApp group but everyone knows who it is.

Aye we've had similar drama, I don't really need to be careful as I have absolutely zero desire to spend any time speaking to these people. I actually left the group and got added back in by a manger. 

I don't mind working with others or in an office environment but the idea I have to be friends with the people and care about their fucking cats birthday is a limit. 

3 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:

Back in 2017 I was off sick for eight months with depression and suicidal ideation and the very last thing I wanted to do was go on a work-related chat and read about work-related activities. I left all work group chats because they were nothing to do with me at that time (I did not even know if I would ever be back), and deleted my social media.

Hope you're doing better nowadays but I fully agree! I don't mean to minimise anyone's struggles and its of course complex but it just baffles me how often people willingly subject themselves to things that make them miserable. Lots of people used the chat to vent and let off steam and it's absurd they should have to bottle it up or act all fake nicey nice over 1 person who shouldn't even be reading this stuff anyway.