Why are some people such idiots??

Remove para one
For when you are abscent from work and need to claim, or they may say it is a known previous injury

Drunks at Rugby matches "nay Never" :-)

Jack McH

 

Zigs R us 60/40 split to Zigs

40% is better than nothing

Jack McH

 

We have 40%

10% to Children with Knees

The rest to FC

 

Good morning FC,
just checking to see how you are. Open wide and say
Nurse Jenny

 

That would be great ... if he had toothache.

Seeing as it is his back ..... I dread to think what he'd be opening wide

 

Yes, I agree ... tooth or other will make him ""

 

Those heat wraps aren't bad Fc...hope you have a more comfortable night take it carefull none of us are getting any younger...ask Zigs

 

I was not meaning a financial claim against your employer FC

What I was trying to say was, If you ended up where you have to take time off to heal yourself, then if the company knows that you were hurt whilst working, most companies will continue paying you, Some companies, if they know you had a previous condition will blame that and stop payment whilst you are off

Jack McH

 

I was like that, then with a headache at work I woke up in the Stroke Recovery Unit a week later
The company sent a bunch of grapes, with the nice man, who handed over the grapes, then took my company car off the family :-) ( 28yrs svc)

Other than when totally unable I still dragged myself to work

So there are times when you need to take care

Jack McH

 

Please listen to Jack FC, cos you're worth it,
Jenny

 

I'm afraid I'd never trust an employer.

After 10 years in the same company, I remember repeated assurances that the latest merger or the latest 'streamlining initiative' would not affect our team. I remember getting excellent annual reviews, put in charge of more and more projects and people, generally praised and assured that the latest financial statement was great etc. Then one day, within a week of getting an email saying net profit for our division was £16.8 Million for that year, forecasted to rise to £17.9 Million the following year, we all got put on notice that we were formally 'at risk' of redundancy.

In the next job, the boss offered a couple of us a significant pay rise, then shares in the company, then he did a runner having not paid us for the last 3 months.

I'm afraid that if I've learned one thing about business, its that businesses built on honesty and truth very rapidly fail, and therefore successful business folks, while maybe trustworthy in all aspects outside of work, can't really be trusted in work.

If anyone needs any more proof of the successful business attitude to people, just think about this. When exactly did the staff stop being people and start being 'human resources'?

I think it's great to be in a job where you feel valued and can trust your colleagues, but at the end of the day, if the company leaders think they'd benefit from shafting you, then all the kind words and banter counts for exactly nothing.

The moral of my very pessimistic sounding story is not that all bosses are secretly bad. The point is that you should ALWAYS put yourself way before the company, because you can be absolutely certain that the company will put the company before you.