Cheeky bloody sods!! If you aren’t being paid extra for the times you’re stepping in to the management role I hope you stop doing it for them!
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I’m not going to be doing it anymore, and I certainly won’t be training whoever they hire. I hope they are really really good
Ffs, I'm so sorry! This happened to me but I rode it out and bit my tongue and ended up with an absolute rockstar of a manager who got me a payrise a few months later, so it worked out pretty well in the end. And I'm not managing people or reporting to the weapon of a VP she has to report to, sad for her, winning for me. 
I hope your situation works out whatever happens next, but get that CV updated with your interim leadership experience on there either way.
I hope your situation works out whatever happens next, but get that CV updated with your interim leadership experience on there either way.
Urgh we've got a virtual leaving card link sent round for someone leaving who's not been there very long.
Annoyingly, it has a live total of contributions received. 10 people have signed it and it's still on £0...
Kinda awkward as we can tell that none of those 10 people have put money in, but I can understand why, as the person hasn't been here long. But you'd think that managers would add money just to save face.
I've worked closely with the person (but not their manager) and would normally put money in, but now feel I shouldn't as them being given a very small gift voucher is surely worse than no gift voucher at all!
Annoyingly, it has a live total of contributions received. 10 people have signed it and it's still on £0...
Kinda awkward as we can tell that none of those 10 people have put money in, but I can understand why, as the person hasn't been here long. But you'd think that managers would add money just to save face.
I've worked closely with the person (but not their manager) and would normally put money in, but now feel I shouldn't as them being given a very small gift voucher is surely worse than no gift voucher at all!
As a line manager I find the contributions thing very challenging. Great when a popular member of staff leaves and there's a good amount of money to buy something decent. But more than once I've had little to nothing in the kitty. Which, when the member of staff had been there for many decades, was tricky. All lovely comments in the card about how wonderful they were but no money contributed, which speaks volumes about what people really thought about them.
I find collections really uncomfortable because people have their reasons for not wanting to or being unable to contribute and I don't always think it's a reflection on how valuable the colleague is. I've felt pressured into contributing to a bloody wedding present for someone that actively disliked me and when I flat out said I couldn't I was completely ostracised. Whenever I've moved roles I always firmly say I do not want a leaving gift I am happy to bow out unchecked to avoid people feeling like they have to give something but also to avoid the humiliation of getting nothing lol
I agree. Some places are dreadful for putting pressure on people to contribute. I outright refused one time re a wedding gift for a guy I barely knew. To this day I don't know and I don't care if the busybody who organised the collection had to make up the difference or buy him something slightly less expensive.
Another woman, I knew, was under financial pressure, but contributed out of pride, and left herself stuck probably for stuff she actually needed.
A team member decided that the team were buying a painting or something for someone and they all needed to give 50 quid. There was no choice in it, that is way too much.
Now the company just give us a card to sign and they take care of the gift voucher.
I have refused to sign a card before as the person leaving made my life a misery.
Now the company just give us a card to sign and they take care of the gift voucher.
I have refused to sign a card before as the person leaving made my life a misery.
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I think the best way is just the card to sign for staff and then the manager (or company) gets a token gift of wine/flowers/small Amazon voucher.
It's so odd to have staff on lower grades chip in for a present for a senior manager who's on £100k. But if that person's manager is on £120k then the manager can afford to get the gift outright.
I made a LinkedIn profile, but am yet to add any information to it, or a photo. 1) because I have been signed off work and I feel guilty and 2) my line manager posts stuff all day (apparently he uses it like facebook) and I’m scared he comes across me.
I’ve seen a role I want to apply for, but it means taking a pay cut and it’s only a 10 month contract due to the work load. I don’t know what to do.
Talking of contributions, the person above our line manager was retiring and we were asked if we wanted to contribute. My coworker privately said to me that he probably doesn’t even know our names, so why should we contribute. Good point, tbh. We rarely saw him, either.
Anyway, the people that didn’t contribute weren’t asked to sign the leaving card either that was our TL’s doing. She is so petty. She writes everyone’s birthday down in a notebook and goes to the card factory and buys a 99p card for everyone to sign, but also moans about how many she was to buy a year for our team (maybe 10?). No one asks her to do it. No one would care if we didn’t receive a card off the team. She’s started putting it through her expenses 
I’ve seen a role I want to apply for, but it means taking a pay cut and it’s only a 10 month contract due to the work load. I don’t know what to do.
