hungrymackem
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The Tories are to blame for this somehow I just know it!
Or, Sunderland Council????
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The Tories are to blame for this somehow I just know it!
There was 2 of the group that I know are a huge loss. The difference when they left was noticeable instantly.In my last place I was one of the three top performers, usually the top.
In the space of six months all three of us have resigned. Only one was convinced to stay.
He’ll regret that. Our strength was our joined success. Now he’s in an under performing team with nobody to carry everybody.
Reducing flexible working is often a backwards step. It is one of the zero cost perks you can give someone and supports a healthy work life balance. I would have been annoyed if I had been in that team. Even though I tend to work the same hours, being able to start late or finish early once in a while is brilliant.Got rid of flexi, including any banked hours
I did this to our Architects and Audit Team.
Not out of malice.
I thought as Professionals they should be truthful and honest about their attendance.
We had Architects on £60k+ a year noting they started at 8:15am or had 33 minute lunch break.
Neither group built up much in the way of flexi hours anyway.
My point was they were adults in senior positions.Reducing flexible working is often a backwards step. It is one of the zero cost perks you can give someone and supports a healthy work life balance. I would have been annoyed if I had been in that team. Even though I tend to work the same hours, being able to start late or finish early once in a while is brilliant.
I remember a former manager of mine, not my direct boss but the one above, wanted a chat with me. She had noticed that once a week I took a longer than usual lunch break and then found out I was using it to play 5-a-side. At first she said playing football was inappropriate in the working day, but then backed down when I questioned if she would be stopping the people who went for a run, went to the gym, went swimming or even went shopping on their lunch breaks. She had to admit no, and it was only football she was against as it didn't "feel right".
She then said the main issue was I was taking 1.5 hours instead of the usual hour. I pointed out that at no point in our contracts did define the length of a lunch break, that I started early and finished later to compensate and usually took shorter lunch breaks during the rest of the week, usually from my desk where I would always allow it to be interrupted for anything urgent. I said I was quite happy if she wanted to write down exactly the times she wanted me to work and that I'd promise to by at my desk at exactly that time, and also leave at the exact departure time, no matter what.
She thought about it, realised the implications of this and backed down.
Do you work on the safc forward line?We aren’t the biggest team for the work we do but had a fair few experienced people in. One left in September and another leaves next week. Meanwhile another experienced person is on leave for a while and probably not back until February at earliest while another is going off for about six weeks for an op. I’m f***ing shattered
Sounds like you worked in education for that one.Reducing flexible working is often a backwards step. It is one of the zero cost perks you can give someone and supports a healthy work life balance. I would have been annoyed if I had been in that team. Even though I tend to work the same hours, being able to start late or finish early once in a while is brilliant.
I remember a former manager of mine, not my direct boss but the one above, wanted a chat with me. She had noticed that once a week I took a longer than usual lunch break and then found out I was using it to play 5-a-side. At first she said playing football was inappropriate in the working day, but then backed down when I questioned if she would be stopping the people who went for a run, went to the gym, went swimming or even went shopping on their lunch breaks. She had to admit no, and it was only football she was against as it didn't "feel right".
She then said the main issue was I was taking 1.5 hours instead of the usual hour. I pointed out that at no point in our contracts did define the length of a lunch break, that I started early and finished later to compensate and usually took shorter lunch breaks during the rest of the week, usually from my desk where I would always allow it to be interrupted for anything urgent. I said I was quite happy if she wanted to write down exactly the times she wanted me to work and that I'd promise to by at my desk at exactly that time, and also leave at the exact departure time, no matter what.
She thought about it, realised the implications of this and backed down.
This.
We have 300 Pipefitters, or had. Lost 100 in a day last month. All went to a project a mile down the road. $1ph extra.
Texas has loads of Gas projects on the go. Staff turnover is massive.
I'm so fed up of being part of teams where more and more of holding things together ends up falling on me. Got some long term sickness and short staff issues at the moment, and the effort going on in the background to present it as "all ok" to the customer is wrecking me.In my last place I was one of the three top performers, usually the top.
In the space of six months all three of us have resigned. Only one was convinced to stay.
He’ll regret that. Our strength was our joined success. Now he’s in an under performing team with nobody to carry everybody.
Are you looking for new places now?update. We ended up down to 3 people and hired 7 more staff, 2 quit within the first month. We can’t train them fast enough and they’re getting frustrated with not knowing what to do.
The pressure on myself and the 2 “experienced” staff is too much.
My bosses boss come for a “visit” and asked about retention. Gave my 2 longer serving members a pay bump, that went down well at least.
I was told I won’t be able to expand my team to its full capacity because of the pay increases. I don’t see that being a problem as I can’t keep hold of staff long enough anyway
I get my annual review and bonus in 6 weeks then I’ll be off myself.
Yeah. Should be a team of 12 (13 with me included) had that reduced to 10 temporarily, only at 7 now.Are you looking for new places now?
7 doing thr work of 13? 13 is 'optimal'?Yeah. Should be a team of 12 (13 with me included) had that reduced to 10 temporarily, only at 7 now.
We were down to just 3 at one point. It was a mess7 doing thr work of 13? 13 is 'optimal'?
Anyway, sinking ship by the sounds of it. My old job asked me to go back last week, no change in conditions, perks etc just the same as before. Told them to shove it.
Cool. Hopefully by the time your bonuses come, you will already have something in the pipeline.Yeah. Should be a team of 12 (13 with me included) had that reduced to 10 temporarily, only at 7 now.
Hello Tony!In my last place I was one of the three top performers, usually the top.
In the space of six months all three of us have resigned. Only one was convinced to stay.
He’ll regret that. Our strength was our joined success. Now he’s in an under performing team with nobody to carry everybody.
One of my supervisors is great. He’s worked so hard to try and get through this. I hope they offer him the role as he deserves itCool. Hopefully by the time your bonuses come, you will already have something in the pipeline.