Time Off In lieu
Im sure this is a fairly modern workplace piss-take. “Time off in lieu” roughly translated as
“you get up early on a Saturday and come to work for a few hours (thus ruining your already over subscribed weekend) and you can have some time off in the week”

The company I work for has a industrial and clerical section, if ou work in the clerical section you can only have time off in lieu while the guys in production get a juicy time and a half overtime package, inevitably its “too busy” to take the time off in lieu at a good time, say Friday afternoon so you end up using it to go to the bank on a Thursday morning or something. I wouldn’t mind so much but it costs me £6 to get to work! So really I end up out of time and out of pocket.
(jordanchaos isn’t just any PeaRoast, this is a M&S PeaRoast, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 9:40, 5 replies)

I agree wholeheartedly.
At the place of work from which I have recently resigned on a matter of principle staff were offered their regular wage and time in lieu.

For working Christmas day.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 10:46, closed)

Another similar thing
I do a lot of business travel. I get no overtime payments while on a biz trip, even though I usually end up working 16-18 hours a day. We only get the basic daily rate of pay for 8 hours.
If we work on a weekend, also probably for 16 hours a day, we do not get paid overtime, they just offer us, a day off in lieu.
If we work a bank holiday, they don't pay us overtime, because "it wasn't a bank holiday in the country you were working in". Technically, that means I'm not getting paid at all, because if I was in the UK, and I had that day off, I wouldn't get paid for it either.
Don't get me started on how they reimburse expenses though....
( turb0t, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 11:00, closed)

Holiday Inn
I worked as a Financial Controller for above company many years ago. We often had to go away for computer training, meetings and the like. The salary was crap and we got no overtime OR time in lieu. One week I clocked up 68 hours. I don't work for them any more.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 11:11, closed)

yeah agreed
I used to work for a recruitment consultancy (sorry I know they are a bunch of wankers – but it was one of the few office jobs I could get with a shark tattooed on my hand).
We had to go away to Gloucester for training every other weekend, I live in Brighton – its miles on the train, id always have to stay in a shitty sub travel lodge that Alan Partridge would adore and then I’d get back Monday so I’d have worked a 7 day week . then they say what's this charge on the minibar £1? – it’s a bottle of fucking water! Nothing else from the minibar would cost that – cue hour long lecture on inappropriate spending….
(jordanchaos isn’t just any PeaRoast, this is a M&S PeaRoast, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 15:37, closed)

A girl who I worked with
Was leaving. They realised she had paid holidays that she needed to take.

To get around this they just gave her lieu in her last week.

Complete bollocks if you ask me
(i should have joined myspace, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 11:12, closed)