#3635

My boss has said that when we go back on the 19th, they’ll be trialling staff wfh for 2 days a week if they wish. Except for some reason it’s not open to the team I’m on, despite the fact we’ve been doing it for 16 months and it’s been absolutely fine.

In the same meeting he told us off for not using enough leave, then later said if we have to isolate we’ll need to use annual or unpaid leave :upside_down_face:

Can’t wait to go back :partying_face:

#3636

Proper shite, this. (The first para sounds daft also.)

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#3637

It is, we’ve had to isolate a couple of times after cases in my daughter’s nursery, and it’s a trying time. The thought of losing leave or money to do it adds insult to injury

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#3638

when the work irk is yourself and your own poor time management skills :thinking:

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#3639

the manager of one of the other teams in my area has been promoted so my manager is looking after their team at the minute so that whole team are in all our Teams meetings for now. there’s an old American guy in their team who never stops talking and literally every meeting devolves into stories about his life for a solid 20 minutes. absolutely cba.

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#3640

It’s been said before but working remotely has definitely highlighted some of the issues people have with meeting discipline/ structure.

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#3641

IT department have failed to renew our Adobe licenses, so that’s all of the design team and film-makers unable to do any work for the time being

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#3642
Very irked by this

Warning: this is really boring and not that big of a deal but is annoying.

Put a holiday request in for a week from 13th of August (parents coming down). Could see on the calendar my boss was also off on the 13th so I added a note with my request referencing that, ‘sorry there’s a day of overlap between us but hopefully OK’.

Got an email back from boss to me and colleague (with my request+note in it) asking if we can discuss holidays as all three of us (me, boss and colleague) will be off on the 13th. Was a bit surprised as my colleague’s wasn’t on the calendar, meaning he must’ve basically requested it at the same time as me or something.

Not critical for me to be off so I replied (with colleague CC’d) after an hour or so saying oops didn’t realise all three of us would be off, I can just meet parents a bit later so I’m fine to work it. He replied in the morning saying thanks and can I update my request, which I did. Then he accepted it later that afternoon.

Just looking on the calendar now and the only person off on the 13th is my boss still? So what the fuck is he on about? If he knew that my colleague was also off on the 13th then surely there was a request made, which he now would’ve accepted, and would now be on the calendar. I honestly think he’s read my note ‘sorry about the overlap between us’ and immediately assumed that meant that all three of us were off. And why didn’t my colleague reply saying ‘I’m not off on the 13th?’.

#3643

Bleurgh.

Just gotta reword that last para and send to your boss, to find out what’s going on, I reckon.

If there’s nothing shady, you’ll be reet.

If there is, then they’ll know you’re on to them, though it’ll prolly change sod all, but at least you’ll have called them out in an entirely innocent way that surely has no potential for any comeback ruckus.

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#3644

Maybe your colleague requested 13 September, not august, and your boss got confused? That way your colleague would have assumed your boss was talking about that date maybe

#3645

I don’t think so as my boss isn’t off that day, it’s so mind-bogglingy stupid the whole thing. I’m most baffled by my colleague reading the initial email, my response, and him not saying anything (the initial response from boss shows the dates I requested in the fancy formatting of the HR software we use, so can’t even be mistaken, it’s in big bold numbering etc).

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#3646

Oh and colleague has holidays on the calendar for October. So if he’s already added those he wouldve done August 13th. Fucking bizarre.

#3647

Sounds like a massive load of confusion but hopefully ends with you getting the full week off.

Can you just ask colleague if they do have that day booked off and if not go back to your boss and say there has been some confusion.

#3648

Reckon I will need to work through August with hardly any holiday because I have spent so much time waiting on people to get back to me about their dev requirements for a project…for weeks.
The business analyst that normally chases people up has retired so now I have to do that and all the build work.
In the emails to chase stuff I’m even spelling it out like “Will you need a check-in screen for user type x, in scenario y?” Just say yes or No and then I can fucking design it!! Just blink once for yes! You are NOT that fucking busy!

#3649

Why does everyone in mainland Europe wait until July to get translation work sent out before they leave the office until September? I’ve had work requests coming out of my ears and have to turn almost all of them down cos I’m already busy. Where were you in February???

#3650

Skiing

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#3651

Haha it’s the same with us. Italian client comes along saying they want to put a massive dossier together for submission in sept. Tell them it’s tight, ask if they are ok with weekly meetings and a 3 day review turnaround for drafts. They then let us know they’re out of office for all of august :upside_down_face:

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#3652

I’m jealous as well cos I need to be better at taking holiday, I haven’t had a full week off work since September (not counting the three weeks I took off after my dad died as that was definitely not relaxing)

#3653

I have a co-worker who doesn’t steam the milk properly for lattes and it drives me nuts. It probably shouldn’t.

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#3654

Was just sat on a call, on my own, for 15 mins waiting for an external to call. She has already rescheduled this twice. I’m well annoyed right now…