Snow skivers
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Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Ridiculous, one numbskull when asked if why he couldn't get to work said "My car won't drive in the snow" so they asked how he got out to the sledging hill and he said "I borrowed my wifes 4x4, she didn't go to work either". He deserves to get disciplined for being such a dimwit, cannot imagine his missus was that impressed either!.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
That's one days pay docked then
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
Why would anyone employ such a dimwit in the first place.
Couple of years ago when we had the snow, all my workers made it in except 1. He said it was too far to walk 1 mile, yet about 5 others made it in walking/driving 5 miles. I was not impressed. He was not impressed losing a days pay but hey ho.
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Employers should just make people make up the time or not be paid for a day or make them use annual leave.
Simple.as.that.
If they call in sick that's up to them. Most employers have procedures in place for too much sick leave. Unless its a really bad illness the majority of people wouldn't be off for anymore than 4 weeks in a year. I've personally taken no sick in the last 5 years except on 1 occasion where I was seriously ill for 3 weeks. I work in an office though so can sympathise with those who do a more manual job.
Simple.as.that.
If they call in sick that's up to them. Most employers have procedures in place for too much sick leave. Unless its a really bad illness the majority of people wouldn't be off for anymore than 4 weeks in a year. I've personally taken no sick in the last 5 years except on 1 occasion where I was seriously ill for 3 weeks. I work in an office though so can sympathise with those who do a more manual job.
Goring Gull
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You will genrally find theses idiots are the ones bosses would love to get shot of, There was a lad at our place today "snow skiving" how i wanted him to appear on the screen laughing about skiving off, He'd be having a permanent skive..... Lazy fecker.
Northstandite
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Should have kept their balaclavas on.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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People in Ditchling are saying that the village school is shut because most of the teachers live in Brighton and can't get there. Hope it's not true. If it is true it would go some way to explaining why the school doesn't do as well as you'd expect in Ofsted reports
Kumquat
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Where I used to work, "working from home" was usually equated with not working. In fact it was routine for people at a certain grade to just email in and say that they would be working from home that day, snow or not. Funny, they always seemed to take so much longer to reply to emails.
Justice
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This is a strange thread do people having a sneaky snow day off bother you that much? live you own lives.
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Idiots for going on TV and the BBC are idiots for asking the question.
The BBC annoys me anyway. I think afterwards the presenters said "We don't want everyone to take a day off work, or something along those lines."
Why do the BBC have to constantly remind people not to do this, and not do that. It gets on my bloody nerves. Nobody can take responsibility for their own actions anymore can they. If these people get the sack it's their own bloody fault.
The BBC annoys me anyway. I think afterwards the presenters said "We don't want everyone to take a day off work, or something along those lines."
Why do the BBC have to constantly remind people not to do this, and not do that. It gets on my bloody nerves. Nobody can take responsibility for their own actions anymore can they. If these people get the sack it's their own bloody fault.
nwgull
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For me, I'm quite productive when working from home, in between wanks.
turienzo's lovechild
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my friend was the only one in her team from brighton who made it in yesterday (to worthing), as everyone else was "snowed in"
that includes someone who lives on the SAME ROAD
that includes someone who lives on the SAME ROAD
forrest
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Snow skivers piss me off. Especially when i have to do my own work and their fecking work because they can't be arsed to come in. Remember a few years back I walked into to work and when I got in found out that the bloke who lives a few doors down from me who I work with said it wasn't coming in because of the snow. Lazy ****!
In my previous role I was entirely home based - I ended up working more hours than if I went to an office as I tended use the time I would otherwise be traveling to actually do some work. Around 30% of the company were home workers. It was very obvious who the shirkers were and they very quickly would have their contracts changed to office working pretty quickly.
The attitude that annoys me is the one that some bosses seem to have which is automatically home working is a bad thing because everyone would skive. When managed properly it can save a company a fortune AND get better productivity from staff ( partly because they tend to work longer hours and partly because they feel valued and trusted ).
Southstandfaithful
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I am lucky enough to be able to work from home one day a week and usually find i work a lot harder on this day than the others...... I admit that i do take time to put on a load of washing or nip to post office etc.... but i also get up at the same time i would to commute to work and start work and i don't usually log off until about an hour after i would have left the office. As the previous poster said you do get a few that abuse the priviledge but most appreciate the perk and respond by working hard.....