Nice one! Enjoy your freedom Raiz. I hope you managed to squeeze some big business dollars out of them.

Thanks, Shabby! I couldn’t stomach the legal battle, so no fat wad to walk away with. But I’ve been preparing for this eventuality for a long time (I haven’t had a holiday for almost 20 years!) so I should be okay.

Full-on retirement is getting more tempting.

What about a quill?

Well... some marking is fine. Not much.

And not in fucking felt tip pen.

Somewhere exotic, like Darlington.

So the CSW positions were down by the time I got round to having time to apply for them.

And, just been told my contract will be extended, but only by three months, as I've been told they "have concerns", not just about my absences, but my work/"wee things I've heard" from charge hands (who literally do fuck all themselves).

A bit scunnered.

Got a meeting on Tuesday as my knee absence made me reach a "trigger point". Will probably get a written warning. Seperate issue to the contract so hopefully I'll get a conversation around just that when it comes to it being signed.

Not to mention I've been made to go cover A&E so they have a porter for this backshift after absolutely no cunt noticed they didn't. On the hottest day of the year.

Oh, and I've had three knockback emails today from jobs.

More than a bit scunnered.

That's utter bullshit, Gav.

cockbeard wrote:

wee things I've heard???

What a cop-out prick that is

Absolutely, they have to tell you specifically what their concerns are, because if they don't there is no way you can make improvements which is, in my unqualified opinion, constructive dismissal.

Can't really contest the absence stuff, as it's all there in the Absence Policy in B&W. What I will fucking contest is some lazy fucker chargehand who sits in an office all day doling out patient movement jobs (which in itself will be redundant when the long-broken iPhone system gets reinstated next month) having the fucking nerve to say I'm not pulling weight. The fantastic irony was I was told this by my boss as she sat and watched me wipe my brow, out of breath, cos I'd been shafted and put up in A&E with no notice on the hottest day of the year due to a fuck up by a chargehand. So that's not pulling weight, naw?

Fuckers.

GooberTheHat wrote:

cockbeard wrote:

wee things I've heard???

What a cop-out prick that is

Absolutely, they have to tell you specifically what their concerns are, because if they don't there is no way you can make improvements which is, in my unqualified opinion, constructive dismissal.

He hasn't had the meeting yet they'll tell him specifics then, also hitting a trigger point only means you have to have a discussion about it, it's not a certain warning, especially for the first trigger point hit. The discussion normally happens on your return to work like, dunno why it's happening now, unless there have been more than x absences within a certain period.

Get yourself through to Lothian Gav!
Need phlebotomists too in Livingston, but training available.

Interesting occ health/physio assistant role in GGC

They're recruiting drivers for the out of hours service too, which is another band 2 NHS job.  There are a few other portering ones on the NHS Scotland site, including a band 2 one in Inverness which is a bit of a commute.  If you did get an NHS role though, it opens up so much; the Lothian Staff Bank has band 2 roles for porters to work as ad-hoc car park attendants when they're needed, which is a great way to grab an extra half-shift!

Gav, did you get a letter requesting a formal meeting? If not I don't think you can get a warning. Try not to stress. If they wanted shot of you they wouldn't have extended your contract, there's no need to manage you out the door.

The wee things will be just that, chicken shit gripes, you have the opportunity to give them your side of the situation in the meeting, that might sort it or it'll be something for you to work on. Either way don't work yourself up over it.

Yes Dave, I get all that. The absence stuff is what it is tbh. I've got a letter for the meeting.

Contract stuff is separate, and I'll handle that when it happens.

A day of many, many minor annoyances building up in the summer heat leads to a very unhappy Gav. I'll show em.

Thanks again, lads, for listening to my gripes.

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