excuses

[Spindles]

The job isn't so bad at the moment, but with the changes they are proposing I can see it becoming so. As there is a slight chance that they'll make me redundant and because I'd get a fair wedge of cash if they did (enough to take a year off work) I'm hanging on in here for a while.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Don't blame you at all. The package that would be due to you is something you have worked for and earned with your long service, if you cut and run you'd only be cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[formed a band]

Your naivety is touching

[russycarps]

im simply suggesting that since you spend so much time at work its beneficial to do a job that doesnt piss you off

[stuartbert two hats]

because it's that simple isnt it.

[russycarps]

It's not simple, it's difficult. I spent many years planning how to leave my job and now I work for myself and am very happy doing so! It wasn't easy and it's not perfect, but my life is better for making the change.

[stuartbert two hats]

I know, i was being sarcastic!

saying "just leave your job and get a better one" is ridiculous and shows a complete detachment from reality.

[russycarps]

Yeah, I got the sarcasm, but what I'm saying is that "just leave your job and get a better one" is exactly what I did. It's good advice, albeit not simple to do. Nobody said it was easy (reminds me of a song!)

[stuartbert two hats]

fair play to you, it's a brave thing to do.

I'd love to work for myself but I lack the idea of what the hell to do, and I imagine you must have incredible discipline to work for yourself, something I lack!

[Mardy]

fair play to you, it's a brave thing to do.

I'd love to work for myself but I lack the idea of what the hell to do, and I imagine you must have incredible discipline to work for yourself, something I lack!

[YetAnotherOldHippy]

I think it was in 2002 or 2003, back in the days when getting a ticket was easier if you were persisitant enough. Put in a standard holiday form for Glastonbury the day I got back after Christmas, but got told I couldn't have that many days off then "in case someone else wants them." I'd have probably been calmer if he'd told me 10 people had put in holiday forms a year earlier.

Shortly after I got called into a bosses office (apparently I was being aggressive and my language was offensive) and continued explaining how the middle-manager refusing me 4 days holiday in 5 months was *expletives deleted* but cleverly managed not to punch him, although I'm not sure how.

Needless to say, by the begining of March I had the holiday booked - although I was working somewhere else by then

Things were so much easier when it was possible to get another job if you wanted one...

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Things were so much easier when it was possible to get another job if you wanted one...

[formed a band]

because it's that simple isnt it.

[frostypaw]

I'm very glad for you. For other people (especially on specific days where specific things need to happen) throwing a sickie is basically a case of putting other people in the shit.

[russycarps]

The other view would be the company are being shits by not planning in appropriate manpower to handle someone being off.

Failing to do so punishes those who are genuinely ill by leaving them feeling guilty, but they don't care as it keeps up the pressure not to take time off even though you might need it

[frostypaw]

Too right. There's such a strong culture of lip service to hard work now it seems to have blinded many in the just-about comfortable middle to the inequality still extant.

There was a boss of a small business on the radio a few days ago saying how the 50p tax rate would discourage small businesses from setting up - clearly to him earning well over £150k is quite normal

I have no doubts that bosses work harder but seriously that much and more?

The rich have disgustingly misguided ideas of what they deserve, the middle have been paid just enough to keep then quiet and the poor don't vote so who cares. But feel free to drag your ruined bodies into work slavishly so they can avoid planning in redundancy for sickness or parenthood and get that pool.