Talking of contributions, the person above our line manager was retiring and we were asked if we wanted to contribute. My coworker privately said to me that he probably doesn’t even know our names, so why should we contribute. Good point, tbh. We rarely saw him, either.
Anyway, the people that didn’t contribute weren’t asked to sign the leaving card either
that was our TL’s doing. She is so petty. She writes everyone’s birthday down in a notebook and goes to the card factory and buys a 99p card for everyone to sign, but also moans about how many she was to buy a year for our team (maybe 10?). No one asks her to do it. No one would care if we didn’t receive a card off the team. She’s started putting it through her expenses 
Yes, I remember one of my first jobs after uni. I was low paid and skint all the time. A manager pressured me to put money towards something which was then cancelled so the manager announced he was donating the money to charity. I asked for my contribution back and he was really crappy with me.I agree. Some places are dreadful for putting pressure on people to contribute. I outright refused one time re a wedding gift for a guy I barely knew. To this day I don't know and I don't care if the busybody who organised the collection had to make up the difference or buy him something slightly less expensive.
Another woman, I knew, was under financial pressure, but contributed out of pride, and left herself stuck probably for stuff she actually needed.
I would never join in anything involving money at work money is evil
I wasn't popular when I pointed out that I
a) didn't drink milk
b) didn't eat bread or anything else containing gluten
c) would therefore not be in need of a bread infested tub of I Can't Believe They Flog This tit As Butter or stale cornflakes
d) had seen the roach and rat traps behind the dishwasher and (filthy) microwaves
e) brought my own coffee in to use with my own kettle in my own working area
f) wouldn't touch their crappy coffee, decaff coffee, crappy teabags, their even crappier decaf teabags, herbal teabags that tasted of corpse dust and mummy sand if my life depended upon it
g) was paid roughly 23% of the next lowest paid worker's salary
h) had approximately £28 left per week after bills until next payday
i) would rather remove my left eyeball with a soup spoon than socialise in my unpaid break with people who thought that they were too important to stack a dishwasher and switch it on when they could assume somebody else
and therefore would not be offering a 'voluntary' contribution of fifteen quid a month towards staffroom food and drinks 'because it's called being a team player'. It's not, it's called Being Taken the Piss Out Of By Entitled mats.
You can always tell who always uses spell check and autocorrect. I keep getting emails that say we "defiantly" need to schedule a meeting!
Senior colleague came in 3 hours late on Friday and openly admitted to a co-worker & our manager that it was due to a heavy night of drinking the night before, where he stayed in a hotel room with someone 
Didn't acknowledge me at all or apologise, despite the fact I had to step up and take over his tasks for the morning
Didn't acknowledge me at all or apologise, despite the fact I had to step up and take over his tasks for the morning
I do the same, I have allergies so easier to justify, I guess, but I have my own coffee, which I bring in my own flask so I don't have to use the manky limescale encrusted kettle. I've seen how the milk in the fridge gets used by the thieving staff from second floor who don't contribute the the milk kitty. I also just bring my chilled lunch in a little insulated lunch bag that sits under my desk because the fridge STINKS as people leave tupperwares in there for days. Also the communal catering sized 1000 bag of teabags gets left wide open to the air all day long, and the coffee jars have water from wet spoons all down the inside where the coffee has disolved and then crusted. Kim and Aggie would have a field day on the communal yellow dish sponge. I don't clean my mug at work, it comes home in my lunch bag every day. I just...CAN'T deal with the communal sponge. Bleugh.
Our shared printer in a different section and my coworker constantly prints stuff and leaves them there sometimes for an hour, knowing someone else will pick up his copies when they are picking up their own. I used to help out because I thought as I'm already going there, no harm. But when you don't pick up your papers, they inevitably get mixed up with a bunch of other copies of irrelevant documents, and I can't be standing there figuring out which is mine and which is his and which are another department. I've stopped printing out stuff altogether so I don't have to collect and distribute an office worth of copies on my own. Ignoring a task until someone else has to sort it for you in order to get their own work done is a new level of weaponised incompetence.
We’ve just had our yearly “we need to think forward to school holidays and resource”. How about we don’t let over half the company be off at exactly the same time? Although it’s a bit like one rule for one set of people and another rule for the others- a couple of months ago I was told to be “mindful” of my holiday days as someone in my team was having extended leave but during that time I was left holding the fort for two days due to this extended leave overlapping with kids being off.