Cougar – I quite agree about family friendly polices being unfair on non parents. My point was just to illustrate that working a lot of christmas days need not be unfair. I work in a 24/7/365 job – so to get new year off I work christmas day. Half of our workforce works one, half the other

I manage several teams and there are clear policies around how many team members can be off at once. Sometimes is hard to give the bad news but it has to be done as we’re an ‘online’ company so we have to have a minimum staffing level at all times.

Another manager, at the same level as me, approved holiday for his much smaller team and they all ended being off for the same week! He then decided that it was ‘unfair’ that he can’t take every half term off because he has 2 children which apparently trumps my 1 child and a wife who is a teacher, it also trumps a third manager who is a single parent! he also thinks it’s OK to be on holiday and be on call at the same time!

Management is not always the cushy number people think it is!

So glad I’m self-employed..Nothinf to add other than dont put up with it if you dont want to.

What happened then?

Take a couple of days holiday – head to the IOM then get “sick” for seven days….

Take a couple of days holiday – head to the IOM then get “sick” for seven days….

Then disciplined for planned sickness as they’ve kindly warned her employer they’re going away.

I am hoping this just turns into a “my wife now has a new job” thread rather than just bashing this around. It seems that, regardless of the morals, the employer has the law on their side. They employee either leaves or puts up with it.
Get to it OP, find her another job and put us all out of her misery.

Outcome?

They all died 🙁

Stalker