to think that a holiday should be a holiday

[loopylou6]

My DH booked a week off work 6 weeks ago, it was ok'd by his manager so happy days, this week is his holiday and up to now one manager phoned him yesterday asking him to drop his holiday and come into work coz they needed him, he told him he cant coz he has his own jobs booked in and things planned with us, then today the other manager phoned him and asked him the same thing i mean how utterly cheeky is that? he has declined again and said that if he finishes his own jobs early then he will go back but he doubts it (i think he was just trying to be polite) TBH i'd go up the wall if he did that, so what do u think? am i BU?

[cornsilk]

YANBU - this would annoy me as well.

[loopylou6]

i just cant believe the cheek

[MotherFunk]

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[cmotdibbler]

It depends what was happening at work that they needed him, whether the nature of his job was that this sort of thing happened etc.

Sometimes stuff happens, and if its possible, it can pay to show willing.

If they are just being useless, then of course, YANBU

[flowerybeanbag]

It's annoying but it sounds as though at least he was given the option to say no? DH's work has been known to drag people back from holiday like it or not, it does happen lots of places.

[loopylou6]

MF hes a gas engineer, thing is these people have advance bookings so they simply should not of booked so much work when they knew they where a man down,and like i said the hol was booked six weeks ago, so plenty of notice, i just believe they would be cheeky enough to phone him on his FIRST day of holiday, and then to top it off, after hes said no, they phone him again the next day

[loopylou6]

and might i add aswell, (at the risk of telling the world my business ) that the reason they are so shortstaffed is because the pay is crap, they pay DH £10.50 an hour, but theya ctually charge £35 an hour for him

[MotherFunk]

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[TigerFeet]

YANBU

It may be accepted in some industries but that doesn't make it right. People work too hard these days. There isn't enough wind-down time.

DH is also on holiday this week but was called and emailed several times yesterday because of a crisis at work. (The crisis being, someone needed some information and had two weeks to get round to asking dh for it before he went on holiday but didn't and then panicked at the last minute )

DH has recently been issued with a BlackBerry and he seems to think that means he should be available to work 24/7/52. I disagree. I am forever telling him not to be surgically attached to the farking thing.

[MotherFunk]

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[loopylou6]

ahhh TF u have my sympathys, MF i can understand them asking the once, but twice? and yeah he is a pretty nice guy

[MotherFunk]

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[cmotdibbler]

In my company, the agreement is that if you have a company mobile phone, if you don't want to speak to people when not working, you switch it off.
As for the Blackberry, I find it reduces my stress about holidays greatly as I can just check up on things, and make sure that I'm not going to have any nasty suprises. Depends on the nature of your job again

[TigerFeet]

Oh I agree completely. Switch the thing off if you don't want to be contacted out of office hours. What you don't do is jump to it every time the farking thing dingles and then complain that they won't leave you alone (are you listening dh? )

I think what annoyed me yesterday was that he wasn't being asked to work per se, just being expected to drop whatever he was doing whilst on annual leave and sort out a problem that should never have arisen.

When we go away later in the year, it will flipping well stay at home!

loopylou, yes maybe once is OK but twice on successive days is a bit much imho

[loopylou6]

his phone isnt a company phone though so cant really switch it off, but he is now under strict instructions to ignore it when it is them

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[loopylou6]

isnt it just, i have it on my home phone aswell, its soooo useful - especially when a particulary chatty friend calls when corrie is on

[PiggyPenguin]

The dreaded blackberry... I get so cranky about my dh using his during holidays, evenings and weekends that he has started being super sneaky about when he is looking at it. I have opened the bathroom door to find him emailing in there where he thinks I won't look for him. Its very sad.

[loopylou6]

lolololol syb, men eh?

[HonoriaGlossop]

I can see that ringing round for cover does happen in environments like bars and clubs, but your DH is working in a trade loopy and I do think (specially with the amount of notice he gave) that a more professionally run outfit should have been able to put other strategies in place for his leave; very unprofessional to ring him. A professional outfit knows that an employee's time off is important, just like their work is, if you want to retain them long term.

And a different person phoning the day after is again indicative of a lack of professional practice going on there.

Also, if you're not 100% SURE that it won't be held against you if you say no, it's a good way to stress out an employee

Hope he does ignore it if they ring again!

[loopylou6]

thank you for your post HG, my thoughts exactly

[Bangandthedirtisgone]

NO way are YBU!

[smartiejake]

Oh yes Bloody Blackberries are the scourge of family life. DH works for an American bank in the City but of course the American markets close 5 hours after ours so he is on call with the damn thing till 10pm. He already works a 14 hour day- so much for a good work life balance which they are always banging on about.

We were on holiday a few years ago and I got really pissed of with the amount of time he was expected to spend on his phone. It is supposed to be PAID LEAVE FFS.

YANBU pre-organised leave should be kept to. Tell work he is actually away next time and don't answer the call if they phone.