Bobbyaro wrote:
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
I hate it when people do that. (Wave around a gov.uk summary of rights) without considering the fuller picture.
My staff get a contracted 25 days holiday a year. However if one takes into account the times they leave early/come in late for social (non medical) reasons with permission and no requirement to rework the time, allowed and encouraged to take long lunches, and other things where I intentionally ignore the limitation placed on them by the staff handbook, they all get, and know they get, a lot more than this.
If any of them bounded into my office saying that they had a cold yesterday and so want the days holiday that they took back, waving a screenprint of their employment rights, they would get the day holiday back with no questions, and also immediately revert to 9-5 with an hour for lunch and a requirement to make up any hours from arriving early/leaving late, without exception, for the rest of their careers in this office. This has happened before.
Yes, but if your employer waves the book at you every time you come in late, and doesn't encourage long lunches, etc. Then surely you are just as entitled to wave the book back at them when appropriate.
Hence the caveat of
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without considering the fuller picture.
I've seen people bullied into screaming RIGHTS by friends and family in the past, and massively shooting themselves in the foot with it to attain a marginal benefit, is what I meant.
I don't doubt, however, that in Mimi's situation the rationales are different (and I absolutely understand the view of "I get none of the good stuff, but I don't want my life here made even worse for the sake of getting this day back" - unfair for Mimi as that may be).