The Work Thread

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Drumstick wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Slayerx wrote:I have an interview Monday for a job in risk and compliance

Congrats. This used to be very much my area.

Funniest part about this is that slayerx is from Bradford.

"My name is Slayerx and I came up with the Bradford Factor."

"Fuckinell lad, what a belter, that's my favourite sickness absence policy! You've got the job!"

One great post amongst pages of dross. I'll take it.

Got an interview for a high up marketing role in a Dutch travel company on Monday, fussed enough.about it to care but not enough to be shitting it so i should nail it. Hopefully.

Apologies, but I need to vent and don't have anywhere else to go.

My greatest fear has come true. One of the ladies at work was violently/sexually assaulted by a patient over the weekend. The response from management hasn't been great and it's cemented my decision to leave. I don't have a registration to risk losing, but I do have my sanity. I love helping patients, and thrive delivering care in tough situations. But this place is so dangerous. It's unsustainable to stay. I feel strawberry floating terrible for the lass. Everyone is strawberry floated up because of it.

There's a meeting with HR next month because of the results of the staff questionnaire sent out being less than favourable. The two main managers need sacked. Their incompetence and poor decision making have left staff vulnerable and we've had too many near misses covered up. I have an interview at the end of the month, and I think I'll accept whatever comes. If I've got somewhere to go, I'll feel confident in being vocal at the meeting without fear of repercussions. Which unfortunately seems to be an issue here with many support staff holding back for the sake of keeping their wages. It's a shite state of affairs and I want no part of it anymore. I've seen and been victim to plenty of attacks, but this one has really got to me, and I don't think these feelings will go away any time soon.

Jesus

That's awful. What's worse is that it could have been prevented.

So I watched the CCTV. (Because it was on in the background screen in the office through some error) It's absolutely horrific. The nursing team have been absolutely brilliant, two staying on overnight to maintain safety, and talks of a collection for the lass given she's not entitled to sick pay and it's unlikely to be covered (I know, absolute joke) but I'm still strawberry floated. Nurse in charge gave handover in tears. Everyone was so solemn this morning and I'm struggling to hold it together on the bus home having repressed it all night working. I thought I was hardened to everything mental Heath nursing could throw at us but I've never felt so vulnerable. And I wasn't even involved.

Jesus christ
Definitely an environment you need to be away from, hopefully the results from the interview will go well even if it ends up being a stop gap job while you look for something else.

Is there any kind of legal action the victim can take for failings to ensure her safety? Certainly sounds worth going to see a solicitor and many of them will give a free half hour consultation to see if you've got a case.

Bunni wrote:Apologies, but I need to vent and don't have anywhere else to go.

My greatest fear has come true. One of the ladies at work was violently/sexually assaulted by a patient over the weekend. The response from management hasn't been great and it's cemented my decision to leave. I don't have a registration to risk losing, but I do have my sanity. I love helping patients, and thrive delivering care in tough situations. But this place is so dangerous. It's unsustainable to stay. I feel strawberry floating terrible for the lass. Everyone is strawberry floated up because of it.

There's a meeting with HR next month because of the results of the staff questionnaire sent out being less than favourable. The two main managers need sacked. Their incompetence and poor decision making have left staff vulnerable and we've had too many near misses covered up. I have an interview at the end of the month, and I think I'll accept whatever comes. If I've got somewhere to go, I'll feel confident in being vocal at the meeting without fear of repercussions. Which unfortunately seems to be an issue here with many support staff holding back for the sake of keeping their wages. It's a shite state of affairs and I want no part of it anymore. I've seen and been victim to plenty of attacks, but this one has really got to me, and I don't think these feelings will go away any time soon.

Christ Donna, if you need to chat you know where I am.

Drumstick wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Re back to work interviews, these are crucial IMO and are the most important aspect of sickness management. It does come down again to consistency and it provides the ability to crack down on a potential sickness absence issue from the very beginning and fully document the entire situation for future use if necessary. In your situation, it might seem unnecessary, however what's to say you won't develop a sickness problem in the future and how would other team members feel if you were left out of the management process just because you were considered reliable by your manager?

From my POV, back to work interviews are a waste of my time. They basically consist of three lines of interrogation:

1) What was wrong with you, how bad was it?
2) Are you OK now? Along with perhaps further questioning just to double check the employee isn't faking it
3) Will this be a problem in future?

I see them as companies choosing to actively demonstrate mistrust of their employees to not take advantage of stuff like sick pay. I do understand that it's important to document how often someone is sick in case you get someone with 10-20 different instances over 12 months but this "cracking down" type mentality companies have is nonsense considering that >99% of employees do not do this (at least in my experience).

There's also a feeling that managers aren't treated the same as those on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder in this regard. They very often pull the "work from home" card if they are unwell so that it doesn't go against their sick record thus circumventing the entire process and rendering it inherently unfair on those further down the food chain (and this comes from someone who has the option of working from home).

I agree with this in the main, but I think there's a case for back to work interviews particularly in the face of mental health absences. It's worth having a chat with the employee to see if anything can be done to help with workloads etc.

Crikey. That's horribly sad.

It sucks even more that this could have been avoided. It's worrying that it takes something like this to actually force things that should be a right to you all.

The bosses failed to keep people safe. They should go.

thats a disgrace Bunni, so sad to hear

So to change the mood slightly I had an interview for that job thats way closer to home and I feel like it went pretty well. Seems like it will be a bit of a step up in terms of scope and responsibility but it would be a good challenge to tackle something like that. They said they would let me know either way early next week so fingers crossed and everything. I dont think Ive ever been this nervous about a job application before, but this really would be a great change to be able to make.

All the most sensible and decent to chat to about work/issues etc people have buggered off on holiday.

It's gonna be a long two weeks.

Work Colleague: "Yeah I was an only child"
Me "Oh that explains it"
Work Colleague:

I'm not going to last 2 weeks.

Update on the risk and compliance role I interviewed for Monday, the one everyone keeps asking me at work if I've heard anything.

Unofficially I can say I got the job and apparently blew the two people away in my interview.

Just keep it on the down low guys and gals

Congrats Slayer!

Slayerx wrote:
Unofficially I can say I got the job and apparently blew two people in my interview:

Well done!

Nice one, Slayer.

If you blew the interviewers I'm not surprised you got the job.

Nice 1 bbz x

Slayerx wrote:Update on the risk and compliance role I interviewed for Monday, the one everyone keeps asking me at work if I've heard anything.

Unofficially I can say I got the job and apparently blew the two people away in my interview.

Just keep it on the down low guys and gals

Nice one mate!

Lagamorph wrote:If you blew the interviewers I'm not surprised you got the job.

They told me it was standard procedure for an interview