To still be pissed off from yesterday!

[Memedru]

Had a problem at work yesterday and it still makes me feel angry the more I think about it

So my partner told me on Thursday morning that there is a problem at work and will need to be in early on the Friday, only reason he told me this is because he would normally be dropping little on at nursery and his work is normally very flexible, normally starts work at 6am but he can start at 8am if he need to drop little one off!

Anyway I work for the NHS and due to work yesterday, so phoned up the ward on Thursday to let them know I had no other options but I needed to drop little one off at nursery and would be in 1 hour late, this was fine!

Anyway I turn up at work yesterday at 8am like i said I would, manager strolls over to me, doesnt even say good morning and is straight in with "you need to stay on 1 hour extra today and not another day" this has pissed me off no end

So 5 months a go, I man from the health roster came round, to check what hours people owe etc, well it turns out the trust owes me 200 hours worth of pay, and I have now spent the last 5 months trying to get this money paid to me, which it still hasnt

Trying to get money out of them and they are dragging there heels, but as soon as I owe an hour, it has to be paid back there and then!

Partner said I should of told them to fuck off and take the 1 hour out of the 200 they owe me!

I don't know, how much notice did you give exactly, how easy is it to find a cover to replace you short notice?

"Working for the NHS" could mean anything and everything, so it's impossible to reply without details.

@thebillyotea

I don't know, how much notice did you give exactly, how easy is it to find a cover to replace you short notice?

"Working for the NHS" could mean anything and everything, so it's impossible to reply without details.

Sorry I am a nurse, and there was more than enough cover yesterday morning for 1 hour, unlike today where there was only 2 of us nurses for 30 patients and 9 of them being 1 to 1!

They had a good 18 hour notice!

If they didn’t owe you 200hours then I’d say suck it up but that really does take the cake! You can’t really say anything after the fact though, the moment has passed!

Well theres two things. Does the 200 hours have anything to do with manager? Can you use them for time off? If no then your manager has every right to insist you work your contract hours for that day - you were an hours late worh less than 24 hours notice, totally reasonable to work an hour later

The annoying thing is - why would you need to stay the hour later? Surely they have an appropriate rota and there was cover in place for when you’d usually leave (if it’s that type of role).
If they were inconvenienced at all it was the hour in the morning you weren’t there! So insisting you make it up that day is bizarre.

I would understand that If it was the general accepted policy that flexi was made up on the day or there was a clamp down on carrying over time owed etc but it sounds like you already do a shit ton of extra hours so none of this must be applicable.

In your shoes I’d be livid OP - your manager sounds like a prize twat. Depending on whether you think you can challenge it I would probably say something next time I was having a 121 with them - that you have no issue making up the time but it was abrupt and unnecessary considering the 200 hours I’ve not been paid for.

It’s give and take at work isn’t it - seems very much they are just taking.

@Hankunamatata

Well theres two things. Does the 200 hours have anything to do with manager? Can you use them for time off? If no then your manager has every right to insist you work your contract hours for that day - you were an hours late worh less than 24 hours notice, totally reasonable to work an hour later

I do agree with this in theory but it sounds like this isn’t the norm for OPs department - if it was the norm to ensure you worked your contracted hours regardless then she’d have known this and the whole post wouldn’t exist surely?

They've owed you 200 hours of pay for 5 months?! How is this legal?!