Ask your GP to sign you off for stress. It isn’t a lie. You are stressed by the situation.
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Ask your GP to sign you off for stress. It isn’t a lie. You are stressed by the situation.
This is a slightly churlish one but what the heck. The mother of a lady at work has made a Christmas cake for us to eat at work. I'm pretty much the only one who eats it, I'm quite happy with that 
. I've had my first slice today, there is no marzipan . I'll repeat that, no marzipan . I love that on the cake and it's missing. I now have a large Christmas cake to eat on my own without my favourite part of it being there. (1st world problem, I know)
. I've had my first slice today, there is no marzipan . I'll repeat that, no marzipan . I love that on the cake and it's missing. I now have a large Christmas cake to eat on my own without my favourite part of it being there. (1st world problem, I know)backwoodsman
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Churlish. But justified.This is a slightly churlish one but what the heck. The mother of a lady at work has made a Christmas cake for us to eat at work. I'm pretty much the only one who eats it, I'm quite happy with that
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No marzipan???????????????????? Hanging offence...
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@Orikoru I I’ve spent many years working with the type your construction director sounds like. They operate by everyone caving in to them. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and stand up to them. You have an agreement to handover in a perfectly acceptable way. That should be that. Your CD sounds like the typical old fashioned construction bully.
Feel free to PM if you need someone to talk to ??
Feel free to PM if you need someone to talk to ??
fundy
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Should everyone work from home or threaten to go off sick when the trains are striking again or is this person specific advice?
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@Lord Tyrion Feel free to PM if you need someone to talk to ??
(been trying to think how you might use a tesco Battenberg as a 'donor cake' and cobble something edible together from the two)
(been trying to think how you might use a tesco Battenberg as a 'donor cake' and cobble something edible together from the two)
PJ87
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Considering his situation, an agreement in place and a bully boy boss. He is within his rights to go off sick with stress as @Hobbit said.
Just shows the difference between good management who get the best from their staff and those who don't.
I was nights when my girls were due and my boss had colleagues lined up to cover me on overtime soon as I got the call. No messing about
Same with my mother in law she wanted to go part time to see more of her grandkids her headteacher (she is her pa) said I'll reduce your days to 4 keep your pay so long as u do the days coverage as normal on that day .. a simple solution and good management.
Yet you get people like @Orikoru boss who won't budge and think people can productively work from home. Even though they can
The advise to everyone during a strike is to work from home and take holiday If you can. Always has been no?
Any need for the dig? No there wasn't.
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Ditto..... I've seen plenty like that in my time in all sorts of industries. There's a bloke where I am now who everyone is scared of. My first week, I told him that none of that would work with me so shove it. Nice as pie since.
I wonder what specifically he can't do over MS Teams that is causing him such an issue? Ask him in an email. Explain your travel concerns re being away from your wife and offer formal alternatives. Just the thing for escalating in the future should you need to.
I could buy a packet of marzipan, roll it out, and then cut a bit off each day to have with a slice of the cake. All quite manageable but a bit of a faff. It ultimately is not a big deal but I think does come under the heading of randomly irritating
.Not sure I would want to break up a Battenburg. They are so wonderful as they are, great cakes with a cup of tea
theoneandonly
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Not a big deal!!! ? It's literally the best thing about Christmas cake and I'd be having a word with cake maker and either getting them to retrofit the marzipan or make another.I could buy a packet of marzipan, roll it out, and then cut a bit off each day to have with a slice of the cake. All quite manageable but a bit of a faff. It ultimately is not a big deal but I think does come under the heading of randomly irritating
Not sure I would want to break up a Battenburg. They are so wonderful as they are, great cakes with a cup of tea
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I am working my notice till Friday... just about finished what I need to do. Struggling to concentrate...hence up goes my post-count on here this week... next week I wont be anywhere near anything with a keyboard!
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And make sure they bring in the off cuts for you to eat.
Orikoru
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Would probably take another week to get an appointment with them!
Okay, this was exactly what I was thinking but felt it was a bit excessive. Now I know I'm not alone and was right all along ...............
Neilds
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Ken Bruce announcing he is leaving the morning show on Radio 2
Hope this isn't the end of Pop Master
Hope this isn't the end of Pop Master
PJ87
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You can go a week self cert ...
Then chase up the Dr and to get a cert for work normally they will just let you pick one up pretty quick
Beezerk
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Do they not do video or phone appointments? My doctors seems to be pushing that big time.
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You’d miss the point of you poked yourself in the eye with a pencil.
fundy
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The dog owners who thinks its OK to abuse people and Wildlife Trust volunteers telling him to put his dog on a lead, on Wildlife Trust land, where it clearly is signed many times that all dogs must be on leads.
This after his dog has been chasing the sheep for nearly 20 minutes, causing one sheep to die and several others having been bitten. And still the so called owner thinks he is in the right. Utter infraction!
This after his dog has been chasing the sheep for nearly 20 minutes, causing one sheep to die and several others having been bitten. And still the so called owner thinks he is in the right. Utter infraction!
