Sickie days

Phuck that! That's pure exploitation pure & simple. Take a day or 2, polish up the CV & see if you can get anything better because working more than 48 hours in one week is illegal unless you work in certain occupations. Given you wont get a penny over €400 I'd say you don't fall into that catagory. Get out while you have your health & your sanity.

No don't .write a stiff letter to your local politician.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No, I respect my employer and don't take the job for granted.

Does Bertie whip you?

CelticSeaShip wrote: »

Have you ever pulled a sickie day? I'm thinking about pulling a sick day for tomorrow. I'm just so fed up of my job. By the time today ends I will have clocked up 43 hours work since Monday and my week still is 3 over. The real kicker is that I won't earn a cent over 400 euro. No over time pay.

I just left a job for that very reason. They were taking the p1ss, contracted me for an area close to home (which was why I applied in the first place, I have family commitments), told them even in the interview I can't commit to a regular commute to Dublin.
Was scheduled for Dublin a few times every week, never got my promised mileage money for working out of area, and in the end between childcare and fuel I had 0 left and even had to top up with my husband's pay to keep me working.
So yeah, not worth it, you'll find something else, much better. Take that sick day, don't feel bad, it's the end of the road.

Take that sick day and never go back
They sound exploitative

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Excellent advice utter. Should have a good old-fashioned ‘hand shandy’, then go back to snoozeysnoozyland for a few hours. Get up in the afternoon and rock down to the local for a few pots and a good carvery dinner.

A solid plan JF. No harm in a bit of 'personal time' to unwind.

You'll be long enough fcuking dead.

CelticSeaShip wrote: »

I'm supposed to be working from 8.30 til 6 every day but it's never 6. I have to wait for my employer to come in and relieve me and its never 6. Its more like 7 or 8 or 9. Tomorrow will be much and the same - morning time til evening so it will be like a 55 hour week if I do tomorrow.

Fcuk it OP, you don't need a day off. Take a dive for the week. Go to the doctor and say you have a bad repetitive strain injury or some such ailment.

CelticSeaShip wrote: »

I'm supposed to be working from 8.30 til 6 every day but it's never 6. I have to wait for my employer to come in and relieve me and its never 6. Its more like 7 or 8 or 9. Tomorrow will be much and the same - morning time til evening so it will be like a 55 hour week if I do tomorrow.

Ah man. I feel for you. That's unacceptable. It really is. And I take it you are only being paid up to 40 hours.

Do yourself a big favour and tell your boss you can't accept it. Either he comes in at 18:00 or you are walking. Document all the extra hours you work. Make sure you have all the evidence you require should something more come of it.

You are the one being taken advantage of here. You lose out. I know you might want to please but a good boss respects a person that can first respect themselves. How can you respect yourself if you let this guy walk all over you. Taking the sickie is then a passive aggressive move.

I have been there. I understand. It's easier said than done. You'll feel much better for bring it up and trying to resolve it.

Best of luck with it.

i was working full time since i was 18, worked hard for a few years after school on building sites, i learned early on that you need to stand up for yourself, if you want something ask for it. my employer sometimes asked us to work saturdays then tried not paying us for them, i told him every time that i was owed for saturday and got paid, the other guy the same age as me never said anything, he ended up working 4 or 5 saturdays for free the ejit, in the end he just told the employer he was busy saturdays. too quiet to just say look i worked saturday now pay me for it.

i asked the same employer for an increase every year i was on the sites and got them. the others were too quiet to ask for them.

While I don’t condone the taking of “sick” days, unless you’re actually sick, I have done it and you, OP, sound like you need it.

Here’s my advice on the subject:

1. Only take days off from Tuesday to Thursday, unless you can get it “certified”.

2. Always take two days, this decreases suspicion and causes those who doubted your “illness” to feel a little bad for that.

3. The reason for taking two days is that the period of illness is classed as one “instance” of sickness. This matters if you have a number of instances within a certain time period as HR will get on your case, so in for a penny etc.

4. Use the days wisely, by all means fritter away the first one in from of the tv and “frittering away” at yourself but on Day 2 you should really get out of the house, never into the city centre or large shopping centres. You never know who’ll you could bump into but there are a lot of sights to be seen out there.

5.a It’s never a “waste” of money to go see your GP with the sole purpose of getting a sick note. It’s very rare that a doctor won’t provide this but, on the off chance, they do then I recommend requesting getting them to “check” your testicles.

5.b If you’re over 40 then complain of late night trips to the bathroom but only urinating small amounts, say you’re “worried” about your prostate. They should write the note there and then but, if not, be sure to back into their finger during the “exam”. At least you’ll have gotten you’re money’s worth and they should think twice before refusing a note in future.

Good luck, OP.