I work for a chain supermarket. Of course, these days chain supermarkets all have draconian absence policies (under the pretense of preventing false sickness claims but with the obvious aim of just shitting people up so much they're too scared to call in sick). I called in sick on Saturday. I was really sick. I was better on Sunday so I went in and did my shift. Apparently they'd been phoning me on Saturday afternoon to tell me not to come in on Sunday because you get paid time and a half on Sundays, and that means my recovery was obviously suspicious and motivated entirely by wanting some extra money, or some shit. They told me to stay and work when they realised there was nobody else in to do my job, but they were still sniffily demanding to know why I didn't answer the phone on Saturday (A: because I was in bed sick).
Annnnyway, they're telling me I can't have any sick pay because I didn't follow the absence procedures properly, chiefly because I didn't let them know until 7:40am, ten minutes after my shift started, when you're supposed to ring an hour in advance. I'd been ringing since 6:40, constantly, and nobody had answered the phone til 7:40. During my return interview I unthinkingly told the truth, so they were all 'ah, well even so if you didn't start ringing til 6:40 it wasn't an hour in advance so you didn't do it properly anyway...'(there's never anybody there at 6:30, and apparently they had the phone set so that it was ringing in the wrong room anyway).
This isn't the 3-day SSP stuff, so are they entirely at liberty to not pay me if they don't want to?
(This is obviously quite boring but I'd appreciate advice from any employment law experts happening by)
― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
all it takes in one little can of soup to tip over and WHAMMMMO there goes aisle 8, all over the floor
― kephm (kephm), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Sometimes I do start to suspect that there really are people who sit back in their chairs, rubbing their hands and going "Mwah ha ha - I'm so evil!"
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)
The amount of week-of-leaving revenge plans I've constructed in the past 24 hours is alarming
― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)
Pee in the office coffee pot or in your boss's mug was the first thing that came to mind but that's probably not a good idea. I like the idea that supermarkets are encouraging sick people to come to work. It makes me trust their general hygiene even more.
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, the amount of my phlegm that's currently being disseminated around Birmingham aboard various groceries is probably even more alarming
― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)
Jobs like that really are the worst you can get. I'd rather do hard labor, frankly.
― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Not an employment law expert, but..
Type everything out, and mail it to your local authority who is in charge of enforcing this sort of thing (I don't know where you live). You tried to call and couldn't get through. Don't let them blame you for it.
My mom was a cashier, I know all about the corruption in these places.
― k3rry (dymaxia), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)
Why not imply a work-related RSI that you think might be developing?
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)