This isn't normal is it?

[Busybeesbutt]

I work somewhere very odd

The manager tells workers other people hate them and talk about them
The manager tells others what their colleagues are off sick with
The admin staff email the manager moaning instead of confronting the person themselves
Staff secretly audit other staffs work!
The manager tells women going on mat leave not to dare ask for part time
Weird?

I don't think he can force you to work if you are pregnant, there are guidelines I think. What type of job is it?

Have you read the thread miss teach?

Not that rare really? That's sad. This is the worst team I've ever worked in

*Oh I don’t know Rhoda - some of the “professional managers” in the NHS are like that too. Except they often don’t have the first idea about anything that might be clinically relevant or important (who needs to put patients first when targets are the priority?)

I’ve gone over to the dark side (CCG) and it’s fucking awesome grin - all the managers are sensible, practical, head-screwed-on nurses*

My WORST experience of this behaviour was in a CCG. Two separate former nurse managers. I got made redundant and veritably skipped out of there with my redundancy package. I'm at an acute Trust now and it's ok. However I'm not in a frontline role, I deal with other staff and other staff only, so our targets are different.

I do agree with you about managers with no clinical experience, but the other side of the coin is staff that constantly make cock ups that have financial implications who say "I don't care about sticking to policy as long as my ward/department is running." Yes it's important that patients are top priority, but when you've just lost the Trust £5k due to an admin error over ONE patient, then multiply that by however many beds on the ward and how many patients you have in a month you can imagine why the NHS is as crippled as it is. It's not due to foreigners and only partly due to management salaries and agency fees. Internal admin errors cause massive losses but clinical staff refuse to see admin as important as long as patients are cared for. It shouldn't be black and white like that, there is a middle ground!

I've got until October on mat leave I should be able to find something shouldn't I?