work and injurys

shanejer said:My works great found a way around the fact holidays were full on the week of Europe's so now I can go. Gave me time off for all competitions and also let me eat and drink when I want irrespective of the break system they use! And I'm 100% sure they'd force me to take time off if I had a bad injury and was even wanting to come in

Thing said:
Don't you work at a tanning salon?

MattD90 said:
Some companies are so tightly stretched because they are too tight to hire more staff, that they pretty much always moan no matter when you take your holiday. I worked at one place that was pretty much never satisfied when you took it, they'd box you into a tiny window in the year when they'd strongly prefer you to take it (strongly prefer = take it any other time and you will be the villain) and even then you came back from a week away practically the bad guy! Places like that ran on so few people that it became more like a small family and you were so depended on that when anyone took a holiday that pretty much meant productivity was down without exception, and everyone else got worked into the ground for a week with an illegally short dinner break. Some of the lads that worked there were so heavily pressured year round on being needed that they often simply forgot to book their holidays and didn't take them. The boss would just capitalize off the fact they'd often forget. And then the company wouldn't even pay for what wasn't taken, and you can't carry it over to next year, so the net effect was you got totally played.

I know I make this place sound like something from "Jobs From Hell" but you'd be surprised how many companies like this exist with quite nice and sincere bosses, that dont realise just how t**ttish they are being to their employees simply because they're too tight to hire an extra man.