Reply to: Morivation has plummeted.

[meridian]

Previous client co finally managed to hire a permie by persuading a contractor to turn to the dark side.

His wife was due their first child in a few months, and he was concerned about the HR policy of no paternal paid leave in your first 6 months.

His soon to be boss, said no problem, we'll take care of it, you will be a valued employee, this is a great place etc etc - so he takes the job.

Baby arrives and sure enough, HR say nope, you'll have to take any time off as holiday, and the boss washes his hands of it "What HR says goes, nothing I can do".

Moral of the story - Permie-dom sucks ass!

Perhaps, but on the flip side, as a contractor he wouldn't have got any paternal leave anyway.

Luckily, my wife was the company secretary when the sprog came, and she was entitled to full maternity pay (recoverable from HMG of course!!)

[Platypus]

Previous client co finally managed to hire a permie by persuading a contractor to turn to the dark side.

His wife was due their first child in a few months, and he was concerned about the HR policy of no paternal paid leave in your first 6 months.

His soon to be boss, said no problem, we'll take care of it, you will be a valued employee, this is a great place etc etc - so he takes the job.

Baby arrives and sure enough, HR say nope, you'll have to take any time off as holiday, and the boss washes his hands of it "What HR says goes, nothing I can do".

Moral of the story - Permie-dom sucks ass!

Nah, he can get them back by getting his doctor to sign him off for stress for a few weeks

[milanbenes]

classic story thanks

by the way Wilmsloooooooooooooow, thanks for the omnibus edition update, seems like all fine for you then :-)

Milan.

[jmo21]

Previous client co finally managed to hire a permie by persuading a contractor to turn to the dark side.

His wife was due their first child in a few months, and he was concerned about the HR policy of no paternal paid leave in your first 6 months.

His soon to be boss, said no problem, we'll take care of it, you will be a valued employee, this is a great place etc etc - so he takes the job.

Baby arrives and sure enough, HR say nope, you'll have to take any time off as holiday, and the boss washes his hands of it "What HR says goes, nothing I can do".

Moral of the story - Permie-dom sucks ass!

[Wilmslow]

Wilmsloooooooooooooooooooow,


pecker up lad

what's happened the crashed car, have they fixed it ?

And how did it go with 'er in doors ? did she come over at the weekend on your conditions ?

Milan.

Oh woe is me. Got the darned Personal Development Review to look forward to in the new year. Deep joy.

Car - well, it drives. But the replaced door not sorted correctly, the window not fitted correct and speaker vibrating like anything. Going back to the aggressive muppets for a third time, but going to try to negotiate main dealer from the insurance firm.....

Missus. Oh, don't depress me any more. She was blaiming the cat for her constant nocturnal fidgeting which was keeping me awake, wanted nooky while I was trying to sleep, makes sure I stay awake by hissing 'You had better not be asleep'. Very nice of her to keep me up all night to write off the Sunday. Told her the obvious fact that it is the cat's territory - she goes all bunny on me again claiming I was seeing her second class to the cat. Which I think is actually true! Meanwhile I am dragging myself in to dose up on Day Nurse and she is not happy I am not seeing her tonight, despite a meeting with a dentist drill at 3pm.

Living the permie dream......

[RichardCranium]

Yeah. When he comes back, it'll have wilted a bit through lack of watering, and a couple of the petals might have dropped off. That'll show him. Heh heh.

I was thinking of something more personal, more novel and somewhat more fragrant than the standard variety.

[thunderlizard]

When he goes on leave for Xmas, tulip in his desk.

Yeah. When he comes back, it'll have wilted a bit through lack of watering, and a couple of the petals might have dropped off. That'll show him. Heh heh.

[RichardCranium]

I also lost holiday time as boss would not let me use it all last year.

When he goes on leave for Xmas, tulip in his desk.

[milanbenes]

For God's sake, start acting like a permie.

Take sick days.

It's getting more and more common that when people (I know) are grumbling about having the odd day off denied, they all conclude "next time I'll just take a sickie"

I have always believed and argued that a good Manager should treat holidays as sickdays and therefore not refuse holidays in the same way as they cannot refuse sick days

It really does amuse me to watch Bosses not approving holiday requests as some kind of power and punishment game

As a contractor it doesn't bother me, if I were a permy I'd vote with my feet

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

HTH

[Platypus]

For God's sake, start acting like a permie.

Take sick days.

It's getting more and more common that when people (I know) are grumbling about having the odd day off denied, they all conclude "next time I'll just take a sickie"

[Clippy]

FOAD.

Thank you.

[milanbenes]

Wilmsloooooooooooooooooooow,


pecker up lad

what's happened the crashed car, have they fixed it ?

And how did it go with 'er in doors ? did she come over at the weekend on your conditions ?

Milan.

[Wilmslow]

it must be bad if you can no longer be bothered to spell motivation correctly.

FYI Morivation != Motivation

Yes, it really is that bad.

[chef]

it must be bad if you can no longer be bothered to spell motivation correctly.

FYI Morivation != Motivation