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I learned a very important lesson about employment recently
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostThe words 'wedgie' and 'dinner money' spring to mind.Comment
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Some great posts.
I suppose to balance out, there are some large good companies that do try to look after their employees. I read on BBC news a few weeks ago about how Aviva helped their employees with mental issues.
I guess it's business, nothing personal as the saying goes.Comment
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I'm not in IT, I build things. I'm still a contractor. Company I'm with now, well as a contractor, when I was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago they could have just said "Tata, come back when you are fit. Or not".
Instead of which they "invented" work that I could do at home for two or three days a week, tidy this document up, sort out the stuff saved on the server, write the package for this job that isn't starting for 3 months, that kind of thing. Couple of hours a day or "whatever I could manage".
And paid me my rate for three days a week until I got myself fit post op and ready to work full time again. 8 weeks of that, much better than Sick benefit.
Yes there are still companies out there that look after you. Even as a subbie. Few and far between, but I've been a subbie for so long now I wouldn't known how to be permie. I'd have to pretend to like people who I think are wazzoks.
Biggest problem it causes me is when I get other companies head hunting me and offering more when I'm in the middle of a project and my conscience says "Yes but".
Which is where I am right now...Comment
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Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostSome great posts.
I suppose to balance out, there are some large good companies that do try to look after their employees. I read on BBC news a few weeks ago about how Aviva helped their employees with mental issues.
I guess it's business, nothing personal as the saying goes.
I have known plenty of different people work in work in different sectors of the same large companies. One sector is treated well while the rest are treated like sh*t. The ones in the sector that is treated well then don't understand why some of those in the other sectors moan, want to go on strike etc. and cannot believe their company is actually a bad employer for a large percentage of their workforce."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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