AIBU to stop covering my job-share partner's time off?

this.

What does your contact say, OP? I'd check that in case you're doing extra hours for no reason. I job shared and we were under no obligation to cover for each other. The only time we did was if we did a swap one week.

You’re not doing her a favour by covering her dates though are you?

She’d have the time off regardless but if you cover then you get paid extra.

You can still have your days off but she just won’t be paid extra.

I don’t understand why you cover for each other you are a job share therefore ‘one ‘ person . I’ve jo shared fir 24 years on and off in the NHS and I’ve never done holiday cover

People talk like that in corporate workplaces. It's all very formal.

I can understand why you'd be really annoyed about it, but you already don't have a cordial relationship. What you have is someone that is making you bend over backward to do cover for her by sending you those dates, and then she's had the cheek to pull out of your holiday over. In your shoes I'd pull out of every single date that is not convenient for you. You don't have to do it to all of them, but anything else goes. And don't provide an explanation. Just say they're no good for you anymore. Don't expect that to go down well though. A lot of managers won't back an employee like you in this type of situation because quite frankly, it's simple not important to them, and you may be seen as someone causing a fuss or being unreasonable, even though it's your colleague taking the piss here.

This speaks to a lack of proper structure in your workplace as well. In mine, once you agreed to cover someone, it was then your responsibility and it was really not a done thing to dump it back on the person you had agreed to cover, but I appreciate it's not that simple at yours given it's just the two of you.

@happygreenscissors Unless it's a zero hours kind of workplace with many employees doing loads of different hours, which would be quite intense and chaotic to handle, it's a manager's workplace to sort the rota, including cover. However, there are plenty that try to dump this responsibility (of which they get paid extra for) onto their employees to do it instead.

This. She has cancelled therefore you have no obligation.

Gosh how very formal!

Up the line to the boss with this one.

Leave it a couple of days then go back and say sorry checked and actually you can’t do it

Absolutely this. Since she has retracted her agreement to cover for you, do the same. Don't be such a pushover!

Forwaed her message (or screenshot of it) to your manager. cc the Cheekyb*tch

”Dear manager, after CheekyB agreed to cover my vacation, and after I reciprocally agreed to cover her time off again, she has withdrawn from the arrangement. Having consulted my diary, unfortunately I also now find myself unable to cover any of the dates she asked me to cover! What a crazy coincidence. Anyway now it means there is no cover for my holidays, please could you arrange a temp? I will leave CheekyB to sort out her own holiday cover arrangements with you.
Kr”

Castle Crasher has this covered, plus she can go f### herself.

You shouldn't have to organise your own holiday cover though.

If you want the extra money then work the days. If you are 2 days for a reason and don't want to work extra don't do it.
Manager can sort cover for your holiday. No skin off your nose is it.

I think I would message back and say fair enough but the arrangement doesn’t seem very reciprocal so you will be reviewing your availability in the future.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers. From what you’ve said she sees herself as the top dog, and you her lackey. You will feel so much better once you assert perfectly healthy boundaries.

I'd retract the agreement to cover her dates if you don't want to. Say you only agreed to make it work as she was covering for you. Since she's pulled a fast one, clearly deliberately, you're no longer available.

Stand up for yourself ffs

Neither of you should be covering eachother's days off. Your jobshare partnership = 1 full time employee and that entitles your employer to 46.4 weeks of effort per year, with 5.6 weeks paid annual leave. If you and your jobshare partner were to always take overtime to cover each other's leave, the employer would be getting 52 weeks of effort per year - admittedly at a slightly higher cost but the employer has no right to expect that. Yes stop covering her days off and don't ask or expect her to cover yours - both of you just stick to working the hours that you have been employed to do and enjoying the annual leave that you are entitled to.

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Fuck your working relationship, she obviously doesn't value it.

Definitely bring it to Manager’s attention and point out it can’t be one-sided, nor should people back out without very good reason @JobShareDrama

Agree, also, do you need to cover all each other's days off? If there were one person in the role rather than two that person would take holidays sometimes without cover. Why can't you?

This. I mean it's good if you are in when the other person is not but people are allowed to go on holiday and you shouldn't have to do extra hours if your contract is 21 hours or something. Just seems an odd way of going about things.

Why?
The colleagues had agreed to cover for her during her holidays abd then decided that she wouldn’t do it.
im not sure why the OP can’t do the same??

Yeah I'm sorry, this can't continue.

If she's going to renege on something like this, then you need to take it up the line and all leave is approved and cover arranged with your manager. Then it becomes their problem and not yours.

So the company pays twice? Annual leave and extra for the cover? Swapping days only works if it is reciprocal, not for prolonged periods.