I don't know if this makes sense. Tipsy and emotional.
"Good men don't need laws to tell them what to do. Evil men will find a way around those laws."

The working time directive is all well and good, but I've seen too many good people trodden down by greedy employers. It's good giving people the "right" to X days off, pro rata; but that's as useful as an image challenge winner if your managers simply won't authorise leave requests becasue they don't want to cover you on O/T.

And after a year of declined requests, the calendar resets, and you lose the balance of your untaken leave, no matter how entitled you are to it. Summer and Christmas are predictable for people who aren't morons, they happens most years; it is unreasonale to keep rolling out the same 'demand spike" defence every year. Try hiring temps for when it gets busy, like competent companies do.

Ok if I just sink into incoherence here? Bastards, the lot of them. HR condoned what was happening, even though they pretended to care. Fired, even though I was the only one without blame. Oh, you were only following an un-named and un-published "company policy"? Ah, the nuremberg defence - yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night.

And about the minimum wage +1% you paid - That is a minimum, Not A Target.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 20:41, Reply)