When I was teaching it was easier to go in unwell rather than come up with cover work for all your classes and return to chaos because the cover teacher let them arse around. That and SLT would investigate it if you were ill more than 5 days in an academic year.
I worked at a place where it was seen as a badge of honour to stay late as if it was almost a good thing you didn’t have time to get your work done in the day.
The same place we were contracted to work 36.5 hours per week but my Director pulled me in because I was ‘letting’ my team leave an hour ‘early’ each week even though that was their contracted hours and all of them worked over that anyway!
Three hours we spent ‘debating it’ one night and his argument was our contracts said it was neither a minimum or a maximum so he thought that was some kind of out. He even went to HR about it who just replied it wasn’t a minimum or a maximum like that was some sort of answer.
Needless to say my team continued to take their hour and fuck all was said again.
He was a c**t though who once added to an SLT away day agenda that morale (which was on its arse) was not an item that we could talk about with him.
Or they have too high a workload.
Yeah I've worked in places where it's frowned upon to take a lunch break (rather than eating at the desk)
Taking Mrs BSB as an example, she'll have about 100-150 pieces of work to mark a week, with a modest number of free periods in the week. So it physically isn't possible to do that within her official working hours meaning you either return work late and get complaints, or you work after school and at weekends to get it done.
This makes my bloody boil, 3 out of the 6 people who sit around me have all come in with it over the last two weeks, stay the fuck at home! The place can function without you for a few days while you get better.
Yeah my absolute fucking bitch of a boss who the whole office absolutely hate, stays a couple of hours late pretty much every night. If you can’t get your work load done in your contracted hours then your shit at your job pure and simple. If she didn’t keep poking her nose into everyone else work she might actually achieve it.
Apart from the other ridiculous stuff, I’ve never known of any workplace that make you use annual leave for a close relative’s funeral.
I hate it when people eat at their desks.
Agreed, in my office we've got a nice area to sit in and eat and people 10 yards from it sat eating fucking cereal
This. If you can’t get your work done starting on time, taking lunch and finishing on time then either you’re not up to the job or you’re being given an impossible workload
My brothers a bus driver.They gave him 3 days compassionate leave when we lost our Dad.My company immediately gave me 2 weeks compassionate leave.My brothers company response was... "Well your brother can take care of everything"
Americans have a name for it, they call it "quiet quitting".
That’s simply not true - most schools are so underfunded they don’t have the capacity to implement anything like that even if they wanted to.
I think Ian’s right, changed a lot since I taught and now seems schools get nothing
Schools do their best considering the government has cut their real terms budgets for 13 years and the education sector as a whole has a recruitment and retention crisis.
Having a personal experience in one school where it is true is not the same as a mass sweeping generalisation.
