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WIBU it ask for you CFery at work stories?

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 18:50

Just that really. My boss is being a pain-expecting unpaid work while I'm on maternity, calling me in on days off for unpaid work, keeping me half an hour late and expecting me half an hour early. He hasn't done a risk assessment or responded to my request for mat leave so although he's taken me off the rota I don't know what I'll be paid and how.

Now I want to hear CFery at work stories- boss, colleague, employee, I don't care- to console me that thisreally isn't so bad

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Indigokitten · 27/06/2018 18:54

Are you already on maternity leave? By law, they need to complete a risk assessment. Any days that you ‘work’ after your maternity are KIT (keep in touch) days and need to be paid

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 18:59

I leave on Saturday so no point getting a risk assessment, and he claims the business 'can't afford' to pay mat and extra. I know they get 103% back. To be honest, im kind of over it, I know he's never going to change and he thinks he's entitled to behave this way because he's the boss. I don't care anymore, but it would be nice to hear horror stories to feel a little bit better about it.

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lifechangesforever · 27/06/2018 19:06

What does the company policy say about maternity pay?

Hortonlovesahoo · 27/06/2018 19:06

I’ve had so many it’s untrue.

Boss: taking credit for work/ presentations that I’ve done and passing my work off as their own

Colleagues: using me as cover whilst they take long lunches and breaks, saying “oh Horton will cover this” without asking me and the latest one has been a colleague who is on paternity leave. I’ve been covering his work as he was only due to have 2 weeks (it’s currently 4...) .What I didn’t realise is that he’d done no work before leaving, which left me with mountains of admin to do for his stuff and being called in on my holiday to sort it out. Not pleased.

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 19:12

@lifechangesforever It's not a company- think corner shop style thing. There's 4 staff members and two of them are part of the family that owns it

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 19:14

@Horton my boss does that too! Not covering breaks, more Just expects me to stay around if we're busy and won't let me leave, while the other person who is actually supposed to be working does sweet fa! It's really crap being expected to cover for people like that, isn't it?

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Scienceforthewin · 27/06/2018 19:18

That sounds really shit. If you wanted a bit of CF humor, the (newish) chap who sits next to me randomly commented that everyone would manage just fine if I left ConfusedI'm managing it by no longer answering any of his questions. As I'm the longest standing and most technical person, and he is fairly new (and asks a lot of questions), and he sits next to me, he seems to be regretting it alreadyGrinhe tried a half hearted apology; I'm trying to decide how long to drag it out for.

MiniDoofa · 27/06/2018 19:22

I love it science 😂😂 let us know how long you keep it up!!!

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 19:24

That is brilliant Science, I wish I had the guts to do stuff like that! I'm always a bit scared to upset the apple cart!

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EeeSheWasThin · 27/06/2018 19:26

Science I think I love you...

YoThePussy · 27/06/2018 19:26

Working several Saturdays running as the charity I worked for was short staffed. I got called into the Director’s office to explain why I had put a claim in for overtime money. ‘This is a charity you know, you will bankrupt us’ was said. My reply ‘I am not a charity though and don’t work for free’. Director also used to regularly call meetings at 4.55pm on a Friday and then be surprised when I said I needed to go home promptly at 5pm.

I left not long afterwards unsurprisingly.

WerkSupp · 27/06/2018 19:29

Male management expecting only the female staff to do things like cover reception, take minutes in meetings and provide drinks in meetings no matter what their position was.

OliviaBenson · 27/06/2018 19:36

You should post in employment op as I'm sure what he's doing is illegal- you are entitled to statutory maternity pay.

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 19:39

He's definitely going to pay me the mat, Oliviabenson, but he keeps mentioning how when I have the free time of maternity leave (you know, the baby tends to take up no time at all) I can come in and "help him out" with the rota and his emails. He has asked me to do it before, basically he wants a free secretary!

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CalamityJaneismyUsername · 27/06/2018 19:41

@werk, that's absolutely outrageous, I'd be seething if that happened to me! I probably wouldn't say anything though

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LakieLady · 27/06/2018 19:43

One of the reasons I've stayed in the same job for 11 years is that I've always had lovely managers and great colleagues.

We have a couple on the team at the moment who are complete pisstakers though. They were transferred to our team recently because we're very short of staff just now, as the project is facing significant cuts and lots of people have jumped ship.

They are never where they should be, their Outlook calendars are complete works of fiction and one of them recently put a total of 9 hours for doing admin on his. He only works 4 days a week, so less than 30 hours, and doesn't even have a full caseload for the hours he works.

The other is full-time, but has a caseload equivalent to doing about 22-24 hours a week. He has logged 1.5 hours of admin for doing a job that even my dog could probably do in 20 minutes. He is often spotted reading in cafes or doing his shopping, sometimes with his toddler and/or wife, when he is supposed to be seeing clients.

They both have frequent requests from clients for a change of worker and one had a client do a complex journey by public transport just so he could go to head office and complain about his worker in person. Whenever they go on leave, they never give the worker covering cases a proper handover, and there is always at least one case of a client having been horrendously misinformed or something important not having been done.

They are collectively known as the Lazy Boys, and we think they may be on the capability procedure any time now. And we think we may know why their previous managers were so happy to release them to a different team.

Cheeky Lazy Fuckers.

JaretsGirlfren · 27/06/2018 19:55

I work in a large cafe in a department store and colleague who is a major twat anyway told me I’d have to sweep the floor as he was too tall and the short brush made his back ache but I’d be fine cos I’m short Hmm

Fatted · 27/06/2018 20:01

Our bosses sent an email around the other week asking all part time staff (90% of whom are women with children of school age) if they would like to increase their hours/work full time over the summer. Confused

MagentaRocks · 27/06/2018 20:07

fatted I don’t see what’s CFery about that. There’s no harm in asking and there might be some people that can do it and would like to earn a bit more over the summer.

ButDoYouAvocado · 27/06/2018 20:07

I did 10 looong years of retail management. Christmas is always super busy but I remember one CF popping her head round the door 2 weeks before Christmas and asking if she could have Christmas Eve off. Obviously i said no but did ask her why she needed it so badly.

'Well, I have got a turkey to prepare'.

Yes, you me and everyone else in the shop love

ButDoYouAvocado · 27/06/2018 20:08

That sounds boring as fuck now I read it back. Sorry everyone Grin

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 27/06/2018 20:12

A young girl I had working part time in my office swapped our desks around because she preferred to face the door. As in go through all my stuff in my drawers, files, personal bits and bobs etc and swap it with hers. When I came in the next morning and stood speechless in the office she simpered that I was only cross at her because she was younger than me.

Fired....

River93 · 27/06/2018 20:13

A colleague of mine who is normally almost always late, arrived in 40 mins early on Monday and claimed the only fan in the office and set it up on his desk blowing on his face all day. He then proceeded to comment all day long how hot it was.

Said colleague always goes out of his way to ensure dental/gp/car appointments fall in the morning of a work day around 10am. He does this so that he comes in first, fires up his computer and has a coffee. He then leaves for the appointment and arrives back just in time for his lunch Hmm

mayhew · 27/06/2018 20:16

We had a community midwife who was notoriously bad at responding when on call at night. It caused all kinds of conniptions covering home births. She claimed the work phone had a very bad signal where she lived.
We asked tech people to investigate. Her phone seemed to be functioning well in Brighton. Unfortunately, her on call patch was in east London.

River93 · 27/06/2018 20:16

Also an ex boss of mine who used to get his employees doing his day to day errands, returning things to shops for him, helping him out around his house which was conveniently close to our workplace, dropping off and picking up his kids from classes. He would then complain when work wasn’t finished on time

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