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

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SpinalDra · 25/09/2017 22:45

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?

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PovertyPain · 26/09/2017 14:41

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Topseyt · 26/09/2017 15:00

Looks like OP isn't coming back. She didn't think people would disagree with her.

She has maybe also been hauled in for a bollocking at work. After all, she was naïve enough to think that confirming her employer as Sainsbury's would not get back to them and wouldn't be identifying.

PovertyPain · 26/09/2017 15:13

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melj1213 · 26/09/2017 16:07

I work in a supermarket, I cover most of the front end but mostly the customer service desk ... in January I fractured my ankle and had to be in a Beckham boot and use crutches for 8 weeks. I usually do at least double my contracted hours every week.

For the first two weeks I was off work entirely and my doctor wanted me to have a month off but I was absolutely bored rigid after 2 weeks of staring at the same four walls and watching daytime tv.

I spoke to HR at work and they agreed that I could come back and go on a checkout but only for my contracted shifts - no over time or working anywhere but the checkout because in every other job it would require some degree of walking/being on my feet whereas being on the checkout meant I came in, sat down at the till (and I was only allowed to use the accessible till because it is wider and lower so I could use it comfortably and had room underneath for a box to rest my leg on) and was all about using my hands.

Being on the checkouts is a very manual job - you need to be able to lift and grab things, type numbers into the till, and have the dexterity to put money into and out of the till ... a broken finger would make the tills one of the worst places to be!

enthusiasmcurbed · 26/09/2017 16:24

I had my ring and little fingers of my left hand badly broken in April. I've had two operations and my left hand is now permanently weak. You don't have a clue OP. I'm glad I don't have a boss like you.

AprilLady4 · 26/09/2017 18:41

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SpinalDra · 26/09/2017 18:49

Some of you are being rather extreme. Her break isn't anything like what you have mentioned.

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Didntcomeheretofuckspiders · 26/09/2017 18:55

I went into work with a broken finger (didn't want the time off on my sickness record) and I was more of a hinderance than a help tbh. Couldn't write or hold anything properly! I could just about manage computer work, but even then I was having to use my ring finger and would get very sore after a while.

FWIW my finger has healed really badly and still gets really sore months later so I definitely shouldn't have tried to just get on with it.

thefairyfellersmasterstroke · 26/09/2017 19:09

OP, you sound really resentful of this girl being off, and the way you are determined to minimise her injury is quite spiteful and nasty. You're only a team leader - and a pretty jumped-up sounding one at that - you're not a manager, head of personnel, doctor or orthopaedic specialist so if I were you, I'd stick to just getting on with what you're paid to do, not bitch about about your team members on a public forum. If you've not got enough staff blame the company, not the girl who was injured at work.

DrKrogersfavouritepatient · 26/09/2017 19:13

Some of you are being rather extreme. Her break isn't anything like what you have mentioned.
You're not qualified to comment on her injury or the extent to which it affects her work and you need to wind your neck in.

DeleteOrDecay · 26/09/2017 19:15

Some of you are being rather extreme. Her break isn't anything like what you have mentioned.

And you are being rather mean and spiteful. Fact is you don't know the ins and outs of her injury. You don't know how much pain she is in or what medication she's on which might affect her ability to function adequately at work.

All you need to know is that she's been signed off sick. What she's been signed off for is absolutely non of your business and you have no right to pass comment.

I hope your employer sees this, I feel sorry for anyone who has to answer to someone like you.

DrKrogersfavouritepatient · 26/09/2017 19:16

You see, as far as you're concerned it doesn't matter if she's got a small pimple on her finger or half her arm's been chewed off by a crocodile.
Her absence from work is not your call. Get on with your own job and stop whining.

Mittens1969 · 26/09/2017 19:32

I agree with the other PPs, you're coming across as very mean and spiteful. Just stop whining about this girl, no one is going to agree with you anyway.

TheLuminaries · 26/09/2017 19:37

Actually, I sort of see the OPs point (seeking to break up the unseemly pile up). I would think you could do most jobs with a strapped up finger. And reporting this thread to Sainsburys is utterly sad and pathetic.

Mittens1969 · 26/09/2017 19:43

I don't think that's true, and certainly not the till, which was what the OP suggested. You could never do that with a broken finger.

But yes, reporting to Sainsburys was too much.

DeleteOrDecay · 26/09/2017 19:44

Take it you've never worked in a supermarket nor have you had a broken finger then Lumin.

Alisvolatpropiis · 26/09/2017 19:46

Running

I mean that people are less inclined to call in sick unless there is genuine reason because I'm not awful to them about being unable to work.

Being nice doesn't magically solve health issues (I have no healing powers!) but being compassionate does seem to have had a positive impact on my dept's attendance rates since I took on the role. Obviously attendance does have to be managed after a certain point but even that can be done kindly.

TheLuminaries · 26/09/2017 19:47

No, I've never worked in a supermarket or had a broken finger. I have had a broken wrist and a broken leg (separate occasions) and returned to work in a cast, so that strikes me a similar to a strapped up finger..

I do think trying to get a poster on an antonymous forum into real trouble with their employment to their possibly severe financial detriment is totally shameful behaviour.

RaymondinaReddington · 26/09/2017 19:58

Poor OP. It was a reasonable thing to ask for mumsnet wisdom.

Not unreasonable to have a few days off with broken finger while it is new and painful. I wouldn't be happy if someone viewed it as a reason to stay off sick. Local guy working in our supermarket only has 1 arm and he gets the job done quickly and without fuss.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 26/09/2017 20:07

Another one armed man post

This is beginning to remind me of The Fugitive

DeleteOrDecay · 26/09/2017 20:07

Not the one arm argument again🙄

DeleteOrDecay · 26/09/2017 20:10

He probably gets the job done quickly without fuss because that is what he has become accustomed to over a longer period of time. It's a bit different.

JonSnowsWife · 26/09/2017 20:56

I've broken my finger my foot and my wrist twice - carried on working each time. Fair enough I don't have a physically active job - mostly at meetings or at my desk

Really? My DD could hardly walk on her broken foot.

JonSnowsWife · 26/09/2017 20:59

Some of you are being rather extreme. Her break isn't anything like what you have mentioned.

Well her Doctor disagrees with you.

Chestervase1 · 26/09/2017 21:04

The fugitive lool

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