Hey!
Hello Helen...yeah yeah likely story about the wet patch! Glad to see you here at last!xx
Bump is looking fabby!x
Well I am gonna have a ranting selfish post now....
Basically I am pissed off at OH work. He asked for a week today off so he could stay at home and help me as I am getting more tired...his work said no too many people off on the day shift (he works 7amor 08:30am until 7pm or 10pm and they usually say only 1 person off per shift) OKAY - fine. So last night he came home announcing that next weekend instead of working the late shift until 10pm he was doing early shifts (which would finish at 3pm as its the weekend yes strange shifts!) as they were short...erm hang on they wont give you annual leave but they will ask you to swap and help them cover??
So I said well can you get tomorrow off as weekends arent busy and noone on his shift is off so it shouldnt be a problem and they said no!
SERIOUSLY!! I went mental and told him he wasnt going to do the early shifts for them and they can find someone else...which he has and they are having to pay a contractor to do the shifts (probably 3 times more than if he did it so they are being shafted for money!)
It was only a few months ago they took him into a meeting about his sickness as he was off 4 times in the last 6 months with illness...yes he is never ill but Nathan started going to a childminder and I have been off about 10 times in 2 months...
Then they started on how he had emergency annual leave when he was snowed in
I mean was he meant to hike the 20 odd miles to work??
They dont give out careres leave (my work you get 2 weeks/10days) and they also said they "spotted a pattern" in his sickness but wouldnt elaborate
I am so so mad right now its untrue...I HATE his work
So you have to book annual leave 4 weeks in advance, if you want next day annual leave it HAS to be for an emergency. And wo betide you if your ill!!
I mean he works in ruddy IT!!
I work in the NHS and can call up sick, on the morning if I needed to I can also call in for emergency annual leave and can request annual leave for the next day so long as no more than another 1 or 2 staff are off sick/on leave!
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
So we are going to work out if I have baby on my due date he gets 2 weeks paternity leave then I am gonna make him put in for the following 2 weeks as annual leave...if I have baby early so be it!
And this is just the major part of my bad day....I swear its the 13th today not the 16th!!
I am gonna try and read back and see whats been going on over the last few days and try and catch up.
So sorry for the rant I have been a hormonal crying mess all day because of these idiots!!
Emma.xx