would you say something if this was happening to you?

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I have changed names for this as my collegues may use this site.

I have been working part time for the nhs for a few years now and something has ben bothering me but I don't now if anything can be done about it.

the full time collegues on my team basically are not working full time! they maybe work one hour a day more than me and that time is just wasted sitting around.

my job involves going around to see patients for most of the working day and then going back to the office to write up my work, no I work 9-2 so the earliest I will go to write up work is 1, my collegues should be working 9-5 but they mostly go back to the office at the samew time as me then leave an hour after of sometimes earlier.

also at the beginning of the day we sort out who neeeds to be seen and they always divide it equlally even though I'm not working the same amount of hours as them.

I am coming to resent this as basically I'm getting half their salary when I'm putting in as much work and it isn't fair!

The manager is in the same office most of the time so she knows it goes on but hasn't done anything about it.

I would like it to stop obviously but I don't know who to approach.

thanks in advance.

I think I would: Approach the manager and ask her to let you know when the workload will begin to be shared out to reflect the fact that you work part-time. I think it's probably best not to engage with your colleagues on this one because then it may become personal, and it's a management issue. I don't think I would mention the possible shirking - maybe when they've got a fairer share of the work they'll have less time to come back early anyway! Good luck.

Thing is manager isn't very tactful so it will come back onto me and I doubt she would do anything about it. Because she is there and sees it happening but she doesn't seem to care.
I dread going into work most days as I'm running around and I'm not entitled to a lunch break because I only work 5 hours, whereas they are but they work unofficially same time as me!

The manager doesn't share out the workload the colleagues do, They often get in 10-15 mins before me and sort out the work for the day.

Maybe go to your personnel dept and ask them how to deal with it.

tricky.

I would be finding a new job if it were me.

I would say something. It's an issue for your manager to deal with and it needs dealing with.

Having said that, your manager sounds rubbish. Often if someone has a problem and doesn't feel their manager could or would deal with it effectively I would advise the person to try and resolve it with colleagues directly, but I'm not sure how doable that is for you - when it's something like this it really does need to be dealt with by management.

Why do you think your manager doesn't care? Do you think he/she is scared of dealing with difficult problems and is being taken advantage of by your colleagues? It sounds as though that might be the case, in which case it's a very sensitive problem.

Without knowing the personalities involved it's tricky to advise on this. Is there someone nice in HR you feel you could have a chat with and ask their opinion on the best thing to do to avoid making anything worse?

Thanks for the responses, Yes flowerybeanbag, The manager is quite sensitive and she has only been in the job for a year, so she is the newest team member and I feel she is intimidated by the longer serving members of the team. She has been off sick now for coming on 3 weeks so I think the job is getting to her!

the assistant manager and two of the fulltimers are very close friends so no point going to her.

also theres only myself and one other person who are part time so it is quite obvious who raised the issue!

I'm just so angry with this blatant pisstaking!

The good thing is I'm might be leaving soon to go back to university but that isn't finalised yet.

Also don't want new part time recruits to have to put up with this. aghhh it's difficult!