At work, there's a woman, S, who apparently has depression.
So, that's the background sorted.
Now, people had to book their holidays for August and it was first come first served. S put in her request after everyone else had and consequently missed out. So she approached the manager, M and kicked off saying she wants two weeks off in August. Being more of a push-over than an upside down weeble, M relented and said she could have the weeks off.

The supervisors, J and L approached M with "what the fuck you playing at?" and told him that if he's going to give S 2 weeks off arbitrarily, then he has to find someone to cover for her. Not surprisingly, he couldn't and had to go back to S and tell her she can't have the time off afterall.

So she gets upset, goes to see her doctor who writes her a sicknote for 3 weeks. Afterwards, she comes into work and tells people that the anti-depressants the doctor gave her are fantastic and that she's never felt better. But then boasts that she's got another sick-note for another 2 weeks to cover the time-off that she was told she couldn't have.

Being the NHS, you have to actually stab someone before you risk getting sacked.

So, do you have a colleagues who need a good beating with a P45 tied to a brick?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:12, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I work for the NHS too,
some people do take the piss. They'll never go anywhere within the organization or go up a band or anything so that's their own punishment.
You can't sack someone for a suspisious sick note. That's probably illegal.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:17, Reply)

She does sound like a complete prick though

( Captain V, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:19, Reply)

Yep,
but it's cheaper to keep a prick on the books as long as they do some work. Rather than sack them.
In the NHS anyway, there's some mighty powerful Unions in the NHS.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:22, Reply)

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest
If only there were some way to make her life a living hell...
( Captain V, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:25, Reply)

She's an ugly old tugboat
so that's a start anyways. And she flirts with the delivery drivers which makes everyone cringe with embarrassment because she does it with all the charm of a drunken aunt at a wedding.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:29, Reply)

Several
From the one who extended their part-time hours from two days a week to three day about a year ago – and has NEVER done the extra day – calling in sick each and ever Friday (but she gets paid for it anyway)

To the girl who took 3 months off with depression because she’d split up with her boyfriend. A boyfriend she’d only been seeing for about 6 weeks. Or you’ve got the girl who just doesn’t turn up. Doesn’t call, text e-mail anything, just swans in and out and gets away with it.

And then there is the blind girl, from a minority background who has to be escorted to a prayer room twice a day (you then wait outside and have to walk her back when she’s finished – well, not me, only a bird can guide her) she hasn’t completed a full week in work so far this year. Anything between one and five days every week this year have been taken off, despite all of this, she knows they won’t do anything about it because she’s already told them that if they do, she’ll claim she is the victim of discrimination. And, based on the fact she is seemingly ‘untouchable’ they take no action against anyone else either.

None of these people are in management positions, so it’s not like they are ‘above’ being managed.

Oh, as a complete aside, three of the team have 100% attendance records, but were marked down in their last appraisals because there was work uncompleted. They argument that they were down on headcount and that as a team, they have a total attendance record of less than 55%, this wasn’t, apparently, good enough.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:25, Reply)

yes
One of my superiors is a snivelling, vindicative, point-scoring obsessed, sociopath. Otherwise known as a Business Development Manager.

Now as the fresh-faced young graduate coming into this flourishing business, I felt, right, this is a big business, if there's things that I want changed I can approach people in a private and confidential manner and tactfully put across my point that I think X is the correct way of doing things.

So the first thing I noticed in some of our Marketing "literature" (gawd I hate that term), is that we were utilising the infamous "comic sans" font. As a business that operates within the Premium Food & Drinks industry, I found this font to be slightly inappropriate.

As I've mentioned, we're all adaults here so on a one-to-one e-mail, when asked if any improvements can be made to the *ahem* literature, I simply stated that "I think perhaps a more professional/formal font could be utilised."

Well this didn't go down well. Apparently it didn't matter what I think, what matters is what the customer thinks. To top it all off, this time she copied the Maanging Director in, just to show that someone is a hard-ass and likes to bust balls through their day.

So a one-off bit of mentalry you may think? Wrong. The second incident, again copied inexplicably to the Managing Director, was when on a new customer invoice template, I had listed the Business name as "J & P Thomsons". My BDM gave me another e-mail bollocking as the Customer was actually "J & P Thomson" - there was no "s" at the end. Which really didn't matter one iota as we were merely using this as the address to send to the customer, and I'm sure the postman would post the fucking thing regardless of a stray "S".


The consequence was that the Managing Director phoned me directly, again to give me a bollocking that for the second time I had been in confrontation with the Business Development Manager and this was unacceptable. He hoped to see significant improvement in future!

I really wish I was embellishing here, but this is exactly what went down. If I had a set of balls I would quit right there and then, except I had fuck all cash and had to grin and bear it. But I did however make the decision to quit asap. Sadly I'm still here and my BDM is still a twunt, but in the next couple of months I'm making the big move, and good riddance to them. Thankfully she's moved on from punishing me for kicks, but it's like she has absolutely no human compassion and will find someone ANYONE to tread on to make herself look good.

This is the despicable world of Marketing people with a dash of office politics! Be warned!

Christ that was longer than I thought. No apologies for line breaks.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:28, Reply)

APOLOGISE FOR YOUR LINE BREAKS YOU CUNT

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:37, Reply)

Only if you apologise for being a girl
That secretes fishy blood from time to time
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:39, Reply)