AIBU to think someone with a broken finger can still work in a supermarket?

[SpinalDra]

Surely they can just be put on the tills? I'm a team leader and really pissed off. A girl has recently phoned in sick to say she can't come in as she broke her finger at work. Store manager has said she can stay off because it causes less fuss especially as she did it at work it's a piss take. He's not the one who has to run the shift with lack of staff.

AIBU to think she could still have worked on till?

Hopefully we'll see the employee's thread next. 'I broke my finger at work. My manager, Cruella de Ville, posted all about it on the internet. No respect for the work we do, 'it's just tapping a screen', and expects me to fulfil my duties 100% even though I had medical leave. Should I see my union?'

It's none of your business, keep your nose out and if the employee has gone to the GP and they've agreed to sign her off.... bloody hell.

Cote, it absolutely depends on the type of break. Fractures can be anything from bone-snapped-right-off-and-sticking-out-of-the-skin to hairline fractures. They can be in different places. There are all sorts of medical considerations re best treatment.

But one thing is constant: if the injury is worsened, or further injury occurs, due to pressure on the employee to return to work, then the company will be held liable.

The OP reminds me of when dd was sent home last year after vomiting at work. She had barely got in through the door when they rang to say could she come in to cover for a team member who was off sick. After she'd explained that yes, that's me, they spent the whole day filling her inbox with texts asking her to come in.

YABU OP. I work for your company. I'm bloody glad you ain't my Team Leader. I work shift, pulling heavy roll caged along so I'd defo wouldn't be able to do that with a broken finger.

Wow OP - i cannot believe you are a team leader?! Why on earth would you publicly put this on a forum?! Do you not understand the repecussions should you be found out?

You not having enough staff to cover your colleague is not her problem - shes got a broken finger for gods sake, have you no sympathy?! Legally, she cant come in as she's been signed off by a Dr.

Sorry - but you sound like a terrible TL and if i were your supervisor, you wouldnt be TL for much longer. You are terribly unprofessional.

Yeah, on the tills, moving 100s of items an hour is a great place to work with a broken finger

What you've posted here will be picked up by your company's media team btw. You've been really unprofessional

Spinaldra How many employees are taking sick leave with a broken finger in a local Sainsburys? Very easy to trace. Think you could be in trouble here.

Where does it say she has gone to the GP and been signed off.....? You can self certify for a week.

Actually I hope this is picked up and the OP is disciplined / dismissed.

I agree that it's a breach of confidentiality to be discussing how Sainsbury's deal with staff who are sick. It shows them in a bad light. A Sainsbury's local. How unwise to post this on a public forum.

This is gross.

She's injured while working, toughs out the rest of the shift (good on her - she didn't want to let anyone down by leaving halfway through a shift!), and then got herself seen to. But all you can do is whine about how you don't have enough staff and she should just suck it up and keep going because all she does is tap a screen and her being off injured is just making it so haaaaaaaard... for you.

Are you actually this vile? Do people this disgusting exist outside of the Oval Office? Because I mean like, her finger is broken, but the real tragedy here is that you have to make some phone calls to cover her shift. HOW WILL YOU GET THROUGH THIS OP?

You sound like you need a serious reality check, and a crash course of thinking of someone other than yourself.

You know, my grandfather passed away on Friday. I found out on my way to work. When I told my manager, she sent me home, and worked my shift for me, despite having already worked her own.

I have a very bad ankle, and my assistant manager, instead of complaining that I'm not necessarily able to do every single component of my job (I find it hard to walk at the end of an eight hour, for example), she asks me what I can do, lets me do that, and does the rest herself. (So she lets me run the counter for the last hour, and does the vacuuming herself. Both things need to be done, but she deliberately makes that last hour as easy for me as possible.)

Neither my manager or my assistant manager have to do those things for me, and trust me, I'm grateful for them. They do those things because they're decent human beings who care about their staff. They do those things because they're not vile piles of human garbage who care about nothing but themselves. And they're not on the internet bitching about me. There's a lesson for you there somewhere. I'm just saying.

If you have enough staff and you treat your staff well and offer incentives like time and a half for overtime (oh wait, can't do that on a zero hours contract, oops!) you will never have issues getting people to come in on their days off. Retail tends to attract people who are open to doing extra shifts because they want the extra pay. I've never worked anywhere that people weren't after extra shifts except the times we've been short staffed, and yes, at those times I've had the guilt tripping from managers "Are you really ill, can't you come in? It's going to be massively difficult blah blah". It took me a long time to realise tough - not my problem. It's their fault if they don't have enough staff to cover unexpected illness. Besides, with most things (not an injury obv!) if you go in you'll just infect everyone else and then more people will be off at once!

I am also feeling quite grateful that I live somewhere that my bosses are not allowed to hassle or question me when I am ill and where my health insurance will pay the time that I'm not working so it doesn't cost them financially either.

Holy thread backfire

OP is clearly a shit team leader in so many ways, I wonder if this is why other staff refuse to come in to cover?

Not helpful at all..just reminds me of the time a new boy at work who done absolutely fuck all at our hands on job and stood around waiting time, taking an hour and a half instead of his 15 minute breaks and was eventually caught stealing rang in and said he couldn't work as he'd just broken both of his wrists. So didn't follow protocol of phoning a minimum of 2 hours before his shift because he'd just done it. Had a week off, the amount of time you get before needing a doctors note, obviously didn't get one so came in after the week, no cast, no sling, no bandages, no bruises, not even a bloody plaster in sight and his wrists were fully functional.

I used to work in Sainsburys, I was a union rep while there.
Sadly in my experience this attitude is all too usual from the management team. It certainly was in my store.

There seemed to be a vast difference between the policies and the interpretation of the hr department staff, the department managers and the team leaders.
Due to confidentiality all op needs to know is that colleague is off sick, it's her management teams responsibility to cover the hours not hers. She shouldn't know why colleagues sick-that's a breach. Op is treading on thin ice here.

Yabvu

Ye Gads YANBVU

I dislocated my shoulder and was put on the food tills where 'I wouldn't have to lift anything'. Except customers did still expect me to do things, and some thought I was rude when I explained I couldn't, and some were horrified that I was still expected to work like this.

Lets just say that I didn't work for that company much longer - with a broken finger, working on a supermarket till could be tricky - manoeuvring 6 packs of cola and sacks of kitty litter are hard enough at the best of times, let alone whilst not trying to damage a broken finger further.

I can't see how it would be possible to work a till with a broken finger actually, having seen how they operate! Or any retail job for that matter.

Would it be obtude of me to mention the trolley collector in Morrisons only has one arm?

Obtuse

I've worked on checkouts before, it can actually be quite hard going at times, especially when people buy large packs of drinks/cat litter/pet food/other bulky items. I had a bad wrist for a short time and that was hard enough, don't think I could have done the job properly with something worse like a broken finger.

Your attitude stinks op and I've worked in retail management. The majority of retail positions involve a lot of lifting and carrying unless you're doing back of house administration.

I agree you better hope this isn't picked up by the company but you will have brought it on yourself if is it.

Oh come on, it's obviously different if somebody is lying about an injury to get time off but if we assume the injured employee is telling the truth, then everything else stands.