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Vera
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 Posted - 03 Jul 2006 : 2:55:50 PM
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I've got to book my Annual Leave FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!
Just wanted to confirm that its 26 + 27th July 2007?
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Vera
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mirage
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 10:04:24 AM
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Vera - I would guess these dates are right but it may be best to give Harriet Caudry a call at the AHS just to make sure.
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Vera
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 10:19:15 AM
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Thanks Sally  .
Actually I'm finding this really UNFAIR and I'm going to climb on my soapbox. I am having to book my leave for next year because preference is being given to staff with children. HOW BLOODY DISCRIMINATING IS THAT. One of them has a daughter at collage and one in her last year of senior school and even she is being given first choice!!!!!!!!!
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avanti
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 10:26:18 AM
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| Vera, thats really annoying, I have 4 kids (one is grown up) but I have never expected preferential treatment, it should be first come first served in my humble opinion, Mandy. |
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joanna_piana
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 10:30:15 AM
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| Vera I work in HR and that shouldn't be allowed. I would go mad if someone with children was given preferential treatment! I always take half term off cause that's when my brother goes away with his kids and takes my dad so I dog sit and wouldn't expect to be told I couldn't! They get enough preferential treatment as it is without that! |
      
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Vera
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 10:49:56 AM
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I work in the civil service and they call it Work Life Balance - yeah fine if you've got children!!!
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Sheena
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 11:33:42 AM
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Hi Vera,
I used to have this problem when I worked with the Civil Service (I am free of them now  ) I went right up the management ladder with a complaint that I chose to have animals instead of Children - and I felt it was discrimatory (sp?) to tell someone who does not have a family that they do not have preference!! Needless to say nothing was done! But I refused to do any of the Xmas cover rota in protest! Having to book now for next August is ridiculous!!!
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Libby Frost
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 11:44:02 AM
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| i know what you mean " you can work xmas day cos you have'nt got any kids!!" what so i dont have a life either???!!! |
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angieb
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 12:33:15 PM
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Just a quick note – it is now illegal to take your children out of school during term time without an authorised absence letter from the school head. You are allowed one absence session (of 1 to 5 days) during term but only with a very good reason. That is it – any other absence for family holidays will me marked as unauthorised absence. Three unorthorised absences gets you brought to the attention of social service!!!!!!!!!
Trust me – if we parents could take our holidays during term time and avoid the high cost premiums of travelling during the holidays we really would….don’t give all us parents such a hard time please 
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Michelle
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Vera
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 3:40:29 PM
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So I should miss out going to the National Show because my colleague wants the same week off and she gets it just because she got children - hardly fair is it  Especially as they have masses of school holidays to choose from. Quite frankly I don't give a stuff if its illegal to keep kids out of school, it was a parents your choice to have children so why should I suffer because of that. Give parents a hard time!!!!!!!!!!!! What about my rights - oh thats right I don't have any because I don't have children .
Micelle - I thought of that it it would look realy suss wouldn't it as I've had the same week off for the last 6 years!!!!!
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angieb
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 4:32:46 PM
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| Welllllll - that's me told, off to crawl back under the rock from which I fared to venture an opinion....sorry Vera. |
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Vera
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 5:41:00 PM
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LOL I wasn't telling YOU off Angieb I was telling the system off!!!!
Shall I get off my soapbox now, after all you have to shout when you're on one of those because its the law!!!! 
I'm really nice really - anyone who knows me will tell you that!!!! I just don't want to miss out on going to the National as I may have to miss them this year with Dennis being so poorly .
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angieb
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 5:56:06 PM
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lol - I hear ya hunny
Hope you get your week off, you are fully correct - there are another 5 weeks of the summer hols after all! Ask the woman to move her days if they clash with yours - not like you are not giving her enough notice after all.
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Lanabanana
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 5:57:24 PM
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Yeah Vera is REALLY REALLY nice and she loves children , but she couldn't eat a whole one! Well not now she's on a diet LOL.
And Vera you HAVE to go to Malvern cos that's the LAW |
     
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Vera
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 6:04:43 PM
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I've had to book my two weeks off in October as well - October 2007!!!
Ahem  Some days I could eat a whole one, especially with gravy .
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Tahir
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 6:16:05 PM
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Have had to "book" 3 days off school for my boys in October, just before half term, purely because we are going to Rhodes and they don't do weekend flights around here, unless you have a bottomless purse!!! October is the only time of year we can leave the farm and livestock in capable hands. we're too buzy the rest of the year. We had complaints from the Head but, HEY, it's only the 2nd holiday my boys have ever had, so feel justified.
Vera, I would throw a sicky (then they might appreciate you), you owe them nothing, and as Michelle said, you are a long time dead!! |
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BobandEna
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 11:13:09 PM
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Vera Love,
This is just for "U" and all your BOSSES.
A young man named Gordon from Fife Scotland bought a donkey from an old
Farmer for £100.00.
The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
When the farmer drove up the next day, he said, "Sorry son, but I have some
Bad news...the donkey is on my truck, but he's dead."
Gordon replied, "Well then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said, "I can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Gordon said, "OK then, just unload the donkey anyway".
The farmer asked, "What are ya gonna do with him?"
Gordon said, "I'm going to raffle him off."
To which the farmer exclaimed, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
But Gordon, with a big smile on his face, said "Sure I can. Watch me. I just
Won't tell anybody that he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Gordon and asked, "What happened with
That dead donkey?"
Gordon said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece
And made a huge profit"
Totally amazed, the farmer asked, "Didn't anyone complain that you had
Stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?"
Gordon replied, "The only guy who found out about the donkey being dead was
The raffle winner, when he came to claim his prize. So I gave him his £2
Back plus £200 extra. This was double the going value of the donkey and he
Thought I was a great guy."
Gordon grew up and eventually became the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no
Matter how many times he lied or how much money he stole from British
Voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them
Thought he was a great guy
The Moral of this story IS
DON'T let them get "U" DOWN.
If you don't win !!!!!!! CHEAT.
GO ON THE SICK
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jane79
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Posted - 05 Jul 2006 : 11:24:38 PM
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GET YOUR NAME ON THAT CALENDER VERA! Thats what i do to makesure im the first! BIG BLACK MARKER PEN!!!!!!
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Vera
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 09:29:41 AM
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My biggest gripe is that even if I do get my name in first it means diddly squat because if someone with children wants that week off too they get it regardless of when I booked it so its not even first come first served.
If it came to it I would throw a sicky, sometimes I HATE being so GODAM conscientious about my job!!!!!
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Tahir
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 09:46:56 AM
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| Be really sneaky Vera and don't put your name on the calender, cos then "they'll" know that you want that time off, then you can have a sicky and they won't be suspicious!! Go on, you know you deserve it, and the world won't end because you're not at work. |
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Vera
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 09:58:53 AM
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They will know for two reasons, 1 I've had that week of for the past 6 years (including this year) and 2 I've kicked up so much fuss about it already!!!!!!
But they'd have to prove I wasn't sick wouldn't they.
But then my manager lives in the next road to me......
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Tahir
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 10:15:36 AM
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| OMG, that's a tough one, don't know what else to suggest unless you want to buy Manager a big, expensive prezzie, hee hee! |
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Hollyhill
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 3:52:03 PM
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| YO VERA! Just a thought, if you want to go to Malvern on the Friday and Saturday I could pop by and give Dennis his lunch and tea. I usually only go on Saturday but not going this year |
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Deboniks
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Posted - 06 Jul 2006 : 4:39:30 PM
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| Tell them your son's name is DENNIS!!!! and he has set holidays too!!(all the show dates!!) |
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