Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
poor man management
- Thread starter henman
- Start date
- Location
- Cumbria
Every employee is entitled to the statutory holiday allowance of 28 days per year, it is the employers choice if this includes Bank Holidays or not. If you work irregular hours, you entitled to paid time off for the hours worked.
For some, it's because the kids aren't at school, and they like spending time with their kids. Mostly they lounge around watching the telly though, so not entirely sure of the value.
- Location
- Wirral
Hero's are out in full force I see. Ironic that a thread about poor man management turns into a willy waving competition about not taking time off..... 
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
If you had every second weekend off for 3 years, would you go about telling people you hadn't had a day off for 3 years?Hero's are out in full force I see. Ironic that a thread about poor man management turns into a willy waving competition about not taking time off.....
Its no wonder farmers are replacing people with machines/technology.
I think it was every weekend off wasnt it?
NHS is one of the few things that needs to be 24/7 but your statistically more likely to die if you are admitted on a weekend. They all work very hard on a weekend but it is skeleton staff and very few specialists
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Your right it was!
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I'm lucky i enjoy what i do.
Wouldn't grudge a nurse cleaning shitty arses a weekend off. Poor guy opposite me sh!t himself twice in a couple of hours. Second time it was because the nurse had given him a laxative after the first time because she could hardly speak any English and had arrived from Africa a week before.
She was delighted with my farmers guardian her cousin at home was a farmer and loved growing things.
You'd think someone could organise a rota so some decent staff on at weekends. Some wards just get emptied on a Friday for weekend.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
5.6 weeks holidays. So 28 days if you do a 5 day week
We employ people now and try to give as much time off as possible. Most weekends when not on seasonal work. Iv worked for other people and dreading asking for enough time off for a haircut is no fun and there was a pile of us working there and trust me the day the boss was an arse, as soon as he left the boys had a tea break. When they were out contracting for another farmer and the farmer brought out chips and said thanks they would work all night without a word said. Working people 7 days a week all the time doesn't always get more work done
ollie989898
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Unfortunately you are right, the bulk of consultants are largely 9-5 Mondays to Fridays.
supercow
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- Location
- Dumfriesshire
Well said!! Lotta willy wavers. When I was early 20’s I used to boast about how hard I worked, I have since realised its really boring chatHero's are out in full force I see. Ironic that a thread about poor man management turns into a willy waving competition about not taking time off.....
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
No I'd be telling them I hadn't had a holiday in 3 years.
So would you be happy to leave a quarter of a million pounds worth of stock, equipment etc to be looked after by a chap who hasn't had a proper break since Cameron was PM?
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
You are joking right? Think it's fine for a stockman to work 5 out of 7 for years, but you've slating the NHS for being poorly organised?
Perhaps the Chief Executive of the Regional Health Authority keeps telling everyone "When I was your age I was lucky to get a couple of hours off to sleep-you need to man up!
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
Seems the hours for dairy farm workers are getting longer,
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
At least he would know what he was doing
- Location
- Wirral
Or more likely farms are struggling to find skilled staff prepared to work long hours with little to no time off. There is a labor crisis in the industry at the moment. Flick through FB for more than 5mins and you will see countless job adverts and a list of drongos tagging each other, none of whom I would want to employ.
Its telling on here that there are some employers who understand to keep good staff they need to look after them and then there are those who don't have a clue!
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
If they couldn't have a cellphone at their workplace it might get shorter again - often there's quite a difference between being 'at work' and 'doing work' from what I've seen.
Some folks can turn a 5 minute task into 35 minutes, so will always have long days
Others have managers who expect 23 things done between milkings, also....
ollie989898
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You get used to it. I changed our kids and still do for one of them, just a procedure to do now.
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